So, Texas has had nearly 50 straight days of 100+ weather.

[jc456]

I call BS

I don't care, they did. They told me so. I truly don't care what you call. Here I thought you were a conservative. wow.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I call BS

I searched and couldnt find any mention of blackouts in Texas.

 

[jc456]

I searched and couldnt find any mention of blackouts in Texas.

maybe the local utilities didn't report it. I didn't think conservatives shot the messengers. Oh my.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

maybe the local utilities didn't report it. I didn't think conservatives shot the messengers. Oh my.

Where do they live?

 

[jc456]

Where do they live?

Dallas and Round Rock

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

maybe the local utilities didn't report it. I didn't think conservatives shot the messengers. Oh my.

I'm not shooting the messenger. I am telling the messenger that his source is either a very limited experience or the source is BS.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Dallas and Round Rock

Dallas is a lie.

I can't speak for Round Rock.

 

[jc456]

I'm not shooting the messenger. I am telling the messenger that his source is either a very limited experience or the source is BS.

well it was a colleague and a customer. Why would they share that with me on a conference call concerning the job? Because they were concerned for their families.

 

[jc456]

Dallas is a lie.

I can't speak for Round Rock.

I don't care dude. I'm not calling a customer a liar to satisfy your crap. Not sure your issue. Can't just accept that it happened. got to cry all the way to the toilet huh? wtf. You got problems son,

 

[Nostra]

Holy shit! Summer weather......during.......summer!

Catches KKKalifornia off guard every year.

 

[Ralph Norton]

What the fuck are you talking about?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Another newsflash: 100 degree temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, to go along with the worst drought in a 1000 years.

But you don't understand climate change.

Anything east of the coast in Washington and Oregon gets droughts pretty often. It also gets over 100 degrees every damn summer.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Dallas and Round Rock

Finally found one.
They had minor outages around Dallas and they were localized.

Texas narrowly avoids rolling blackouts after 2nd conservation plea by ERCOT this week

Gas and coal outages were higher than the Texas grid operator had anticipated. “The thermal fleet is not as reliable as people would have you think,” said Grid Lab Executive Director Ric O’Connell.

www.utilitydive.com

 

[Ralph Norton]

Our power went out....for about 2 seconds.
It was horrifying I tell ya!!! We had to reset the oven clock and the microwave clock!!

I hate when that happens.

 

[jc456]

Anything east of the coast in Washington and Oregon gets droughts pretty often. It also gets over 100 degrees every damn summer.

Guess why? Things called Mountains.

 

[jc456]

Finally found one.
They had minor outages around Dallas and they were localized.

Texas narrowly avoids rolling blackouts after 2nd conservation plea by ERCOT this week

Gas and coal outages were higher than the Texas grid operator had anticipated. “The thermal fleet is not as reliable as people would have you think,” said Grid Lab Executive Director Ric O’Connell.

www.utilitydive.com

Again, I said perhaps it was local. I know the customer said he got notified.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Again, I said perhaps it was local. I know the customer said he got notified.

That's not really a grid issue, though, is it?

The power goes out locally all the time when there's a thunderstorm.

This is not a "Texas power grid is collapsing as projected" type issue right?

 

[jc456]

That's not really a grid issue, though, is it?

The power goes out locally all the time when there's a thunderstorm.

This is not a "Texas power grid is collapsing as projected" type issue right?

I have no idea the issue, I merely repeated what a colleague and customer told me. rolling blackouts.

BTW, the customer told me they asked him to shut his air off.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I have no idea the issue, I merely repeated what a colleague and customer told me. rolling blackouts.

BTW, the customer told me they asked him to shut his air off.

Where?

NOBODY I know of in the entire state has been specifically asked to shut off air. They did a general public service announcement about conserving, but there have been NO rolling blackouts. People may have lost power locally but that was not by design, as has been suggested.

 

[jc456]

That's not really a grid issue, though, is it?

The power goes out locally all the time when there's a thunderstorm.

This is not a "Texas power grid is collapsing as projected" type issue right?

Here, I pulled this real quick

Texasâ Precarious Power Grid Exposes a Nasty Feedback Loop

Air conditioning saves lives. But as the planet warms, more AC use stresses the grid and drives up emissions, accelerating climate change.

www.wired.com

But the ancient electrical grids in the US remain woefully unprepared. The Texas grid, like any other, needs to constantly balance supply and demand, which varies wildly throughout the day. “From my point of view, more interesting than the rising demand is that the demand happens at coincident peaks,” says David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who coauthored a major report on the US grid last year. “Not only is there a higher demand, but it’s at exactly the time that’s already the critical point for the grid.”