Everything is bigger in Texas. Even the fuckups.

I'm guessing that as a warm-weather state the don't have it in their codes to install the same heavy-duty insulation requirements in their utility facilities that we do in Canada, or they do in other US states that experience a hard winter every year (i.e. Alaska, the Dakotas, etc). I'm not going to dump on them too hard because this is a very shitty thing for the average Texan to have to experience. Nothing could prevent the power lines from collapsing because as Canada knows with our own ice storms that it can happen anywhere - even the toughest lines & cables can't withstand it when literally thousands of pounds of ice suddenly get stuck to them.

Well, if that's true then they're learning the lesson right now, even though it won't sink at all with most of them and they vote all-GOP again in the next state election. Wonder if Dan Patrick is out there saying that anyone freezing to death is doing a hero's role for the Texas economy, just like he said that anyone who quietly got out of the way without making any sort of fuss to die from COVID was doing a great thing for future generations of Texans.

I just don't understand how people can't see the facts. Are they really that disinterested in their own society that they will let media lie to them this hard?