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Just saw on the new that Texas shut down the power and families are freezing. Wonder how 2M is doing?
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Whats your weather right now?
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Yep. Going out of the house is not a subject of consideration right now. Even if the power fails, it’s better than the ditch. I don’t think we’re getting mail, but I’m not even considering walking out to the end of the driveway. Got food. Got heat. Got good woman. What more could I want.
Well a little booze wouldn't hurt. Unless your old like some of us. Moderation is the key.
Hey, guys. Quick check-in.
Net's been down.
Still no power, water, closed hwy and roads.
Retrieved my truk an hour ago.
Have sufficient propane, food, water, cats.
Rigged up a way to recharge my stoopidphone.
Still rationing.
Signing off...
Net's been down.
Still no power, water, closed hwy and roads.
Retrieved my truk an hour ago.
Have sufficient propane, food, water, cats.
Rigged up a way to recharge my stoopidphone.
Still rationing.
Signing off...
Happy to hear you’re riding this out ok Steve!
@TwoManyXS1Bs Glad to hear you are hunkered down and bulling through!
Good to hear from 2M.I figured he was hunkered down. Talked to the power company again today. They say I have power. Then they checked my smart meter and said whoops. three days of no power. They fixed my friend down the road after an outage that started at noon today. Mine has been out since 7pm Sunday. WTF
Are you running a generator?
Oh Yes, the news of Texas is frightening.
I'm bettin 2M is not only handling his situation, but likely for others as well.
He's probably tapped into the power grid himself by now.
Despite what you may hear from the media, Texas is the largest generator of wind power in the U.S. and the reports are the windmills are covered in ice and will not turn. In addition the feds have made us shutdown our coal fired plants one of which provided a large percentage of Houston's power load so now a large part of Texas's reserve generating capacity is going into Houston powering among other things the petrochemical complex along the the Houston ship channel. If they shutdown those plants it takes weeks to months to restart them. This is after 20 years of the feds preventing Texas from building gas fired generation capacity. To top it off my power normally comes from the South Texas Project, a nuclear plant in Bay City that had problems with the cold temps but is now back on line.
No generator. I have lived here for 35 years and with one exception have never been without power for more than hour. I had a generator years ago but sold it because it would sit unused for long periods and when the power would fail by the time I had it rigged up and started the power was already restored.
I have a deep cycle that we have been charging on one of the cars during the day and the inverter provides lights and netflix over tethered cell phone. During the day we huddle up to the woodstove and cook our meals on it.
This has increased my resolve to go off grid. I have panels, controllers and inverters but have to cut down some trees and find a deal on batteries. My goal is to be independent of the grid in 18 months. I so pissed at the electric utility I don't care what it costs.
I have a deep cycle that we have been charging on one of the cars during the day and the inverter provides lights and netflix over tethered cell phone. During the day we huddle up to the woodstove and cook our meals on it.
This has increased my resolve to go off grid. I have panels, controllers and inverters but have to cut down some trees and find a deal on batteries. My goal is to be independent of the grid in 18 months. I so pissed at the electric utility I don't care what it costs.
I live in Kerr county. This is what the "green future" looks like.
They're serving their owners, exactly like in the former Soviet Union with a few very minor differences. With so many KFC chicken dinners at stake, is anybody naive enough to think it could be otherwise? The answer is a resounding "Yes".
80% of electricity in Texas is fossil fuel produced............fossil fuel produced electricity is down ............Texas Electricity production has been removed from the US grid and has been privatized...........
Blaming the 20% of electricity production on the failure of the Grid to be able to handle this...........????
Michaelo
650Mick
Wow, we have been watching your weather with interest, extreme conditions in Texas. I know a couple of people in Austin and they are freezing their tits off....keep warm 2M.....
Oh Yes, the news of Texas is frightening.
I'm bettin 2M is not only handling his situation, but likely for others as well.
He's probably tapped into the power grid himself by now.
Indeed - if he hasn't already fixed it himself....
That 2M - he's a clever lad.
As I said in my post you are reading the fake news from the liberal media. There have been many days when the windmills in west Texas produce more than half the power generated in the state . Yes we use fossil fuel because the feds have made it almost imposable to expand the STP and Glen Rose plants. The owners have been trying since the 80's to install more reactors. For 20 years the Carter era rules prevented Texas from building Gas fired plats so we built both lignite fired plants from local sources and very large hard coal plants using coal from Wyoming. Now those are all shut down replaced with wind generators that only make power when the wind blows and solar arrays that only make power when the sun shines. You can't run a state that produces so many petrochemicals that are the basis for virtually every product you use.
And the reason that Texas is on it's own grid dates back to when the U.S. had to come save Australia and New Zealand from having to learn to speak Japanese.
