It's warmed up to 10 degrees now, according to the thermometer outside. Thanks for the cute posts today - still don't want to stay here long for fear of getting shut down again, and I had several personal teddy bears to post (from a couple of years ago) but need to add some and delete some. :) Will post this right now:
Received this as a gift at a Veteran's Day program three years ago. It has a button to push and voices sound off "Dear Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, Guardsman and Veteran..." Pretty Cool.
For your information..I have not been affected in Waco. I have TU
from the Texas board
Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:21:00 AM smokingfrog
The blackouts will last 10 to 45 minutes per neighborhood. The locations and durations of the blackouts will be determined by local utilities.
CenterPoint Energy said it began the rolling blackouts at about 5:45 a.m. and an average of 330,000 customers are affected at a time.
“This is a statewide emergency and CenterPoint Energy is complying with direct orders from ERCOT,” said Scott Prochazka, division senior vice president of CenterPoint Energy’s electric transmission and delivery operations. “Although we realize this is an inconvenience for our customers, these controlled rolling outages are planned emergency measures designed to avoid potentially longer, and more widespread power outages. We will continue these rolling outages until we receive direction from ERCOT that the electric supply in Texas has stabilized.”
CenterPoint Energy said it has pre-determined which circuits/power lines will be systematically brought off-line or curtailed across its entire service territory, but has not released a schedule to the public.
Hospitals, nursing homes, water treatment plants and public service facilities are generally excluded from the blackouts
I think that more than half of us would say that they are a “Polar bear”.
Do they make Polar teddy bears? LOL.