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| The obligatory throwing of boiling water in the air during the record cold snap in Texas last week. Such a scene is impossible now in Texas. Temperatures reached 80 degrees there Tuesday afternoon. |
I couldn't resist one more, as Texans on TikTok expressed their humor, frustration and pratfalls as they dealt with the icy weather.
It has since warmed up dramatically in Texas, so everyone is relieved. The change in just seven days is impressive to say the least.
Dallas was at minus 2 on February 16. Yesterday, exactly a week later it was 81 degrees in Dallas. The change in Oklahoma City was even more impressive. It went from 14 below on February 16 to 72 degrees yesterday
The weather is certainly much better now in Texas and surrounding areas, but unfortunately, problems obviously remain after such a big disaster.
Many thousands of homes, apartments and businesses remain badly damaged after pipes burst. This will be the most expensive disaster in Texas history, surpassing even Hurricane Harvey.
President Biden will visit Texas Friday to check out the disaster, as presidents do when calamities are especially bad.
There's plenty of political fallout from this, too.
The now badly named Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which manages and operates the Texas electrical grid, clearly badly mismanaged it, as they failed to weatherproof the system over the years, though they were warned to do so.
The result was the massive power outages in Texas that came with the cold weather. That lead to dozens of deaths and the billions in damage, as we've all heard on the news.
Five board members of ERCOT resigned Tuesday. It was the least they could do.
Anyway, now for some fun with that TikTok compilation. Note that it's NSFW, as there's plenty of understandable swearing in here:
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