Texas After the Storm

By artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 12:28pm |

Uninhabitable apartments. Sleeping in hotels. Kids falling behind at school. Bills piling up. How the Texas winter storm isn't over for so many.

Thanks to @mikiebarb and team for focusing on this story.https://t.co/VaKfd7bFZP
— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) March 1, 2021

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/podcasts/the-daily/texas-winter-storm-blackouts-electricity.html

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A California dispatch from ⁦@VivianHo⁩ following up on our water findings— ‘It's a toxic blend': where the kids are warned not to swallow the bath water https://t.co/sWoGNP3uwk
— Emily Holden (@emilyhholden) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 12:31pm

.@FiveThirtyEight let me make my debut (!!) writing about TX.

Republicans’ handling of the storm probably won’t hurt them in 2022: Talk of Texas going blue is almost always exaggerated, Abbott is relatively popular, & Dems don’t have an obvious challenger https://t.co/LFCdxe7Q5F
— Alexandra Samuels (@AlexSamuelsx5) March 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 10:52pm

“The future will not be like the past. Our models are degrading by the day, and we don’t understand — we don’t want to understand — how much in society could topple when they fail, and how much suffering that could bring.” (1/x) https://t.co/bajSdLEdR4
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 25, 2021

“One place to start is by recognizing how fragile the basic infrastructure of civilization is even now, in this climate, in rich countries. Which brings me to Texas.”
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 25, 2021

“Two facts from that crisis have gotten less attention than they deserve. First, the cold in Texas was not a generational climatic disaster.”
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 25, 2021

“The problem, as @RogerPielkeJr wrote in his newsletter, is that Texas’ worst-case scenario planning used a 2011 cold snap that was a one-in-10-year weather event. It wasn’t even the worst cold Texas experienced in living memory.”
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 25, 2021

“Texas hadn’t just failed to prepare for the far future. It failed to prepare for the recent past.”
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 11:56pm

thread:

For over 10 days now, around half the residents of Jackson, Mississippi have not had running water.

And nobody is talking about it on a national scale.

I am begging the national media to please pay attention. There is a crisis happening in Jackson.
— Angie Thomas (@angiecthomas) February 27, 2021

finally some coverage:

Thank you @CBSNews! https://t.co/OQjhjybtkJ
— Angie Thomas (@angiecthomas) March 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 4:00am

"RIP Texas" is trending on Twitter because:

RIP Texas

If you want my advice - stop electing people who want to kill you

It’s not that hard https://t.co/WpOCJO6nqb
— Jonathan Jewel (@jonathanjewel) March 2, 2021

Aside from the damage to citizens living there, I suspect this will be a problem for anyone from Texas who wants to travel to another state. He has just basically seceded from the Union for the duration of the pandemic?

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 3:47pm

David Plouffe calls what Abbott is doing an "abomination":

Trying to distract from one crisis by exacerbating another. An abomination. Now we need a wall to keep Texans in Texas. https://t.co/lkYehCmUnc
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) March 2, 2021

edit to add Bill Kristol:

Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together. https://t.co/dSsdQQ6sxp
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 4:03pm

just curious to see if Elon Musk had anything to say on the matter, looks like he's just not into that, tweeted this 45 min. ago, basically planning on his own free state with its own gummint anyhow?

Creating the city of Starbase, Texas
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 4:09pm

Nate Silver as always, thinks to look up related facts on the matter:

What's kind of screwed up is that states like Texas and Florida that are eager to fully open up tend not to have made the vaccine available for essential workers yet, whereas the more "closed" states (though nowhere is truly closed) largely have.https://t.co/KzISbdaYKE pic.twitter.com/jG0oKCxLQD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 4:20pm

Michael Moore into collective punishment, including possible death:

What the fuck is this? I’d like my father in law to get a vaccine. https://t.co/7iRtTzGCYR
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 3, 2021

Such an excellent way to win over swings NOT.

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 1:06pm

1) is Michael Moore dictator? Will his tweet really matter to any Texas or US official?

2) when Texas kept threatening to secede, did we issue a bunch of PSAs explaining really this was only a few Texans, not the majority? When they bragged about voting for Trump and Cruz did we remind that it was only 60-65%?

No, we just said "Texans are dumber than rain water - let 'em secede, take Ted with you." Was that insensitive and offend nin-Yrumo voters and non-seceders? Who gives a shit - campaign harder so youre not shamed by your awful weird neighbors.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 1:52pm

turns people like Yglesias off, turns people like me off, isn't that enough for you? that's it's bad messaging. Tweets are public messaging and can be retweeted.. (Yglesias retweeted it and countered just for that reason.) We don't want to be in a party where he's a member. He's bound and determined to be the poster boy for the intolerant liberal stereotype that does resound and turns moderates toward voting GOP downticket. Every reinforcement of the stereotype is soooo counter-productive politically. I really truly would like to be able to join a party where Michael Moore types are not a member, would jump at the chance.

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 2:19pm

Michael Moore is up there with Kid Rock - what do I know.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 2:27pm

Fox News just loves them some threats from libruls, they play it to the max-scroll ahead here to 2:00 where they play the tape they dug up of a Michigan rep

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 5:41pm

Electricity companies are billions of dollars short on the post-storm payments they now owe to Texas's power grid operator.

There's no clear path for how they will pay. https://t.co/o2rEDx519I axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 5:01pm

Beto O'Rourke is on the road again, criss-crossing Texas and broadcasting his stops in small towns.

His efforts have been focused on the widespread power outages and fighting the pandemic.

It's igniting Democratic hopes that he'll run for governor.https://t.co/Yrc3Mwx9tY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 7:14pm

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