Are You Ready For Power Blackouts This Winter?

andmagazine.substack.com ^ | 11/27/2023 | chet nagle

[BobL]

“The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)...released a report warning that two-thirds of the United States is facing winter power blackouts.”

Easy Solution: Replace the upper leadership of NERC.

[ansel12]

Even people who live in moderate climates where a long 20-degree cold snap without power won’t kill them, should have a plan for at least 2 things.

1. Have a quality meter key to shut-off their water meter and know how to loosen one of the union nuts on the meter and turn on their inside fixtures to drain the water from the pipes and how to drain the water heater (which is sort of complicated), and remove water from toilets.

2. Have a closet or room that they can keep above freezing, where they can move all their canned goods, household liquids, expensive make-up, bottled water, etc. to, for some that might take little heat, perhaps even candles in some parts of some homes.

Some people in moderate climates don’t realize how a long cold snap without power can penetrate a home and reach interior lows that they didn’t imagine could happen, in time everything becomes the same temp as outdoors.

[ansel12]

The inline filter— https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Heater-Portable-Heaters-F273699/dp/B000HE8P2O

I preferred the hose.
The special hose— Mr. Heater Buddy Series Hose Assembly - 10-ft., Model# F273704

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[metmom]

We’ve had power outages to deal with for years both in Central NY and here in NH.

Around here almost everyone is ready. When you look at realtor listings, it’s not unusual to see people put pictures of the auxiliary electrical panel that is used for their generator for power outages.

[grey_whiskers]

It’s always just about you and your own personal creature comforts, isn’t it?

[cableguymn]

Ours is tri fuel. We heat with propane so it’s connected to the main propane tank. We only used it for 5 hours last summer so it’s still good to go. We bought one big enough to run the whole house. It’ll run the barn too but we do have to be careful with the load when we do that

[minnesota_bound]

Bloomberg had a SUV have a window a/c unit on a portable stand blowing cold air into his SUV while he was in a meeting in an office building. The electric cord ran to an outlet to the building.

This way he could say he was not leaving the SUV running with the a/c on.....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165728/Environmental-Warrior-Mayor-Bloomberg-cools-SUV-wall-unit-AC.html

[woodbutcher1963]

Our daughter has a propane generator. It was there when they bought the house. It runs everything except the electric dryer.

However, they now run a business out of the house with a large walk in freezer. They sell raw dog food. So, they now are going to increase their generator size to a 20KHW so that it will power the freezer too in the event of a longer outage.

They offered us their current propane one but we would have to add a tank to fuel it. Our boiler burns heating oil. We also have a Harman pellet stove insert.

[woodbutcher1963]

Down here when they build new housing developments most people go with propane because they also add a standby generator in with the new house package. They built a subdivision down the street from my former house. Almost every new house had a brand new generator on the back corner of the house.

To go along with that I actually saw the guy from Asphung Tree Service on my road a week or so ago. This is the guy in the pick up truck that goes around and marks the trees to be cut around the power lines. The thing is that they marked some of these trees in February of 2019 when I was working from home for one month. They never cut the trees down. Just put up new blue & white ribbons around the trunks. Maybe that means they area actually planning on cutting trees SOON.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping – Are you ready for electrical power blackouts, or brownouts ?
The power grid is at risk as the administration commits a mis-identified “War on Fossil Fuels” , with inadequate power replacments
According to the NERC, a possible 2/3rds of the United States are at risk of Winter blackouts
Electrical demand is exceeding electrical production

Leaning Right :”I would be thrilled if Biden’s team would just do nothing, and let private industry take care of things.
But Biden is doing something. He’s actively making things worse.
You just wait. When the outages come, they will be blamed on Climate Change. (Emphasis Mine)
So of course we must increase the government’s command and control.”

” Weather pundits on TV and even The Old Farmers Almanac are telling us key factors like Solar Cycle 25, El Nino, and a polar vortex moving south from the North Pole
will combine to give most of the U.S. a colder and a much more snowy winter.
Are we ready? Is the Biden administration ensuring our gas and coal-fired power plants are winterized and have enough fuel?
Of course not.”

”The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a not-for-profit regulatory authority whose stated mission is "to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid,"
released a report warning that two-thirds of the United States is facing winter power blackouts.
That will happen because of our reliance on solar and wind farms
and the retirement and cancellation of new coal and natural gas power plants. “

”Peter Zeihan, geographer and demographer extraordinaire, has sounded the alarm.
He knows the re-industrialization of the United States is beginning and is poised to exceed the astounding growth of American manufacturing capacity in the early years of WWII.
The demand for more electric power will happen because America is shortening its vulnerable supply chains
and rebuilding industries that moved to China and other countries.
Zeihan notes, “Conservative estimates show electricity demand increasing by more than 50%,” adding that if we also electrify transportation we must double the number of power plants needed. ..”

“..Happily, Bloomberg’s plan to crush coal-fired power plants is sailing onto the rocks and shoals of America’s re-industrialization demands for a robust power supply.
An example of those demands is the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas.
That 2.7 million square foot plant requires so much reliable energy that the local coal-fired plant cannot be closed.
Instead, it will be expanded and its life extended. “

[Texas resident]

I have three Honda generators, 30 gallons of gasoline, gas logs and a gas cooktop. Bring it ERCOT!

[1Old Pro]

Got a wood stove and wood pile. All I can do.

Same, and the gas generator will run the pellet stove for as long as gas is available.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They have a kind of pellet stove that is gravity fed, no need for gas. It is a bit more up front but you have heat as long as you keep the hopper filled.

[politicianslie]

released a report warning that two-thirds of the United States is facing winter power blackouts.”

The idiots who buy into the DimWIT's GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE scam will shut down enough coal power plants that the dozens(?) who died in the Texas cold snap a few years ago will see THOUSANDS die in the next cold snap with power blackouts.

And the greenidiots in the gubermint will fine those using wood stoves to keep from freezing to death.

NOAA, NASA and other gubermint agencies are changing the historical temperature records to show glowbull warming when in actuality the Earth is cooling since the 1930's. The 1999 NASA graph clearly showed that but by 2019, the gubermint scammers changed the temperature record to fit the Biden lies.

YOUTUBE Crashing the Climate-Tony Heller

[rellic]

Yes but I don’t give a s**t. I live in rural Hawaii.