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El Paso Electric is the municipal utility in El Paso. Texas has two big cold snaps previously in 1989 and again in 2011. ERCOT recommended all utilities take steps to prevent generation loss due to freezing.
EPE spent over $4 million after the 2011 deep freeze and came through this one just fine. They aren’t connected to ERCOT, either.
Standby by for the day when the Rat Party succeeds in shutting down coal fired,gas fired,oil fired and nuclear power plants.
Rumor has it that it can get a bit nippy in parts of Texas in January...and a bit toasty in the entire state in April,May,June,July,August,September and October.
In New Orleans, they built levees for a 1 in 100 year flood, and skimmed the rest of the money for political influencing building and corruption. And for a few decades, they were fine.
Then year 100 came, and their sins were revealed.
I’m not saying that’s exactly what happened in Texas, but in any bureaucracy, there is always a strong tendency to go for the short-term solution.
Calling broken pipes that flood homes and make them uninhabitable an "inconvenience" is like Dr. Fauci calling the destruction of businesses, loss of jobs and destitution resulting from the lockdowns an "inconvienience"
Hinderaker had to stretch so far for that take that you can see light through him.
ERCOT leadership and policy is controlled by the PUC and members of the PUC are appointed by the Governor of Texas.
” the relevant authorities failed to anticipate record-breaking cold” After multiple years of having been force fed ‘glow-bull’ warming BS, why would they think it might get cold? Obviously the ecowankers don’t care one whit that warmer is a WHOLE lot easier to survive than cold. Any wonder Edgar Rice Burrows wrote Tarzan of the Jungle and NOT Tarzan of the Tundra? I really don’t like these liars. At all.
They want their systems to break. It gives them job security. Preparing for hot heat is just a way of them being able to point to the important work they have been doing. The cold was obviously unexpected just like earthquakes and hurricanes. Those things are not related to climate change so you can’t be mad at them for not being prepared. They actually might have been prepared but there is really nothing you can do in advance of a freeze to kremlin pipes from bursting.
Many people left their homes to stay with friends who had running water and occassionaly electricity. I’ve venture most of them never bothered to turn off their water at the main and drain their pipes only to come home to burst pipes and blaming everyone but themselves.
More than one has been highlighted in the headlines whining they lost power so their fridge food rotted/they had no food to last the week and their pipes burst and they’re broke.
Geez, take some self responsibility and put that one brain cell to work. Set the food outside in the freezing snow and it wouldn’t have rotted or take it with you to whomever’s house you went to to help them out. Not to mention Americans refrigerate items that other countries don’t like eggs and condiments. If nothing else, in a freezing house, just open the fridge door.
One San Antonio woman was whining about her fridge food when she went to her parents’ house where they had running water and a fireplace. As if she couldn’t have taken her family’s food with them to help out. She even had to bother the neighbors to heat a pan of water for her baby’s formula. Really? As if she couldn’t use the fireplace or put the bottle under her arm. She also whined their infant was bored and whatever were they to do so he wouldn’t be bored. Hmm, so she, her husband, the two grandparents and whomever else was in the house couldn’t keep an infant entertained between naps and his warm bottle? SMH.
Another late 20s woman, a recent arrival from Boston (doesn’t Boston get snow?), was warned just like everyone in advance of the storm but didn’t bother to buy some food so had to rely on total strangers to brave the roads to bring her food. She looked, imo, financially capable of buying food for herself and the whole block so that wasn’t the problem. The problem, again, is not using the single brain cell in her head. Thank goodness she can go to Starbucks now.
FYI, yesterday was day 11 after the thaw and our grocery store just got lunch meat, eggs and cheese on the shelves. Still no cream for coffee and there are even stricter limits. I’d say a good two weeks would be the benchmark if/when this ever happens again for the stores to get back to “covid normal”. Thanks to Xi, we haven’t been able to purchase cream for coffee for 2+ months.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Just as with any state, voters elect federal and state lawmakers who evidently don’t understand or respect the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters who elected them do.
So when misguided, non-elected, politically motivated federal bureaucrats shout “JUMP!” as they did with Texas, institutionally indoctrinated state “leaders” unthinkingly reply, “how high?”
In fact, militia issues aside, patriots can bet that if a given federal spending program is not related to the U.S. Post Service, one of the very few powers that the states have actually expressly constitutionally given to the feds to dictate an aspect of domestic policy, then that program is unconstitutional and win the bet probably most of the time.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The remedy for patriots being oppressed under the boots of unconstitutionally big federal government…
Patriots need to get their local and state leaders up to speed with unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-very limited powers. Such taxes are arguably state revenues stolen by the corrupt feds by means of unconstitutional taxes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
After state leaders put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes then the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they won’t know what to do with imo.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support state government leaders in repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
You missed a big factor caused by the greenies. Excessive insulation. A neighbor down the street in a renovated house seems to have suffered a lot of damage. Those of us in poorly insulated houses came through just fine. The reason? Enough heat loss through the walls ceiling to keep the pipes from freezing.
I wonder why we can’t find out how much the Board members for the Electric Reliability Council are paid. I have Googled it several times but regardless of how I structure the question nothing of any import is ever displayed. HMMM
More nuclear power please, and we wouldn’t be a problem.
It is also “renewable”.
Weather is just going to do its thing, especially in Texas. When I first joined the Air Force in 1985, I was home in Arlington for Christmas and New Years leave. I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. I was home on leave one year later, and my grandmother died on New Years Day in Mesquite (East of Dallas). It was sleet and snow all day and took us 3 hours to get to her house (usually 40 minutes). Good luck controlling a planet’s climate...