Political Effects of the Arctic Blast in Texas (Abbott: homeowners insurance, month to)

[move4ward]

Originally Posted by Rakin

Florida only has to worry about Hurricanes in General. Texas is much more of a disaster state with Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Hail Storms and Freezing Weather.

If Temps dropped in Miami to 5 degrees it would be a disaster and totally unprepared.

How about Oklahoma then? Go north 1 mile, they had more heat and power than us. Their temperatures dropped to -5 degrees.

How about the Texas Panhandle? They are dealing with the same storm as the rest of Texas. They had 0-10% power outage. They are on a different grid.

[Redlionjr]

Originally Posted by Rakin

Florida only has to worry about Hurricanes in General. Texas is much more of a disaster state with Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Hail Storms and Freezing Weather.

If Temps dropped in Miami to 5 degrees it would be a disaster and totally unprepared.

Yep Texas is actually the state more prone to natural disasters. It's a huge state that covers a lot of ground so I think it's common sense that we'll experience all kinds of natural disasters. The biggest obvious problem with Texas is it's response to these natural disasters. And how the state and city governments(looking at you Houston) way of doing business has impacted the way we respond to these disasters. I'm getting tired of hearing "We'll get through this because we're Texans blah blah blah" anytime there's a disaster with catastrophic damage that could have been avoided.

Originally Posted by fleaflicker

I think politicians on both sides continue to be political pointing fingers because they know it works. It works because too many people on both sides blindly believe them without realizing it.

Bingo!

[pilotpair]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Shes actually been great on flood prevention. Shes exceeded every expectation I had of her.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opi...n-14417469.php

Of course she wasnt county judge during Harvey...

She was the judge when bond issue was passed. She's a total incompetent.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...s-15561276.php

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...r-15523516.php

She's also the incompetent who added 14,000 COVID cases to Houston's total in one month because the county was keeping track by hand and got so far behind she told them to dump all the reports in one month. That was on Channel 11.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by turf3

Well, let's see the proposed cost of the bond issue to protect the Texas power grid against a once-in-fifty-years cold snap

it happened 10 years ago

Keep on making up your own facts to fit your agenda

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by turf3

Well, let's see the proposed cost of the bond issue to protect the Texas power grid against a once-in-fifty-years cold snap, and then we'll see who's willing to put their tax money where their mouth is. You do know where all the money to be spent protecting against such an event will come from, don't you? If you don't, I recommend an acquaintance with Econ 101 and the Infernal Revenue Service.

Where did it come from in Arkansas and Louisiana where their electric rates are more than a penny per kwh cheaper? But Texas will probably implement winterizing as a free market private enterprise that will allow corporations to get rich off of it and cost the consumers 5x what it should cost.

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by Guineas

You don’t do anything now, you aren’t going to do anything when it’s 80 degrees out either.

It’s like the drunk who says one more drink when he’s had a bad day. He’s not going to stop drinking on a good day. Next time he will have a drink to celebrate.

It’s a damn pitiful wake-up call, not about letting a crisis go to waste. Your framing is one who just doesn’t want to deal with the issue at all because everything is tribal to him and he doesn’t want his tribe to look bad.

It's easy to quit drinking. I've done it hundreds of times...

[turf3]

Well, it's not a political item, but I can assure you that a generator is in my future, just as soon as they re-appear in stores (like August, probably).

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Mariachi Band at Ted's house in the River Oaks.

[DejaBlue]

There was a comedy skit years back, maybe Chris Rock or a movie where he was bashing insurance saying it's for "in case s*** happens" and getting your money back when s*** doesn't happen.


This is basically the GOP mindset in things like this. If COULD happen but it's never gonna happen so we don't need to do anything. Then when BOOM it does happen their constituents who continually vote for these yahoos are up in arms about their freezing, flooding, destroyed house/property, etc.


My coworkers who are very retrumplicans are anti vaccine, still think it's a hoax but LET one of them actually get sick with it and they're then first to run to the ER begging for medical attention....thought it was a hoax Ashlyn

[Thoreau424]

You could compare it to hurricane matters and relief. Not as political as one might think. The trains just roll along the same before as after. Gonna have to find political gossip and drama somewhere else, for the most part.

In the end, these types of matters just strengthen us to see bounds and extremes that occasionally come along. We all end up benefitting by toughening and strengthening. We get smarter and more prepared, so something to be thankful for.