4,186,666 customers out of power - yesterday at same time of day in Texas, it was 2,842,736 without power

Good job with this thread beeches!!!!




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Southwest Power Pool
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SPP is declaring an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 effective immediately for our entire 14-state balancing authority area. Systemwide generating capacity has dropped below our current load of ~42 GW due to extremely low temperatures and inadequate supplies of natural gas.

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That's a good point. You do get extreme weather we probably wouldn't work through. And vise versa.
Have any how to deal with the heat tips for the Yankees?

your warm words and the sunlight in your pic are just what I would send to Texas!

We're resuming 30 to 60 minute intermittent outages due to regional power supply needs as directed by Southwest Power Pool. If your power is out for more than an hour, please report it Downwards arrow

MO and MO/KS Metro Customers: 888-544-4852
KS Central Customers: 800-544-4857

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Thanks Biden and Greta.

thanks - confirms what I read last night. Zero mention of this as a factor in any news report.

freezing of generators and high demand only causes listed

how does a conventional power plant freeze?

we know wind turbines can

Cold but alive and well. Using poolwater for toilets to flush. Gas fireplace and a sealed room to keep warm. It is 12 degrees outside this morning. 48 in the house.

Unless it is gas powered it will not work in a power outage.

Yeah, well, I did that yesterday in my car that is supposed to never lock if the key is in the ignition. It's (almost) fool proof in preventing locking yourself out of the car...

Until yesterday when I started the car, plugged in my cell phone to charge, shut the door and, yep, all doors locked. The electrical system must have gone a little haywire, which is unusual since the car is German made and designed for cold temps.

Did not have a second key (lost in the divorce) and the car ran for five hours. Phone was charged, though. Ha!

Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face.

I'll be taking out a loan to order a second key.

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Well we had an ice storm last night. Went to bed wondering about power outages.

Our area allegany county none so far; a southern county is the only one I’ve seen with any.

Boil Water Notice Expands to Include More Than 200K Fort Worth Residents, 9 Cities
The city said it expected the notice to stay in place through at least late Wednesday
Published February 15, 2021 • Updated 34 mins ago

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I live in Florida. It is real bad here. I had to put socks on with my flip flops this morning. I might have to wear a shirt this evening.

And AOC !!

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Entergy Texas
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To prevent a more extensive power outage that could affect the reliability of the power grid, Entergy Texas has started power outages for customers in the Eastern portion of its service area, which includes Jefferson, Orange, Hardin and Liberty counties: [link to enter.gy]

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I am in Florida too and you should shut the hell up. These people are actually suffering. People will die as a result of not having heat or the fuel or money to pay for the fuel tonight. Worse some will have gotten carbon monoxide poisoning in desperation. So shut up about your flip flops and have some karma.

48 degrees in the house and you are posting-

WOW you got what it takes.....

1. Wind generators probably are specified for normal TX weather and not normal Minnesota weather. That means they freeze up.
2. Huge portions of the nations generating capacity has change from Coal/FO to Nat Gas. This is due to regulations...particularly mercury.
3. Nat gas wells have frozen up. Limiting supply.
4. Nat gas is a by-product of fracking. Fracking died with lower prices so you get less Nat gas by-product from the dead wells.

This whole scenarios is easy to see coming and should have been modeled and avoided. Anyone saying anything else is LYING. This is all about system reliability and resiliency. Both of which are easy to model and predict. Anyone who is affected by these 'events' should definitely look at your politicians....they are responsible for setting laws and regulations and most state's utility commissions should have this as a priority. If anyone is upset, they only need to look in the mirror.

holy shit for those without power

if you can't heat your house how the fuck are you going to boil water

Are CELL PHONES working for EVERYONE? If so that is EXTREMELY ODD! When our power goes out the back up tower batteries only last 3 hours. They are pumping power to the towers BUT NOT YOU!

Yes, she does rock and keeps on going! Wondrous woman.

Reporting from Hobby Airport area. Power was restored at 4AM after 26 hours without.

Good God, I am loaded fucking for bear and ready to unleash on some state politicians when I thaw out.

Fuck this "green" BS and everyone of you 'close the coal plants for solar and wind' people. I've been fairly neutral to date, but you now have an active opponent...along with half of TX.

Solar and wind, my sweet TX arse. And, the batshit crazy "we can control climate" delusion ranks higher than the world of pretend where Santa and the Easter Bunny exist. Adults need to start schoolin' y'alls "green" asses with full-on reality to offset your BS Marxist education.

And, if we have to secede to take care of the State, well, I'm for that, too.

I need coffee.

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I've been searching for the answers to my questions, to no avail.

I hope someone can help me out.

1. What, exactly, is the cause of the Texas Windmills
that makes them not function in the cold?

2. How is it that a state with so much gas and refineries
is short of Natural Gas in a time of need?

Smells fishy to me.

Glad we are moving away from fossil fuels.

We have so much extra electricity to go around.

The storm didn’t cause these rolling blackouts.

Get used to it.

DFW area here. -3 degrees. 93% humidity.
We never lost power. Were one of the lucky ones. So far.
I do have solar panels and a battery bank and 2 gas fireplaces that were designed to heat. Each can put out 75,000 BTU's. And I have a water filter, a home -made one with two Berkey filters. Cell service is spotty to non-existant in areas. I have a amature radio license and my daughter has a radio too, so we are able to communicate.

It's going to warm to like 23 today, but will only have sun till noon, then more freezing rain and snow predicted.

I live in an area with buried power lines. We lost power once in the 17 years I have lived here. And that was because they had to repair some overhead lines in a neighboring community and shut down the power on purpose.

These idiots in charge can easily fix this shit, but the people are going to have to bitch about it or they are not going to spend the money. My God people, we have had cable TV since the 1970"s, buried cable lines.

Ya know what never freezes up? Coal.

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Well said sadly... This is a catastrophic event. There are cattle, horses & the obvious beyond the stray cats, squirrels etc. There are countless homeless in Houston, as it’s typically warm. With millions at risk of freezing & lacking electricity, the death toll all around is likely significant... Heartbreaking.