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I’m so tired and cold. I forgot how to use the iPad for a second. I kept pressing the keyboard button like WHY WONT IT SCROLL.
It’s a touch screen. I can literally just... lmao touch it.
THE COLD IS FREEZING MY BRAIN.
It’s a touch screen. I can literally just... lmao touch it.
THE COLD IS FREEZING MY BRAIN.
Imm soooo cold. My poor babies.
A gracious friend used surplus points to put us up somewhere warm. We gotta figure out food but at least the kids won't get sick,
Updating.
I'm stressed TF out and it's all just hitting me how much of a disaster this could have been.
I could see my breath when we were leaving. We were out of food, no heat, no delivery, and that was around noon.
Running out of charge to call for help.
I'm stressed TF out and it's all just hitting me how much of a disaster this could have been.
I could see my breath when we were leaving. We were out of food, no heat, no delivery, and that was around noon.
Running out of charge to call for help.
And people are STILL freezing. These "rolling" blackouts are a LIE.
Some neighborhoods have no power in this cold. In Texas with these houses with electric stoves & pretty fireplaces and no wood.
Some neighborhoods have no power in this cold. In Texas with these houses with electric stoves & pretty fireplaces and no wood.
But. Before I could even ask y'all. 
I was flooded with texts and calls and DMs and tweets offering resources.
@Aoiferocksitout got people sending us delivery/grocery cash for when we run out of food tomorrow.
@aprilalangary helped get us to warmth & safety.
I was flooded with texts and calls and DMs and tweets offering resources.
@Aoiferocksitout got people sending us delivery/grocery cash for when we run out of food tomorrow.
@aprilalangary helped get us to warmth & safety.
Community is how we will make it through whatever is coming.
I don't know how I got to be so blessed that you lot stepped in to help my whole damn family before I even asked you.
I don't know how I got to be so blessed that you lot stepped in to help my whole damn family before I even asked you.
And the emotional support.
Folks. I was falling apart. I had been up all night flinging any thick cloth I could over these children.
Crying as they shivered in their sleep.
Folks. I was falling apart. I had been up all night flinging any thick cloth I could over these children.
Crying as they shivered in their sleep.
And from other parts of the country it seems comical, I know.
"LOLz it's 4 inches of snow at most!"
Yes, but just like you aren't ready for a minor earthquake or tornado, TX is not set up for snow.
"LOLz it's 4 inches of snow at most!"
Yes, but just like you aren't ready for a minor earthquake or tornado, TX is not set up for snow.
Needing all this power for warmth on top of the part of the system that failed?
Logistically not having snow-clearing basics or road salt.
Not having food because the people who would bring it or work at the store are trapped at home too.
Logistically not having snow-clearing basics or road salt.
Not having food because the people who would bring it or work at the store are trapped at home too.
Meanwhile my Mom, sister and I are scrambling fir resources.
And I'm thinking about how I can't take care of my family. And whether I should try to get them to leave me if I can't go down the stairs by dark.
And I'm thinking about how I can't take care of my family. And whether I should try to get them to leave me if I can't go down the stairs by dark.
It's not a joke out here. And in between this we are calling officials who have left us to be answered by their full voicemail box.
TWO Senators who won't even talk to the constituents who LIKE them.
TWO Senators who won't even talk to the constituents who LIKE them.
A governor that barely gives a shit about us. Seceeding one minute, realizing his rich constituents need help enough to request aid the next.
We have been cling them for YEARS people. Before Trumo. I've been telling you that the state if Texas is failing us at the state level
SINCE 2017.
SINCE 2017.
It's an insult for strangers to come and tell us
the basics
Of Civic engagement
When we've been getting us to help with Brer Rabbit technology for so many years.
the basics
Of Civic engagement
When we've been getting us to help with Brer Rabbit technology for so many years.
How about YOU
call the leadership in the Democratic party,
tell them to get their shit together and come get these 49 electoral votes or whatever it is
by HELPING
AND FUNDING the orgs out here already doing THEIR job.
call the leadership in the Democratic party,
tell them to get their shit together and come get these 49 electoral votes or whatever it is
by HELPING
AND FUNDING the orgs out here already doing THEIR job.
Before we die out here in this purple or Blue state in disguisez
Didn't mean to get into a whole rant.
There's just so much corruption we have no one to complain to about how the electric powers that be have left us to die and told the rest if the country a bunch of lies.
There's just so much corruption we have no one to complain to about how the electric powers that be have left us to die and told the rest if the country a bunch of lies.
It is way way worse here than you are hearing.
