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Thank you imstilla for starting this very important thread.
Stay safe everyone !!
Stay safe everyone !!
Widespread power outages with several inches of snow in Texas and the US, Feb 2021
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Colorado City, Texas, Mayor Tim Boyd resigns; Facebook post under fire
Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, put on Facebook: “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!... If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! [sic]…. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent for handouts…. I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves!... Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your *advertiser censored* and take care of your own family!” “Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic],” he said.... more in screenshot below
After an outcry, Boyd resigned.
Source of image: Ex Colorado City mayor catching heat for comments about citizens affected by cold | KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com
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Power has improved significantly in the Houston area. Yesterday at this time there were 1.3 outages in the Houston area. This morning there were just over 100,000 still out. That’s a celebration! We are so grateful! There is still a widespread low water pressure problem and a boil water notice, and a hard freeze is expected tonight, but things are looking better today. Hallelujah!
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Colorado City, Texas, Mayor Tim Boyd resigns; Facebook post under fire
Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, put on Facebook: “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!... If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! [sic]…. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent for handouts…. I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves!... Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your *advertiser censored* and take care of your own family!” “Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic],” he said.... more in screenshot below
After an outcry, Boyd resigned.
Source of image: Ex Colorado City mayor catching heat for comments about citizens affected by cold | KTAB - BigCountryHomepage.com
I'd say HE is part of the problem! MOO
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Is 2021 trying to outdo 2020 for bad stuff happening?
Glad to hear things are improving in the Houston area, Coco!
Glad to hear things are improving in the Houston area, Coco!
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Bless you all. I think of Texans every night in my own warm house. I know you're tough people, but I'm sorry about all this heartache and worry, especially for those with sick, elderly, or young family members.
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I've been worrying about those folks too and praying for them. In central NC, we were lucky to avoid the severe cold and snow and ice that have slammed Texas and other states.
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The insulation required to make air conditioning work should do fine in cold weather. But there may be problems such as water lines not protected from the cold and heating systems that can only handle moderate weather.
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Thank goodness! Day four - Power and water!
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The widespread power outages in Texas improved overnight even as they caused serious, cascading issues with the state's supply of heating, water, food and medicine.
Power was down for about 500,000 Texas customers as of Thursday morning -- way down from the over 3 million outages a day earlier, according to Poweroutage.us. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the state's power grid, said in a statementThursday morning it had made "significant progress" restoring power overnight.
But the winter storm and ongoing cold were still affecting the system's power generation, and rotating outages may be needed over the next couple of days, the company said.
ERCOT said those still without power are likely in areas where ice has damaged the distribution system, live in areas where service needs to be restored manually, or are a large industrial facility that voluntarily went offline to help with grid overload.
The statement comes as freezing temperatures are forecast again for Thursday, extending an already excruciating period. Since last Thursday, 16 Texans have died due to the extreme weather. Nearly 12 million people are facing water disruptions, with boil-water notices, broken pipes and failing systems, state officials said.
"The message though is, number one, the power is fragile because of the impacts throughout, and number two, we now have water issues," Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo told CNN. "Hospitals have issues. We have water pressure issues. We're all on boil-water notices and folks are having trouble accessing food."
In Portland, outside of Corpus Christi, Brianna Blake told CNN on Wednesday that she and her husband kept their children warm by burning household items, including artwork and fencing, as they dealt with 36 hours of no heat in their home.
"I just started kind of grabbing my canvasses off the wall, and breaking them and throwing them into the fire," she said.
Another round of harsh weather is forecast. A winter weather warning is in effect from Central to East Texas, including Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Amarillo, according to CNN meteorologist Michael Guy. Snow is expected to fall in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with ice and freezing rain farther south as far as Laredo and Corpus Christi.
How you can help the Texas storm victims
Fort Hood city leaders asked residents to conserve 40% of their water during the storm due to water line breaks and subsequent flooding. Del Rio, in southwest Texas along the border with Mexico, put out an urgent message late Wednesday to residents asking them not to flush their toilets or release any wastewater into the sewer system.
