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Six board members have resigned from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. While millions are still without water, state leaders are asking out-of-state plumbers to help residents with repairs.
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They could’ve take care of this in 2011 but helt out for the jackpot.
Republicans don’t like to spend money on progress, they’re cheapskate when it comes to what they need but generous to what they want.
@Baby Teano and ronda new, tweedly dee and tweedly dum
Lyin Ted was on the beach ! He should resign in shame. He is a disgrace.
@David Ellis 🤥🤡
@David Ellis maybe. who knows…
@DaPlug 26 sure it would make sense if its anyone. but considering that hes a Senator. hes a servant of his state and his state is in trouble, he runs off… imagine running for president in 2016 saying that you will run off to another country if the country is in crisis.
@DaPlug 26 You like a butt plug ! 😂
He is a Cancun Senator. You can’t fire him, only Mexicans can.
Problem..Reaction..Solution.
It was all by design.
The sheeple fell for it again.
😆 moron
@1:25 — ERCOT is already being sued for $100 million by the family of the boy that died from hypothermia, Morgan Chesky.
I can do your job as you don’t seem to be able to report on current events.
Then why didn’t you list the other lawsuits? You didn’t work too hard if you’re only citing one suit or did you perform that work simply by reading one article? Nevermind the question of whether ERCOT has sovereign immunity. Did you uncover that Texas Supreme Court case from last year?
BTW, Texas Appeals Court ruled that ERCOT does, in fact, have sovereign immunity. And it’s likely that Texas Supreme Court will uphold that same decision. So, tell us more about doing someone else’s job when you half-assed it in the first place. It’s rather obvious that you’re not capable of conducting basic legal research to inform yourself.
Essentially what I’m saying is, you can file all of the lawsuits you want but that doesn’t mean they’ll prevail. I guess I did the research for you and it only took 15 seconds.
@Zach H. oooopp, BOOM!!!!
@Zach H. Why is it my job to go back a year to research lawsuits? You don’t seem to have a grasp of the obvious.
Joke
Hope they all get sued
Have you ever seen justice done?
That’s what you get for voting RepubliCON!
Better than commiecrat.
@MommyShark dododooo the Democrats today are about is left-wing as Richard Nixon
@MommyShark dododooo You literally wanted Trump to be a dictator. And look at your screen name, you are a fool.
Jumped ship lol before there heads rolled
TEXAS GOP & CRUDZ ARE WORSE THAN A 3rd WORLD COUNTRY, naw nanna naw naw.
Recalls and lost seats are a coming to the heart of Texas.
This is America. It’s like we’re being conditioned to expect less and less from authority…
Meanwhile the “leftist”, “liberal” and “socialist” states of the nation continue to have water and electricity… Slander. It’ll make America great again. Believe me.
Republicans are to dumb to live
Trumpet bull💩💩💩
You lost, it is what it is, get over it
Maybe because all the Texans don’t vote
Trump sent paper towels!
Joe Biden making the world a Third World country
huh? – sorry why does this weather situation have anything to do with Biden?
No, Texans refused to upgrade their power grid and refused federal regulations meant to prevent this exact disaster…
While downtown still lights up bright.
Yeah, what’s up with that anyway? 🤔🤔🤔
Welcome to Bribem’s America.
And then they don’t live there
Well now they’ll know what it’s like to be in Africa
Yea, I hope you stay where you are at! Stupid comment! People lost their lives!
@gn lilu according to you nobody in Africa loses their lives?
@Sakeeb Rahman All the Shaka Zulu’s have been bought.
Texas succeed. Please it’s time we part ways.
I’m ok woth FEMA helping the victims, but Texas has to pay for repairs. There are consequences for actions, they made the choice that no regulations were what they wanted and so they don’t get federal aid to their state.
CA, the Golden Shower State, has had rolling blackouts for 30 years.
Yeah I know, no one cares. As long as they have “empathy”. 🙌
Looks like someone came down with a case of BDS (Biden Derangement Syndrome)
this is hilarious, ERCOT did not cause the problem, they’ll get the blame and nothing will change
They caused the problems
They will warned about the potential for this 10 years ago and did nothing
Mismanaged Republican State
Hey you people always make fun of California, you should never do that because you don’t know if you’re going to be next.
Well are your people getting your 2nd disaster yet?
