I’ve read that five members of the ERCOT board of directors live out of state, the chair lives in Michigan and the vice chair is an economics professor in Germany. 🤨
They first said there would be rolling blackouts, but then changed the term as it was more like sustained outages. Of the 10 households in my family, we had not one outage or break in service, yet I know people who have been out for days. As we drove through Comanche last night, the convenience stores were closed and dark as were over half the businesses and from the outskirts of town and the next 15 miles no homes were lit.
Thanks for the information, Davidb56. I’ll definitely pass that on to my husband. We had cattle and goats to feed and no way to get the hay to them. I’m thinking this may also be why I couldn’t start my Cat skid steer.
Even the diesel pickups are having trouble. We put the treatment in all our diesel pickups and still the fuel was gelled too much to start the truck. Several of our friends got theirs started and were on the road when they quit. I know our ‘newer’ pickups don’t have the plug-in engine heater. Our older ones that do fired right up.
Some one on Parler who goes by All_trumpgirl is hosting an evenr on Friday the 13th for a mass exodus from FB. Right now, 33,000 have signed up to do it, myself included and 241,000 are interested.