no, the bulk of them are regular ass people in a state that's done everything
to sabotage infrastructure for over sixty years against their wishes. this
weather event in texas is unprecedented and so there's never been need for
people to prepare for ice storms – nothing to salt the roads with, nothing to
plow them with, no snow shovels or studded tires sold anywhere. you've
definitely seen the 130-car pileup involving multiple seasoned long haul
freight drivers, who routinely would cross terrain from canada down to mexico
and all points in between; if it's too much for them it's too much for anyone.
moreover, sudden decisions to cut power to people in the poorest parts of the
state for multiple days – in what was supposed to be rolling blackouts, which
never rolled – has already resulted in many deaths since no one had time to
prepare, nor resources, nor any warning they'd need to prepare for a multiday
blackout. nobody in actual wintry places will just "grab a coat" when it gets
cold – store inventory changes to stock you need to prepare, road laws mandate
winter tires, salt trucks and plows are mobilized, energy trucks restock
furnaces in people's homes – none of this happens in the desert, because a plow
business would starve, an energy truck would starve, a salt truck would starve
– even when it gets cold enough to freeze in the desert, there's nothing to
freeze, and less to reflect the sun's heat back into space, the regular
infrastructure keeps running. if all there were for you in a cold winter were a
coat and no infrastructure whatsoever you'd be lucky to survive a night.
On Feb 21, 2021, at 21:06, Gordonjcp <gordonjcp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 03:57:47PM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote:
Leonard, I don't normally reply to this list as I am not a developer,
but this little haiku kind of p'd me off. I have friends and relatives
in Texas who've been "feeling winter's cold" for some time now, and
being Texans, they are not really very well equipped for surviving
winter temperatures I am used to here in Wisconsin. Some of them may
die before it's over with, having no electricity and therefore no heat
and no water.
Aren't a lot of them "preppers", who have been gearing up to secede from the
US?
It's winter. It gets cold. You should buy a coat, and wear it.
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Gordonjcp
