Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves: ‘Only the strong will survive’

Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’


How Texas's independent power grid failed under pressure

Texas's independent power grid was crippled under high demand and damaging weather after a historic cold snap hit the U.S. over Presidents' Day weekend. (John Farrell/The Washington Post)

By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Tex., were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state, leaving them without heat or electricity in below-freezing temperatures. To make matters worse, many also lacked running water, forcing them to haul in heavy buckets of snow each time they needed to flush their toilets.

Residents turned to a community Facebook group to ask whether the small town planned to open warming shelters, while others wondered if firefighters could do their job without water. But when Colorado City’s mayor chimed in, it was to deliver a less-than-comforting message: The local government had no responsibility to help out its citizens, and only the tough would survive.

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd wrote on Tuesday in a now-deleted Facebook post, according to KTXS and KTAB/KRBC. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”

Boyd’s tirade, which also demanded that “lazy” residents find their own ways of procuring water and electricity, immediately drew backlash. Later on Tuesday, Boyd announced his resignation and admitted that he could have “used better wording.”........................................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/


.....this load REEKS of Libertarianism, a political party working hard to turn the country into a bad Mad Max movie
 
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’


How Texas's independent power grid failed under pressure

Texas's independent power grid was crippled under high demand and damaging weather after a historic cold snap hit the U.S. over Presidents' Day weekend. (John Farrell/The Washington Post)

By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Tex., were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state, leaving them without heat or electricity in below-freezing temperatures. To make matters worse, many also lacked running water, forcing them to haul in heavy buckets of snow each time they needed to flush their toilets.

Residents turned to a community Facebook group to ask whether the small town planned to open warming shelters, while others wondered if firefighters could do their job without water. But when Colorado City’s mayor chimed in, it was to deliver a less-than-comforting message: The local government had no responsibility to help out its citizens, and only the tough would survive.

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd wrote on Tuesday in a now-deleted Facebook post, according to KTXS and KTAB/KRBC. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”

Boyd’s tirade, which also demanded that “lazy” residents find their own ways of procuring water and electricity, immediately drew backlash. Later on Tuesday, Boyd announced his resignation and admitted that he could have “used better wording.”........................................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/


.....this load REEKS of Libertarianism, a political party working hard to turn the country into a bad Mad Max movie

As I said to another poster about this very same topic in another thread I live in a place where hurricanes are frequent and deadly. It's quite common for the power to go out but I've never been without power.
 
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’


How Texas's independent power grid failed under pressure

Texas's independent power grid was crippled under high demand and damaging weather after a historic cold snap hit the U.S. over Presidents' Day weekend. (John Farrell/The Washington Post)

By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Tex., were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state, leaving them without heat or electricity in below-freezing temperatures. To make matters worse, many also lacked running water, forcing them to haul in heavy buckets of snow each time they needed to flush their toilets.

Residents turned to a community Facebook group to ask whether the small town planned to open warming shelters, while others wondered if firefighters could do their job without water. But when Colorado City’s mayor chimed in, it was to deliver a less-than-comforting message: The local government had no responsibility to help out its citizens, and only the tough would survive.

“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd wrote on Tuesday in a now-deleted Facebook post, according to KTXS and KTAB/KRBC. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”

Boyd’s tirade, which also demanded that “lazy” residents find their own ways of procuring water and electricity, immediately drew backlash. Later on Tuesday, Boyd announced his resignation and admitted that he could have “used better wording.”........................................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/


.....this load REEKS of Libertarianism, a political party working hard to turn the country into a bad Mad Max movie

The thugs that will take over during these things will not be the fittest. They will not be the people who can turn back on the power, or produce anything. They will just strip things from the carcass of our civilization. If it comes to that, people like me will just move on to a new country, leaving the thugs to starve to death without anything.
 
The thugs that will take over during these things will not be the fittest. They will not be the people who can turn back on the power, or produce anything. They will just strip things from the carcass of our civilization. If it comes to that, people like me will just move on to a new country, leaving the thugs to starve to death without anything.

This guy resigned. Good riddance.
 
community Facebook group

While the power grid is down, the internet is still up. A smart electrical grid would be up just like the internet. I am just saying.

Or we can follow trump's plan, and just wait until China sells us a new smart electrical grid.
 
The thugs that will take over during these things will not be the fittest. They will not be the people who can turn back on the power, or produce anything. They will just strip things from the carcass of our civilization. If it comes to that, people like me will just move on to a new country, leaving the thugs to starve to death without anything.

That last line is always intriguing to me as no one ever seems to actually follow through. So it makes me wonder why they say it? Is it just for dramatic effect?
 
The courageous Ted Cruz plans to be with his constituent and share their hardship.

Ted Cruz’s office goes silent after GOP senator is accused of flying to Cancun while Texas shivers to death

According to CNN reporter Manu Raju, "Cruz's office has not responded to photos on social media showing him traveling to Cancun."

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-cancun/
 
That last line is always intriguing to me as no one ever seems to actually follow through. So it makes me wonder why they say it? Is it just for dramatic effect?

I look at what my ancestors did. When a country collapsed on itself, we moved on. Actually, you ancestors probably did the same thing. Even the Native Americans moved on from different parts of the country. My ancestors did it more often than most.

Anyway, here is basically how it works. There are people in Texas working hard to get the electricity back on, and trying to prevent this from happening again. Many of them are well educated, but are not the types that have a lot of guns, and try to take what they want. When the thugs with guns declare they are in charge, and that they get whatever they want because they are the fittest, then the educated people move on.

Look at Africa. There are doctors, scientists, business men, etc from Africa, in the USA, and Europe... And not in Africa.
 
I look at what my ancestors did. When a country collapsed on itself, we moved on. Actually, you ancestors probably did the same thing. Even the Native Americans moved on from different parts of the country. My ancestors did it more often than most.

Anyway, here is basically how it works. There are people in Texas working hard to get the electricity back on, and trying to prevent this from happening again. Many of them are well educated, but are not the types that have a lot of guns, and try to take what they want. When the thugs with guns declare they are in charge, and that they get whatever they want because they are the fittest, then the educated people move on.

Look at Africa. There are doctors, scientists, business men, etc from Africa, in the USA, and Europe... And not in Africa.

You are one ignorant individual. A democrat of course.
 
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