Smita Pande, of Crestview, told CNN she and others may have to use melted snow for drinking water when their bottled water runs out.
"We didn't anticipate the water to be shut off, but once it did, we assumed a 'worst case scenario' type of thing and just grabbed snow off the balcony and put into kettles and pots to use for drinking water in case we don't get water back anytime soon," Pande said. "If the power outage is any indication of how long that'll be, then we are going to be boiling snow for a while."
The Texas power grid is improving. But days of outages have caused heat, water and food shortages
Power was down for about 500,000 Texas customers as of Thursday morning -- way down from the over 3 million outages a day earlier, according to Poweroutage.us. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the state's power grid, said in a statementThursday morning it had made "significant progress" restoring power overnight.
But the winter storm and ongoing cold were still affecting the system's power generation, and rotating outages may be needed over the next couple of days, the company said.
ERCOT said those still without power are likely in areas where ice has damaged the distribution system, live in areas where service needs to be restored manually, or are a large industrial facility that voluntarily went offline to help with grid overload.
The statement comes as freezing temperatures are forecast again for Thursday, extending an already excruciating period. Since last Thursday, 16 Texans have died due to the extreme weather. Nearly 12 million people are facing water disruptions, with boil-water notices, broken pipes and failing systems, state officials said.
"The message though is, number one, the power is fragile because of the impacts throughout, and number two, we now have water issues," Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo told CNN. "Hospitals have issues. We have water pressure issues. We're all on boil-water notices and folks are having trouble accessing food."
In Portland, outside of Corpus Christi, Brianna Blake told CNN on Wednesday that she and her husband kept their children warm by burning household items, including artwork and fencing, as they dealt with 36 hours of no heat in their home.
"I just started kind of grabbing my canvasses off the wall, and breaking them and throwing them into the fire," she said.
Another round of harsh weather is forecast. A winter weather warning is in effect from Central to East Texas, including Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and Amarillo, according to CNN meteorologist Michael Guy. Snow is expected to fall in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with ice and freezing rain farther south as far as Laredo and Corpus Christi.
How you can help the Texas storm victims
Fort Hood city leaders asked residents to conserve 40% of their water during the storm due to water line breaks and subsequent flooding. Del Rio, in southwest Texas along the border with Mexico, put out an urgent message late Wednesday to residents asking them not to flush their toilets or release any wastewater into the sewer system.
Smita Pande, of Crestview, told CNN she and others may have to use melted snow for drinking water when their bottled water runs out.
"We didn't anticipate the water to be shut off, but once it did, we assumed a 'worst case scenario' type of thing and just grabbed snow off the balcony and put into kettles and pots to use for drinking water in case we don't get water back anytime soon," Pande said. "If the power outage is any indication of how long that'll be, then we are going to be boiling snow for a while."
The Texas power grid is improving. But days of outages have caused heat, water and food shortages
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More than four million in the state were left without power in rotating blackouts conducted by the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Starting Sunday, many have had to cope with no light or heat while the temperatures hit historic lows for this time of year, dipping to 0ºF in some parts of the state.
Some have quickly pointed fingers towards who might be responsible for the catastrophe. After the grid operator mentioned that frozen wind turbines were among the energy sources affected by the icy conditions, some conservative politicians seized on that detail to take aim at renewables, including by sharing an image of a helicopter de-icing a turbine blade that was actually taken in Sweden from 2014. Even setting aside the fact that modern wind turbines can come equipped with de-icing systems and operate just fine in frigid Midwestern winters, it turned out that most of the power systems that went offline in Texas were fossil fuel-based.
If the grid were able to provide it, it’s estimated the demand from Texans would have been about 70 gigawatts, says Daniel Cohan, an atmospheric scientist at Rice University. But with more than 30 gigawatts down as a result of the storm, the grid could only supply 45 gigawatts.
