I’m a Dem here in Texas. Our wind turbines froze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

“Your uppity elite power grid would fail too!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When there is no or very limited competition, this is what results. Lack of innovation, lack of solutions, and high prices. This is not a Democrat or Republican problem, this is a people in power want to keep their monopoly problem. It is time to do to energy what was done to telecommunications. Micro grids, and true competition to the monolithic bulk power system.

No, this is a Republican-created problem. Why do people insist on exonerating the GOP for the problems they’ve caused?

Nothing like greenies demanding conventional energy sources be decommissioned after solar and wind are added so you can't go back in an emergency. This is not by accident and it is not the GOP. You know it. I know it.

Sometimes a right winger says something so confused and off the wall that you know they don’t understand the situation or any of the policies that led to it.

Yep!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

Don’t forget that they didn’t want to winterize their grid either. Wondering if they ever got around to that….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

Don’t forget that they didn’t want to winterize their grid either. Wondering if they ever got around to that….

The grid hasn’t failed with this current storm. The outages are due to frozen tree limbs crashing through power lines. Y’all are unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

Don’t forget that they didn’t want to winterize their grid either. Wondering if they ever got around to that….

The grid hasn’t failed with this current storm. The outages are due to frozen tree limbs crashing through power lines. Y’all are unbelievable.

Where I live the power company trims the trees before storms. 😁

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

Don’t forget that they didn’t want to winterize their grid either. Wondering if they ever got around to that….

The grid hasn’t failed with this current storm. The outages are due to frozen tree limbs crashing through power lines. Y’all are unbelievable.

Where I live the power company trims the trees before storms. 😁

+1 CCMD native who’s still here. Pepco finally got its shit together after the 2012 derecho (in which we lost power for a week) and it has made a ton of difference. I used to lose power regularly every season. It’s been years since I needed to worry about this. Meanwhile my nephew is in Austin with no electricity or heat for two days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

Except, no. You think NOVA hasn't had ice storms, massive heat waves (aka, summer here), or blizzards. In my home, I've lost my power exactly zero times in those situations in 22 years: not derecho, not snowmaggedon, not any of hte other "geddons." Nice try.

We were out for a week during the derecho. And multiple days during blizzards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

Except, no. You think NOVA hasn't had ice storms, massive heat waves (aka, summer here), or blizzards. In my home, I've lost my power exactly zero times in those situations in 22 years: not derecho, not snowmaggedon, not any of hte other "geddons." Nice try.

We were out for a week during the derecho. And multiple days during blizzards.

Depends on where you lived. I had a colleague who lived in a mansion in Foxhall and her power was out for 5 days after the derecho. I lived in Adam’s Morgan and never lost power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

The truth is, they don't want to have connections to the rest of the US's grid because they would be regulated at a federal level. THey'd rather have people freeze their butts off every winter as weather continues to get worse than have a government that actually cares more about ensuring stable electricity than money regulating them.

Don’t forget that they didn’t want to winterize their grid either. Wondering if they ever got around to that….

The grid hasn’t failed with this current storm. The outages are due to frozen tree limbs crashing through power lines. Y’all are unbelievable.

uh.. I work with someone in TX, and he missed a video call because the power went out. He also said, "Climate change is real.. it's never been this cold in TX in the past 15 years I've lived here."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

Except, no. You think NOVA hasn't had ice storms, massive heat waves (aka, summer here), or blizzards. In my home, I've lost my power exactly zero times in those situations in 22 years: not derecho, not snowmaggedon, not any of hte other "geddons." Nice try.

We were out for a week during the derecho. And multiple days during blizzards.

Depends on where you lived. I had a colleague who lived in a mansion in Foxhall and her power was out for 5 days after the derecho. I lived in Adam’s Morgan and never lost power.

Or live in Texas vs California. California the power stayed on. Texas = failure

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, Texas STILL hasn't learned a damn thing from its last adventure with extreme weather...

Their power's out AGAIN.

https://apnews.com/article/weather-disaster-planning-and-response-arkansas-climate-environment-texas-43eac24afe75fa5b0420959b0408b43d

Austin received over an inch of ice, if this occurred in DC/VA/MD, the impacts would be similar. Today, the temps in Austin will reach the mid-50’s and 70’s by Sunday, everything will be fine. Also, this summer, Austin (and much of Texas) experienced 3 months straight of 100 degree temps. The powered grid was strained but power stayed on and Texas AC is like a fridge in most buildings. This would not be the situation in the Northeast, I guarantee it.

Go ahead, keep slamming Texas if it makes you feel superior, we know what the truth is.

Except, no. You think NOVA hasn't had ice storms, massive heat waves (aka, summer here), or blizzards. In my home, I've lost my power exactly zero times in those situations in 22 years: not derecho, not snowmaggedon, not any of hte other "geddons." Nice try.

We were out for a week during the derecho. And multiple days during blizzards.

Depends on where you lived. I had a colleague who lived in a mansion in Foxhall and her power was out for 5 days after the derecho. I lived in Adam’s Morgan and never lost power.

I'm in Fairfax. Never lost power for Derecho or blizzards. But as the other poster noted, where we live we don't shun the federal coordination.

[Anonymous]

In DC with above ground lines. Our lights flicker when the wind blows too hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what to think. My husband works 25 miles away so he packed up a weeks worth of food and clothes. Please do not make a joke of this. The GOP idiots have not kept up our infrastructure. We can handle 100 degrees but not zero. This is scary. I’m worried about power and I have four greyhounds here.

Is Ted off to Cancun yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what to think. My husband works 25 miles away so he packed up a weeks worth of food and clothes. Please do not make a joke of this. The GOP idiots have not kept up our infrastructure. We can handle 100 degrees but not zero. This is scary. I’m worried about power and I have four greyhounds here.

Is Ted off to Cancun yet?

You mean did his daughter force them to go to Cancun?