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skilledwarman t1_j1vbjix wrote

Reply to comment by xReshi92 in Western NY death toll rises to 28 from cold, storm chaos by novotlr

The issues in Texas happened because the state fucked up and failed to properly maintain their grid. The issues in Buffalo happened because people under estimated a severe storm and got caught out

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thegreatestajax t1_j1vhbr6 wrote

Underestimating a severe weather event is exactly what happened in Texas.

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skilledwarman t1_j1vm1f0 wrote

Sure if you want to over simplify you could argue that

But one was decades of a government neglecting to properly maintain and keep up their states power grid while the other was people thinking that since they weathered the storm that dropped 7 feet of snow on them a couple weeks ago they'd be ready for this storm. People were caught out of their homes, were homeless and thought they could handle it without being at a real shelter or church, or got stuck out due to accidents

Not exactly the same thing

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thegreatestajax t1_j1vor0f wrote

Speaking of oversimplifying…

If the TX event had happened a few weeks before or after, it wouldn’t have been as impactful. It was a once a century event that coincided with annual winter maintenance of plants to prepare for summer. Both were complex events.

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Grouchy_Occasion2292 t1_j1vkda9 wrote

Or they were homeless and they are not able to leave their cars and they don't have a home to go to.

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