They estimate 646 people died from heat last year in the city. The US is one power failure away from a 10k heat fatality event in a major city. Assuming a hurricane doesn’t get there first.

Every time Texas’s power grid makes the news, I fret for my dad and stepmom who at least have a generator, but. I understand why they retired there (there were solid reasons) however, I wish it’d been somewhere else.

Climate journalist Jeff Goodell's book, "The Heat Will Kill You First," is worth reading. Extreme heat is the deadliest of disasters.

Unless things change politically, that 10k heat fatality event will be in Texas and it will happen in multiple cities simultaneously. I really hope I’m wrong.

I've been thinking a lot about this lately about how to "prep" for a power outage in extreme heat. I'm afraid I haven't come up with much outside of electrolytes and staying in the shade. Or digging some kind of cellar...

the scenario is a major hurricane and then no power for weeks. then people die from no a/c and no refrigeration for food/meds. which is what already happened in Dallas this summer and this will happen more often and the storms will be stronger. TX electrical system is already a shitshow on its own

The Texan power grid has me worried.