Posted on 07/12/2024 2:26:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
HOUSTON — Half a million Texans are expected to suffer through sweltering heat with no electricity into early next week after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power throughout the Houston area Monday, generating anger at the region’s large utility for failing to defend the grid from a predictable summer storm.
Food is spoiling in dormant refrigerators days after the Category 1 hurricane tore through power lines and utility poles. Hospitals are swarming with patients struggling with heat stroke. Businesses can’t function as residents are ordered to stay home, and many residents faced at least three or four more days of continued suffering.
“We don’t have anything to eat,” said Nelsey Alvarez, 34, a single mother from Honduras who said she had never faced such a power crisis in her native country, where hurricanes are common. “When they lose power, they restore it the same day.”
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Then go back if it's better there.
“Where does the fault lay?? Houston just can’t get its &*^7 together when storms happen?”
Remember how the leftists blamed GWBush for Katrina? Well guess who they’re blaming for this one. I’ll give you a hint. It’s never a Democrat.
Let me guess....this is Abbot and Ted Cruz’s fault.
That's irrelevant.
If you live in hurricane country, it behooves you to prepare for every season.
Plus anyone who watches hurricane storm tracks KNOWS that they change by the hour. You cannot depend on a forecast for the storm track more thana day out.
People should haven been prepped a good week before it made landfall.
Actually, if you have an EV like my Ford Lightning and it is fully charged (which you would do with a hurricane approaching) you could power your house for 4 days. Just lights and refrigerator I would imagine a few weeks. I would just keep my refrigerator running and recharge our phones and portable lights.
No excuse. You live in hurricane country, you are ALWAYS prepared for the worst case. Heck, I grew up in New England, which gets one hurricane every few years, but we were always capable of living weeks without power.
I think the problem here is that Houston grew very haphazardly, almost without any central plan. The road system has always been derisively called a spaghetti bowl. Because of that, the grid is also a mishmash of cross-connected communities.
I'm on a substation that's about 10 miles away while a community down the street is on a nearby substation. Because I'm on the end of a long power chain, my home will be one of the last areas to get power restored.
I think it will take a complete rebuild of the Houston grid to wire the communities that are near substations together instead of daisy-chaining them along spaghetti-bowl like strings.
-PJ
And don't tell me mama doesn't have bags of Goya beans and Goya rice on hand. Looks like mama is going to have to work for a change and fix a real meal the old fashioned way.
"No frozen burritos for you!"
We lost power for 8 days after Hurricane Sandy.
Being a paralyzed veteran, it was horrible beyond words.
I have a Generac generator and 3 - 100 gallon propane tanks.
I planned that as soon as the power came back on. Never would I have that problem again.
-PJ
This happens every couple of years. Does the entire population move out and new people move in? It took one time, being without power in Western MA that cured me of that junk. Generators and ample gas will get ya through a few days. At that point you can move to plan B.
These people must be a little stupid.
We sent 100 linemen. My daughter is upset the infrastructure is so fragile from a cat 1 and her business was without power all week. $$$. They have power at home now thankfully
I have a Generac generator and 3 - 100 gallon propane tanks. I planned that as soon as the power came back on. Never would I have that problem again.
My wife has relation in Puerto Rico. A few years ago, a hurricane knocked out the power and it took nine months to get it restored in that area.
GO BACK TO HONDURAS
YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ROUTE
Now he knows exactly what he needs to do to get ready for the next time.
He should have been nicer to Dick Cheney.
So the whole grid should be rebuilt for your convenience. Right. No matter how you do it, somebody is going to be on the edge of the area served by any given substation. If you don't want it to be you, move.
“How much fuel would you need to get one of those babies running for a month?”
Off the natural gas grid with a 1/2” quick connect from the back wall where the gas grill normally gets it gas from I would guess 100 cubic feet per hour of nat gas. That’s half load and 25% efficiency on gas to electric. I own one of these and a whole house genrac the trifuel is used for site power far off grid.
For propane it’s rated at just over one gallon per hour at half load. You can’t run light duty generators 24/7 duty cycle they will burn up. You can run them for 8 hours and cool them for at least four for severe duty or 8 for normal duty. If you need 24/7 power you have to go to a commercial diesel genset rated at continuous duty a 25,000 watt version will be the size of a small shipping container on a gooseneck trailer and cost 35 grand. So you run your light duty genset for a few hours cool the house and the freezers then sit of down for down time. A few hours later you do that again. I have never run my trifuel off petrol the manual says 5 gal will give 8 hours at half load.
Thank you for your service!
Godspeed.
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