Posted on 02/15/2021 8:05:14 PM PST by ransomnote
Prayers up for the wee one and your granddaughter.
Thanks.
Thank you, to one who posts the best pics. :-)
...thanks!
Nice parade
Yeah, I have often wondered about Trump’s visit to the Forbidden City, which Q referenced.
Prayers up for all you Texans without electricity.
boop
Unrelated: Prez. Asterisk is scheduled to fly to Milwaukee tonight. Will he be on AF1? I.e., the 747 we all think of as the “real” AF1?
Must be one of the doubles going to Milwaukee.
:Blizzard of 78:
- I was still teaching and we had SNOW DAYS. Hubby had both fireplaces and the basement wood stove cranked up. It was so hot, we all had to wear shorts and tank tops in doors.
The neighborhood kids all had a great time sledding down our very long and steep hill. At night they built and bonfire and continued. We used to have a fun neighborhood. A lot of those people have moved on.
I sure do miss that wood stove in the basement.
slide...I have a tons of jars and probably a dozen lids....looking for my dtr though....she’s getting into “it”...
oh boy....winter hitting freepers hard this year...
:: very long and steep hill ::
You must be in the Northwest or Southeast area of your state.
This is all conditioning of the people. The excuse will be, global warming is now at a danger point, this is what we have been trying to tell you.
I think it’s gas supply line issues involving the extreme cold.
Frozen coal piles are an issue also - used to deal with that once in a while up north at the plants along Lake Erie. Wet coal followed by a deep freeze means frozen coal. Lots of earth-moving equipment out there when that happened, to loosen up the pile. Also, they’d unload rail cars directly into the bunker instead of rotating it through the pile on those situations.
I know that gas availability is an issue in some places when demand is high also. Depending on the pipeline, priority goes to heating homes first, generating electricity second, so if the home heating usage is extremely high, then less is available along that pipeline path to purchase for generation.
We have a combined cycle gas plant in our system (Tennessee) that has that issue, but also has a fairly large amount of oil storage so that it can run on oil if the gas availability goes astray. It was designed specifically with that in mind due to concerns with that particular pipeline.
Reading up on ERCOT, this is primarily their maintenance season. Spring and all are the biggest maintenance seasons in general, when plants are taken off line to service them. Texas is primarily a summer-peaking area. Here in TN, both summer and winter are peaking seasons. This week, Texas winter demand is peaking, and their generating assets are inadequate.
I suspect that this is the sum of many issues, not just frozen wind turbines. We can’t really place the blame on any single element. It’s the sum of multiple issues. Record cold, maintenance season, gas availability, frozen windmills, frozen coal, insufficient ties to other interconnections (who likely don’t have anything to sell to Texas anyway).
Gates will be in custody before it’s growing season here in Maryland.
PS: Potatoes are just about the easiest thing to grow. People grow them in all sorts of strange ways. I did it one year in potato bags. Made it so simple for harvest.
***Dis - do you, or anyone else, remember this?
I read a few days ago (before my internet went down for 3 days) that the CDC changed its “mind” once again and said a positive covid was only a “real” positive if a person tested positive twice and had symptoms. Do you remember this or know where to find the info?
https://sofrep.com/news/did-a-quietly-made-change-in-testing-cause-covid-infections-to-drop-45/
Oh, my. Hope you get power back soon. Prayers up.
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