Posted on 02/15/2021 6:05:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
At least when it happens in California, we don’t freeze our asses off!
I think burning piles of commies might help.
But teh Cult of Globull Wormening told us that snowfalls would be a thing of the past. . .
“On March 20, 2000, The Independent, a British newspaper, reported that “Snowfalls are just a thing of the past.” Global warming was simply making the UK too warm for heavy snowfalls. The column quotes Dr. David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia — yes, the epicenter of what would become the Climategate scandal — as saying that within a few years snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event.”
Indeed, Viner opined, “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.””
Of course, the original Independent.co.uk article has been memory-holed. But the Internet never forgets:
In Bastrop the power has been shutting off about every 30 minutes since 2:30 am .
Minnesnowta..
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Like that....... Good one
Balmy 35 here in N.Y. Forecast is 40s tomorrow. Hopefully melt some snow from last storm.
-2 in Tulsa.
North Texas here, power out. We have really never had rolling blackouts and this is not making sense to me. I understand down lines due to wind but that can’t be that widespread. Shutting power off due to demand is not making sense. A huge number of homes in this area use gas heat which does not use a large amount of power. Yes many apartments and homes use electric heat but that is offset by others using gas and yet they are talking like this is unprecedented electric demand. Somebody is going to need to explain how we were able to meet demand in the summer with every air conditioner in the state running 24/7 yet suddenly we can’t supply power to millions of homes?
“That darn global warming.”
The Weather Channel has a banner just below their video report on this major arctic weather event that tells people just because it freezing cold all the way to Brownsville Texas doesn’t mean that there’s no Climate Change!
Leftists never ever let go of their hoax issues. No matter what.
YEP!
From North Central Texas. My rural electric co-op has 38% of all customers without power.
Yesterday, Texas had 70,000 MW of available power and was using 65,000MW. This morning, only 52,000MW are available, and Texas is having rotating blackouts. Wind power is supposed to have 25,000MW of generation capability, and half of that is down because the turbines are frozen. Peak demand today and tomorrow is forecast at 74,000MW.
We broke the record low temperature by 10 degrees last night. Our temperatures, in general, are about 45 degrees below normal. Wind is blowing 15-25mph. Houses, even very well build, were simply not designed for this extreme event.
Our power issues are self-inflected by Washington DC communists who are members of the religious cult of global warming.
-6 in OKC @ 8:30.
but but global warming really exists. Who do you believe, lefturd loons or your lying eyes.
Just about all of the windmills that have been phased on over the last years are not turning due to the low temperatures. reduced supply and even slightly increased demand means rolling blackouts.
They are blaming it on frozen natural gas wells in OK and TX.
yes same here, moved to Fort Worth last summer, did not miss San Diego until this weekend, looking to vacation in Costa Rica this summer.
Actually, electrics heat is by far the predominant source in this part of the State. We have had rolling blackouts during early heat waves so this is not unprecedented.
Same here. We’re technically a conservative state, but the State Government and Bureaucracy are loaded with libs who dominate the energy policy. Like every other state we’ve been shutting down nuclear and coal plants for over a decade and building wind mills. It’s a disgrace and embarrassment.
Talking about taking out four hydrodams in WA state.
Washington State is home to the most arrogant, fact-resistant idiots in the US.
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