The massive energy crisis that was overwhelming Texas since the state was hit with a cold snap it now threatens some of its most vulnerable residents, and at least two hospitals in the Austin subway area have been evacuated Wednesday night due to a lack of hot water and heat.
Matt Largey, editor at NUT station in Austin KUT, he tweeted a statement made Wednesday by St. John’s Medical Center. Austin in South Austin, who confirmed that the hospital was in the process of evacuating some of the “just under 300 patients” from the unit after “losing water pressure today in the city of Austin.”
“The water supplies the boiler of the installation, so that, therefore, it also loses heat”, it is shown in the communiqué. The statement notes that hospital workers worked with city officials to transport patients in greatest need to other hospitals in the area with available capacity and also worked to obtain 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 in Austin, was also without electricity. In a statement accompanying the hospital sent from a source, officials confirmed that “extreme weather conditions” led to “interruptions in operation” and mentioned that the toilets there currently do not have “washing capacity”.
Continuous interruptions in Texas are the result of a pressure on the existing power supply caused by thousands of residents of the state who rush to turn on the heat at once. But they are also the result – surprise! – corporate lying and decades of negligence and oversight by the right-wing government of the state.
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While Texas residents are stuck at home facing the failure of ice storms, widespread disruptions and fish tanks and toilets which literally froze was Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doing the tour on Fox News, blaming renewable energy sources such as solar and wind for interruptions. One blog posted on The website of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, recently hinted that the situation is a chance for Texans to get tough and make a sacrifice to prevent the left from exploiting an “opportunity to -expands its radical proposals from top to bottom. ”
“Texans would be without electricity for more than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry wrote. “Try not to let the eyes of having a resilient network keep America safe personally, economically, and strategically regardless of the crisis of the day.”
As millions of Texans freeze, the GOP uses this moment to display its commitment to ignoring the climate disaster that is no longer just at their door, but in their living room, heating a bowl of chili and preparing to watch the Longhorns game. .
It is a commitment to fossil fuel hall this is not only ignorant, it is malignant – and one day it will be a disaster for all of us.