If unmanaged, the surge in demand could have brought the entire grid down, says Milligan. So grid operators instituted a series of rolling blackouts to tamp down on demand. These blackouts have been stretching on for hours and sometimes even days, exposing thousands of people to deadly cold. At time of writing, the cold snap has claimed at least 21 lives and blackouts continue across the state.
The real story behind the blackouts is complex. Right now, here’s what we know: this historic freeze caused a demand in power that far outstripped what the state’s grid operator had planned for—even beyond that of its “extreme peak load” scenario— while at the same time winter weather halted a substantial amount of power production. “Electricity demand is astronomically above projected levels,” says Patrick Milligan, an energy power market expert with the consulting firm ICF. “This forecast error was 45 percent—it was huge.”
The largest chunk of the power that went offline was natural gas-based (natural gas supplies the largest portion of the state’s energy). Milligan says that this is likely the result of some combination of weather shutting facilities down as well as gas shortages. When temperatures drop, natural gas is used both directly for furnaces and indirectly to combust and turn into electricity. That means demand was especially high right when producers were slowing down.
The catastrophic cold could have take-aways for the policy and infrastructure of the Texas energy system, which is unique in a couple ways.
For one, Texas has a deregulated energy market. That means that there are numerous independent utilities, all competing for their share of the market. The system gives consumers flexibility in choosing where their energy comes and what they pay, but it can also challenge long-term energy planning. Milligan notes that ERCOT, the grid operator, can’t force more capacity to come online—it can adjust only monetary incentives. “It works very well, in theory,” he says. “The issue is that when there’s problems like this [storm], they have no way to force the utilities to build more power plants.”
The real story behind the Texas power outages
Some have quickly pointed fingers towards who might be responsible for the catastrophe. After the grid operator mentioned that frozen wind turbines were among the energy sources affected by the icy conditions, some conservative politicians seized on that detail to take aim at renewables, including by sharing an image of a helicopter de-icing a turbine blade that was actually taken in Sweden from 2014. Even setting aside the fact that modern wind turbines can come equipped with de-icing systems and operate just fine in frigid Midwestern winters, it turned out that most of the power systems that went offline in Texas were fossil fuel-based.
If the grid were able to provide it, it’s estimated the demand from Texans would have been about 70 gigawatts, says Daniel Cohan, an atmospheric scientist at Rice University. But with more than 30 gigawatts down as a result of the storm, the grid could only supply 45 gigawatts.
If unmanaged, the surge in demand could have brought the entire grid down, says Milligan. So grid operators instituted a series of rolling blackouts to tamp down on demand. These blackouts have been stretching on for hours and sometimes even days, exposing thousands of people to deadly cold. At time of writing, the cold snap has claimed at least 21 lives and blackouts continue across the state.
The real story behind the blackouts is complex. Right now, here’s what we know: this historic freeze caused a demand in power that far outstripped what the state’s grid operator had planned for—even beyond that of its “extreme peak load” scenario— while at the same time winter weather halted a substantial amount of power production. “Electricity demand is astronomically above projected levels,” says Patrick Milligan, an energy power market expert with the consulting firm ICF. “This forecast error was 45 percent—it was huge.”
The largest chunk of the power that went offline was natural gas-based (natural gas supplies the largest portion of the state’s energy). Milligan says that this is likely the result of some combination of weather shutting facilities down as well as gas shortages. When temperatures drop, natural gas is used both directly for furnaces and indirectly to combust and turn into electricity. That means demand was especially high right when producers were slowing down.
The catastrophic cold could have take-aways for the policy and infrastructure of the Texas energy system, which is unique in a couple ways.
For one, Texas has a deregulated energy market. That means that there are numerous independent utilities, all competing for their share of the market. The system gives consumers flexibility in choosing where their energy comes and what they pay, but it can also challenge long-term energy planning. Milligan notes that ERCOT, the grid operator, can’t force more capacity to come online—it can adjust only monetary incentives. “It works very well, in theory,” he says. “The issue is that when there’s problems like this [storm], they have no way to force the utilities to build more power plants.”
