Frozen pipes upstairs

and for the final indignity.
The bloated electric bill for those who didn't lose power.
Thank you state officials for adapting the California utility model.

Sorry it's a Facebork link, I can't find the video anywhere else.

"Texans have taken to TikTok to share what’s happening there after days of below freezing temps with rolling power outages or no power at all"

https://www.facebook.com/508905038/videos/10159382684075039/

"There are currently 321 callers ahead of you."

"WHAT THE F....."

Jstas wrote: »

Sorry it's a Facebork link, I can't find the video anywhere else.

"Texans have taken to TikTok to share what’s happening there after days of below freezing temps with rolling power outages or no power at all"

https://www.facebook.com/508905038/videos/10159382684075039/

What's really terrible about this is that all those houses and apartment buildings with the water damage will have to be gutted to find all the water damage, remediated for mold and such and then rebuilt. Additionally, any electrical that was impacted will need to be ripped out and replaced as well otherwise electrical shorts from corrosion will cause problems. Everything from broken lights/sockets/switches to fire.

The owners/renters will be unable to occupy them while the work is happening and with the amount of damage to hotels and apartment complexes, there's going to be a HUGE number of displaced people that have no where to go.

Additionally, building supplies are in short supply because of the last year and this is only going to make it worse in Texas. So even with the massive number of claims to insurance, things are only going to be able to happen so fast.

So if you're a contractor looking for work, Texas is the place to be.

But there's going to be many corners cut and poorly remediated damage from people who didn't have adequate insurance. They might get some FEMA help but they will likely just patch up the damage, hide it under new paint and trim and sell as quickly as they can.

Is it a disaster? Yeah, definitely 'cause this is damage on the scale of coastal flooding from a storm. Was it avoidable? Entirely and that's was so aggravating and terrible about it. All these people with all the loss and no protections aside from insurance, if they were covered. But you can't live under an insurance contract. So what are they supposed to do until insurance fixes their homes? Some folks in Texas need to be held accountable for this and the power supply deregulation policies need to be revisited 'cause this is just absurd.

I lived in San Antonio during the 1985 13" snow storm

I remember my mother going outside a moving our car from the covered parking...we had lived in Colorado and she knew that the covered parking we had in San Antonio was going to collapse.

Go to 5:20 of the video...

https://youtu.be/1-hpfj03--s

Yeah dudes... some of us definitely got lucky. I need to be more prepared for the next hit whenever that may be. I feel bad for the others who didn’t fare so well.

What do you Texas Polkies make of this story?

[Electric firm Griddy loses access to Texas grid]

Excerpt:

”Griddy was the power marketer that sold consumers electricity at wholesale rates, which rose to $9,000 per megawatt hour as cold weather struck the state last week. Unable to cope with demand, utilities cut power to 4.3 million residents as temperatures fell below freezing.
Grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) “effectively shut down Griddy,” the electricity marketer said in a statement on its website. Requests for further comment were not returned.”