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Power Grid Taxed, Rolling Blackouts Ordered [Texas]
NBC 5 DFW ^ | 02/02/2011 | Staff

Posted on 02/02/2011 5:54:36 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan

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1 posted on 02/02/2011 5:54:37 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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They changed the title while I was posting the article. New title:

Power Grid Taxed, Rolling Blackouts Ordered


2 posted on 02/02/2011 5:56:29 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Imagine having 50 new nuclear plants that the stimulus dollars could have started building. We would have needed to ban lawsuits by the greenies.


3 posted on 02/02/2011 5:59:41 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: BuckeyeTexan

We already had a couple hour blackout two nights ago when the storm went through. Just wait until Hussein finds out about this. He’ll make it policy and declare blackouts along with throwing the internet kill switch when ObamaCare finally gets slapped down.


4 posted on 02/02/2011 6:01:08 AM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

It rolled by my house this morning, still on at the office.


5 posted on 02/02/2011 6:02:20 AM PST by SouthTexas (Is it time for tea yet?)
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Rolled my house too. Lasted only 30 minutes.


6 posted on 02/02/2011 6:04:40 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Got me for about 15 minutes NW of Austin. Temp dropped 5 degrees in the house.


7 posted on 02/02/2011 6:07:04 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Critical needs?....Im at the firehall today and the power went out for 20 minutes. Our backup generator which is supposed to kick in within 30 seconds failed to do so because of the cold.

Had to sit on the trucks to listen to dispatches lol

8 posted on 02/02/2011 6:07:56 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: BuckeyeTexan

We had a 15 minute outage in north Dallas area.


9 posted on 02/02/2011 6:09:32 AM PST by DarthFuzball ("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

ERCOT reporting historic loads.

http://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/


10 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:00 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

How is this possible? They’re building windmills like crazy in Texas.


11 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:15 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Whenever you have intense storms or seemingly unending blizzard conditions, you will always have downed power lines and massive losses of power.

Most cities and states can handle these problems well but it seems that in those places that are run by liberals and democrats, there always seem to be a problem marshaling the resources necessary to get the job done.

That was the case with Hurricane Katrina. That was the case with the most recent blizzards in the Northeast and now they are bracing for another hit.

Let’s hope they get their act together in time to prevent unnecessary deaths due to bureaucratic and political negligence.


12 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:52 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Just went through one here too.

I thought it might have been just me but I live on a ridge above a little town here in the Hill Country and looked down at the town and not a light anywhere.

Came back on in about 20 minutes. But I have a fireplace and butane stove so I was okay.


13 posted on 02/02/2011 6:10:57 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: BuckeyeTexan

This is what the “Smart Grid” being developed under the auspices of NIST per Congress is intended to prevent. (Note that nobody owns the name “Smart Grid” so there are a LOT of so-called “Smart Grids” out there, somebody’s idea for marketing their gadgets, nearly all incapable of dealing with this.)


14 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:13 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: SouthTexas

I’ve had two this morning in Central Texas. One was for about 20 minutes. I’m not sure if the other was an official blackout or a blip because it only lasted about 8 minutes.


15 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:18 AM PST by McLynnan
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Of course, more generation would help too.


16 posted on 02/02/2011 6:12:00 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: listenhillary

Yeah, but the point is for the peasants to NOT use energy,
or only to use it when the neo-nobility “allows” it.

Reminds me of the tale of the King traveling through “his” lands and stopping at a hovel to warm himself. There was no fire, and when the king asked why, the peasant replied that it was by his order that the peasants only use so much firewood and he had used all his up already.


17 posted on 02/02/2011 6:14:04 AM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my about page. Click my handle.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Do a lot of folks in TX heat with electricity?
I would have guessed it was largely nat gas.


18 posted on 02/02/2011 6:14:06 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Turd world banana republics do not have enough power generation to meet demand, not the United States. It is pathetic how, over the past 30 years, so many once-proud, can-do utilities have saluted the greenie religion and put in place demand control programs rather than build power plants.


19 posted on 02/02/2011 6:15:51 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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“Reminds me of the tale of the King traveling through “his” lands and stopping at a hovel to warm himself. There was no fire, and when the king asked why, the peasant replied that it was by his order that the peasants only use so much firewood and he had used all his up already.”

Good one!


20 posted on 02/02/2011 6:18:14 AM PST by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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