Lots of good discussion, info, and links in this earlier thread on this event:
State power grid warns of rotating outages if electricity demand overwhelms supply [ Texas ]
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3934509/posts
We still have power but lost wifi. All hope is lost.
It’s currently 3° with a wind chill of -15°. The rolling outages were to be in small increments. My entire team who works from home is without power and have been for 5+ hours. Nothing rolling about it.
Oh No the Wind Turbines are freezing up in the cold , more testing needed ,LOL
My inlaws from MN each winter escape the cold for Port Aranzas. Currently they report 18 degrees, no power. Icy roads. Stuck in cold condo.
I blame people with frickin’ heat pumps. My neighbors heat pump screams all winter.
Natural gas, people. Texas is floating on it. My electricity was $89 for January for 5,000 sqft.
Heat pumps are for Florida or San Diego.
Currently 8 in Dallas. 1 son without power. Another son in Lubbock is 2 but with power. We’re a balmy 15 in El Paso....
Luckily, my Co-Op in the this area uses Nat Gas powerplants, so we still have steady power out here.
16 degrees and sunny here at the Hazwaste family compound southwest of Houston. A little surprised we haven’t been hit by an outage yet, but then there are so few homes out here in the sticks maybe they figured we’d provide diminishing returns.
Shut down more coal and lignite plants (which were running perfectly well) because of scary Climate Change. While people are freezing and possibly dying maybe they will realize there’s something more sinister than Climate Change happening around them.
The leftists changed their preferred lingo from “global warming” to “climate change” a few years ago, so we can’t say we didn’t have fair warning that the whole green push was complete b.s.
The leftists changed their preferred lingo from “global warming” to “climate change” a few years ago, so we can’t say we didn’t have fair warning that the whole green push was complete b.s.
Joe Bastardi
@BigJoeBastardi
If you wonder why I am the way I am about man made climate change, its because. I KNOW WHAT NATURE CAN DO. My company saw this coming a week out, because 2 old guys know what the weather has done, Generation of climate zealots does not
8:15 AM · Feb 15, 2021
wonder how electric vehicles are working out for people there now...