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-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Texas is basically less than a 3rd world country': Fury as schools are forced to shut across Houston today and officials order more than two million citizens across the entire city to boil water before drinking after power outage at purification plant
2022-11-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I don’t know whether it matters, but Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, is a Democrat.
  • Power outages at the East Water Purification Plant caused water pressure drop

  • Hours later, officials issued a boil water notice for fear of unsafe drinking water

  • Angry Texans blasted the city for the timing of the announcement late Sunday
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Sylvester Turner: 2021-08-22 Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick slammed as racist after he blamed COVID-19 surge in the state on 'African Americans who have not been vaccinated'
Sylvester Turner: 2020-10-21 Houston police officer dead, 1 hurt; illegal immigrant suspect in custody
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  If you think Texas is big, go to Alaska!
Posted by: Jise Elmeang4932   2022-11-29 20:39  

#13  I had friends from Germany visit and they were always stunned driving from Vegas to San Diego and how big it was you could fit Germany into that desert. Its an eye opener.

I recently moved to Austin area and driving from San Diego the Texas border is more or less half-way. CA, AZ, NM in one day, Half of Texas the next. Its a big place.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-11-29 14:35  

#12  I am sooo glad I don't live there anymore.
The current mayor (Turner) was an ambulance chaser who very nearly went to prison not long ago.
The technical issue that caused the 'boil notice' required by TDEQ is the East Side Water plant lost power to a pump, pressure dropped to 20 psi, the level considered required to assure ground water cannot enter. (Yes, the system is designed to leak. It's going to, you might as well plan for it.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-11-29 11:53  

#11  A lesson in Logic: "Houston != Texas". Just because your mismanagement and Green Energy Policyâ„¢ have screwed things up doesn't say anything about the rest of the state of Texas.
Posted by: magpie   2022-11-29 11:26  

#10  I have friends from England who have visited Texas several times. Despite that and driving around various areas, they have NO idea of how huge Texas is.

NO ONE in England has an idea of how huge Texas is. A lot of my friends from New England don't get the idea of how huge Texas is.

No one from New York City can even pronounce Houston correctly. They call is Houseton.

I've been going to Texas since the 1980s, and I'm not sure that I have a good idea of how huge Texas is.

Something like this happening in Houston is barely a blip on the news in Austin. It's probably less so in the DFW area.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2022-11-29 09:47  

#9  Do keep in mind that the Houston area is a literal swamp. Fresh water issues are bound to happen at times regardless of it being Houston or the surroundings. That being said, Harris county/center houston is basically New Orleans and just as corrupt and icky. The only thing they can't seem to destroy is the Texas attitude to ventilated criminals. Get caught in crime and get shot, the locals have zero sympathy and consistently no bill any charges.

There was a drunk driver that hit a vehicle on the side of the road being pushed by a man's teenage sons and killed them both. By the time the police arrived, someone shot the drunk in the head. They tried to charge the dad but by the time police were there, they found no gun. Prosecuters tried for murder and jury said Nope.

Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-11-29 09:41  

#8  Turner has been mayor since 2017.

This is not a Texas issue. It is a Houston issue.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-11-29 09:27  

#7  Potable water? Where's the graft in that?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-11-29 08:39  

#6  Houston, you have a problem.
Posted by: Lowspark   2022-11-29 08:32  

#5  Blue Parasitism Privilege

Are you directly involved in
- the growing of food stock that can at least feed and sustains small population.
- the creation of energy that provides electricity, natural gas, or petroleum products that sustains at least a modest size city.
- the building and sustainment of an infrastructure that delivers the first two.
- the distribution of goods and services of the first two.
- the operation and sustainment of clean water and sanitation.
- the security of protecting all the above.

if you are not, you might want to park your social privilege before telling others how to live their lives.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-11-29 07:16  

#4  
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-29 04:44  

#3  Voting machines and why we must have them (sarc).

Backdoor SW

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Posted by: Besoeker   2022-11-29 00:40  

#2  Perpetual voter fraud has kept Houston a violent and poisonous third world cesspool.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959   2022-11-29 00:19  

#1  Blue voters.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-29 00:09  

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