Texas Residents Paying $10k for Electricity - STOP AUTO DEBIT NOW!!! + BofA Permanently Closes Temporary Closed Locations!!!

<p><strong>After reading many stories about how the victims of the Texas winter storm, freeze, and rolling blackouts </strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/21/texas-high-electric-bills/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main"><strong>were paying upwards of $17k for their electricity, including $1k for a few hours worth of power</strong></a><strong>, I felt compelled to discuss one thing people need to do with their electric bill if they are not sure they will be gouged: Disable auto-pay which so many power companies recommend you do.</strong></p> <p><strong>Autopay essentially locks you into an agreement which will cause you return item fees, overdraft fees, or overdraft protection fees by your bank, or even worse, drain your nest egg, despite the fact that some power companies said they will work with customers to pay installments.</strong></p> <p><strong>I discuss the reasons why in the first segment.</strong></p> <p><strong>DISABLE AUTO PAY ASAP.</strong></p> <p><strong>Secondly, I discuss the recent phenomenon predicted by me of Bank of America branches permanently closing after being "Temporarily closed" due to what was perceived as Covid Staffing Issues. I made a prediction in early spring, as the virus started that most branches that were closed in heavily populated city-centers would be closed forever as a means of culling the 4500 branch network without making a huge hullabaloo about it.</strong></p> <p><strong>The method of temp closing branches to inevitably get rid of them makes the clientele more sympathetic to BofA's plight as opposed to furious like my clients were with BofA when we closed in 2018. &nbsp;I discuss how employees in those branches were WFH recently, and in that time, their cost center (location) was changed, making them "new employees on a probationary period" so when the bank announces the closures, it makes the employees have to apply in order to land a future job with BofA, where most will be declined and lose their jobs permanen