Live Updates: Closures, blackouts and more after winter weather slams S.A.(photos)
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Full San Antonio Express-News story here.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.--Fred Hampton
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February 17, 2021 at 12:34 PM #404295
And a quarter million people in that city alone are still without power. Inexcusable. Right now in Euclid, Ohio, it’s 5F, there’s a foot of snow on the ground, and zero power restrictions. Don’t tell me Texas power companies can’t do the same thing. They can.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.--Fred Hampton
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February 17, 2021 at 1:29 PM #404299
it’s a DISASTER! Usually of epic proportions. A 1″ snow in Atlanta will cause more damage than Sherman ever thought of doing.
But that’s capitalism for ya. Planning for a once-in-a-decade event would cut into quarterly profits.
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February 17, 2021 at 2:42 PM #404318
Some of that is even showing up in the below zero temps we are seeing in MN. Frozen pipes at many homes and cars that will not start.
Looking at those pics I see the roads have not been plowed. I am assuming that they do not have the equipment because most years in the past they did not need it.
jwirr
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February 17, 2021 at 3:30 PM #404325
We had a freaking big snow, but they still decided to have school. Of the 28 or so students in my class, only 7 (including me) were able to attend class, mostly because we lived within a few blocks of the school. So my teacher decided it wasn’t worth it to have regular lessons, so we played games all day. It was so fun! But after that, any time we had even a threat of a kind of a “big” snow (1 inch or more), classes were canceled, Those buses had to navigate winding roads on the east side of town, and there was one minor accident because of the snow.
“There’s a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of ‘grab and greed’ are on their way out. We’re beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we’re compelled to give him. The time’s coming… when we shan’t be able to fill our bellies in comfort while others go hungry, sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold.... And God willing, we’ll live to see that day…” Basil Rathbone,"Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (Universal 1943)
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February 17, 2021 at 1:57 PM #404303
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February 17, 2021 at 2:10 PM #404306
Sheesh! They just got into office! You can’t blame them for Texas! Besides, those people deserved it for voting for the Orange Menace! (sarc, of course)
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.--Fred Hampton
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February 17, 2021 at 2:43 PM #404319
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February 17, 2021 at 4:16 PM #404346
areas.
My calls to my Aunts cell, near Ft. Hood, won’t even go through this morning.
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February 18, 2021 at 8:28 AM #404596
I have seen all of the connection designations on my phone from 2G to 4G LTE. In all my time having a cellphone, I have never once seen the designations of ‘E’ and ‘H’ before. I found an old site which explains them all (back when 4G was the fastest imagined) : )
https://techwelkin.com/meaning-mobile-symbols-g-e-2g-3g-h-4g-mobile-internet-signal-bar
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February 17, 2021 at 9:04 PM #404456
..much further south than, say Amarillo?
We’ve often joked where I live that Arkansas only has one snow plow. Slight exaggeration, but…..if ole Billy Bob hadn’t thrown every tax break possible at Walmart and Tyson, probably have lots more nice things for everyone else in the state, including more plows and salt trucks.-
February 17, 2021 at 9:06 PM #404459
Don’t know if they still do, but San Antonio? They have none. They’re also 300 miles further south.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.--Eugene Debs
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.--Fred Hampton
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February 18, 2021 at 8:23 AM #404595
It’s about such equipment sitting idle for ten years or more at a time. You can’t let vehicles sit that long without regular maintenance and they would need that in case of the next big storm causing problems.
It would be like asking the Cajun Navy to have airboats on hand in some part of the country which will not see hurricane-level flooding but once every few decades. No government is going to pay for the upkeep of them as they sit idle.
Better would be to fully equip all of the National Guard units in the country in such a way that they are the ones which are called upon to do the snow-plowing or flood-rescues in those parts of the country which don’t see those kinds of disasters often. They can then do the maintenance and upkeep.
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February 21, 2021 at 7:52 PM #405454
Wouldn’t you still have to store the plows relatively close to the sites? And wouldn’t the use requests tend to concentrate on the same days? (e.g. in this case, TX likely has a lot of roads that need plowing.).
I don’t see that having the guard involved would result in greater efficiency except maybe labor cost (assuming the Guard is *already* getting paid & just needs to change from guarding to plowing for a few days)
And it wouldn’t seem very efficient to store plows in e.g. Arizona to be used in TX. So it doesn’t seem that much, if anything, would be saved on storage or maintenance.
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February 23, 2021 at 1:19 PM #405836
is more likely to have multi-purpose vehicles already. I don’t know what they are, but have seen some in the past with dirt-plows attached to the front. Our veterans might know more about that kind of thing. But the point is that they already have the vehicles. I recall seeing their cherry-picker cranes in use in 1983 after Hurricane Alicia within a day of the storm passing (they were pulling trees off the tops of houses). I don’t know where they stored their equipment, and yet it was there quickly as needed.
It remains a fact that it is simply not cost-effective or efficient for a city to keep on hand cold-weather equipment when it won’t get used but once every ten years (or sometimes longer). Unless you would like to personally pay for them and their upkeep? I’m sure if you’re wealthy enough any city on the Gulf Coast would be more than happy to accept your offer.
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February 23, 2021 at 2:59 PM #405856
@gryneos Isn’t that how we used to do it? Declaim an emergency and send in the National Guard…what the citizens don’t even get the benefit of the ‘forces’ that they pay for? It’s all for the corporation now?
Thanks for your post.
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February 23, 2021 at 3:01 PM #405859
FL has nothing on me when it comes to spelling and now I can’t even correct myself…damn!!
The DNC “big tent” excludes Nina Turner but includes John Kasich.
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February 24, 2021 at 5:31 AM #406088
Yeah, it does seem like that’s what the Natl. Guard was good for and best at in the past. Now they’ve been turned into just another foreign fighting force when we need to keep them at home for the important stuff. And don’t worry about the spelling errors; we all miss them from time to time : )
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February 18, 2021 at 1:01 PM #404640
And in case you haven’t noticed, the current, Republican, governor of the state bragged in his re-election campaign ads that he had cut taxes.
“There’s a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of ‘grab and greed’ are on their way out. We’re beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we’re compelled to give him. The time’s coming… when we shan’t be able to fill our bellies in comfort while others go hungry, sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold.... And God willing, we’ll live to see that day…” Basil Rathbone,"Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (Universal 1943)
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February 21, 2021 at 9:09 PM #405472
The Republicans didn’t miss a beat continuing the corporate generosity.
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February 24, 2021 at 1:26 PM #406132
than it is now.
I’ve also noticed that you have said you are in the St. Louis area. When was the last time you had ties to Arkansas? While I have lived out of the state for many years, I have kept up with events through relatives, and through regular visits back to the state. Why harp on “Billy Bob” when his Republican successors (Huckabee, Hutchinson) have been much worse? And the last Democratic governor of the state, Mike Beebe, actually worked for the benefit of regular Arkansans?
“There’s a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of ‘grab and greed’ are on their way out. We’re beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we’re compelled to give him. The time’s coming… when we shan’t be able to fill our bellies in comfort while others go hungry, sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold.... And God willing, we’ll live to see that day…” Basil Rathbone,"Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (Universal 1943)
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