Monday, February 22, 2021
Well, that didn't take long
ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and Entergy Corporation, two Texas power providers, have a $100 million lawsuit on their hands that accuses them of gross negligence in the death of a child. The child's family believes he suffered hypothermia when they lost electricity and heat in their mobile home during the recent surge of extreme winter weather that brought the state to its knees.
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No deal. We are just starting the season of LooK After Yourself FFS. Wake up.
ReplyDeleteSome people...I'll refrain from commenting on their specific situation because we don't know all the details yet, but I know if my children were in sub-zero temps, I would start hauling furniture outside and burning it to keep them warm. If I had to, my last-ditch effort would be burning the damn house.
ReplyDeleteOf course that's assuming that I was stupendously under-prepared like these people and didn't have tons of blankets, sleeping bags, electric, propane, and chemical heaters, survival (space) blankets, ~6 months of food storage, water filtration systems, generators, etc...
Watch out for the underground goddamn monsters, though.
Delete- Burt Gummer
its not the power co. fault that the kid died. bad parents. Why didnt they give the kid more blankets? cold doesnt matter if you have enough blankets. put the kid in bed with other people.
ReplyDeleteNothing is ever anyones fault anymore. Someone else is responsible for my dumbassedness.
ReplyDeleteIf I was reading that article correctly, their case is based on the utility company not being prepared after hearing a forecasted warning almost a week before of what was coming?
ReplyDeleteWhile no fan of utility companies, as the atty for said utility my first question would be "did you not hear the same warnings?"
This happened in the city I live in. This is indeed a very sad story but I can't help but think there is more to it than is being reported. Also, it didn't take the ambulance chasers long to get things going.
ReplyDeleteThe kid was just another pos made in fusa
ReplyDeleteFlush the remainder of the turd, burn the parents, move onto the next project.
Look genius, if mommy n daddy didn’t possess the knowledge to keep their offspring going after what amounted to a minor inconvenience. I am going to jump right to the conclusion that the offspring isn’t worth keepin around. If you want to support the useless, keep your ass in the cities as you are desperately needed.
DeleteSounds like they Cuomoed the poor kid.
ReplyDeleteIn a story that surprisingly isn't being mentioned in the media; the Utility in Texas asked permission to exceed "Green Power" limitations a week prior to the Big Chill.
ReplyDeleteThe Biden Administration refused.
Come on man, can't confuse the masses with actual facts.I
DeleteJD
Moral of this story, never ask permission when lives are on the line.
DeleteThere are a lot of things that led to these deaths. The parents were just the last in the line. Government relied on solar and wind to provide power. The solar and wind could not work in the winter conditions. The government changed the way natural gas is supplied to the customer. The changes made could not work in the cold whether. The state government was bullied by the federal government. The federal government was bullied by the climate alarmists. The climate alarmists lied to themselves, to the government and to the peoples of the world.
ReplyDeleteParents last. Would you be last as well for your kids. Its always someone else's fault. I feel sorry for your kids if you have any.
DeleteFirst it's blame Gorilla Glue now it's blame utilities for people's stupid mistakes. There is no personal accountability any more, and sadly there's no way to get it back...
ReplyDeleteOf course there's a way to get it back, just no EASY way to get it back, it's gonna be a long and painful transition back to sanity.
DeleteI'd like to know how people are getting multi thousand dollar electric bills. Is the utility charging people that are able use power for the entire cost of power generation? Something is way screwed up there.
ReplyDeleteNemo
They were on a cut rate provider that gave them a very low flat monthly rate and made them responsible for the float at market rate.
Delete-8notch