Posted on 03/25/2021 9:44:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Texas officials on Thursday raised the death toll from February’s winter storm and blackouts to at least 111 people — nearly doubling the state’s initial tally following one of the worst power outages in U.S. history.
The frigid weather also was blamed for dozens of more deaths across other Southern states including Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.
The majority of the Texas deaths are associated with hypothermia, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. And the dramatic number of new victims is still a potential undercount, as officials continue investigating deaths that happened around the time the storm knocked out power to more than 4 million customers in Texas.
Many homes went without power or drinkable water for days after subfreezing temperatures, failing power plants and record demand for heat pushed Texas’ electric grid to the breaking point.
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Joe Biden and the EPA killed them.
I was lucky to have propane heat. Though I had no electricity to make the central heat come on, I was able to run the stovetop burners. It never got below 50 in the house.
Good plan. 50° is more than survivable.
When the power went out here in Michigan during an ice storm we opened up the vents in the basement and set the kerosene heaters below them, shut off unnecessary vents andhung blankets in doorways. It worked long enough.
When an ice storm knocked out power in NH some years ago, we went outside to survey the damage, and there were generators running EVERYWHERE.
When we were doing our house hunting, almost every place we looked at had pictures of their utility panels and water systems.
Easily half the electrical panels had build in generator hook ups.
Nor’easters knock out power pretty regularly here and generators and wood stoves are just about standard features of home ownership.
There are so few places in this country that aren’t at risk of losing power for a few days due to weather or other natural disasters, that I don’t get why more people are not better prepared.
Kerosine heaters indoors??!!
Kerosene hearers were a big thing in the 1970s, back when kerosene was cheap.
I’ve still got my 40,000 btu Japanese heater.
AP = Always Propaganda
The Storm did not cause the deaths, Very bad decisions by Bureaucraps caused them.
The power companies did not make the call on managing the demand, ERCOT did.
Lawsuits began quickly and it will take years to resolve this
Texas power grid operator ERCOT sued over blackouts
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-power-grid-operator-ercot-sued-over-blackouts
People in Dallas and Houston wait for the government to save them while simultaneously not trusting the government.
When Democrats like Sheila Jackson Lee tells us that 25% of Voting age minorities don’t have “picture ID” because “racism”, do you think they will prepare for a once in 50 year storm?
The storm in Texas was the worst in a century and a half of recorded data. The last one was in 1898 and didn't last as long as this one. People simply can't prepare for such infrequent weather.
I thought I was prepared. I have two backup generators, one for the heat pump, and one for necessities in the house. That wasn't enough. The storm also had more snow than ever, too. There were no snow plows, so the supply trucks couldn't replenish grocery stores and gas stations. The stations ran out of gas, and the stores ran out of food. That was after they stopped selling from their coolers which cycled on and then off because of the rolling power outages.
Even if the counties had saved their snow plows after the last storm, there wouldn't have been any horse teams to pull them. Don't be so smug about your preparedness before you consider all the factors dealt with by others.
“Kerosene hearers were a big thing in the 1970s, back when kerosene was cheap.”
Just be careful with it. Propane, Natural Gas, and Butane* will not result in Carbon Monoxide being produced when burned, unless Oxygen levels are way down. Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, Jet Fuel, Heating Oil, and wood will always produce Carbon Monoxide when burned. That’s why propane powered fork lifts can be used indoors, but not gasoline At least that’s my understanding from my survivalist days.
*we burned some of my excess Butane during our Texas blackout...just cracked a window, and no problem.
What?
You don’t get hurricanes, thunderstorms, and tornadoes to be prepared for?
Sure, maybe a cold snap like this has historically been a once in a lifetime event. Could happen again next year.
You just don’t know. That’s why you prep.
I know but many bought the farm from carbon monoxide poisoning running them indoors.
Good points!
In some areas, natural gas lines’ pressure was low.
How much snow did you get? In the northeast corner of the Metroplex they got 3-4”.
We got about 8” total snow in two storms over the 8 days of cold. The snow was preceded by freezing rain.
I wonder.
Japanese homes are small, and I burned my first one (Alladin) in my bedroom during college. Still here...
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