11/29/2023 0 Comments Death toll texas freeze![]() Shortfall: Texas needed 75 GW of electricity to get through the deep freeze, but could only come up with 51 GW. The deep freeze affected them all, even nuclear. “ totally reliant on windmills.”Įnergy sources: In 2017, ERCOT, which runs the main power grid in Texas, got its electricity from these sources: “this shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.” “Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish” I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves!… Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family!” This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent for handouts…. “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!… If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! …. Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas on Facebook: I have never experienced anything like this in my life” govt refusing to even acknowledge what’s happening. people are freezing to death in their homes and cars. “I don’t even have words to describe how awful things are down here in Texas. Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who wants to be president some day, went to sunny Cancun, Mexico on on Twitter on February 18th: ![]() Most homes in Texas are not insulated, which led to freezing temperatures even inside. The water was no longer safe to drink for 13 million (45% of Texas) – because there was no power to treat the water. It covered most of the state with snow, a freak event, and knocked out power for as many as 4.5 million people, some of them for days. North Dakota ranked driest on record for this three-month period.The Texas deep freeze of 2021 (since February 14th) brought the coldest temperatures in over 30 years. Dry conditions were present across much of the West, northern Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast and parts of the South and Southeast. Nebraska ranked second wettest on record. also kicked off the year a little on the wet side, with a year-to-date average rainfall of 6.55 inches - 0.41 of an inch above average.Ībove-average precipitation stretched from the central Plains to the East Coast during January-March. Above-average temperatures occurred across Bristol Bay and the Aleutians during the first three months of 2021 with the remainder of the state experiencing near-average conditions. The Alaska January-March temperature was 6.3☏, 0.4☏ above the long-term average, ranking in the middle third of the record for the state. Below-average temperatures occurred across portions of the South. This was in large part due to the cold weather experienced during February. ![]() Despite the broad extent of warmth seen during March across the Lower 48, temperatures over the first three months of the year were near average across a wide portion of the U.S. Above-average temperatures were present across the Northern Tier and Northeast as well as portions of the West and Southeast. temperature for the year to date (January through March) was 36.9 degrees F (1.8 degrees above average), which ranked in the warmest third of the record. The preliminary total damage estimate for this extreme event - in excess of $10 billion - makes it the most costly winter weather disaster on record for the U.S., surpassing the so-called “Storm of the Century” that struck the Gulf Coast all the way up to Maine in 1993. Texas experienced the majority of the property and infrastructure losses that were incurred by more than a dozen states. Most notable, the first billion-dollar disaster of 2021 had a devastating death toll: At least 125 people died as a direct or indirect result of a mid-February blanket of arctic weather that dropped temperatures to historic lows across the central United States. in February - and two tornado outbreaks in late March. The nation also recorded its first billion-dollar weather and climate disaster of 2021 - the deadly deep freeze that enveloped much of the central U.S. have been running warmer and wetter than normal. Since January, conditions across the U.S. ![]()
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