Posted on 08/18/2014 2:37:08 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
If you thought last winter was bad, get ready for a potentially worse winter in parts of the country this year. But another record-setting winter could mean more than higher heating bills and snow fights.
Harsh winter weather combined with coal-fired power plant closings could spell trouble for many households across the country who will desperately need to keep the lights and heat on this winter.
Joe Bastardi, chief meteorologist at WeatherBELL Analytics, told the Wall Street Journal Live that current weather patterns are “flowing along right now into the type of El Niño situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the southern and eastern part of the United States, relative to the averages.”
Temperatures last winter set new record lows for huge swaths of the U.S. The stretch from December 2013 to February 2014 was the “34th coldest such period for the contiguous 48 states as a whole since modern records began in 1895,” reports the Weather Channel.
But the harsh winter did more than just chill the air, it sent demand for heat and power surging and brought the electrical grid to near its breaking point. Natural gas power plants lacked the supplies and infrastructure to keep the lights on and green energy was unable to generate power in fierce winter weather.
Bastardi noted that another harsh winter “would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload.”...
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He harshed my mellow, man!
And that is precisely what it is going to take to wake people up to the nazi-green agenda. Only when millions have to go without electricity, in the dead of winter do we have any chance of breaking this climate change dictatorship.
No it doesn’t. I think you’re projecting onto me.
Most city dwellers are liberal, most liberals loathe prepping, and guns. But not all.
Vice versa for rural areas. It will play out much like I said, majority of city dwellers will not survive due to these facts. Most rural dwellers will. But mostly because city dwellers rely on food arriving to stores on time, and clean city water. Rural areas have wells, more gardens and livestock. My statement MAY have been an over exaggeration, but I don’t think so. Most people fleeing the cities will either take over less populated rural areas, or get shot. Some will help their friends and families who live in rural areas. Those will be the ones that survive.
Anyways, in any case the more secluded areas that are less densely populated will be where the majority of survivors are located. In a major catastrophe.
I don’t think I’m wrong here. I’m sorry that you have that image. But the majority of survivors will be preppers, people that can defend themselves, and people that can live off the land. Some city dwellers will bug out, but if you stay in a metropolis, your chance at survival probably drops to around 10-15% in a major nationwide or global catastrophe just where food and water are cut off for a month or longer.
Since Republicans brought you the government dictate decreeing what sorts of light bulbs you may or may not have in your home, I fear you are correct.
Wish that darn Global Warming would get here already.
This comes from a young man who has done remarkable work in forecasting recently. I follow his Facebook page (Firsthand Weather), and was amazed at how his predictions were quite accurate last winter.
I gained a lot of respect for him last winter, he was way out in front and very accurate in his long range forecasting.
-— and green energy was unable to generate power in fierce winter weather. ——
It can’t be. I gotta lie down. Someone bring me some smelling salts.
My mother always said...... fog in August means bad winter.
She schooled herself to learn and remember and recite all the folk wisdom
This August we have had fog almost every morning.
-— Then and only then will the “talks” begin as to why this happened and what can be done about it”. -—
Cause: greedy oil companies.
Solution: solar power.
Although, I must say, a hard core leftist recently admitted to me that she was wrong in opposing nuke plants in the ‘70s. She’s mainly concerned about emissions, of course, but maybe they can learn.
“Harsh winter weather combined with coal-fired power plant closings could spell trouble for many households across the country who will desperately need to keep the lights and heat on this winter. “
Count on it happening. Time to install that wood stove you have been putting off.
Hey, if the North Koreans can survive the winter without electricity, then why can’t the Yanks? I thought they were made of sterner stuff.
North Koreans haven’t been spoiled by the welfare state, they never had anything to miss.
If the infrastructure is as strained as Joe Bastardi says it is (which is an “if”) then the reality of the situation will be probably somewhere in the middle.
Preppers will of course ride it well. The urban population won’t. This is true.
But what will most likely happen (again if it’s as bad as he predicts and he’s only one man so let’s put this in perspective) is that rolling brown outs (not blackouts) will affect urban centers for days at a time not weeks or months. (I mean this isn’t like the movie “Day After Tomorrow” for goodness sakes) so there will be power loss for many people yes. More than “need” to will die, but of simple exposure not lack of food and certainly not clean drinking water.
These greater deaths will be twisted into a justification for more “green” energy plants nothing more. Bottom line: it will cost more money to heat your home. The people who are marginally not on welfare will be pushed into government dependence because they won’t be able to afford these greater costs for energy.
So really this plays right into the left’s hopes. They will get more slaves of the State (and more “dirty humans” dying). A two-fer.
It’s potentially more insideous and subtle a threat to liberty. It won’t cause Civil War II though, or anything like that. At least not directly.
Ping
Heh.
And some hurricane season we’ve been having, eh?
This is how many years in a row that they’ve forecasted widespread death and destruction and we’ve had what?
Just about zilch.
Time will tell.
After last winter, and this crappy summer, I’d take an above average temperature winter.
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