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Originally posted by Ken
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Uggh. Glad u and KS are ok, but from what i have read a lot of people will suffer or perish. Hope things turn out better than expected---------------------------------------------
Champagne for breakfast and a Sherman in my hand !
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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984
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Texas is the bellwether for privatization of utilities, in this country at least. I wonder to what extent that has affected Texas with regards to this storm and power outages.Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer View PostMore American children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active duty military.Comment
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It's not really clear to me so far. Hopefully that will become more clear in the after-action review.Originally posted by Bene Futuis View Post"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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i will continue to smugly scoff at all of you right up until the time my house burns to the ground.I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...Comment
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You have like 6 months to gloat, take advantage of itOriginally posted by heyelander View Post---------------------------------------------
Champagne for breakfast and a Sherman in my hand !
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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984
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I glanced at some articles that mentioned Texas has their own grid so they are not subject to Federal regulations. Didn't read the details, so not sure about it. ANyway, hope everyone gets power so they can have heat.Originally posted by Bene Futuis View Post---------------------------------------------
Champagne for breakfast and a Sherman in my hand !
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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984
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seriously though... best to everyone's families. Hope everyone stays warm and safe.Originally posted by The Feral Slasher View PostI'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...Comment
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Yes, Texas has its own grid in order to avoid federal regulation. Whether or not that was a contributing cause here is unclear. ERCOT has connections to both the Mexico grid and to the Eastern Interconnection, but they say that they were not able to buy power from either of those because both were also dealing with the storm.Originally posted by The Feral Slasher View Post"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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I lost power again. We are off/on/off at all hours of the day.
One thing that would be nice is communication. If they would let us know when, I’d be happy to have it off for hours at a time during the day. Instead it’s just random and we have to figure it out each time it happens.Comment
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That sucks. I hope you get power back soon. It seems like things are getting worse with the grid rather than better, even though temps were a little milder today.Originally posted by Ken View Post"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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cripes, stay warm mate.Originally posted by Ken View PostI'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...Comment
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For years, energy experts argued that the way Texas runs its electricity system invited a systematic failure. In the mid-1990s, the state decided against paying power producers to hold reserves, discarding the common practice across the United States and Canada of requiring a supply buffer of at least 15 percent beyond a typical day’s need.
Robert McCullough, of McCullough Research in Portland, Ore., said he and others have long warned about the potential for catastrophe because Texas simply lacked backup for extreme weather events increasingly commonplace as a result of climate change.
Ten years ago, plunging temperatures forced rolling blackouts across Texas, leaving more than 3 million people without power as the Super Bowl was played outside Dallas.
Now, with a near identical scenario following another Texas cold snap, Texas power regulators are being forced to answer how the unusually cold temperatures forced so much of the state’s power generation offline when Texans were trying to keep warm.
To start, experts say, power generators and regulators failed to heed the lessons of 2011 — or for that matter, 1989. In the aftermath of the Super Bowl Sunday blackout a decade ago, federal energy officials warned the grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT, that Texas power plants had failed to adequately weatherize facilities to protect against cold weather.
A federal report that summer recommended steps including installing heating elements around pipes and increasing the amount of reserve power available before storms, noting many of those same warnings were issued after similar blackouts 22 years earlier and had gone unheeded."Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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Ugh....
Well at least I'm getting heat today!Comment
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fuck! I tried to give this a disapproval of "soft" but I think I approved it instead.Originally posted by Ken View Post
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...Comment
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Texas is down to about 3 million customers without power today, about half of those in the Houston area. So that's an improvement. I guess?
Municipal water systems are being affected. We got a boil-water notice from the City of Houston this morning."Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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