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adjl posted...

To be fair, many normally-cold areas would be similarly screwed over by the sort of heat and drought conditions that are normal for much of Texas, much like the east coast would be crippled by earthquakes that the west coast would laugh off. Nobody builds infrastructure to withstand environmental conditions they have almost no chance of ever seeing. That'd just be wasteful. This is why climate change is such a problem: it's going to introduce extreme weather events to regions that have never had to be prepared for them, with devastating results.

Counter-point: West Texas especially gets bad blizzards every year, so their excuse for being ill-prepared isn't very acceptable. Obvious the sharp temperature drops and the sheer levels they are getting hit with as abnormal, but it's more highlighting how Texas' unregulated power industry could have used...you know, regulations, to prevent this. And the general Republican hypocrisy/indifference to the crisis. Watching Cruz get roasted alive today has been delightful.

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