What is wrong with you, kids are freezing to death and u here saying stupid stuff
One time my boss bragging about what a big house she was going to buy in Texas. After she asked me about how big was my house and how many rooms it had. Well, you should never brag. She quit her job here and did move to Texas. God bless her, the temperature here in San Diego has been divine! 70 and sunny, no bad days.
Lol. My sister friend sold her house in Burbank California and purchased two houses in Texas about 10 years ago bet you that she is regretting it right about now!
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While Texass Ted was enroute to sunny 80 degrees Cancun, Mexico. Even left his dog home alone to freeze. What a great Senator!! Glad he isn’t mine!!
Except his power was on and the dog had a pet sitter.
He came home as soon as he realized how bad it was. What do you expect him to do, make it warmer? If you had the money you’d have dipped out too, we all would have.
This is the result of unleashing businesses full potential with deregulation. How can there be accountability if they have no laws of protection. Grow up Republican voters, if you do not own a large corporation you are getting screwed.
We all know where this country will be heading if we let Republicans run the country, down the drain with no electricity and no water
Texas does it bigger.
Texans wanted deregulation years ago, they were even warned of the potential consequences, but they wanted Republicans to run the state so that energy companies could make more money. So Dumb Texans shouldn’t blame anyone but themselves. In 2022, they will elect greedy Republican into the state govt again and simply forget everything that just happened
Not statewide is your live in El Paso 🤣😂
I keep saying dont depend on the government or others. Grow your own food get your own electricity and always have fresh water saved. Something else will happen and it may be even worse next time. Learn.people.
The poor need to start eating the rich.
Doge to the moon! People’s currency
Hows your capitalism going?
So MORONS across America,now you know that toilet paper is not most important than drinking water! Even more important than food! Humans cannot live without water 4 days …without food you can survive even ten days but no without water! BUT for me 🥴 most import is toilet paper
Aren’t they their own country now?
Jeez… an inch of snow and Texas is turned into an apocalyptic 3rd world state… and then y’all paying thousands of dollars for power you didn’t receive…
I hope they get sued out their ears
0:45 “I dont think anybody is prepared for this.”
Prepper: Am I a joke to you?
Prepper: first I forget to buy a 95 mask and then I forgot to buy a winter coat
Yet another reason to avoid Texas!
Who did this to our world ? We need names !
I say sue them dry
There’s no normal anymore .
They will still say climate change is fake news😂
No Government! No Government! Government, HELP!!
Greta’s wind turbines were unreliable, Trump was right.
Good
The government have money for 2 carrier fleet in South China Sea yet nothing to help Texas , I feel bad for the people in Texas
The all American greed. Look at all the faces of the people that resigned. Nothing new .
The Ercot people who own it who live outta state resigned and ain’t surprised is someone is fixin to shoot em!
I’m afraid it’s intentional. Perhaps someone has personal vendetta against someone on that area.
International? Why would- Mexico! Mexico made our power grid bad!!!! This is their revenge for losing the Texan revolution
They all quit?? Why?? The Governor said it was the green new deal (which does not exist) the culprit…..
around austin today… 81 degrees… i can’t even…
Around Dallas today 39 degrees getting severe thunder storms
sorry to say this but thats karma fo what you did to the poor countries ..god bless u
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They all should be “Sued” that is involved with that company. The CEO’s and Board Members should (not) get to just “Resign”! Why should they get to live in the warmth, comfort and safety of their homes with “no worries” of Food (nor) Water?!?! Why should they get to watch from the security of their surroundings, at the Millions that they “failed” to provide the “same” pleasures for. They are (not) suffering like the Citizens of Texas (nor) are they left in the predicament others are left to live in. A young Boy actually died from hyperthermia which would not have happened (if) the company had things operating properly as should be. They live in the comfort of their homes “out-of state” but Millions of People in Texas are suffering and will remain suffering for the rest of their lives, from the “ordeal” they were (forced) to live through and no telling how long it will last! Sadly, the loss of that young Boy’s life could have been avoided and the lives of so many others. There is no telling how many more will loose their life. Let’s not forget about the pain & suffering of their loved ones! The Company Members and Owners responsible, should be “sued” and held accountable for “everything” that has happened (or) continue to happen to (all) of the individuals that has dealt with this inexcusable, grievous, and incomprehensible tragedy!
