It'll help you get going. It won't help you stop.
All wheel drive or 4x4 wont make any difference when all four wheels are sliding on ice.
I will venture to guess that they don't sell snow tires at any tire store within a 100 mile radius of Dallas fort worth. An all wheel drive vehicle with snow tires properly driven on roads with some plowing and salting is quite doable. This is the regular winter weather driving in a large part of this country. I regularly see cars travel above the speed limit on ice packed roads.
Im sure you can get some somewhere in dfw. Although i would think its rare. Either way, no one, i mean NO ONE, in texas, let alone in dfw will have snow tires installed or have it handy in their garage lol hence the 100 car pile up.
As it's said: everything is bigger in Texas including car pileups
Not sure how this comparison works but i dont think texans care too much about chinese in relations to gun ownership.
It's called a joke.
Yeah but it's not exactly a fair comparison since we also have the resources to deal with it in the north. Plus experience driving in snow/icy conditions.
Maybe people in the South aren't as tough as they think they are. Get temps below freezing and they are calling in the national guard and shutting down entire cities.
Right back at ya. 😉
Tis true - when we get a single snowflake down here we cancel everything (work, school) lol. To be fair, we get like one snow storm every 10-15 years.
I think this reflects not just on Texas, but on our current society as a whole.....
Yes
This is such a crude statement to make.
Texas could have winterized their electric grid better. Or had salt. Or own plows. And not be so laughably bad at this. 6" of snow and you've got people foraging for **** to burn and stand around because they are freezing to death. It's like an episode of The Simpsons featuring a caricature of Texans in the snow that seems too ridiculous to be true.
Funny how they aren’t talking about secession now that they need that FEMA $$$
It reminds me of a small town I used to live in where they decided it snowed so infrequently (like one time per year) that it theoretically made sense to sell their snowplows for a budget shortfall. Queue mass pandemonium for an entire week when it snowed the next year.
Winterize our roads, strengthen a grid? Here in Texas we had more important things to do like stop gay marriage, prevent expansion of Obamacare, stop transsexuals from using certain bathrooms, making sure it's ok to carry weapons at church, prevent women from having control of their body, restrict voting rights.....winterize roads? We're much too busy for that.
They are the future. The problem is Tex-ASS decided it wasn't worth the money to winterize their coal plants, natural gas plants, nuclear plants or wind turbines. We have feet of snow and cold weather in PA and our wind turbines are pumping out electricity. They all failed. It's about the asses in the Tex-ASS government that do not understand where utilities are concerned, you prepare for every eventuality You don't cripple the second largest state in the country on the alter of cheap electricity and sort term profits.
Where I live winter is half of the year. So I have little sympathy for others who have to deal with winter weather. Yes you will die if you are exposed to prolonged cold temperatures. Snow tires will keep you out of accidents and on the road instead of in a ditch freezing to death. Instead of playing victim some Texans should own up to their arrogance and culpability which led to this disaster. Even the boy scouts know to be prepared.
An 11 year old boy froze to death in a mobile home because the power was "rotated off for 1 hour" and never came back on. Would you call him a victim? Or an arrogant Texan?
The boy might be a victim simply due to his age, if this person was older who the hell sits around and freezes to death? You on the other hand come across as an arrogant Texan. You don't live in a cold climate but reject what others who do say. All I know is my homes were a nice 68 degrees inside even when it was -23 outside. If the power went out I would still be toasty.
Your point is well-taken, at least by me, but wasn't it Ted Cruz who said Texans would prefer to go without power than accept any government regulations?
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I am torn. It is objectively awful to charge exuberate rates during an emergency. But Texas is all about personal responsibility, right? Those customers didn't have to choose a wholesale variety-rate plan. That was the risk they choose when they picked that plan. They wanted the lower rates and they choose the risk of spikes when they did that. That's the problem with giving people choices - they choose wrong and then want to be bailed out.It isn't in the public interest to saddle Texas families with thousands of dollars in electricity bills
Texas pauses electric bills as some get hit with thousands in costs
Electric bills are likely to rise for everyone, experts and consumer advocates say, but some Texans on variable rate contracts have been hit with immediate, massive price spikes. Lawmakers and the governor have promised to help, but haven't said how.
