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aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:14:54 PM  
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octopossum [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:51:42 PM  
The public utilities here aren't public, they're a grift that makes rich people richer
 
neongoats [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 7:15:46 PM  
Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:36:41 PM  

neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg


We'd help, but it would require tying them into the rest of the grid, so...

/Although, in this case it sounds like most of the help they need is more crews to effect repairs, which I don't know if anyone really provides.
 
the money is in the banana stand
2023-02-08 9:28:06 PM  
Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:29:41 PM  
Be more bootstrappy you poors!
Oh, and billionaire, here's some more billions for you cause we know life is hard for you.
 
psychosis_inducing
2023-02-08 9:32:21 PM  
We need some Texans to come in and say the following:
-You don't get it, guys!
-Whatabout California?
-Texas is too big to trim the trees
-Texas is too big for any solution, actually.
- Y'all just hate Texas.

What did I miss?
 
shinji3i
2023-02-08 9:32:56 PM  

neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg


They got the help they wanted without any conditions to unfark themselves, plan seems to be working so far.
 
PhoenixFarker [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:33:54 PM  

psychosis_inducing: We need some Texans to come in and say the following:
-You don't get it, guys!
-Whatabout California?
-Texas is too big to trim the trees
-Texas is too big for any solution, actually.
- Y'all just hate Texas.

What did I miss?


Well, I do hate Texas.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 9:36:48 PM  
You needed last weeks storm to tell you that? Where the fark have you been since Katrina?

W used 9/11, a moment the united the country and even the world, to divide the country. Republicans won big 2002 and have been jerking off to divisiveness since then.
 
Nosferartoo
2023-02-08 9:36:49 PM  
E Chungus Unum
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 9:37:59 PM  

the money is in the banana stand: Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.


Tell you have no forking clue what you're writing without telling me that.

*reads comment*

Yep, that'll do.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 9:39:02 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: the money is in the banana stand: Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.

Tell you have no forking clue what you're writing without telling me that.

*reads comment*

Yep, that'll do.


*me
 
olorin604
2023-02-08 9:42:16 PM  

Bootleg: neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg

We'd help, but it would require tying them into the rest of the grid, so...

/Although, in this case it sounds like most of the help they need is more crews to effect repairs, which I don't know if anyone really provides.


Most states and power companies are part of interstate compacts that allow them to call in massive amounts of line crews in the event of a disaster. I know I have seen our local mall parking lot pretty much full as they were mustering to head to Florida and Louisiana.

I have no clue if Texas is part of this.
 
Claude Ballse
2023-02-08 9:43:47 PM  

neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg


If there is a silver lining to the way conservative Texans vote, when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas Republicans simply freeze to death.

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The Exit Stencilist
2023-02-08 9:46:17 PM  
That's the Republican agenda. Anarchy.
It's every man, woman and child to fend for themselves against the predatory corporations, wealthy assholes and the only government services they will get is prison or a bullet in the face from the cops
 
Teddy Brosevelt
2023-02-08 9:49:04 PM  
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The level at which I do not give a shiat about Texas could be referred to as "weapons grade".
 
the money is in the banana stand
2023-02-08 9:50:18 PM  

Peter von Nostrand: the money is in the banana stand: Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.

Tell you have no forking clue what you're writing without telling me that.

*reads comment*

Yep, that'll do.


Sitting here in Texas...with my lights on and really warm. The only time power went out State-wide in my ENTIRE LIFETIME was 2 years ago during the Freeze. Austin Energy has handled things poorly: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/02/austin-ice-storm-power-outages/
 
qorkfiend
2023-02-08 9:50:59 PM  
You kept putting Republicans in charge. What the fark did you expect?
 
Another Government Employee
2023-02-08 9:51:19 PM  
Georgia Power would have 95% of everybody back online in two days (assuming there isn't widespread pole damage).
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 9:52:48 PM  
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raulzero
2023-02-08 9:53:03 PM  
Texas: Where even the electrical generators are predatory.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-02-08 9:54:23 PM  
This is what you yokels wanted. Feel the freedom of your unregulated power grid and stop crying about being on your own when you've all but demanded us  at gunpoint to leave you alone.
 
robodog
2023-02-08 9:56:27 PM  

Bootleg: neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg

We'd help, but it would require tying them into the rest of the grid, so...

/Although, in this case it sounds like most of the help they need is more crews to effect repairs, which I don't know if anyone really provides.


Yes, there are national compacts between energy providers where they send each other teams of linesmen in the case of natural disaster. I'm not sure if Texas being its own grid affects those types of arrangements. Stay at a hotel just outside of an area about to be smacked by a large storm and you'll inevitably see a bunch of line trucks parked at the outside of the lot. Those guys make big bucks for that kind of work so there's no shortage of volunteers if their home provider isn't expecting to need them.
 
rzrwiresunrise
2023-02-08 9:57:40 PM  
It's weird how this guy gripes about Texas's lack of preparedness & tries to lump everyone else into it but also says that everyone else had prepped for the crisis except Texas, so we should all resign ourselves to not having any govt preparedness because what can ppl in a democracy do about it?

