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More Harsh Winters Could Spell Disaster For The Electrical Grid
The Daily Caller ^ | August 15, 2014 | By Michael Bastasch

Posted on 08/18/2014 2:37:08 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL

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To: JACKRUSSELL

He harshed my mellow, man!


21 posted on 08/18/2014 5:22:02 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: JACKRUSSELL
"Bastardi noted that another harsh winter “would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload.”..."

And that is precisely what it is going to take to wake people up to the nazi-green agenda. Only when millions have to go without electricity, in the dead of winter do we have any chance of breaking this climate change dictatorship.

22 posted on 08/18/2014 5:22:54 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: SamAdams76

No it doesn’t. I think you’re projecting onto me.

Most city dwellers are liberal, most liberals loathe prepping, and guns. But not all.

Vice versa for rural areas. It will play out much like I said, majority of city dwellers will not survive due to these facts. Most rural dwellers will. But mostly because city dwellers rely on food arriving to stores on time, and clean city water. Rural areas have wells, more gardens and livestock. My statement MAY have been an over exaggeration, but I don’t think so. Most people fleeing the cities will either take over less populated rural areas, or get shot. Some will help their friends and families who live in rural areas. Those will be the ones that survive.

Anyways, in any case the more secluded areas that are less densely populated will be where the majority of survivors are located. In a major catastrophe.

I don’t think I’m wrong here. I’m sorry that you have that image. But the majority of survivors will be preppers, people that can defend themselves, and people that can live off the land. Some city dwellers will bug out, but if you stay in a metropolis, your chance at survival probably drops to around 10-15% in a major nationwide or global catastrophe just where food and water are cut off for a month or longer.


23 posted on 08/18/2014 5:51:59 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: BobL

Since Republicans brought you the government dictate decreeing what sorts of light bulbs you may or may not have in your home, I fear you are correct.


24 posted on 08/18/2014 7:08:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Wish that darn Global Warming would get here already.


25 posted on 08/18/2014 7:09:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jack Hydrazine

This comes from a young man who has done remarkable work in forecasting recently. I follow his Facebook page (Firsthand Weather), and was amazed at how his predictions were quite accurate last winter.


26 posted on 08/18/2014 7:18:15 AM PDT by Ray'sBeth
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To: Ray'sBeth

I gained a lot of respect for him last winter, he was way out in front and very accurate in his long range forecasting.


27 posted on 08/18/2014 8:25:04 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

-— and green energy was unable to generate power in fierce winter weather. ——

It can’t be. I gotta lie down. Someone bring me some smelling salts.


28 posted on 08/18/2014 8:28:17 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

My mother always said...... fog in August means bad winter.

She schooled herself to learn and remember and recite all the folk wisdom

This August we have had fog almost every morning.


29 posted on 08/18/2014 8:31:02 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: DaveA37

-— Then and only then will the “talks” begin as to why this happened and what can be done about it”. -—

Cause: greedy oil companies.
Solution: solar power.

Although, I must say, a hard core leftist recently admitted to me that she was wrong in opposing nuke plants in the ‘70s. She’s mainly concerned about emissions, of course, but maybe they can learn.


30 posted on 08/18/2014 8:33:41 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

“Harsh winter weather combined with coal-fired power plant closings could spell trouble for many households across the country who will desperately need to keep the lights and heat on this winter. “

Count on it happening. Time to install that wood stove you have been putting off.


31 posted on 08/18/2014 9:25:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Hey, if the North Koreans can survive the winter without electricity, then why can’t the Yanks? I thought they were made of sterner stuff.


32 posted on 08/18/2014 10:01:18 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

North Koreans haven’t been spoiled by the welfare state, they never had anything to miss.


33 posted on 08/18/2014 10:04:34 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: FreedomStar3028; SamAdams76

If the infrastructure is as strained as Joe Bastardi says it is (which is an “if”) then the reality of the situation will be probably somewhere in the middle.

Preppers will of course ride it well. The urban population won’t. This is true.

But what will most likely happen (again if it’s as bad as he predicts and he’s only one man so let’s put this in perspective) is that rolling brown outs (not blackouts) will affect urban centers for days at a time not weeks or months. (I mean this isn’t like the movie “Day After Tomorrow” for goodness sakes) so there will be power loss for many people yes. More than “need” to will die, but of simple exposure not lack of food and certainly not clean drinking water.

These greater deaths will be twisted into a justification for more “green” energy plants nothing more. Bottom line: it will cost more money to heat your home. The people who are marginally not on welfare will be pushed into government dependence because they won’t be able to afford these greater costs for energy.

So really this plays right into the left’s hopes. They will get more slaves of the State (and more “dirty humans” dying). A two-fer.

It’s potentially more insideous and subtle a threat to liberty. It won’t cause Civil War II though, or anything like that. At least not directly.


34 posted on 08/18/2014 10:22:16 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: JACKRUSSELL; Kartographer

Ping


38 posted on 08/18/2014 1:16:01 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Artie

Heh.

And some hurricane season we’ve been having, eh?

This is how many years in a row that they’ve forecasted widespread death and destruction and we’ve had what?

Just about zilch.


39 posted on 08/18/2014 1:17:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Time will tell.

After last winter, and this crappy summer, I’d take an above average temperature winter.


40 posted on 08/18/2014 1:19:35 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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