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 Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 12:08 AM
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Thinking bout driving the ATV to Walmart for some hot dogs.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: JCB]
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02/16/21 12:12 AM
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We have had 2 hours of power since 3am. Nothing since11am. This ain’t rolling black outs either. This is equipment failure on the power companies end. Hearing that their generators froze up. I'm thinking after even lower temps tonight, and even more outtages through tomorrow, or even the rest of the week, people are not going to be satisfied with more excuses from those who are in charge of our power grid.  It's time for accountability, and to fix the problem!
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: Hudbone]
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02/16/21 12:34 AM
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I've heard you can burn longhorn cow pies. Thought about that, covered under a half foot of snow.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 12:37 AM
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Hot Damn the power finally came back on!!!! Been off since about 9 this morning.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: JCB]
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02/16/21 12:40 AM
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Thinking bout driving the ATV to Walmart for some hot dogs. Good luck with that Neighbor here went today and the shelves were bare in the 2 stores we have here No restock they said until the thaw and delivery trucks can run
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: Greg]
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02/16/21 12:49 AM
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Hot Damn the power finally came back on!!!! Been off since about 9 this morning. Been off here for about 16 hours. So somebody smart clue me in. All this bullsh*t is to save electricity, right? Everyone knows that it's hard to bring something up to temperature, etc. than it is to maintain and keep it at temperature with less juice. Just like getting a boat up on plane, right? Less throttle, less gas used after it's up to speed? Like pulling a trailer on the highway? Right? So, now it'll probably take no telling how long to get the house warmed back up, and all the pipes and related heaters and crap running nonstop balz to the wall times how many residences? Tell me. . . . . WHERE THE EFF WAS ANY POWER SAVED ? ?
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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02/16/21 12:55 AM
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[quote=JCB]
It's time for accountability, and to fix the problem! Explain. to a bunch of EPA bureaucrats how coal is more operationally consistent than "green" energy. Good luck 
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: Buzzsaw]
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02/16/21 01:20 AM
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how are those windmills doing now?! Apparently, they’re doing okay according to this article. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold/ While some early reports indicated that frozen wind turbines were causing significant shortfalls, 30GW is roughly equal to the entire state's wind capacity if every turbine is producing all the power it's rated for. Since wind generally tends to produce less during winter, there's no way that the grid operators would have planned for getting 30GW from wind generation; in fact, a chart at ERCOT indicates that wind is producing significantly more than forecast
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:24 AM
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We had no power from 3am-11am. Got all warmed back up, and generator setup for space heater in the garage for the dogs. At 6:30 pm in the middle of eating, power went out. Would it be that hard to give us just a little warning before it happens. The water co. Has no problem doing it, they’ve got all of our contact info.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:26 AM
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Power lines are down in all areas of the state.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:34 AM
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Went out at around 2 am, off and on this morning and then off from 9am till about 7 except for a 30min period around 1 which we decided was perfect timing for lunch. House got down to around 55 and we have flickered 4 times since 7 but the house is warming up. Guess we will see if it lasts and Generac will be getting a nice donation in the near future.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: maximum]
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02/16/21 01:38 AM
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Hot Damn the power finally came back on!!!! Been off since about 9 this morning. Been off here for about 16 hours. So somebody smart clue me in. All this bullsh*t is to save electricity, right? Everyone knows that it's hard to bring something up to temperature, etc. than it is to maintain and keep it at temperature with less juice. Just like getting a boat up on plane, right? Less throttle, less gas used after it's up to speed? Like pulling a trailer on the highway? Right? So, now it'll probably take no telling how long to get the house warmed back up, and all the pipes and related heaters and crap running nonstop balz to the wall times how many residences? Tell me. . . . . WHERE THE EFF WAS ANY POWER SAVED ? ? Power plants in Texas aren't designed to run in these temps. We lost all of our HRSGs today and most of our steam generation because of the weather. The rolling blackouts are supposed to last less than an hour per area. This is not what you are experiencing. Calm down. It will be okay.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:42 AM
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Lost it at 2am got it back at 3pm. Lost it again at 6pm.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:43 AM
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Fannin County Electric Co-Op shut us down at 11 this morning. I gave it an hour and a half, and reported it, via their automated system. Figured I'd wait until it was restored. 15 minutes after calling it was up again. The Generac ran like a champ during the outage.
