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Hah! Someone won't be running for reelection.
The news says this person won’t run for re-election. It also indicates his wife lost her job for standing up to his comments and views.Hah! Someone won't be running for reelection.
Like you said depending upon the age of home very few are well insulated or designed for extreme cold weather. I'm always surprised to see older homes with plaster, lathe, and news paper in the walls.It has surly been an adventure. Trying to keep my 8 and 12 year old girls warm, that has been the biggest problem. Luckily, I had two propane tanks ready to go, and multiple little camping tanks for our portable grills. We have been OK...playing board games, etc. It did get down to 50 in the house, and that was when I moved the propane fire pit into the largest of the girls rooms and designated that as the 'warm' room. Yes, yes, I am careful. Kept it at 70 in that room by only running it for a few minutes every hour. I am more concerned about the pipes bursting. Having lived in Northern VA for 15+ years, was used to this shit, and never thought twice about it. But San Antonio is NOT BUILT for 6 inches of snow, much less single digit temps. That is freak'n cold and damn dangerous here. I have not been to work all week, and I hopefully can tele-work today. Power was on for 10 hours yesterday, so we though we were good. NOPE, 20:00 last night, out again and came back on at 0300. Lets see how long it stays on now. Rolling power outages...I am good with it IF it was done correctly. We went over 24 hours with one '54 second' power on, and that was it. Hey CPS...you can kiss my old, white pimply ass and I hope the CEO and other board members get their asses sued into next year. Wanna bet their electricity didn't go out?
I typed this yesterday afternoon then the power died...didn't post.
Power has been on for 2 hours now.....thankfully the temp is in the 30's today....so it hasn't been that bad. We now have no running water, but I am surprised it lasted this long. We filled the bathtubs up, drinking bottles, etc, etc. So we are good. Ready for the second blast now....and it should be over by tomorrow.
I hope all are doing well, especially my fellow Texans. God Bless Texas and all of you!
Not sure where those charts came from but my understanding is an increased demand due to low temps is exceeding a reduced supply due to low temps. Much of the wind power is down due to icing and natural gas prices on the spot market last Friday increased 32,000%......that isn’t a typo.I'm still confused people are losing power. It came on for me around midnight as for a lot of people, but on Nextdoor people in the same general area as me have lost it
The ERCOT chart shows there is plenty of power (red is supply, green is demand)
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They are using a numbers trick to fool laypeople. "Today, there were 45,000 megawatts offline. Of that, 15,000 megawatts were wind and 30,000 were gas and coal. " USA Today.Here is the breakdown for Texas, to blame it on renewable energy is a little odd
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I saw an article about Mattress Mack, there are still some good people in the world:Anyone else in Houston? Listening tot he police scanner now and all sorts of crazy stuff going on
So far I still have power, fingers crossed it stays! Not often I'll get snowy LPR...
As long as you don't consider the pollution created to produce those "green" sources in the first place or how the raw materials are mined/obtained or how the wind mills and solar panels are disposed of at the end of their life cycle. The bottom line is that wind/solar are not 24/7/365 capable power sources. Fossil/carbon based/nuclear will be required for a very long time despite the empty promises of the "Green New Deal". Producing batteries for storage, and the converters to make battery power useable, is even more costly in terms of pollution, energy and mining operations that are inherently very polluting and occur in areas of the world where people are exploited to do that manual labor.During good times which is about 90% plus of the year, wind and solar are great sources of energy without pollution.