The real story behind the Texas power outages
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Many residents have voiced frustration about the energy grid’s lack of preparation and about slow response times from landlords regarding frozen pipes and other damages. Some have even threatened legal action against their landlords and ERCOT.
Local attorney Lauren Cadilac of Cadilac Law, PLLC hears those concerns, but her advice is for everyone to sit tight and focus on the situation at hand.
First and foremost, people should not panic,” Cadilac says. “This is something that we’re going to have to get used to because we have changed the way our climate operates. I would tell people that your landlord probably also has burst pipes, so everyone is facing an emergency right now.”
“As soon as everything settles down, if you’re a tenant and there are damages, let your landlord know right away in writing,” she says. “The same goes with an emergency: let your landlord know right away.”
“Now that there’s been this mass damage event, everyone is going to be busy repairing these damages,” Cadilac says. “It’s going to take forever for things to get repaired simply because there’s not enough people doing the repairs.”
Attorney Lauren Cadilac talks legal advice during arctic blast - Lake Highlands
Local attorney Lauren Cadilac of Cadilac Law, PLLC hears those concerns, but her advice is for everyone to sit tight and focus on the situation at hand.
First and foremost, people should not panic,” Cadilac says. “This is something that we’re going to have to get used to because we have changed the way our climate operates. I would tell people that your landlord probably also has burst pipes, so everyone is facing an emergency right now.”
“As soon as everything settles down, if you’re a tenant and there are damages, let your landlord know right away in writing,” she says. “The same goes with an emergency: let your landlord know right away.”
“Now that there’s been this mass damage event, everyone is going to be busy repairing these damages,” Cadilac says. “It’s going to take forever for things to get repaired simply because there’s not enough people doing the repairs.”
Attorney Lauren Cadilac talks legal advice during arctic blast - Lake Highlands
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A non-profit primate sanctuary near San Antonio is mourning the deaths of several animals that were in their care, due to the freezing temperatures battering Texas this week. Primarily Primate is a 501(c)3 nonprofit located on 70 acres of land on the outskirts of San Antonio. Workers and volunteers at Primarily Primate have been working tirelessly for days trying to protect the animals in their care from the bitterly cold winter storm that hit Texas this week.
Initially, caretakers tried to hunker down and ride out the storm at the facility by grabbing extra blankets, space heaters, generators, and more. Once the temperatures got into the single digits they knew they needed to evacuate. According to San Antonio Express-News, workers began the difficult process of moving the over 400 primates to the San Antonio Zoo who were waiting to welcome the animals in. Animals were also transported to another animal sanctuary near the Oklahoma border. Sadly, as the caretakers started gathering the animals, they found some had already succumbed to the freezing weather outside.
Executive Director of Primarily Primates Brooke Chavez told the San Antonio Express-News that so far, they've found "a chimpanzee, several monkeys, some lemurs, and an uncounted number of birds" dead in their cages. Workers say they've never seen anything like this before and they won't know the full death toll until the snow thaws.
Primarily Primates have moved as many animals as they could and have several animals staying with volunteers for now, but there are several still at the facility. The nonprofit is now asking for help raising funds and essential items so they can continue helping the animals in their care. You can help by donating at the Primarily Primate website on the "Donate" tab, or asking friends or family in the area to drop off items from the list below at:
Primates Froze To Death At Texas Animal Sanctuary During Freeze
**this story has me sniffling. So sad. So very tragic.
Initially, caretakers tried to hunker down and ride out the storm at the facility by grabbing extra blankets, space heaters, generators, and more. Once the temperatures got into the single digits they knew they needed to evacuate. According to San Antonio Express-News, workers began the difficult process of moving the over 400 primates to the San Antonio Zoo who were waiting to welcome the animals in. Animals were also transported to another animal sanctuary near the Oklahoma border. Sadly, as the caretakers started gathering the animals, they found some had already succumbed to the freezing weather outside.
Executive Director of Primarily Primates Brooke Chavez told the San Antonio Express-News that so far, they've found "a chimpanzee, several monkeys, some lemurs, and an uncounted number of birds" dead in their cages. Workers say they've never seen anything like this before and they won't know the full death toll until the snow thaws.
