Look at these insane pictures and videos of Texas Big Freeze

[Elderberry]

Strange Sounds -Feb 19, 2021

https://strangesounds.org/2021/02/insane-pictures-and-videos-of-texas-big-freeze.html

Texas is currently experiencing some of the coldest weather it has seen in decades and the pictures coming out from the state show how bad things are. The state, the people, and the infrastructure just aren’t set up for it.



please appreciate this photo of my dad standing on top of our frozen pool in dallas, measuring the thickness of the ice with a tape measure
 #DallasWeather #dfw

[libertybele]

Wow!  How dare Cruz take off at a time like this.  He could have gone around with a bunch of blow torches and done some heavy duty defrosting.  

[Right_in_Virginia]

Wow!  How dare Cruz take off at a time like this.  He could have gone around with a bunch of blow torches and done some heavy duty defrosting.

Please, don't blow up this thread.  As you know, there is an ongoing and active thread on Ted Cruz's travel.  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,429135.0.html

Would it be too much to ask you to take the gasoline over there?

@libertybele

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Right_in_Virginia]

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@veterans_i   

Damn never thought about this.

Pro tip compliments of my neighbors: if your water is shut off or pipes are frozen, fill your bath tub with snow and use the water for your toilets 🚽

To all my northern friends, don’t judge us. We are learning the hard way



12:59 AM · Feb 17, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/veterans_i/status/1361918229359128576

[libertybele]

Please, don't blow up this thread.  As you know, there is an ongoing and active thread on Ted Cruz's travel.  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,429135.0.html

Would it be too much to ask you to take the gasoline over there?

@libertybele

               

                                                                                I'm posting my opinion - period.

[libertybele]

When I lived in AK we left the water on just a trickle to ensure that the pipes different freeze.  The pipes were also wrapped with heat tape and we plugged our cars in at night to ensure that the batteries didn't freeze.  There was nothing we could do to  keep the propane from freezing -- that was a sit and wait till it thaws out.

This is a fluke in TX and if it happened here in FL, we wouldn't be prepared either other than our grids keep getting upgraded because of the hurricanes and we have a generator; if things got bad we'd probably hop on a plane with our family and go to the Bahamas or Cancun.

[Elderberry]

[libertybele]

Wow.  Even during hurricane season I haven't seen shelves that empty. 

[roamer_1]

Damn never thought about this.

Pro tip compliments of my neighbors: if your water is shut off or pipes are frozen, fill your bath tub with snow and use the water for your toilets 🚽

Well no... that's about a gallon and a half of water right there.

[thackney]

Well no... that's about a gallon and a half of water right there.

Southern folks never tried to melt snow for water.  We tried in the 1976 storm in Ohio, several days with no electricity, 5 days before the street was cleared.  Dad laughed at me and my brother.  We had to prove we could do it.  Took more than all night to melt in a plastic bucket near the fireplace.  I remember about 1 inch water for a foot of snow, packed in.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Well no... that's about a gallon and a half of water right there.

Don't burse their bubble ... they were thrilled to have that!   

[roamer_1]

Southern folks never tried to melt snow for water.  We tried in the 1976 storm in Ohio, several days with no electricity, 5 days before the street was cleared.  Dad laughed at me and my brother.  We had to prove we could do it.  Took more than all night to melt in a plastic bucket near the fireplace.  I remember about 1 inch water for a foot of snow, packed in.

Yeah... pretty common to use snow up in here if you ain't by a open creek. But you take a billy pot, pack it full of snow, and put it in the fire... that might get you a half an inch of water if you are lucky... You have to feed the thing all the way till you go to bed to get enough to matter.