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It's probably a lot more complicated than I'm making it but nobody saw this coming. I'll bet that many people here that have been affected by this haven't worn a winter coat this year, until a few days ago. I've lived in this part of the country for 40 years and never seen anything remotely like this. |
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An idea of the records being set:
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/weather/2021/02/15/a-full-list-of-all-the-record-cold-texas-temperatures |
Power, back 3:30 yesterday. Still on this morning. Hopefully crisis over in Texoma, soon to be over in the rest of Texas.
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It is tough to get specific information on why these other energy sources are down. As Jolly Amaranto sez ...finger pointun time. |
Point the finger at Canada, for sending this crap weather this far south.
Where I am, they haven't seen temperatures this low in my entire lifetime, and then some. And I'm not a youngster... |
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We should have built the border wall up north, to keep the cold air out.
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Perhaps some of you Californians recall your experience with Enron back in the early 2000's... This article more or less hits the high points: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/16/ercot-texas-electric-grid-failure/ |
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On a positive note, all the people who moved to Texas from CA. are feeling right at home w the power outages. |
As of last night, 17,000 MW of wind and solar generation capacity was still off-line. If it wasn’t related to the cold temperatures and snow, why was it off-line?
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All my kin down there have plenty of firewood and generators. Would take them a while to get through the meat in their freezer, and their chickens are fine. I think the lights came back on at the in laws' place yesterday. My parents had their lights out longer from a windstorm last month.
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Oye. Step away from the Flavor-Aid. Airfoils have a long history of being defeated by ice. Wind turbines are no exception. |
its almost like when you optimize your utilities towards a profit motive, they become unreliable when its unprofitable to supply power.
huh, wonder if there is a late 1800/early 1900s solution to the this problem. maybe we should try that. oh the rest of the country does that? and they dont have rolling blackouts and people dying when it goes below 30 degrees? huh. crazy. this is how i enjoyed weekend at about -6 last weekend: https://j.gifs.com/r8vqYp.gif |
Ice racing or time trialing is about the most fun you can have w your snow pants on. Texas is experiencing temperatures that would be a warm winter day in MN. but w no heat, it’s catastrophic. :(
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This looks like Joe's Katrina, right? BTW, this was ZARF central starting last page. |
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