The electrical grid is being pushed to the limit with this cold system.

Yoga≈Surfing said:
Sounds like a job for the "Wichita Lineman".....lol
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Sounds good to me. How can we be the only super power and a couple of cold days wrecks our infrastructure? Rolling blackouts are for 3rd world trash. Not the US of A.
 
williewilliejuan said:
My power was out three times today. Each time for about an hour.
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Some places around here lost it this morning and it's not back. Buddy in grapevine lost at 730am and not back and employee in Rockwell lost it at 2am and never came back on. Sheesh, dangerous stuff.
 
I saw "the storm" on TV.

Watching the drivers demonstrate brining a knife to a gunfight...

No fucking clue how to drive in it. Funny stuff.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
I saw "the storm" on TV.

Watching the drivers demonstrate brining a knife to a gunfight...

No fucking clue how to drive in it. Funny stuff.
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100% of the time the accidents in the ice in Texas are northerners who are going to "show you southerners how to drive", without realizing ice ain't snow.
 
fordman84 said:
100% of the time the accidents in the ice in Texas are northerners who are going to "show you southerners how to drive", without realizing ice ain't snow.
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Sure.
 
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Hank Kingsley said:
Sure.
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Lived here all my life, see it every winter. Those that moved down here and complain about the slow drivers "in an inch of snow" end up with wrecked cars because they have never heard of black ice.
 
fordman84 said:
Some places around here lost it this morning and it's not back. Buddy in grapevine lost at 730am and not back and employee in Rockwell lost it at 2am and never came back on. Sheesh, dangerous stuff.
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I have an employee in Southlake who has had his power out most of the day. A coworker in Lantana has had hers out for 15 hours or so.
 
williewilliejuan said:
I have an employee in Southlake who has had his power out most of the day. A coworker in Lantana has had hers out for 15 hours or so.
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Yup. and there are probably 50 Ring neighbor alerts about power outages. That's getting annoying, but I guess they are bored with nothing to do so they post "power still out" messages. They need to find hoopla nation.
 
I just had this discussion last week. We had this happen down here right before Christmas in 89. About as frigid as I can remember it ever being down here. We had rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve.


Turned out that the power companies in the state were not communicating well and coordinating on maintenance and repairs. They all thought they could depend on each other to handle most demand. But, the cold was rough, it was a holiday weekend....and demand hit such a height they couldn’t lean on each other as a lot of equipment was down for repair.

Don’t know if that’s what will be similar to the reason many of you are seeing this. But, I know that was a wake up call in this state and they seemed to get much better at coordinating together.
 
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