- Kellee Speakman, a conservative elementary school teacher, moved from California to Texas in 2022 but returned after four and a half months due to Texas’s political obsession and unexpected living costs.
- Speakman found Texas to be not much cheaper than California, with high property taxes, expensive services, and lower wages, which contributed to her dissatisfaction.
- She returned to California, appreciating its lifestyle, public lands, and better teacher benefits, realizing that her idea of freedom involved peace and everyday adventures rather than political rhetoric.
Yeah, people call us the Texas of Canada but we’ve had no power interruptions during those -40 and below cold snaps. Part of that has to do with natural gas being our heat, of course. But if you’ve ever been outside in -40… I’ll take the natural gas over that. It’s cold like you’ve never felt it before.
Much of the US, even Texas uses natural gas for heating. Houses in much of the southern US aren’t designed for cold weather so people add space heaters. Plus if I remember correctly the cold shut down the natural gas providers in Texas so that wasn’t even working.
Yup, I believe ten years prior the federal government told them that the gas plants were susceptible to freezing pipes of incoming gas. Since texas grid is independent, they couldn’t force the plants to winterize. After the shit show, the governor blamed windmills, even though they over produced, because a few windmills stopped working.