It's bad folks, out of snow to boil, my timeline to get heat, electricity and water are unknown maybe 2 days maybe 7
Hopefully can get some more water at the grocery stores tomorrow they werent open today.
Hospitals are out of water too, honestly it's one day at a time, I had alot it covid concerns about gathering together but no choice now, it's quite surreal.
Is there any water frozen in your pipes? Or just in your pipes unfrozen? Probably won't be much, but it's better than nothing.
The pipes are empty, had no notice our apartment was going to cut off the water so couldn't prep
I wonder if she slipped on ice and was too hurt to get to safety. I fell once in an isolated spot. I knew I'd fucked up my ankle to some degree, but before I dared to try to stand up and test it out, I just sat there for a bit thinking about how far I was going to have to crawl to get to any kind of help. It ended up being a very bad sprain but I could still walk on it, so I was OK, but those moments before I knew whether I'd be limping or crawling to get help were the most scared and alone I've ever felt in my life, and I hate thinking that this might be how someone ended up frozen to death on a sidewalk.
Holy crap, I did this once when I was trail running. I was probably about 2-3 miles into the woods and I rolled my ankle really badly, it was a barely used trail and getting late and I knew there was basically zero chance of someone finding me by accident before sundown. Thankfully after about 15 minutes I was able to put some weight on it and hobble out, but it was terrifying thinking about how I was going to crawl along a very rocky trail for 2+ miles.
Truly a hellworld that we live in where that can happen to someone in the middle of a city.
Cue paranoid me texting every 10 mins when a friend tells me they're going for a jog or a bike ride.
It really is horrifying to think about. I can imagine the whole scene, even though I'm trying not to.
If anyone hasn't read it, "White Trash" by Nancy Isenberg describes the history and type of person that liberals feel comfortable being bigoted toward.
Many liberals are quite happy to be bigoted towards any group, even POC, that its not cool to be woke about. I've seen ostensibly liberal people crack jokes (and sometimes even say things seriously) about Asian people that they absolutely would not say about black or latino folks.
I remember a teacher in high school that mentioned White Trash as being a person that white people were "obviously" better than. It's always stuck with me. It's a weird form of racism on the surface level.
How convenient for local Texan capitalists that unhoused, unsheltered people die off during winter. Miserly scumfucks.
"what even is disenfranchisement?" the illusion of democracy is so fucking harmful
People will watch an endless chain of atrocities and do absolutely fucking nothing as long as they can tell themselves "It's okay, in three years we are going to :vote: and everything will get better."
Yeah I'm sure the (likely homeless) frozen person was a Trump die hard.
Who cares even if they were. This sort of moralizing and atomizing peoples suffering due to individuals is the most frustrating aspect of US discourse.
millions of people in the third world die every day specifically so millions of Americans can live in excess every day. cold weather will end soon, the other thing wont. And Americans know this and dont want it any other way, they love it!
This is awful and what happens to the workers in the global south is awful, neither diminishes the other. People were dying on the streets in the US before the cold anyways, this just exacerbates it.
so? some random, poorer and more vulnerable texans dying wont improve material conditions in the global south lol
Every sixty seconds a minute in Africa passes. Together we can stop this.
How can you claim Americans are living in excess when people are freezing to death in the streets.
They're getting hate for lumping an innocent woman together with the people that just fucking killed her. You don't get to hate poor people just for the country they live in.
Someone dying in the streets literally has a lower standard of living than most people in the Global South. The fuck do you think they're defending?
"Yes I'm a leftist. Yes I hate poor people."
-You
Poorer (and browner) Texans have no control over the economic decision-making that allowed this disaster to happen. The impulse to revel in chuds reaping the whirlwind is understandable but there's way too much collateral damage to celebrate this.
"Hey I know you're freezing to death right now, but let me larp real quick. Have you ever heard of Warhammer?" - - you, being shitty
burn some amerikkka flags to keep yourself warm 4head
seriously though what the absolute fuck
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515640-chris-hedges-cancel-culture-liberalism/
