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Me living in a state that doesn't have rolling blackouts...

Okay so just to be clear.

You are in an extreme heat wave. There is no power. You see your neighbors struggling due to the heat. You have the ability to invite them over cool down. Doing so would cost virtually $0.

You instead post a meme on lemmy making fun of them.

Even if you don't get along with them, doing something like this would be a huge way to mend fences.

EDIT:

So I the Houston Chronicle has a Texas power outage tracker. According to them, there are like 2k customers without power in the entire state.

Also, Texas doesn't have power outages related to grid capacity in the summer that often. The major power outages this year were caused by storms knocking down lines. The huge one a couple of years ago was related to cold weather.

While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California. Someone in Texas would probably know this and understand it's ridiculous to act like this problem is unique to Texas.

So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.

You might try to not be an asshole to them and invite them in. You'd probably be able to get them more on biased with solar. But then you'd have to give up the opportunity to be a snarky troll.

do NOT let them sleep in their car, there's a real risk they could die if from asphyxiation. Here in Mexico there were blackouts from the record heat and there was a family who slept in their car for the ac. They unfortunately all died

Buy a spare ac and extension cord and run it in the front lawn just to mess with em!

This is one of the huge overlooked advantages of electric cars, provided that the manufacturer added the feature (it's insane that some don't) you can straight up power your house for DAYS on the car battery.

Tell me about your experience? I've been interested, but it's admittedly daunting.

I freaking live in the desert so i know I'd have solar 16h a day for like 9 months but i also know that solar panels optimal temp is 25°. In here, it's a least 35, almost always above 40, often 45++ in the summer. Heck, there's days and days of consecutive 49° and somehow never reach 50° making me believe that if it reach 50° the government is required by international laws to not allow citizens out or something.

"hyah hyah hyah. Molly my dear, come look at the poors with me! What a riot, look at how hot they are!"

If Gilligan's island were real, they'd have eaten Thurston Howell first. Just sayin'.

Not everyone can afford the installation costs.

I've tried Googling it and failed, where are you OP?

I want solar too, but I can't afford it

Where I am you can collect a bounty for reporting people who idle cars like this. It's a massive contributor to smog.