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

fordman84 said:
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.
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Ummmm....we get ice every year up here. We know what ice is.


Not that we don't have dumbass drivers (they're everywhere), but I'd have to call bullshit if your excuse is "northerners don't know what ice is"
 
williewilliejuan said:
The windmills in Texas are all frozen. That’s part of the problem.
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Yeah ... I just saw that mentioned on the weather channel. Never thought about that situation.

But then again, neither did the power companies down there!

Good Luck to you all down there! I'm coastal New England area and we are above freezing this week. Looks like in the 40s during the day tomorrow (Tuesday).
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
That's what I heard about happening around here. Hasn't happened to us though.
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i read that crap in the news, and thought wtf, first like my heat is gas, and 2nd the powerlines are underground. *shrugs* maybe it is for the older parts of omaha and not the burbs?
 
fordman84 said:
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.
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If you live in the continental US, and have never heard of black ice, ya just might retarded.


Oh, and fuck, wow, racist!?

:heh:
 
steelerssb said:
Driving in the snow isn't bad as long as there's not an ass load of it and you're smart about it.


Absolutely fucking fuck driving on ice though.
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ice is a bitch, absolute white knuckle driving on that shit i would forego it unless absolute 100% necessary to go somewhere. Ive been stuck on a clusterfuck of interstate with pure ice couldnt stop going 1 mph it was terrible. i didnt wreck but only because EVERYBODY was driving slow.... (thank god there were no tools from texas amirite)
 
NU_FTW said:
ice is a bitch, absolute white knuckle driving on that shit i would forego it unless absolute 100% necessary to go somewhere. Ive been stuck on a clusterfuck of interstate with pure ice couldnt stop going 1 mph it was terrible. i didnt wreck but only because EVERYBODY was driving slow.... (thank god there were no tools from texas amirite)
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Yeah ice is the one thing I avoid going out in if at all possible and will be fully understanding if traffic is super slow. Snow it's just take your turns sensibly, don't go too fast if there's clumps/accumulation and avoid hills if there's a ton of it. Ice is not only much more dangerous but unlike snow it's harder to actually see where it all is.
 
steelerssb said:
Yeah ice is the one thing I avoid going out in if at all possible and will be fully understanding if traffic is super slow. Snow it's just take your turns sensibly, don't go too fast if there's clumps/accumulation and avoid hills if there's a ton of it. Ice is not only much more dangerous but unlike snow it's harder to actually see where it all is.
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Snow has only ever once given me super white knuckle driving, i was working a job out of town and heading back at night (well like 6pm but winter in nebraska its night at 5) and got stuck in a blizzard i lost the road and of course huge ass semis were just doing their stupid shit when im going ultra slow cuz i couldnt see the damn road snow youre more likely to get stuck, much easier to drive smart slow when you need to etc, ice you literally cannot stop if it is good and slick.
 
NU_FTW said:
Snow has only ever once given me super white knuckle driving, i was working a job out of town and heading back at night (well like 6pm but winter in nebraska its night at 5) and got stuck in a blizzard i lost the road and of course huge ass semis were just doing their stupid shit when im going ultra slow cuz i couldnt see the damn road snow youre more likely to get stuck, much easier to drive smart slow when you need to etc, ice you literally cannot stop if it is good and slick.
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Yeah I know I've fish-tailed or swerved on snow before (no wreckage knock on wood) but so long as you're breaking and aren't a maniac with the wheel you'll usually come to a stop normally. The biggest bitch I've found with snow is hills during accumulation.

Ice? You're at that fucker's mercy. We had an ice storm in college that shut an entire half mile or so of road down (big downhill and big uphill) and when I parked in a lot nearby and walked the stretch to get to work the whole scene looked like a disaster movie with all the cars off the road.
 
I read earlier today that Texas had 2.6 million customer affected by power outages. And that their power grid was independent from the rest of the US
 
Kburjr said:
I read earlier today that Texas had 2.6 million customer affected by power outages. And that their power grid was independent from the rest of the US
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It’s part of the Mexican grid, right?
 
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