To see this… It looks like Texas is a 3rd world country or better a 4rd. How can a State mess up so much??? They have known about it days before and they let run their people into a , open knife.,. I’m pretty sure that the GOP and CEO and whoever , have all what they need!!! Food, water…. And sure they have enough money to pay the horrible bills for electricity.
and Republicans feel a new political party and voting restrictions.
Third World Country or like Trump just to say shitholes
While joey was locking up little kids for furure consumption.
Yeah, they need to be sued.
ERCOT is claiming “sovereign immunity.” Is that the person, individual or agent?
This water and power supply problems is like in poor Africa countries and is happening in USA?
Allah said in Qur’an.. Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep ?
[7:98]
Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play ?
[7:99]
Are they then secure from Allah’s scheme ? None deemeth himself secure from Allah’s scheme save folk that perish.
[7:100]
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MATTHEW 22:35 -40.
4 minutes and 37 seconds and the Texas grid would have collapsed and been down for weeks, causing many deaths and havoc for Texans. Texas Republicans created and support a grid system
to profit opportunists. Federal oversight would have averted the disaster, like in some non-ERCOT Texas counties.. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, former governor Rick Perry, and Republican law makers still holding on to 19century cowboy mythology and Confederacy ideology. Texas needs 21Century leaders to deal with the problems of our time.
Jesus loves and cares about you so much so repent so That we all make it to heaven.
Like so more people can see this..
Stupid GQP!
ERCOT can’t have immunity, even if they are a non-profit. At worst, you dissolve them and allow the state to have some kind of universal power grid. People died over this, so there’s now way they should be let off the hook.
They have cheap materials for building homes.
Not surprised a bit this happened in a red state.
I thought Texas is kinda like gung-ho “do it my own”, “go alone”, “don’t tread on me” style. I feel bad for people who are not Republicans and they had to go through this.
Sue the GOP for making it this way with their legislation to save money and give profits to the energy companies instead of looking out for the people. When they knew this happened in 2011, there already should have been in place weathering protections on all power producing plants. 10 years later of saving money and making profits, they are in this situation even worse than before. You learn from your mistakes, obviously, they want to continue to keep making them.
Hey Texas! If you keep electing the GOP, you keep making the same mistakes too!
My heart goes out to those who are suffering. I hope they take time to address these issues after they get through the crisis.
Should ahh had Gieco!!
Fact is most people are not ready to survive a national grid down which will happen!
I hope everyone who had power, made sure to conserve ot :/ we kept our apt totally dark with the exception of a few fairy lights so we could cook.. we had power and water and made sure we conserved as much as possible! :/ We have a Jeep, and also went out to help anyone stuvk in the snow.. but then got stalked and charged up by meth heads.. ( Because Dallas 🤷♀️ ) but we did do our best.
GET RID OF THIS VILE ,GREEDY COMPANY WHICH KNEW OF THIS IMPENDING DOOM BUT CHOSE TO IGNORE IT TOTALLY. HAVE BIDS ON A REPLACEMENT FOR IT !!!
i bet theres gonna be so many plumbing scams
Very, very bad management, government…is it the same thing.
They better not have immunity. Thats bs
Ппи
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The only thing I know it was a 1 in 100 year storm ⛈ I don’t know if you can sue the power grid company for this
watch this Украина опубликовала сенсационную информацию о Biden there are english subtitles the president is corrupt
Waooow mass resigned, what a way out from getting trouble.
You wanted low taxes and no regulations. This is the results.
It really disgusting how people react to this type of news.. kicking people when they are down, making rude comments, basically being middle school bullies. What nasty spirits. Seems like people actually search out these stories to glorify self. Sad world.
What do you expect by a red state? Bunch of crooks!
But everyone’s moving to Texas because the houses are cheap 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💩
texas need uranium power plant.
it’s clean, zero emissions, and generate a lot more power.
ERCOT is a not for profit organization… May be they should sue the generator owners who do bare minimum and rake in profits or the utilities who work hand in hand with these generators
Texas plans to do nothing to upgrade & winterize their personal power grid. Yikes.
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How great is Texas again? 3rd world great.
Red state bail out coming soon.
People are already suing Ercot
Let us Pray for Texas Safety ..