chokopoppo:fandomsandfeminism:sporkqueen:As a Midwesterner who just endured a full week of -25°F wea
chokopoppo:fandomsandfeminism:sporkqueen:As a Midwesterner who just endured a full week of -25°F weather, I have nothing to say to you besides “LOL”Did you fully lose power and water for 40+ hours during that week? I mean, people are dead because the Texas government insisted on privatizing and deregulating our power grid, allowing for decades of neglect to overwhelm our outdated system. But sure, laugh at the old folks dying of carbon monoxide poisoning in their homes because they desperately tried to use the gas stove to stay warm as their apartment reached the low 40s after 40 hours of no power. Laugh at people who are having their pipes explode and then the water refreezing in their apartment complexes, leaving them without power and water for days at a time. Thanks. Lol. I’m from Michigan. Every house in Michigan is designed to conserve heat in the winter—smaller windows, better insulation, smaller rooms with more doors to limit airflow through the house. When the power or heat goes out in the winter, our house would drop in temperature very slowly, over a period of a few days. Because we lived in Michigan, everyone in the house had winter clothing, including thick winter coats to deal with -20 degree weather. Our house had gas stoves and a fireplace and portable gas heaters. We had a generator, because we knew that losing power in the winter could be deadly. When you live in a place that’s cold, you build up a natural resistance, and you know how to deal with snow and ice from a very young age: keep a blanket in your car, don’t walk over a frozen pool, don’t put ice on snow, center your weight over each foot when you walk on slippery grounds, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Texas doesn’t have cold snaps. It doesn’t get snow. People there don’t own heavy winter coats, and most houses are designed to push cool air through the house, dropping the temperature as quickly and efficiently as possible. It’s 38 degrees in a lot of these homes, which are owned by people who don’t have portable heaters, don’t know how to stay warm, don’t have a lot of warm clothing and blankets, and have never needed a generator on the property as a matter of life-and-death necessity. This isn’t a matter of “just toughing it out”, of “northern superiority”. Texans are at a structural disadvantage when it comes to surviving cold; and if you live in the North, you should know that the cold kills. People are dying. Children and babies are dying. This is overwhelmingly affecting lower income and poverty line families, who can’t just go and spend $200 on a coat or $1000 on a generator, and have never been taught cold survival skills, have lost power, don’t have access to the internet, and *don’t know what to do.* Compassion is free. Comments like this pisses me off on how low compassion people have. Especially those people who think its all about politics red or blue blah blah blah. It’s not about that it’s about people’s lives it doesn’t matter their political ideologies. Texans are freezing to death because the infrastructure of houses or buildings are not meant for the cold like in the comments earlier it keeps cool air in during hot as hell days. For it to be low in single digit degrees is very rare even in winter season. And yes the higher ups screwed up for being cheap ass this whole time and now wanting more money in a state of emergency. And yes the red politicians are just pointing fingers because they are clueless on who to blame as always. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? to have compassion to people who are having a tough time in a situation like this or any disaster is not hard. Ask yourself next time you comment without thinking or caring, if you get to be in this situation without water, electricity, and food or later on in the future would you want to be laughed at too? -- source link
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