Apple CEO Tim Cook tonight announced that Apple plans to donate to local, community-based organizations across Texas to support relief efforts in the state.
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Texas has been enduring harsh winter weather this week, with freezing temperatures and snow. The infrastructure has been unable to keep up with energy demands, and power has been out across much of the state.
Our hearts are with everyone across Texas and around the US, including many of our team members, as they endure the impact of the harsh winter storms. Apple will be making a financial contribution to local, community-based organizations to support their relief efforts. — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) February 19, 2021
Millions of people have been without electricity in cold temperatures, and in some areas, the water has become unsafe due to electrical failures. Pipes have also burst due to the extreme temperatures and lack of heat, leading to flooding in some homes.
Apple often donates money during natural disasters and has donated several times to fund wildfire relief in California over the course of the last year.
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TBH though I don't think many places with Texas' climate would have handled this significantly better. Regions adapt to what they know - it's how northern areas don't grind to a halt in the winter, but if they get freakishly hot summers they get rolling blackouts from the air conditioners or just don't have them, and areas that get forrest fires once in a couple decades don't have enough response.
I've been fortunate enough to have lived in a few different countries in the northern and southern hemisphere and almost universally when the weather goes this far out of spec it's a total poop show and you get people asking questions like why texas doesn't have enough snow plows with a straight face