Do You Want the Lights (and Heat) to Come On After a Winter Storm?

It is beginning to look like you can't have both a modern society, and liberal sensibilities. Moonbattery Means No Power in Nashville

You can have a society based on the principles of DEI, or you can have the lights come on when you flip the switch. You can’t have both for long. Nashville illustrates why.

Back in 2023 the Nashville power company (Nashville Electric Service) decided that "preserving the canopy" (the trees above power lines) was important enough that they were going to change the way they trimmed trees. This was part of their ESG initiatives. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance score. (They need a good ESG score to get the attention of folks like Black Rock to get that low-cost money.) DEI rolls under the Social/Governance part of that equation. Fast forward to 2026, and a major ice storm, and what is the result?

As for what these priorities mean to the average citizen, consider that the power has been out for thousands in Nashville for 10 days now following the winter storm that hit on January 24.

Ten days without light, without heat, without refrigeration, without hot water, without a modern civilization. The temperature in Nashville doesn't appear to have been cold enough to result in frozen pipes, but that could be different outside of the city. While a lot of gas-fired water heaters will work without electricity, most gas-fired furnaces will not.

Ten days is long time to be living in the early 1900s.

How much food spoiled in that time? How many restaurants went under because they couldn't serve lunch, and lost their week's supply of food? How many people ran gas-powered generators during that period, negating the Environmental gains of the tree-trimming insanity. (Hat tip to William Teach at Pirate's Cove)