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Oh and now I see the CDC is telling people to toss out perishable foods after four hours without power. Just how did they think people survived before we had refrigeration? Newsflash, eggs will NOT go bad in four hours. Even sliced fruit and vegetables won't "go bad" if they're covered and kept safe from bacteria.
Jeebus, we've gotten stupid in the 21st century ...
Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter
Wrong pronoun ; )
My airstream has been stolen by dopers
This is so bad.
Too bad the thousands of Guard stationed in D.C. haven't been sent down to help...Any news of any guard being deployed under state of emergency? I haven't seen any reports of such.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...itarian-crisis
Central Texas looking like a refugee situation of sorts... suburbs with power have homes with 10 to 15 or 20 people piled into living rooms with sleeping bags.
Increasingly whole zip codes are being hit with not just power outage, but water system going down too either thru frozen or electrically damaged processing facilities or key pipes bursting.
Anyone without power/water (now going on 2 to 3 days) is begging any friends or family in area still with power to take them in.
Often multiple families are camped out in living rooms of those who still have power.
Families are dropping off young children in residences & with neighbors that still have heat.
Basically whole neighborhoods on other side of highway with no power are "moving in" to neighbors' homes on other side where power still exists.
I'm getting phone calls from friends and elderly people in the community asking desperately for firewood. People are now running out of firewood and the couple grocery stores actually open for a few hours a day are constantly out.
People are braving the iced-over roads to go looking for anyone with firewood.
Any home that still has water is filling up jugs & bathtubs in expectation of water supply cut at any moment.
The water situation is getting alarming.. especially many elderly now trapped in homes with no heat OR WATER.
Local stores (the 2 or 3 that actually open) are limiting customers to 2 gallons of water each--it's flying off the shelves
Individuals with 4-wheel drive and/or jeeps have been seen picking up stranded strangers on side of road... often people are having to hike miles to an open corner store to raid the shelves for any canned food/or still available items.
As vehicles get stuck and/or become inoperable due to extreme freeze... people have been seen hiking out of suburban neighborhoods to reach "civilization" (or any area still with power and water)
People are also now living in their work offices and/or teachers bringing their family to school classroom to live if school/office still has power/water.
In many cases schools or some churches are not yet officially "warming centers"--yet people are basically squatting--entering any public place/room they can find that's warm.
For most part there's almost zero snow plow/de-icing equipment particularly in mid- to small-sized towns and rural areas... last night's layer of ice storm means many people now trapped in their powerless/waterless homes even if they want to leave for a warming center
There's no recourse, no answers... Oncor will not answer calls or give answers for days running. Civic services not responding... also local police departments are angrily demanding answers from the large energy companies
Growing number of carbon monoxide poisonings in area and the state...people are lighting charcoal grills indoors, also running vehicles in garages
Any disaster/emergency declarations yet?
Never mind, done several days ago.
I meant as a society in general but point taken.
These mental midgets are worried about food spoilage in their refrigerators when their faucets and toilets are freezing solid? Um, maybe put the food in plastic bins outside?
I used to go on Freezorees and we used the coolers to keep our food from getting frozen solid ...
This picture is about the only thing you need to see to know that Texas screwed the pooch and let their people down.
This is Texarkana. The dry side of the road is in Arkansas, the snow-packed side is in Texas. The large wealthy state of Texas can't even clear the roads as efficiently as Arkansas.
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