{"id":53051,"date":"2021-02-17T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53051"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:55:45","slug":"as-15-million-folks-are-still-without-electricity-in-sub-freezing-temps-texas-may-be-facing-the-greatest-challenge-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53051","title":{"rendered":"As 15 million folks are still without electricity in sub-freezing temps, Texas may be facing the greatest challenge in its history!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Texas Facing A Humanitarian Crisis?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Up to\u00a015 million Texans<\/a>\u00a0remain without heat and electricity as temperatures across the state are well below freezing. Another round of winter weather is battering parts of the state Wednesday morning, as many Texans have been without electricity since Sunday are desperately scrambling to find shelters. Weather-related deaths have already been reported as one of the nation’s wealthiest states can barely supply\u00a0electricity<\/a>\u00a0to its residents. And some of those residents have written to us to share their painful realities…<\/p>\n

…my house is now resembling a refugee camp.<\/strong>\u00a0yeah these are all my friends but crazy cause they\u00a0all have young kids<\/strong>…<\/em><\/p>\n

hence i’m escaping the chaos…<\/em><\/p>\n

what’s insane is that\u00a0big swathes of population in surrounding areas are without power and *water supply*<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

… bottled water flying off shelves & stores bout to run out.<\/em><\/p>\n

… so much for Green New Deal shit… all our turbines and solar don’t work now in freeze, LOL<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

i live in an area behind a major hospital so i’m thinking that’s why my grid has been up and running this whole time.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The unprecedented polar vortex split, dumping Arctic air down to the Gulf of Mexico, resulted in frozen wellheads that impeded the flow of natgas to power stations, triggering electric shortages as demand overwhelmed the grid. Considering ERCOT, which manages 90% of the state’s electric load, has a high percentage of electrical generation produced via natgas, power has yet to be restored to millions of folks. Still on Wednesday, the power grid operator warned 40% of generation capacity\u00a0remains offline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The cascading effect of blackouts and controlled power outages has resulted in some critical infrastructure such as cellular networks and water treatment plants going offline.<\/p>\n

As we attempt to show below,\u00a0the speed at which one of the nation’s wealthiest states transforms into a third-world country is simply stunning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jared Tennant, a drone pilot in central Texas,<\/a>\u00a0captured stunning images of how downtown Austin has been lit up during the power grid collapse while surrounding and more impoverished communities on the outskirts of town have had their power cut.<\/p>\n

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Tennant “showed images of downtown Austin Tuesday night. Municipal buildings, empty office buildings, and even empty parking garages fully lit throughout the night,” said\u00a0PJ Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Office buildings in downtown Austin were lit up during the blackouts.<\/p>\n

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Austin’s convention center had power while neighborhoods across I-35 were dark.<\/p>\n

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Downtown offices were lit while tens of thousands of thousands of people in the surrounding community froze.<\/p>\n

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One reader wrote that\u00a0central Texas looks like a “refugee situation of sorts,”<\/strong>\u00a0offering some anecdotal accounts of what he’s seeing on the ground which is nothing short of a disaster in the making.<\/p>\n

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