& this guy's a professional writer.
 
robodog
2023-02-08 9:59:11 PM  

Another Government Employee: Georgia Power would have 95% of everybody back online in two days (assuming there isn't widespread pole damage).


There was a LOT of pole damage, 1"+ of ice is enough to bring down poles even without the help of trees.
 
the money is in the banana stand
2023-02-08 10:02:22 PM  

the money is in the banana stand: Peter von Nostrand: the money is in the banana stand: Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.

Tell you have no forking clue what you're writing without telling me that.

*reads comment*

Yep, that'll do.

Sitting here in Texas...with my lights on and really warm. The only time power went out State-wide in my ENTIRE LIFETIME was 2 years ago during the Freeze. Austin Energy has handled things poorly: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/02/austin-ice-storm-power-outages/


Additionally:

This week's ice storm brought hundreds of thousands of outages in Texas thanks to falling trees or ice accumulating on power lines, rather than grid issues like in 2021's massive storm.

So, yeah. It is a local issue and not a generation and delivery service. The problem is that Austin Energy, which is an extension of the local government, is completely inept and slow to restore power.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:03:13 PM  
In 1956 America needed a new motto. Let's see...

What was wrong with E Pluribus Unum: From many, one? It worked for a long time. Nope, too inclusive.
I know, let's change it to "In God We Trust", then we can treat the "lesser races" like lesser races, the way God intended.
RUN WITH THAT PUPPY!
... in a mood...
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-08 10:03:53 PM  
"Don't Mess With Texas."

Addendum: "Please, sir. Can I have some more?"
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-02-08 10:05:10 PM  

Another Government Employee: Georgia Power would have 95% of everybody back online in two days (assuming there isn't widespread pole damage).


Hell, PG&E had the Bay Area back under electrical power within an hour or two of the Loma Prieta earthquake back in '89. And those guys are such lazy assholes, they blew up a neighborhood because they didn't do regular pipe maintenance...
 
LOLITROLU
2023-02-08 10:09:33 PM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: Another Government Employee: Georgia Power would have 95% of everybody back online in two days (assuming there isn't widespread pole damage).

Hell, PG&E had the Bay Area back under electrical power within an hour or two of the Loma Prieta earthquake back in '89. And those guys are such lazy assholes, they blew up a neighborhood because they didn't do regular pipe maintenance...


They've also burned the state down at least thrice.
But I don't think I've ever gone even 24 hrs without power.
 
New Rising Sun
2023-02-08 10:16:20 PM  

ZMugg: In 1956 America needed a new motto. Let's see...

What was wrong with E Pluribus Unum: From many, one? It worked for a long time. Nope, too inclusive.
I know, let's change it to "In God We Trust", then we can treat the "lesser races" like lesser races, the way God intended.
RUN WITH THAT PUPPY!
... in a mood...


I thought it was more the whole anti-communism thing.  Partly the view of the USSR at that time as "godless" thanks to Stalinism. And maybe partly because one of the USSR's whole goals (well, the Russians in the USSR anyhow) was the homogenization (mostly meaning Russification) of all the various nationalities, ethnicities, and languages under their umbrella. Ostensibly they were presenting themselves as unifying people/workers across borders striving towards communism, but of course the reality was they were forcing people together towards being Russian.  Dunno how much that was perceived externally at the time versus how much came out decades later though.
 
Herr Flick's Revenge
2023-02-08 10:21:58 PM  

olorin604: Bootleg: neongoats: Boo farking hoo asswipes. Maybe it's the farking crows come to farking roost.

Hurricane devastates a place, texas says no to aid.
Earthquake wrecks a place, texas says no to aid.
Tornado cluster wrecks a place, texas says no to aid
Flood farks up a place, texas says no to aid.

It's gets moderately chilly out and the Texas's power grid collapses, Texas comes with their hand out demanding aid. They didn't have to disconnect it from the rest of America, but they didn't want our commie farking electricity now did they?

probably about 5 minutes until some texasshole shows up with willie nelson giving the finger dot jpg

We'd help, but it would require tying them into the rest of the grid, so...

/Although, in this case it sounds like most of the help they need is more crews to effect repairs, which I don't know if anyone really provides.

Most states and power companies are part of interstate compacts that allow them to call in massive amounts of line crews in the event of a disaster. I know I have seen our local mall parking lot pretty much full as they were mustering to head to Florida and Louisiana.

I have no clue if Texas is part of this.


"Austin Energy, the city-owned utility"
 
The Pope of Manwich Village
2023-02-08 10:23:37 PM  
As a person who reps a great line of high-capacity power stations into major retailers, I think this situation is just terrible, sad and...and profitable.
 
