Tell it like it is-----These people from Texas are always bragging how great it is-----bet most of the homes have no insulation. The Ice Age Farmer must be happy though–
Except that, most places, it is not the worst freeze ever. Years ago, my brother would talk about nights in the teens in Baton Rouge every few winters when he lived there.
The NOAA records site is not recording any all-time record low temperatures in the last week. There are lots of daily record low temperatures set, but that is not remarkable, and over the past decade record daily high temperatures far outnumber them.
ttps://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
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Here in OK, today was the coldest day ever recorded.
Bottoms up?
Me and my tiny “panic room” and 2 space heaters made it through. Apparently a few people in our little town didn’t.
Hotels were gouging travelers and tossing out existing customers who already paid lower prices in order to accommodate travelers willing to pay double or triple the prior rates. It was a capitalist bidding war. What the market would bear.
I hate this system with every molecule of my being.
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the wind turbines on the Allegheny plateau in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia are regularly subjected to far worse weather than they just experienced in Texas - gale-driven below-zero F freezing fog, rime ice and occasional ice storms on half the days of the winter. I have never heard of cold temperatures or ice affecting their performance at all. They post signs near them warning of the danger of ice flying off the blades, but that’s it.
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In Oklahoma City, it was not. The low the morning of Feb 16, 2021 was unofficially -11F but the all-time record low was on Feb 12, 1899 at -17F, and it has gotten -11F or colder a few times since records began in 1888. But boy!, Almost half of all the record daily warm temperatures have been since 1995. The media never mentions all those record warm days when they happen.
We really need to watch the weather-hyperbole becasue it really plays into the denialist’s tropes.
ttps://www.weather.gov/oun/climate-records
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it’s like the barnacle that refuses to get scrubbed off the side of a ship. oh, it’s yunzer…
a) read better. “Oklahoma’s” coldest day ever. Which it was. Not OKC’s coldest temperature ever.
b) It shattered the old record. The coldest day required the coldest from max to min temps across the state. 15th was -.4 degrees. Previous record was 1.9.
c) maybe you’ll get lucky another time. keep trying.
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Gov Abbott of tx was on Hannity----He said 10% of the states energy is from renewable and it is the cause of the issue----Abbott said Calif should stop all renewable at once ----Good thing we have fox news giving us all such great info------and what will the climate people do----write an article-------
Death Valley had the highest temp recorded this past summer.
How do we explain this temp in 1899 in relation to global warming------I will see temp highs from the 50’s higher than temps today?
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… and yet you are shocked when these same Texans don’t pity the Californians burning to death in fires or New Yorkers being knifed in their subways?
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Happy Anniversary!
Yes, indeed. Conditions need to be seen as opportunities to work toward new and better life ways.
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Very astute observations, Hens. We are, when we reflect, ONE Humanity. To discriminate against others based on appearances only serves to foster hate. The ecological crisis along with all the other crisis including this pandemic should be a clarion call to realize our common humanity so as to be able to direct this energy into solving the problems that beset us all. It demands responsibility from each of us to send out thoughts in opposition to the hateful sentiments that got us where we are in the first place. So, thank you for highlighting this need.
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Ya ha BigB, this can be a teaching/learning moment (era/epoch). … I do like the responsibility (not to mention the intellectual and energetic engagement) of citizenship - great body building opportunities when everybody picks up the oars, gets in synch and works out on and for the ship of community cum state. Sometimes things get so bad there’s nowhere but up and light at the end of the tunnel dug through the bullshit of extractive rugged individualism (hope they watch out for those ‘isms’ they are truly toxic when the fat begins to burn (thinking).
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What, this is happening in Texas, the state that more than any other has sold it’s soul to the oil and gas industry? This can’t be! “Oil good. Gas good. Clean water not necessary. No power, no problem, I still have my guns. Me live in state with capital punishment. We da best. Don’t mess with texass.”
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TexASS.
That reminds me of the Texas High School Spelling Proficiency Exam:
M R mice.
M R not.
O S M R 2. C M E D B T eyes?
L I B! M R mice!
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Yes there are bad representatives all over, but TX, and OK are represented by people elected multiple times who are wiling to say very ignorant things. The people of those states return the to office over and over.
I’m not evaluating intentions and capabilities here, I’m evaluation actions. Your state elects, and re-elects bad actors or idiots, you own it. A lot of us in America are anti war, but when I travel overseas, I can hardly take offense when I’m told my country are war mongers and war criminals, even though I personally vote against war every time.
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There is absolutely no way to work together when the people you are struggling against ar3 completely inhuman and derelict. Would FDR and Churchill work together with Hitler and His SS. there comes a time when things have to be declared a complete loss and we have to scrap the damn thing and start over. Would you continue to struggle against car repairs when the entire frame was corroded away to nothing and the wiring harness was completely corroded away too. Would you try to repair a boat which sank 200 years ago and was strewn across the deepest part of the ocean. the people we supposedly are to work with are in fact NAZI. No amount of reason will convince them that Jesus isn’t coming in a week to raise them and only them from the dead, once they are done destroying the Earth and everyone and everything in it. Reason plays absolutely no role in anything they do whatsoever and they are so inbred they haven’t and mentally deranged they haven’t even got a brain that could be called human. 80 generations of their families have believed in dead people rising up alive and floating into the sky. They know with every ounce of their soul that poor white trailer trash are now and always have been superior to every other being on earth. Try reasoning with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.
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“Don’t Mess With Texas”
Its “leaders” are fully capable of doing that on their onerous own
Wow, HT. I’ve been busy cooking all day since I posted some sympathy for Texans, way up there. Since then, it’s hard to believe the shitstorm you’re fielding in this thread. Some of the posts which have angered you have really given me pause about what might be going on in the heads of people who write such poison, to produce such proud bigotry.
We definitely got 'em on “our side” – if this forum is a representative sampling of it. How spectacularly morally depressing. I think I’ll get back to cooking: little red chili beans, with chipotle. Aroma therapy. Anyhow, I’m with you.
The scenes I’m seeing of Texas on TV are my personal vision of hell, right now. Little babies watch mom get very scared, struggling to keep everyone alive, the young ones permanently scarred by the emotional trauma, some of them. Turning too sullen and wary for a newcomer on a beautiful planet. But those babies have it coming – the bigots insist – because those are Texan babies.
Such a resounding depth of traditional, inter-regional USA hatred is a wonder to behold. And this thread – despite your best efforts, HT – is quite a stinker. Whew!
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You cant let crazy people decide whether you are crazy or not, can you? There are fewer examples worldwide, and in all of history, of a region more politically f_cked than Texas is. If the fascist totalitarian right was a cancer that had to be cut out to save the patients life, no single part of Texas could be left intact due to the risk of risk of metastasizing and killing the tortured cancer victim. The best thing we can do about Texas is give them exactly what they want - their independence - and ours. We have already done so with respect to the power grid, and if was up to them the whole country would have suffered a similar fate.