Posted on 02/19/2021 10:58:36 PM PST by conservative98
As Texas thankfully starts to come out of these storms, we need to carefully answer the most important Q: How do we make sure this never happens again? How do we make sure the TX grid can handle demand & 4mm people aren’t left w/o power? Good read on this: https://t.co/KpEwhMK7qb— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 19, 2021
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Good read recommended by Ted.
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Build it to colder weather standards maybe? Texas is not quite Florida or southern California. Winter gets there some years. People said this was a once in a lifetime event but it seems that the Texas power grid has almost totally crashed at least twice in 2011 and now in 2021. So unless you’re ten years old ...
Winterize it, maybe it will cost more. The conditions were extreme for Texas but routine further north.
So, maybe I wished too hard.
Regards,
poor ted. “Look! Over there! Something shiny!”
Nobody is irresponsible for this anymore that George Bush was responsible for the effects of Katrina.
Karma is a bitch but her sister, Mother Nature, just gets out of control sometimes.
Everything worked fine for 30 years since the last event and I lived in Tulsa when that one happened.
No big deal. Lost power for 3 days.
Gas heater and Hibachi turned it another camping experience.
I have lots of stories about Mother Nature exerting her will.
Mudslides in the the Santa Cruz Mountains, tornadoes, ice and red winds in Oklahoma.
Even snow and ice making it impossible to go North, South, East or West in Greenville/Wilmington, DE because there are hills, uphill, to go anywhere and the roads were impossible to travel. Whatever.
If you are looking for certainty don’t look on the bottom of your feet for the “Best if Used by Date “ but, you will most certainly live everyday and you will most certainly die one day.
Problem solved
speaking of katrina; the only thing the msm coverage was lacking in terms of hysteria was helicopters picking poor folks off their roofs.
Imagine the regret at cnn over the coulda-beens on that one.
The cancel culture after your vacation next.
First off, Lyn’ Ted should resign and let Governor Abbott appoint a replacement that will be a good Republican and will not tell people to stay home while he goes to Mexico. Texas deserves a senator that will stand with them when the need help.
We live near the mountains in the middle of a bunch of tall evergreen trees. We lose power frequently. But it is like places where it snows a lot, every one knows how to drive in it. All of our neighbors have generators. Ours is hooked to natural gas. We don't even have to go to the gas station. We have to flick a switch and start the generator. Some of our neighbors don't even have to do that... their generators start when the power goes out and stop when it comes back on automatically.
Well, I hope you stop bragging when your Senate campaign starts
I remember the many articles posted here exposing the MSM BIG LIE campaign to blame Bush 43. Articles that showed he had FEMA tractor trailers WAITING days before it hit. And how the RAT governor and mayor were the big screw ups. They didn't allow those trucks in. Kind of like the RAT mayor in Puerto Rico hoarding a whole warehouse of bottled water while citizens went without water. But they tried to blame Trump.
At first I thought that he meant his trip to Mexico.
Now I see he’s talking about power outages.
1. Stop relying on windmills
2. Stop relying on solar
They have their place but obviously need backup.
In a way, this was a good thing. It demonstrated clearly to the rest of America the flaws inherent in “The Green New Plan,” or whatever AOC calls it.
Obviously will not work in Northern States.
LOL! When I was a teenager, in Chicago, learning to drive, I loved doing doughnuts in the snow!
Never is a long long long long..........time.
Oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear......
One factor not being talked about is that the Texas grid is not interconnected with the rest of the country. Thus they could not call upon generating capacity outside of Texas to make up their shortfall. The plus side is that Texas avoids a lot of Federal regulation, but the minus side is that Texas must build a grid that is more robust.
I’d like to see an accurate account of the politics behind how Texas wound up depending so heavily on wind. Doesn’t seem like something Texans would have done if they’d known what was going on. Despite what they say in Oklahoma, Texans ain’t that dumb. Well, except for Austin.
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