Primarily Primates have moved as many animals as they could and have several animals staying with volunteers for now, but there are several still at the facility. The nonprofit is now asking for help raising funds and essential items so they can continue helping the animals in their care. You can help by donating at the Primarily Primate website on the "Donate" tab, or asking friends or family in the area to drop off items from the list below at:
Primates Froze To Death At Texas Animal Sanctuary During Freeze
**this story has me sniffling. So sad. So very tragic.
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Thank you @imstilla.grandma for this thread!
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My gosh, I’m a weather nut. We have to be here - especially in early spring. Tornado Alley. Our cross to bear. I’m so sorry to read of all the sorrow, stress and helplessness in Texas - our sister state. I’m worried about the power, water and food crisis for Texans and their pets.
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The state’s power grid operators have defended the call to initiate controlled outages, saying the grid was “seconds or minutes” from collapsing.
“Our frequency went to a level that, had if operators not acted very rapidly ... it could have very quickly changed,” said Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the agency that oversees the grid.
Starting about 11 p.m. Monday, generation units started knocking off “in rapid succession,” Magness said Thursday morning in a call with reporters. Several big units could have gone offline by the minute had they waited, Magness said.
Magness has defended the decision to initiate controlled outages, saying a true blackout would leave the entire state without power for an indefinite amount of time, possibly months.
ERCOT officials said Thursday morning that they hope to not have to call for more outages as fresh snow falls. They said more outages are possible if the demand shoots up as people get their power back in homes and businesses or if the cold knocks off generators again.
“Right now the generation availability is going up. If demand outstrips supply again like in the evening today or tomorrow morning, we could have to go back to rotating outages because of the power balance problem,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations.
New outages, if they can’t be avoided, should be rotating and not extended like the ones thousands of Texans endured earlier this week, Woodfin said.
”We’re not ready to say we’re finished with this event because weather is driving the event,” Magness said. “Weather is still driving events on the ground.”
Oncor Electric Delivery said early Thursday that it was able to end controlled power outages previously necessary through this week’s extreme winter weather, though thousands of North Texas homes were still without power due to damaged equipment.
As of 1:15 p.m., 181,000 of its customers statewide were still without power because of damage to equipment from both of this week’s winter storms. The company said a lot of the equipment damage couldn’t be identified until power went back online.
“Our personnel will continue working 24/7 to restore power to remaining customers,” Oncor said in a Tweet. “We recognize the hardships this power emergency has caused our customers & communities. We appreciate their patience as we [await] the return of electric generation & protected the TX electric grid.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said on Thursday that the House Energy and Commerce Committee would “will be taking up some form of investigation” into the fallout from Texas’ historic freeze, calling it “a look into it to see how things could’ve turned out better and will turn out better in the future.”
”Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Texas for what they are suffering in their situation there, in terms of lack of water, lack of energy,” she said at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi noted that she has a daughter who lives in Houston, “so I know firsthand what her concerns are.” But she said her daughter’s “concerns are minor compared to people in need, people truly in need.”
”To lose water and service for my family is one thing,” Pelosi said. “But for people who don’t have so many options, it’s just heartbreaking. I would hope that the public policy of the state would recognize the needs that are there.”
She said Texas lawmakers are asking for immediate federal assistance on a number of fronts, ranging from home repair aid to small business loans to COVID vaccination help.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement Wednesday night that he is planning to launch an investigation into ERCOT and other related entities in response to this week’s outages.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation also confirmed earlier this week that they will be launching an investigation into the massive outages.
Texas power grid was “seconds or minutes” from a total blackout that could have lasted months, ERCOT says
“Our frequency went to a level that, had if operators not acted very rapidly ... it could have very quickly changed,” said Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the agency that oversees the grid.
Starting about 11 p.m. Monday, generation units started knocking off “in rapid succession,” Magness said Thursday morning in a call with reporters. Several big units could have gone offline by the minute had they waited, Magness said.
