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New vinyl today! The local PBS/NPR music station collaborated with Whataburger to put out a compilation album of local musicians and they're handing them out at Whataburgers across the metroplex this month. Giving it a spin as I type, and I'm glad I got my hands on it.
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Texas Gothic
You are passing through Garland, Texas. Birthplace of the Walmart Super Center, via a store once named Hypermart.
No one has ever chosen to live in Garland, TX. You make the mistake of exiting the freeway, and are trapped, unable to find a way back on, or out.
At no time are you ever more than a mile away from any given freeway. There are four of them. Sometimes you can even see the freeway, but lo, it is but a mirage. You will never be able to find your way to it.
You may find yourself on a familiar road, and think "I know where I am! I can get home!" But this too, is folly. In moments, you will suddenly be on a completely different road, heading in a completely different direction. And you never turned!
You shall occasionally find yourself in Oklahoma. Yet you are still less than a mile from 635.
Garland Texas is now your home. You live here. You have lived here for five years. Your kids are upset. When did you have kids? You now hate Rowlett, even though you've never heard of it before.
Bill Dauterive is now your neighbor.
Texas is colder than it has been in decades, like we’re breaking records, by our standerds this is a veritable blizzard.
The problem is we’re not built to handle this kinda weather so our power grid is failing big time.
Most of my town has no power (and therefore no heat). No one has any firewood. People are developing hypothermia inside their homes. They’re telling us that the power should be back within the next two hours every two hours like clock work. It’s been 36 hours so far...
My grandma is the only one with power in our whole family, so a lot of us made the journey over to her house even though the roads are fucking hazardous rn. We’re all huddled up together trying to ride this out, but like damn, I feel like I’m never gonna be warm again.
Texas Winter Storm
So if you guys don’t know, I live in Texas. If you’ve seen the news, you probably already know what this is going to be about, but this is my update.
Some stuff I found out was that not a lot of people lost power. I live in the east/central part of my city, which is the poorer side. A lot of people from my school lost power, but my friends on the west side didn’t. The highland park area in dallas is probably the richest in the metroplex and they’re fine. Nothing is wrong with their heating or water.Also, there was definitely some bad planning for this storm. Electric companies didn’t mention the power outages until they had started even though they are the ones orchestrating them.
For anyone in the north, midwest, canada, florida, or california who wants to make fun of us, screw you. (i’ve seen a boatload of condescending idiots on tiktok) Obviously we won’t be prepared for this. We have to be ready for hurricanes, humidity, tornadoes, and heat. There’s only so much we can do. For people telling us to go get things, we can’t drive anywhere safely. The roads are all covered in snow and ice. A lot of people don’t have proper jackets because they aren’t necessary here. This was unexpected because last week was literally in the 70s for us.
A few other things y’all don’t seem to understand: our homes don’t have proper insulation, some people only have single pane windows, most homes don’t have basements, generators aren’t common because the power hasn’t gone out in years because of the weather, other states are not having power outages to help us (our power grid is separate from the rest of the south), most people here had less than a 24 hour warning for the storm, we don’t know how to keep warm because most people have never been in this kind of weather their whole lives, the last time we got hit with a storm was 2011 and it wasn’t half as bad. Also, I know for a fact y’all wouldn’t be this rude if another unprepared state was facing this weather. Just cause you don’t like Texas, you’ll use that as an excuse to make fun of people dying of cold here who haven’t done anything to you. I would say that you won’t get any sympathy from me when you guys get weather you can’t handle, but I refuse to stoop to your level.
Thank you to anyone who hasn’t been a pos to Texans this week. There’s not much I can think of to do if you would like to help us. There’s really no way we can get to any resources at this point. Any tips you have on staying warm will be helpful. Just not making fun of us on the internet would be enough.
Below the read more will be specifically what my family did during the storm. I am lucky enough to have moved somewhere with power now, but a lot of people are still stuck in their homes.
idk if any of y'all have heard about what's happening in Texas but Lord Jesus save my pretty head you need to hear it
my (in person) school got cancelled because it's so cold we could get hypothermia
we've had rolling black outs all over the town because people have been using so much energy to heat up their homes
this has been ONCE IN A GENERATION cold
peoples houses have been breaking down due to cold (my friend has to get his door replaced because too much cold air is going in)
wanna know how cold it is?
at the time of writing, this is the weather
WUDMFRMDNSJDJFNDNDNDBDGDDHEHSH
IT'S FREAKING COLD
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Somewhere over Texas, an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Discovery pointed a 70mm camera out the window and accidentally documented one of the most dramatic urban explosions in American history. The photograph — taken during the STS-39 mission in late April and early May of 1991 — captures a massive swath of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex from orbit. It's a stunning image on its own terms. Grapevine Lake and North Lake glitter as reference points. DFW Airport sits dead center. But the real gut-punch comes from what NASA noted in the caption: compare this shot to Apollo 6 photographs taken just 23 years earlier, in April 1968, and the growth is *staggering*. Twenty-three years. That's it. Less than a human generation. And in that span, the municipalities between Dallas and Fort Worth — those in-between places that used to be farmland and small-town Main Streets — had filled in almost entirely. The outer edges of both cities had pushed further than anyone in 1968 would have predicted. The sprawl was so extensive that even shooting from space, Discovery's camera couldn't capture all of Fort Worth. The western portions didn't even make the frame. There's something almost vertiginous about that detail. The crew is looking down from low Earth orbit, and Fort Worth is still too big to fully see. This is how Texans actually experienced that era — not as a slow drift toward suburbia, but as a full-throttle lurch. The Metroplex wasn't growing. It was *erupting*. Every decade brought new suburbs, new highways, new lakes ringed with new development. From ground level, you might not notice it year to year. From space, in a single photograph, it becomes undeniable. The astronauts on Discovery were up there running military and scientific experiments, doing serious work. But they were also, almost incidentally, functioning as historians — giving us proof of transformation that no ground-level photograph could capture. The birds-eye view has always had a way of humbling human ambition and confirming it at the same time. Look at that photograph long enough and you start wondering: what does the same frame look like today, another 34 years on?
this is where you'll live when you move to Texas!
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