Texas Winter/Green Deal

 While we were enjoying paradise on the sunny beaches of Marco Island, Iowa was having bitter cold temps. Not only Iowa, but all over the country. February 11, in Fort Worth Texas a strip of 35 freeway was covered in a layer of ice that once one car slipped and slid, it was an instant domino collision. Cars had nowhere to go, nowhere to stop, but into the vehicle in front of them. The cement barriers on the side of the road only made matters worse. Cars, trucks, and semi's slammed into one another. It was a horrible scene with 133 cars piled. 6 deaths, thankfully no more, but dozens of injuries. 

Feb 16, 2021 A deadly winter storm pummeling the country's South and the heartland left millions without power in Texas early Tuesday and spawned a possible tornado that killed at least three people in North Carolina. More freezing weather and dangerous travel conditions were predicted in the coming days. he suspected tornado that hit North Carolina's Brunswick County around midnight ripped homes from foundations, snapped trees in half, and injured at least 10 people, the county's emergency services said Tuesday. In Texas, two people, one a child, died from carbon monoxide poisoning in a car being used for heat, Houston Police said. More than 4.4 million people were without power in Texas as of 12:30 p.m. ET, according to poweroutage.us, as record-low temperatures brought a demand for power that the state's electric grid could not keep up with. The areas around Galveston and Houston were the hardest hit, according to the outage website. Texas using rolling blackouts to conserve state's electricity during single digit weather. Snow and freezing rain were expected to persist, raising travel concerns for parts of the eastern Great Lakes to New England on Tuesday. Frigid Arctic air and dangerous wind chills were forecast in the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley through midweek, the National Weather Service said. The storm dropped snow and ice from Arkansas to Indiana, and brought record-low temperatures from Oklahoma City to Minnesota's Iron Range, where thermometers dipped to minus 38, the National Weather Service said. Texas officials pleaded with residents to stay off the roads, conserve power and seal up drafty windows and doors. The Houston Chronicle was forced to stop printing after its plant lost power at 2 a.m. In a note to subscribers, the newspaper said that didn't happen even when the city was battered by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Abilene, a city of about 170,000 residents, shut off its water services as a result of power outages at all three of its water treatment plants, it tweeted. In a bid to save power, officials in Dallas said their skylines would go dark and Kansas City, Missouri, did the same. Kansas City, like cities scattered across the U.S., including in Tennessee and Iowa, were threatened with rolling power outages Monday. In further unwelcome news for millions without power, more snow and ice was predicted late Tuesday and Wednesday along a storm front reaching from Texas to the Appalachian states. Oklahoma is set to be a likely epicenter for the heaviest accumulations through Tuesday night, the National Weather Service said. The storm's trailing cold front is also forecast to trigger showers and thunderstorms over South Florida, where there is some risk of flash flooding. Texas experienced massive power outages for weeks at a time. The media will never come out and admit it or speak of it, but we cannot supply power with our green energy, wind power and solar power are not enough. People froze and people died.

FOX-The Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas. How's it working out so far? Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate. Sunday night, parts of Texas got the temperatures that we typically see in Alaska. In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska. So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston. The bad news is, they don't have electricity. The windmills froze, so the power grid failed. Millions of Texans woke up Monday morning having to boil their water because with no electricity, it couldn't be purified. The ironically named Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the grid, had no solution to any of this. They simply told people to stop using so much power to keep warm. So in Houston, hundreds of shivering Texans headed to the convention center like refugees to keep from freezing to death. Some Texans almost certainly did freeze to death. Later this week, we'll likely learn just how many more were killed as they tried to keep warm with jury-rigged heaters and barbecues and car exhaust. That happens every time when the power goes out; even advanced societies become primitive and dangerous, and people die. We've seen it happen repeatedly in California for years now, rolling blackouts in a purportedly First World state that is slipping steadily into chaos. But who saw that coming in Texas? If there's one thing you would think Texas would be able to do, it's keep the lights on. Most electricity comes from natural gas and Texas produces more of that than any place on the continent. There are huge natural gas deposits all over the state. Running out of energy in Texas is like starving to death at the grocery store: You can only do it on purpose, and Texas did. Rather than celebrate and benefit from their state's vast natural resources, politicians took the fashionable route and became recklessly reliant on so-called alternative energy, meaning windmills. Fifteen years ago, there were virtually no wind farms in Texas. Last year, roughly a quarter of all electricity generated in the state came from wind. Local politicians were pleased by this. They bragged about it like there was something virtuous about destroying the landscape and degrading the power grid. Just last week, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott proudly accepted something called the Wind Leadership Award, given with gratitude by Tri Global Energy, a company getting rich from green energy. So it was all working great until the day it got cold outside. The windmills failed like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died. This is not to beat up on the state of Texas -- it's a great state, actually -- but to give you some sense of what's about to happen to you.

BIDEN, JAN. 27: In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis ... That’s why I’m signing today an executive order to supercharge our administration['s] ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change.  And it is an existential threat.  "Climate crisis", "existential threat", "ambitious plan". You hear those phrases a lot and you'll notice that they are all suspiciously non-precise. So what do they mean for you? Will they mean higher energy prices? For starters, gas prices are already up, in case you haven't noticed. Electricity will follow. Higher costs hurt the weakest, inflation always does, but it's worse than that. Green energy inevitably means blackouts. Someday that may change as technology progresses, but as of right now and given the current state of technology, green energy means a less reliable power grid. It means failures like the ones we're seeing now in Texas. That's not a talking point, that is true. It's science. So of course, they're denying it.People who support wind farms, as a rule, live very far from wind farms. People who live near wind farms have a totally different view, and why wouldn't they? How would you like a massive power plant in your backyard humming and buzzing and chopping up birds? That's what a wind turbine is. If you're ever in rural America, go see one for yourself. You'll be shocked by how awful it is once you get up close. Your first thought may be, "This is supposed to be good for the environment."