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xReshi92 t1_j1v38fk wrote

Texas having isolated power shortages is front-page news, but this massacre isn't? Selective outrage much?

For the record, I'm not defending the absurd bullshit we deal with in Texas from our government. Just find it interesting.

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skilledwarman t1_j1vbjix wrote

The issues in Texas happened because the state fucked up and failed to properly maintain their grid. The issues in Buffalo happened because people under estimated a severe storm and got caught out

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thegreatestajax t1_j1vhbr6 wrote

Underestimating a severe weather event is exactly what happened in Texas.

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skilledwarman t1_j1vm1f0 wrote

Sure if you want to over simplify you could argue that

But one was decades of a government neglecting to properly maintain and keep up their states power grid while the other was people thinking that since they weathered the storm that dropped 7 feet of snow on them a couple weeks ago they'd be ready for this storm. People were caught out of their homes, were homeless and thought they could handle it without being at a real shelter or church, or got stuck out due to accidents

Not exactly the same thing

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thegreatestajax t1_j1vor0f wrote

Speaking of oversimplifying…

If the TX event had happened a few weeks before or after, it wouldn’t have been as impactful. It was a once a century event that coincided with annual winter maintenance of plants to prepare for summer. Both were complex events.

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Grouchy_Occasion2292 t1_j1vkda9 wrote

Or they were homeless and they are not able to leave their cars and they don't have a home to go to.

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holyerthanthou t1_j1v56be wrote

Hey at least our infrastructure works

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FunkyMonkss t1_j1vjfbc wrote

New York State had a higher grid failure rate than Texas did during this storm so no your infrastructure didn't work

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fattiesruineverythin t1_j1v7wv6 wrote

Why are so many people dying then?

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skilledwarman t1_j1vbh93 wrote

Having heat and power at home doesn't matter if you get stuck on the side of the highway

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FunkyMonkss t1_j1vjhiw wrote

A higher percentage of people in NY were without heat and power than Texas though

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holyerthanthou t1_j1w8tqa wrote

NY has hurricane force winds and over 40” of snow mixed with sub zero temps

And it was back up for most within a day despite this.

In Texas it got chilly

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DapprDanMan t1_j1vhqhk wrote

Yeah at least in Buffalo we are safe in our homes, so long as our heat held out. Weren’t people literally freezing to death in their living rooms in Texas?

but sure enjoy that Texan Independence

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Grouchy_Occasion2292 t1_j1vk0qy wrote

Or your homeless. But then again just proves our infrastructure doesn't work not systematically. We have so many homeless people because we don't help people stay at homes.

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Archberdmans t1_j1vb4dk wrote

They’re dying in the snow in cars

not in their houses cuz the powers out because it went below 20; they have tons of snow and -30 degree windchills in buffalo

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damnthistrafficjam t1_j1vddcq wrote

I have a terrible feeling that by the time there’s a noticeable amount of snow that’s melted or cleared out, that the numbers will be worse. Thinking about those who maybe live alone without family or community support.

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Grouchy_Occasion2292 t1_j1vk3jy wrote

Yeah probably because they're homeless and don't have a home to go to which is a systematic failure of us.

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fattiesruineverythin t1_j1vckcc wrote

They are stuck on the roads? That's part of infrastructure. And there are thousands without power in NY. They should fix their shitty infrastructure.

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LivefromPhoenix t1_j1vd1tj wrote

What a stupid comment. Buffalo is actually a world leader in rapid snow removal, the issue here was primarily hurricane force winds making the cold much more dangerous than it usually would be. Unless you're suggesting NY break out their weather machines there's not much we can do about that. Texas' issues were connected to the politically motivated decision to keep their energy grid separate from the rest of the country.

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Archberdmans t1_j1vedpi wrote

Lmao everything’s some dumb political zero sum game isn’t it lmao

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Grouchy_Occasion2292 t1_j1vkba6 wrote

When the thing is very political itself then yeah of course it is. Do you think infrastructure is not political? Do you think the vast amount of homeless we have isn't political?

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Archberdmans t1_j1vmaaa wrote

I think that a lot of things are political but at some point bad weather happens and buffalo isn’t unprepared due to politics, at least in terms of snow infrastructure compared to a lot of places. They’re probably one of the most prepared places in the lower 48 for snow.

Now the homeless problem isn’t unique to buffalo that’s a whole country problem but yeah I’ll give ya that homelessness is something we could easily avoid if we wanted to

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Fun-Gap4015 t1_j1vbr7w wrote

You didn't read the headlines because this is front page news. Why are you trying to make terrible deaths an us vs them thing?

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happyscrappy t1_j1va6ti wrote

I didn't see that Texas stuff on the front page. While this literally is on the front page of the NY Times right now. First item below the headline Southwest schlimazel.

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