Posted on 02/03/2011 8:14:16 AM PST by bestintxas
As brief power outages rolled across the state on Wednesday, certain places were intended to be exempt from a temporary loss of electricity. That included hospitals, nursing homes, fire stations, police stations, other emergency response facilities… and Cowboys Stadium?
When officials with Oncor said that the Arlington site of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV would not be a part of the rolling outages, many residents became furious. But this was not entirely a choice made by the local utility company.
With thousands of reporters huddled in North Texas hotels and thousands of rabid football fans attending the NFL Experience at the Dallas Convention Center, and two football teams preparing to do battle on the field of Cowboys Stadium this Sunday, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee had a big request to make. “It is vitally important we don’t have blackouts,” said committee vice president Tony Fay.
Fay asked the City of Dallas, the City of Fort Worth and the City of Arlington to ensure that rolling blackouts did not prevent planned events from happening at Super Bowl venues. That news really steamed up some homeowners who were left without power for hours. “We’re not prioritizing,” said frustrated Plano resident Allen Hooser. “Hospitals and the grocery store, which is out. But for a PR stunt, where you can go throw a football, you have power and heat.”
“Not because of any preferential treatment. Not because we’re trying to protect VIPs or celebrities,” Fay explained. “It is a public safety issue.” According to Fay, if there was to be a blackout at an NFL venue, then there would be no way to screen for security.
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I believe that would include Parkland Hospital in Dallas, which is where 900 anchor babies from illegal aliens are delivered each month.
Now Texas is getting power from Mexico....Scary stuff..
California's broke and their citizen face much larger inconveniences than roving blackouts.
Which is no doubt why *hundreds of billions* were spent on freeways and tens of thousands of buildings for earthquake retrofitting...
But like the U.S., the state government is broke.
BTW, is your power on there?
“You liked to twist the tails of puppies and kittens when you were a kid, didn’t you?”
No, I hit them in the butt with a squirt gun loaded with gasoline to see how far they would go before they ran out of gas!
Some genius - now ol’ T.Boone is into H20 - and he will make sure there are shortages on that, too.
Where is the illustrious “conservative” Governor Perry on all of this?
good points you bring up, and with the background you noted, certainly seem to be am expert in dealing with things like this.
i was lookiing at this as the toys vs the necessities.
your point that this is sloppiness on part of hospitals and power companies is well taken.
thanks.
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