No, you don't UNDERSTAND, it's SNOWING.
WE DON'T GET SNOW, WE GET 115° SUMMERS.
This is the same city that a short three and a half years ago had Hurricane Harvey, runner up for costliest cyclone at $125 Billion in damages. That's Billion with a B.
There's approximately 700k people without power in this city alone.
Our population is 2.5 Million
That means 28% of this city's population is struggling to keep their homes warm during record breaking artic temps.
This is the wind chill coming in through the gap of our front door
I am so grateful that our electricity has not gone out, but countless aren't as fortunate which leads to things like
Many of us have gone days without water because of a combination of low pressure and frozen city water mains, and have resorted to collecting snow and ice for emergency usage (No we are not consuming the water)
It took us two hours to find a store that had a working water dispenser and then 40 minutes on top of that to fill six gallons because the machine was overworking on low pressure.
There are lines wrapped around each corner of major intersections for food and gas because people don't have the means to cook at home.
Several of us (myself included) have wiped out going through an underpass because they all have black ice.
There hasn't been proper internet connection in days which means delays in weather updates and no news articles to depend on, and cell phone coverage is spotty at best which lead to hour long wait times on messaging between work and family members. Phone calls just don't go through well enough to hear one another.
People are desperate enough to search out hotel rooms with working commodities they've sold out nearly all of them inside city limits. Some are driving out to neighboring towns just to find warmth and running water. Emergency rooms have taken in over 100 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning because of people's desperation to warm up. Winter storm Uri has completely decimated the grid leaving us in the dark and cold.
And don't get me started on the 133 vehicle, half mile long pileup Fort Worth had last week.
I mean I thought it was pretty silly no one has made the correlation between major hurricane events and snow precipitation in regards to preparedness but this is absolutely fucking humiliating how dismal the city has handled this event when taking into consideration the record breaking hurricane season we just had.
