Texas Power Outages Turn Deadly.

July 11, 2024 Glen Turpening

Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Texas coast causing widespread outages during a summer heat wave that has now cost lives. (CNN)

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Frustrations are mounting across southeast Texas as residents enter a fourth day of crippling power outages and heat, a combination that has proven dangerous – and at times deadly – as some struggle to access food, gas and medical care. More than 1.3 million homes and businesses across the region are still without power after Beryl slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday, leaving at least 11 people dead across Texas and Louisiana. Many residents are sheltering with friends or family who still have power, but many can’t afford to leave their homes, Houston City Councilman Julian Ramirez told CNN. And while countless families have lost food in their warming fridges, many stores are still closed, leaving government offices, food banks, and other public services scrambling to distribute food to underserved areas, he said.

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Climate change is all around us and changing the lives of millions of people across the Globe with little hope of ceasing. The climate change denialism in America continues to run through a thick vein of denialism particularly on the right side of the isle. Many of the climate change deniers live in the South which is in store to experience some of the most dire effects of a warming planet from more intense hurricanes, heat waves, and flooding. The calls to wake up and realize its real are growing louder the more destruction that is wrought by a rapidly warming planet.