My water system has been frozen since 11 yesterday. Spent all day trying to restore it, and didn't.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 01:46 AM
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We lost power 4 times over night. Went off again at 9:00 this morning and stayed off until 4:00 and only stayed on until 5:00. Running the generator now. I don’t know how some people have had power all day and no we’re going to be without power until tomorrow. What a joke. Can I bill the TXU for the cost to power my house with a generator?
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 02:05 AM
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Just watched the news for Austin, they had the long center (performing arts) lit up like Xmas. Why the hell is downtown austin lit up when everyone else doesn’t have power?
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: TexFlip]
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02/16/21 02:17 AM
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No, not really. If the plumbing or whatever goes south because of the power cutting off, no it won't be ok. If more power is being sold to new customers than can be provided that's not good
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
[Re: fadetoblack64]
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02/16/21 02:18 AM
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Imagine if we had a whole bunch of electric vehicles needing charged in the middle of all this....
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:23 AM
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Imagine if we had a whole bunch of electric vehicles needing charged in the middle of all this.... We would be at the mercy of the most dangerous monopoly on earth, the US government in democratic control.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:25 AM
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No, not really. If the plumbing or whatever goes south because of the power cutting off, no it won't be ok. If more power is being sold to new customers than can be provided that's not good It'll be okay.
Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:29 AM
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No, not really. If the plumbing or whatever goes south because of the power cutting off, no it won't be ok. If more power is being sold to new customers than can be provided that's not good It'll be okay. No, it's not
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:31 AM
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Elderly heart patient in her 90's across the way had to be
taken to a place with electric power for her oxygen machine.
That's not good at all
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:33 AM
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Hot Damn the power finally came back on!!!! Been off since about 9 this morning. Been off here for about 16 hours. So somebody smart clue me in. All this bullsh*t is to save electricity, right? Everyone knows that it's hard to bring something up to temperature, etc. than it is to maintain and keep it at temperature with less juice. Just like getting a boat up on plane, right? Less throttle, less gas used after it's up to speed? Like pulling a trailer on the highway? Right? So, now it'll probably take no telling how long to get the house warmed back up, and all the pipes and related heaters and crap running nonstop balz to the wall times how many residences? Tell me. . . . . WHERE THE EFF WAS ANY POWER SAVED ? ? Power plants in Texas aren't designed to run in these temps. We lost all of our HRSGs today and most of our steam generation because of the weather. The rolling blackouts are supposed to last less than an hour per area. This is not what you are experiencing. Calm down. It will be okay. 
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Re: rolling blackouts in texas
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02/16/21 02:33 AM
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Power's off again.
Not even enough time to get the chill knocked off
the house with the heater
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02/16/21 02:39 AM
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Hot Damn the power finally came back on!!!! Been off since about 9 this morning. Been off here for about 16 hours. So somebody smart clue me in. All this bullsh*t is to save electricity, right? Everyone knows that it's hard to bring something up to temperature, etc. than it is to maintain and keep it at temperature with less juice. Just like getting a boat up on plane, right? Less throttle, less gas used after it's up to speed? Like pulling a trailer on the highway? Right? So, now it'll probably take no telling how long to get the house warmed back up, and all the pipes and related heaters and crap running nonstop balz to the wall times how many residences? Tell me. . . . . WHERE THE EFF WAS ANY POWER SAVED ? ? Power plants in Texas aren't designed to run in these temps. We lost all of our HRSGs today and most of our steam generation because of the weather. The rolling blackouts are supposed to last less than an hour per area. This is not what you are experiencing. Calm down. It will be okay. I made it up.
Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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