Son just called....he won’t be coming for Christmas after all. ire went flat on his car this morning and stuck solid to the ground! Wind chill here is -23 and dropping again so even hot water will freeze trying to loosen it. Last night we were -45 windchill
All the doors on my SUV are frozen solid. Handle won’t even budge. So likely my battery is going to get drained.
That’s too bad. Where do you live?
Utilities Impose Rolling Blackouts As US Power Grid In Emergency Amid Cold Blast
Utilities have issued rolling power blackouts across North Carolina and Tennessee this morning.
News just hit Bloomberg that Tennessee Titans delayed the home game against Houston Texans over power concerns.
Extreme cold temperatures are pressuring power grids in the eastern half of the US. Rolling blackouts have affected many Americans, some of which have taken to Twitter to complain:
Memphis is under a mandatory rolling blackout and boil water advisory. Meanwhile, TVA is allowing the NFL to fully power Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Story below. #poweroutage #Titans #TVA #MLGW #Memphis
— KWAM NewsTalk Memphis (@Mighty990KWAM) December 24, 2022
More than a million Americans are without power.
PJM Interconnection’s power generation mix this morning is primarily coal, natural gas, nuclear, and crude oil. So much for unreliable renewables helping out when the regional grid that supplies power to 65 million Americans in 13 states and the District of Columbia is in an emergency.
It’s time for Americans to realize renewables are unreliable — also, decommissioning fossil fuel power generation in the name of ‘climate change’ is idiotic at this point.
Let’s begin with PJM Interconnection, a regional power grid that stretches from Illinois to New Jersey, which declared a Stage 2 emergency late Friday and asked customers to conserve electricity due to the rising risk of grid instability.
“PJM is asking consumers to reduce their use of electricity, if health permits, between the hours of 4 a.m. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. on December 25, 2022,” PJM wrote in a press release.
With power grids in an emergency across the eastern half of the US, there are also a million customers without power — most outages are in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Maine.
According to the map at link, 10,000 Texans have no power.
Ah, that’s too bad, caww. You both must be disappointed, but better to be safe and visit when it’s not so risky.