Magness has defended the decision to initiate controlled outages, saying a true blackout would leave the entire state without power for an indefinite amount of time, possibly months.
ERCOT officials said Thursday morning that they hope to not have to call for more outages as fresh snow falls. They said more outages are possible if the demand shoots up as people get their power back in homes and businesses or if the cold knocks off generators again.
“Right now the generation availability is going up. If demand outstrips supply again like in the evening today or tomorrow morning, we could have to go back to rotating outages because of the power balance problem,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT’s senior director of system operations.
New outages, if they can’t be avoided, should be rotating and not extended like the ones thousands of Texans endured earlier this week, Woodfin said.
”We’re not ready to say we’re finished with this event because weather is driving the event,” Magness said. “Weather is still driving events on the ground.”
Oncor Electric Delivery said early Thursday that it was able to end controlled power outages previously necessary through this week’s extreme winter weather, though thousands of North Texas homes were still without power due to damaged equipment.
As of 1:15 p.m., 181,000 of its customers statewide were still without power because of damage to equipment from both of this week’s winter storms. The company said a lot of the equipment damage couldn’t be identified until power went back online.
“Our personnel will continue working 24/7 to restore power to remaining customers,” Oncor said in a Tweet. “We recognize the hardships this power emergency has caused our customers & communities. We appreciate their patience as we [await] the return of electric generation & protected the TX electric grid.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said on Thursday that the House Energy and Commerce Committee would “will be taking up some form of investigation” into the fallout from Texas’ historic freeze, calling it “a look into it to see how things could’ve turned out better and will turn out better in the future.”
”Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Texas for what they are suffering in their situation there, in terms of lack of water, lack of energy,” she said at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi noted that she has a daughter who lives in Houston, “so I know firsthand what her concerns are.” But she said her daughter’s “concerns are minor compared to people in need, people truly in need.”
”To lose water and service for my family is one thing,” Pelosi said. “But for people who don’t have so many options, it’s just heartbreaking. I would hope that the public policy of the state would recognize the needs that are there.”
She said Texas lawmakers are asking for immediate federal assistance on a number of fronts, ranging from home repair aid to small business loans to COVID vaccination help.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement Wednesday night that he is planning to launch an investigation into ERCOT and other related entities in response to this week’s outages.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation also confirmed earlier this week that they will be launching an investigation into the massive outages.
Texas power grid was “seconds or minutes” from a total blackout that could have lasted months, ERCOT says
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Do y’all make snow ice cream? I have good memories of it when I was a kid, Mama used to make it:
This is a classic recipe that works really well because the sweetened condensed milk is thick and helps hold quickly melting snow together.
This is a classic recipe that works really well because the sweetened condensed milk is thick and helps hold quickly melting snow together.
- 1 gallon or a big bowl of clean snow (if you like, you can put the bowl outdoors to collect it as it falls)
- 1 14-oz can of sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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A lot of people are also on well water, so without a big generator (and fuel delivery) to operate the well pump - you cook/clean dishes with the scarce bottled water you use to drink.
Well prepared for hurricanes, flooding and tropical storms.
It’s hard to get a charcoal grill going and stand outside and cook when it’s that cold - frostbite starts after 15 minutes.
Cold wear clothing? You’d better get it from Amazon because local stores don’t stock long Johns or thermals or wool socks!
No mail, no deliveries for a while.
Well prepared for hurricanes, flooding and tropical storms.
It’s hard to get a charcoal grill going and stand outside and cook when it’s that cold - frostbite starts after 15 minutes.
Cold wear clothing? You’d better get it from Amazon because local stores don’t stock long Johns or thermals or wool socks!
No mail, no deliveries for a while.
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How many that moved/lived in Texas knew that this was a potential issue at all as to the fact they aren't on the national grid?
So many things that normal folks don't know about and are ignorant of. (I've said that many times about myself as to the Jan 6th event and government, so that ignorant comment is NOT a slam)