I'm sorry to hear about what's going on in TX regarding residents receiving electricity. I don't know how inhabitable TX will be in the upcoming years (I'm a native Texan who moved to Los Angeles in 1988 when I was 31). Between the politics and the horrible weather, it's sad to see what's happening.
The weather is, of course, climate change which the conservatives are in denial about. And the politics.....I had hopes that Colin Allred could unseat Ted Cruz but from what I heard and saw while in TX, it looks like there's a very small chance he will (if anyone has other opinions, PLEASE give me your feedback).
As I've posted occasionally, over the past several years I've off and on (to help supplement my substitute teaching income) been working in Dallas at a friends' home (she has a small business, always needs help with paperwork, and we work from her very nice house).
Anyway, I was in Dallas during a horrible storm that hit on May 28th. At the time, my friend was on vacation and out of the country. I was there working but mostly I was there to take care of her dog. We received a tornado warning on our phones at 6 a.m. and I had to grab the precious furry baby and bolt to the laundry room which is the safest place (she had told me) in the house. We were there for around an hour and a-half.
We were out of electricity for six days! I had to stay at a hotel and she didn't want me to take her dog with me to the hotel (she had agreed that if something happened with the power, I could go with the furry baby to a hotel). In the meantime, I'm out the money that I had to put on my card and she hasn't paid me for that or for the work I did. We currently aren't on speaking terms.
Am I correct in my understanding that this is an infrastructure issue and that the politicians are making energy a commodity?
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