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Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means (www.iflscience.com)
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Multiple southern states and a few midwestern states are at "extreme threat" levels of "wet bulb temperature".

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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (3 children)

As long as all the air-conditioning is chugging along, most people won't even notice. Thank god the texan electric grid is stable enough to never cut out. Wait..

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Oh god don't even mention it... I was already afraid it would break down last year (when we didn't have this extreme heat). I'm planning to leave Texas as early as possibly can partly because of all this craziness, meanwhile some of my coworkers don't even notice what kinds of nightmarish scenario is happening down here

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    My power just went out again. It has failed 3 times in the last 2 weeks. I'm in Houston. The storm that blew through took me out for 3 1/2 day. A week later another storm downed us for 3 hours and now I'm typing this in my powerless house once again. I heard a pop this time so I'm assuming it's a transformer. Centex says it will be back in a few hours. The only reason I'm still in this sh*t hole state is because my husband's parents are here. Thank God I have an appt with a generator company tomorrow. Eff this state in the A

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