Texas

I don't like Texas, let me make that clear/fucking full of redneck Republicans
Say a prayer or say tough shit/you earned/deserve it?
I'll say a prayer
I hope they survive


Animals freeze to death in Texas sanctuary (msn.com)

MAGA!!!

WINNING!!!

Fucking Idot/Idiots

Rick Perry says Texans would choose to be without power for longer ‘to keep government out of their business’ (yahoo.com)

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I'm in that beach photo all year long

Texas mayor resigns after telling freezing residents to stop complaining about cold snap
David K. Li and Matteo Moschella and Donna Mendell
Wed, February 17, 2021, 12:57 PM


The mayor of a small west Texas town has resigned after lashing out at constituents who have been paralyzed by this week's devastating cold snap.
Colorado City Manager David Hoover told NBC News that Mayor Tim Boyd stepped down on Tuesday, but the administrator declined further comment.
In a widely-circulated Facebook post that has outraged many, Boyd told town residents to stop complaining about the cold weather that has left millions across Texas stranded without power.
"No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice!" Boyd wrote in the post on his Facebook page, which was later copied on the Mitchell County Issues community forum.
"The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a d--- handout!"
He went on to write that anyone complaining about the cold must be lazy and products of bad parenting.
"If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal with out and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family," Boyd continued. "If you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising."
Colorado City is about 80 miles outside of Midland and is home to nearly 3,900 residents.
Jody Beavers, administrator of the Mitchell County Issues page, said Boyd meant well but should have taken a different approach.
"He’s a good guy, I just think he got frustrated with the situation," said Beavers, a 43-year-old oil field operator and lifelong Colorado City resident.
For several days, town residents had been asking for the city to consider opening public buildings, if the power were on inside, so they could take advantage of the heat, according to Beavers.
"I think he took it the wrong way, he took it as them wanting him to buy them hotel rooms," said Beavers, who got his electricity back at 3 a.m. Wednesday after 58 hours of darkness. "That's not what they were wanting. They just wanted somewhere to warm up."
Boyd appeared to delete his Facebook page and he could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.

YEE HAW

Much of Texas's water infrastructure is exposed to the weather with no thought of freezing. Peoples water pipes in there homes are now thawing and destroying their homes, guess no one told them to turn off the water and drain the pipes before they froze. I think the repair costs will be astronomical.

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I think the repair costs will be astronomical.

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Absolutely.

The 10s of millions of dollars they saved on not having to winterize is going to wind up costing them billions.

Turn off the water stupid.

TacoMac said:

Absolutely.

The 10s of millions of dollars they saved on not having to winterize is going to wind up costing them billions.

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Cost tax payers billions.

Fail to plan you plan to fail.

Texas is everything that is wrong with America.

Texas is also where they killed a black man on video and then Live PD destroyed the evidence. Texas is more corrupt than Mexico.

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Texas is also where they killed a black man on video and then Live PD destroyed the evidence. Texas is more corrupt than Mexico.

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To take a page from the Evangelical community, God is punishing Texas for Ted Cruz and the rest of the trumpkins

Give Texas back to Mexico!

They need to call in prezident Trump immediately to take charge! Only he can solve the problem.

Trump won Texas 52.1% to Biden's 46.5%, shows ya how smart they are in Texas, like Donald, the republicans there can be as incompetent and corrupt as they please. Look who is their AG, a guy one step away from the jailhouse door, did he ever get his Trump pardon in exchange for filing that bullshit suit with the SCOTUS? Jesus look who their governors were, a succession of morons and useful idiots, Bush, Perry and Abbott. The more racist and bigoted the state, the more corrupt and incompetent the politicians.

Like Trump, instead of taking responsibility and solving problems, they waste everybody's time with bullshit about wind turbines and a green new deal that has yet to be passed by congress or implemented. Their first response was to instinctively lie and dodge responsibility, perhaps another tax cut could solve this problem?

Texas has promoted the development of wind energy over the past 15 years.

And on average, renewable energy sources - mostly wind - account for about 20% of its electricity supply .

But the largest proportion comes from fossil fuels, as well as 10% from nuclear.

On Tuesday, the state's principal energy supplier, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot), said the freezing conditions had led to :

• 30GW being taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear sources
• a 16GW loss in capacity in wind and other renewable energy supplies

And this, it said, had severely curtailed its ability to satisfy a peak demand of 69GW over the past few days - a surge even greater than anticipated.

A performance assessment was completed on 23 wind farms across eight Canadian provinces with the objective of quantifying the degree to which cold climate operation affects wind energy production in Canada.

"...over the six year study period from May 2010– April 2016, average summer period loss factor was 4.2%, compared to 8.1%for the winter period, resulting in an average cold climate loss factor of 3.9%. Regionally, wind farms in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia showed the highest cold climate losses on the basis of installed capacity (0.19 GWh/MW). Moderate losses were observed in Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland (0.12 GWh/MW), Québec (0.10 GWh/MW) and Ontario (0.09 GWh/MW), while minor losses were seen in Alberta and Manitoba (0.02 GWh/MW).

Why Wind Turbines In Cold Climates Don’t Freeze: De-Icing And Carbon Fiber
The failure of roughly half of the wind turbines in Texas earlier this week isn’t the biggest cause of a power shortage crisis that has left one-third of Texans without power in historic freezing conditions. Frozen infrastructure at gas and coal power stations, such as pipelines, are the main culprit. Of the total amount of power that suffered outages, wind accounted for only some 13%, a far smaller share than accounted for by coal, gas and nuclear plants.

In Canada, where wind turbines can experience icing up to 20% of the time in winter months, special “cold weather packages” are installed to provide heating to turbine components such as the gearbox, yaw and pitch motors and battery, according to the Canadian government. This can allow them to operate in temperatures down to minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 30 Celsius). To prevent icing on rotor blades — which cause the blades to catch air less efficiently and to generate less power — heating and water-resistant coatings are used.