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  Whoever thought it was a good idea to use "X-year Y" to indicate the likelihood of a Y event was wrong.  From Wikipedia: A 100-year flood is a flood event that has a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.  A common misunderstanding is that a 100-year flood is likely to occur only once in a 100-year period. In fact, there is approximately a 63.4% chance of one or more 100-year floods occurring in any 100-year period.  And that's not taking into account changing probabilities.
context: Punxsutawney Phil sends his regards >
  
  Time to wrap the outdoor plumbing with more insulation - in the south, you can see lots of exposed water lines and pipes, but up north, all that is underground and through basement walls - a good lesson for plumbing in general. >
  
  East coast Canada here, forecast for tomorrow includes: "Wind chill minus 35c in the morning and minus 41c in the afternoon. Frostbite in minutes."  Decades is an exaggeration, we get this every few years, but i'm still not going outside tomorrow. >
  
  Maine here.  They're throwing around phrases like "We haven't seen this since the 90s!" as though we didn't have wind chills hitting -40 LAST FUCKING YEAR.
  I don't have to say C or F....at -40 it's pretty much the same thing. >
  
  I don’t know if you intended this, but your joke was funnier than you thought…
  “At -40 it’s pretty much the same thing”
  Literally, -40 is the same in both F and C. As in that’s the number that F and C are actually the same >
  
  I live in the Northeast.  Winter is just arriving and it's February, we had no cold snaps and very little snow in January.  Even then, it's supposed to be cold tomorrow and Saturday but then be approaching the 50's by early next week.
  Climate change is awful but it's certainly making New England more bearable. >
  
  
  As hundreds of thousands remain without power in Texas on Thursday amid frigid temperatures and icy roads, the Northeast is bracing for a blast of bitterly freezing air that forecasters say could be the coldest felt in decades.
  Texas has been bearing the brunt of a dangerous ice storm that dumped several rounds of sleet and freezing rain, causing life-threatening road conditions in surrounding states including Oklahoma, Arkansas and the Memphis area in Tennessee.
  On Wednesday, Texas reported a third person had died during the storm after losing control of her truck on an icy road north of Eldorado. One person was killed in Austin in a 10-car pileup, and another person died after their car rolled over in the Dallas-area city of Arlington, officials said.
  And while Thursday is expected to bring some relief from the deadly storm as temperatures slowly rise, the piling of multiple layers of ice and sleet has snapped tree branches and limbs and led to power outages for nearly 400,000 homes and businesses in Texas as of Thursday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. That means thousands of people likely don’t have proper heating or hot water as ice coats the ground.
  
  Don't feel bad Texans. At least you spent the time and effort to take women's rights away. That should keep you warm.
  The Republican Party, the party of freedom and small government /s >
  
  From the text it doesn't sound like the grid is failing this time, but rather they are dealing with he issues an ice storm faces in any part of the country  
  Ice storms snapping trees and downing powerlines is something that we deal with in the North East as well. Ditto for people driving on roads they shouldn't be. >
  
  That's correct.  Outages are currently local and due to actual damage to equipment. The grid as a whole hasn't neared a production crisis like last time. >
  
  Give it a day or two. >
  
  Yeah, I’m sure when our highs are in the 50s and 60s it’ll really fuck our grid up lol. >
  
  I've read this same article every other week this winter,  just shuffle around the different parts of the country. >
  
  It’s just that in Texas everything is bigger. >
  
  In decades? What do the he*l  do you call what we got at christmas 2022? >
  
  Don’t know why you are getting downvoted when you are right. People’s homes were forming ice inside it was so cold. >
  
  Didn't Texas just have a 100 year ice storm last year?