The massive energy crisis that was there overwhelming texas since the state was hit by a record cold blow, it now threatens some of its most vulnerable residents, and at least two hospitals in the Austin subway were evacuated Wednesday night due to a lack of hot water and heat.
Matt Largey, editor at Austin’s NPR station KUT, tweeted a statement from the St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, which confirmed that the hospital was evacuating some of its “just under 300 patients” from the facility after “losing water pressure from the city of Austin today.”
“Water feeds the boiler of the plant, so it also loses heat,” the statement read. The release notes that hospital workers were working with city officials to transport patients who were most in need to other hospitals in the area with available capacity, and were also getting water trucks and portable toilets on the scene for workers and patients. who would stay.
Minute later, Largey report that Dell Children’s Medical Center, a pediatric hospital in Austin, was also without power. In a statement from the hospital sent by a source, officials confirmed that ‘extreme weather conditions’ led to the facility experiencing ‘service interruptions’, noting that the toilets there are currently not ‘flushing’. do not have.
The persistent eclipses that occur in Texas are the result of a voltage on existing power supply caused by thousands of residents of the state who are in a hurry to turn on their heat at once. But it is also the result of – surprise! – corporate fraud and decades of negligence and oversight by the state’s right-wing government.
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While Texas residents are at home with the outbreak of ice storms, widespread power outages and fish tanks and toilet who literally froze solid is Texas Gov. Greg Abbott make the rounds on Fox News and blames renewable energy sources such as solar and wind for the power outages. In a blog posted on House of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, recently insinuated that the situation provides an opportunity for Texans to get tough and make a sacrifice to prevent the left from using an “opportunity” to top-down, to expand radical proposals. ”
“Texans would be without electricity for more than three days to keep the federal government out of their pocket,” Perry wrote. “Try not to allow the crisis of the day to have a resilient network that keeps America personally, economically and strategically safe.”
While millions of Texans are freezing, the IDP is using this moment to ignore its commitment to the climate disaster that is not only in front of their door, but in their living rooms, to heat up a bowl of chili and get ready for the Longhorns match to watch.
It is a commitment to the fossil fuel lobby it’s not only ignorant, it’s malignant – and it will one day cause disaster for all of us.