Amerika

The sheer ineptitude of media never slams home until you hear them reporting one thing when you see another happening in front of you.

This first occurred during Hurricane Katrina, where NPR and other stations were running full-on pity parties for the refugees that we could see bringing a crime wave to our communities. Lots of them were Hwite too.

Worldwide Leftists have joined in the media narrative on the latest, which is that somehow the Texas power grid is bad and this caused power outages in Houston that continue to this day after Hurricane Beryl.

In particular, the usual suspects have created a discussion focused on CenterPoint Energy, with even politicians weighing in:

In the Houston area, Beryl toppled transmission lines, uprooted trees and snapped branches that crashed into power lines.
With months of hurricane season left, Abbott said he’s giving CenterPoint until the end of the month to specify what it’ll be doing to reduce or eliminate power outages in the event of another storm.

He said that will include the company providing detailed plans to remove vegetation that still threatens power lines.

Let us first get a few things out of the way:

1. Most of the people without power are in outlying areas with lots of trees.
2. When it rains two days before a big storm and soaks the ground, trees have less traction.
3. The rain before Beryl produced standing water across the city.
4. The CenterPoint crews are less efficient because they are diversity crews.
5. It has been the same for the last handful of big storms since the 1990s.

In other words, it rained a lot, then a storm with high winds came, and the trees fell on the lines and this is why many lines are still down. But mostly, it is a diversity failure: the crews now are like third world labor, more prone to make excuses, invent make-work, goof off, and follow procedure without results than the old Anglo crews.

In come the usual happy cucks with nonsense solutions that do not even apply:

Everyone who lives in areas prone to hurricanes knows that they should keep a few days worth of food and water on hand in case of a situation like this, but nobody expects it to last for a week or more. Leaving people without power for this long, particularly when they are in the middle of a scorching heat wave, puts people’s lives at risk.

Abbott has already listed some of the improvements that CenterPoint needs to make immediately. They need to publish improved plans for the staging of linemen, vehicles, and equipment in advance of approaching storms. They need to hire additional manpower so they can quickly get into the field and begin restoring power. And they need a comprehensive program to trim or cut down trees and limbs that could come down during a storm and knock out power lines.

For Hurricane Ike, they called in crews from the entire region days in advance. It still took weeks to get many people back to power because you have to cut up and haul away the trees, add new power poles, and then restring the lines before you can even do a smoke test.

All of these handy arguments for Texas boil down to a single quest: raise costs.

Hiring lots more linemen, having more equipment, building more facilities, and all that good nonsense means higher electricity bills for everyone in Texas. That brings it closer to the state of the northeast, which is what media commentators want. They hate the thought of anyone living the good life in Texas.

Even more, the gentrification they want amounts to destroying communities and replacing them with homes for the wealthy:

Redevelopment after weather disasters and climate resilient infrastructure can inadvertently trigger, accelerate or contribute to gentrification, much like what happened in Galveston, Texas, after Hurricane Ike in 2008, and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Property values and the cost of living can rise, displacing residents and change a community’s aesthetic.

Their solution to Texas weather is to turn Texas into New York City! What original thinkers.

While telling us that the coasts are threatened by climate change to the point that no one can live there, they are busy moving in there into custom-built condos.

What do they care if costs go up? They can afford it, and they want normal people out of their playgrounds.

These people are the ones who did well in education and consider themselves a new elite that should make life as expensive, boring, and difficult as possible for everyone beneath them.

The kings never ruled this way; the Anglo elites never did, either. The new meritocratic education elites think it is funny to do so. They like the egotrip and the sense of being in control.

Naturally, in response to the panic, cities are declaring emergencies that let them raise taxes and fees:

After a nearly 15-minute-long meeting Monday afternoon, Houston City Council voted unanimously to extend the disaster declaration until July 2025. According to the city, this will help clear the way for officials to continue focusing on storm recovery efforts, allowing the city to issue “emergency purchase orders, and other city business items that may be necessary during a disaster,” according to Brent Taylor, a spokesman with the Houston Office of Emergency Management.

Wealthy people love paying taxes. The taxes get misspent by government, which promptly raises costs to everyone else, and soon only the wealthy can exist in the nice areas. They want to relegate the factories, pollution, and normal people to somewhere far from anything the wealthy care about.

Remember, these people got wealthy by being good at memorizing stuff in school and paying attention to opportunities in business and investment created by government action. They are not actual alpha males or intellectual elites, just pretenders, which is why they are so manic to suppress any competition that might arise.

When you hear all of these grand plans for Texas, think about skyrocketing cost of living versus a small disaster every seven years when a big storm comes through. The Anglos just rolled up their sleeves and dealt with it. The new diversity society will simply keep taking until there is nothing left to give.

Tags: gentrification, houston, hurricane beryl, taxes, texas