Hurricane Ida Exposes Grid Weaknesses As 2,000 Miles of High-Voltage Lines Damages

Nation & State ^ | 8-31-2021

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[SecondAmendment]

Hey Green New Dealers, how well do you think a wind or solar farm would hold up in a Cat 4 hurricane ?

[plain talk]

Biden: this means we need another infrastructure bill.

[Bayard]

Imagine, a cat 4 hurricane that lands in the USA and causes no damage at all.

[CatOwner]

Gee, I wonder if they’ll require any out-of-state workers coming to help repair the hurricane damage to be vaccinated. Sadly, not sarcasm.

[lewislynn]

OH NO! How will they charge their cars?

[blueunicorn6]

Don’t these Democrats care?

People are without power!

Where is Biden?

[EEGator]

IBEW from Philly and the suburbs are en route.

[lewislynn]

One emergency generator can only charge one car.

One emergency generator can run gas pumps for fueling several cars in a fraction of the time.

[Bell Bouy II]

Brig on the big OT gouge.

[Bell Bouy II]

Brig = bring, but you knew that

[EEGator]

Double time 24/7.
It’s pretty sweet making $92 per hour while sleeping.

[EEGator]

The utility companies get to write it all off as emergency spending.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Hey Green New Dealers, how well do you think a wind or solar farm would hold up in a Cat 4 hurricane ?

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They might think, with 100 plus mph winds, that the wind turbines would be generating more electricity than ever.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[AFreeBird]

And not a dime of that so-called “infrastructure” money will ever be spent on actual infrastructure.

[shanover]

Yup, good thing we have gazillion dollars ready to go for “infrastructure”!

[Tell It Right]

"Hey Green New Dealers, how well do you think a wind or solar farm would hold up in a Cat 4 hurricane ?"

I don't know about a solar farm. But my panels are locked down in so many places that they probably keep the metal roof more secure than without the panels. Not saying it makes them impervious to hurricanes (or in my neck of the woods, tornados). Just saying they probably move the needle some in the good direction.

And by the way, when the grid power goes out I have backup power from my solar panels and batteries. The last time the power went out I was able to operate just fine with some trimmed down use (kinda like running on a backup generator and not having enough power for all the normal luxuries, but I get to choose them without having to run cables around and cranking up a generator). Once the weather clears and the sun comes out, I operate on a full use, even if the grid's still down. That's because on most days my solar system generates more power than I use or can store for the future.

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"And not a dime of that so-called “infrastructure” money will ever be spent on actual infrastructure."

It will be used to reward Democrat supporters.

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[Rebelbase]

Boss, Don’t know when I’ll be able to get back to work. There’s no power to charge my car.

‘I understand. You can work from home for the time being.’

D’oh!