Herr Flick's Revenge
2023-02-08 10:24:07 PM  

qorkfiend: You kept putting Republicans in charge. What the fark did you expect?


City owned power company.
City government is Democrats and has been forever.
 
cmb53208
2023-02-08 10:26:45 PM  
I live in the country that's Texas's go to scapegoat (Mexico), and the amount of time I've been without power is...about 20 seconds. And that was after a 7.4 quake, What the fark is going on with Texas, or does anyone really want to know??
 
Caelistis
2023-02-08 10:35:27 PM  
Texas' grid is so reliable that I own a generator and solar panels because I no longer trust that shore power will always be available.

For the folks who are like "I live in Texas and my power never goes out", I call bullshiat. Power brownouts and blackouts have been common here during summer for years now. Your chest thumping jingoism doesn't change the fact that Texas' grid, in both generation and delivery, is antiquated and unreliable. Especially when you compare it to providers like the TVA.

I once loved Texas very much, now we've turned in to a third world shiathole whose primary export is pure, unadulterated derp.
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2023-02-08 10:40:20 PM  
I remember when Ted Cruz voted against emergency help for New York and New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy.

I say this with a lot of family in Texas: Texas can go fark itself.
 
Rucker10
2023-02-08 10:44:48 PM  
Rich assholes in Texas stealing from you and simultaneously telling you that you need to boot strap your way out of problems is hilarious to me (and the test of the country.)
 
HardHeaded63
2023-02-08 10:50:17 PM  
Jacqueline Sargent, the head of Austin Energy (& highest paid city of austin employee) salary is close to half a million dollars
 
Ehre
2023-02-08 10:50:38 PM  
The problem is that the trees aren't being trimmed. That's a maintenance issue that someone has to pay for.
 
That guy on the bike
2023-02-08 10:52:20 PM  
I stopped reading after the author said he had a Siberian Husky.  What asshat thinks it's a good idea to have a Siberian Husky in Texas, poor thing must hate life in that heat
 
Jones_Boy
2023-02-08 10:57:10 PM  
What kind of idiot prepares for a power outage by buying hundreds of dollars of frozen food?  Did he forget what freezers run on? Seems like he didn't learn much from the first power outage. Maby a third will learn him.
 
Peter von Nostrand
2023-02-08 11:01:11 PM  

the money is in the banana stand: Peter von Nostrand: the money is in the banana stand: Austin handled shiat poorly. The rest of Texas was/is fine.

Tell you have no forking clue what you're writing without telling me that.

*reads comment*

Yep, that'll do.

Sitting here in Texas...with my lights on and really warm. The only time power went out State-wide in my ENTIRE LIFETIME was 2 years ago during the Freeze. Austin Energy has handled things poorly: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/02/austin-ice-storm-power-outages/


You're sitting there warm this week from last weeks storm.

Yeah, brilliant.
 
Herr Flick's Revenge
2023-02-08 11:01:15 PM  

Caelistis: Texas' grid is so reliable that I own a generator and solar panels because I no longer trust that shore power will always be available.

For the folks who are like "I live in Texas and my power never goes out", I call bullshiat. Power brownouts and blackouts have been common here during summer for years now. Your chest thumping jingoism doesn't change the fact that Texas' grid, in both generation and delivery, is antiquated and unreliable. Especially when you compare it to providers like the TVA.

I once loved Texas very much, now we've turned in to a third world shiathole whose primary export is pure, unadulterated derp.


I love the people I meet for the most part. I've had interesting talks with recent immigrants from Nigeria, Venezuela, Romania, Native Texans, etc.
The problem is it seems the only people voting in State elections are morons.
Most large Texas cities I know of seem to elect mostly Democrat Mayors and city councils. Yet we seem to go out of our way to elect the dumbest bassackward people to be Governor.
It has only gotten worse.
I'm at the point where I really would leave if I didn't have economic reasons and family keeping me here.
 
drunkest
2023-02-08 11:03:30 PM  
/r/leopardsatemyface
 
Ganon D. Mire
2023-02-08 11:04:41 PM  
We Texans Are on Our Own When Disasters hiat

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/they are not 100% wrong
 
drunkest
2023-02-08 11:05:52 PM  

That guy on the bike: I stopped reading after the author said he had a Siberian Husky.  What asshat thinks it's a good idea to have a Siberian Husky in Texas, poor thing must hate life in that heat


Plenty of stupid pieces of shiat in the south think its good to own huskies malamutes etc.... This kind of stupid is particularly prevalent in military families where they treat the dog like a house plant.

You just throw it away when its dying or when you move, whichever comes first.
 
cyberspacedout
2023-02-08 11:08:52 PM  

psychosis_inducing: We need some Texans to come in and say the following:
-You don't get it, guys!
-Whatabout California?


Yeah, that's been done before.

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ansius
2023-02-08 11:21:07 PM  
Yeah, but they don't pay income tax.

And they shifted the tax burden to the poors with consumption taxes.
 
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