The massive energy crisis that has been Overwhelming Texas since the state suffered a record cold, it is now threatening some of its most vulnerable residents and at least two hospitals in the Austin subway area were evacuated Wednesday night due to lack of hot water and heat.
Matt Largey, editor of Austin KUT’s NUT station, he tweeted a statement from Austin Medical Center in South David, St. Louis. David, who confirmed that the hospital was in the process of evacuating some of its “just under 300 patients” from the facility after it “lost water pressure in the city of Austin today.”
“The water feeds the boiler at the facility, so it also loses heat,” the statement says. The statement notes that hospital workers worked with city officials to transport the most needy patients to other hospitals in the area with available capacity and also worked to get water trucks and portable toilets for workers and patients. who would stay.
Minutes later, Largey reported that Dell Children’s Medical Center, a pediatric hospital located in Austin, also had no electricity. In an attached statement from the hospital sent from a source, officials confirmed that “extreme weather conditions” had caused the facility to experience “service interruptions” and noted that the toilets there currently had no “wash functions”.
Continued blackouts in Texas are the result of a voltage on the existing power supply caused by thousands of residents of the state rushing to turn on the heat at once. But they are also the result of a surprise. – corporate lying and decades of negligence and oversight at the hands of the right-wing state government.
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While Texas residents are trapped at home to deal with the aftermath of ice storms, there are widespread power outages and fish tanks and toilets which have literally frozen, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been turning around on Fox News, blaming the blackouts for renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. In a blog published a The website of the House’s minority leader Kevin McCarthy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, recently hinted that the situation represented an opportunity for Texans to get tough and make a sacrifice to prevent the the left exploited an “opportunity to expand its radical proposals from top to bottom.”
“Jeans would be without electricity for more than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry wrote. “Try not to let it be the crisis of the day that disappears to have an elastic network that keeps the United States personally, economically and strategically safe.”
As millions of jeans freeze, the Republican Party uses this moment to show its commitment to ignoring the climate disaster that is no longer just on the doorstep, but in the living rooms, heating a bowl of chili and preparing to watch the Longhorns match.
It is a commitment to the fossil fuel lobby this is not only ignorant, it is evil and will one day be a disaster for all of us.