Texas freeze is a clear call for a Green New Deal
24 Feb 2021 A man walks to his friend’s home in a neighbourhood without electricity as snow covers the BlackHawk neighbourhood in Pflugerville, Texas. File/Reuters
Will Bunch,
Tribune News Service
In Galveston, Texas, folks are all too used to natural disasters but warm and wet ones from the Gulf of Mexico, like the notorious hurricane of 1900 that killed thousands. Nothing could have prepared the beachfront city for the icy dagger of a polar vortex attacking from the north with snow, ice and a prolonged deep freeze. As county officials already reported at least two and possibly six deaths from exposure to the cold amid widespread power outages, they asked for a refrigerated morgue truck to deal with even more fatalities as the crisis persists.
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Don t fall for new GOP lies In reality, deadly Texas freeze is a plea for a Green New Deal
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