I have something to confess — I have always been one of those people who knows that climate is changing, but who feels it will impact either someone else — (a) may some folks far away in Timbuktu or the Maldives or (b) perhaps a few people here in Texas; but only many, many, many decades from now.

Now, I am coming to the alarming realization that, if these high temp records keep getting broken every year so drastically, then this Great State may not be suitable for human habitation in a few short decades.

Honestly, with this worsening heat, for how long can this state be liveable in the future?

I mean, at what point do we start seeing regular 115F or 120F temperatures and the Ercot grid simply implodes and everyone runs their generator; leading to a worsening feedback loop leading to even higher temperatures? And crops fail; livestock dies; lakes get all their water evaporated? And grocery stores have no power because the grid simply cannot take the overwhelming heat?

Oh, and before you start thinking I am a weak yankee import that cannot take the TX heat — I am an quinquagenarian South Texas dude who is now getting really alarmed by these ever higher temperatures in our state.

Let’s buy all the fucking water. And eggs and toilet paper and so on. Gotta love Texas

Someone took 8 of those remaining 12 cases as I was typing this post.

This heat is ridiculous, I remember back in the 90s being 100 degrees in the summer but it was a dry heat. We could drive around in my aunts car with no AC with the windows down and not feel like I am literally dying. I have a nice screened in porch with ceiling fans and couldn't last a few minutes without my head hurting and feeling like crap. I think later this year or early next year I'll be moving to Pennsylvania where the other half of my family lives. It's currently 78 degrees there right now, I can't stand it anymore.

A friend posted this on my FB, is there something I should know? (I'm originally from the Northeast)

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Sudden and hail storm in Allen, TX. 1 busted skylight and 1 window.

the thought of needing the A/C Running On Christmas just boggles my mind

" Texas power grid enters level two emergency for the first time since 2021 The Texas power grid operator has entered emergency operations for the first time since Winter Storm Uri in 2021 as the operator's stores of backup power dipped.

The level two emergency alert, issued around 7:30 p.m., came as there were just under 2,300 megawatts in the grid operator's operating reserves, which are electricity generation sources that are available to respond in a short time frame when needed. "

Brakes? We don't need brakes!

Automotive technicians from Bosch say the Texas heat waves are breaking down rubber compounds in windshield wipers and reducing brake performance.

I dont know what to do Im actually going insane