Posted on 02/18/2021 11:57:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil
A third of the ERCOT board members live out of state
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The ERCOT website biographies prior to being pulled down listed ERCOT Chair Sally Talbert as a former state utility regulator in Michigan. Records indicate she lives in Williamston, Michigan.
ERCOT Vice Chair Peter Cramton was listed as an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the University of Maryland, the website biography said.
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Terry Bulger, who lives int in Wheaton, Ill., according to the ERCOT website.
Raymond Hepper was listed as a retired general counsel and officer for a New England company. Records indicate he now lives in Maine.
Vanessa Anesetti-Parra was listed as serving as vice president of regulatory and compliance for an energy company. A social media page lists her home as Toronto.
The message we got from them on Monday was the same except they said lower your thermostat to 60.
I though oh geeze they’re out of resources
Idiots
I had plenty of wood but it was at the farm and covered with snow.
I have a new old stock from year ago, Modern Franklin heater (with thermostat controlled forced fan circulation where power is available). Bought but never installed. Change of plans many years ago. Those are more efficient than the huge brick fireplaces that I have in town and at the farm. It will be utilized some time this year.
Fireplace inserts really make a difference too.
The flood gates at the dams along the Highland Lakes operate on decisions made by people a 100 miles away. Back when there were real live people monitoring the dams, we rarely had floods and nothing as huge as in recent years. Today, we are at the mercy of dingbats in Austin sitting in cubicles staring at screens. Mr. b had a fall and broke his arm in three places. I couldn't get out the driveway so had to call the ambulance. The next morning at day break, the hospital demanded he be taken back home. Excuse me, but all roads into town were closed. It didn't matter, they wanted him out. I called around on all sides of the hospital and no was able to get out. Eventually, they moved him and some elderly people into a storage room to sit and wait hours for rides and be out of the staff's hair. A couple of angels in a big bad a$$ truck picked him up on their way this direction to deliver meals. As soon as the roads clear, I'll be headed to town to patch up some of our failures. Get cells phones with two different companies so if one company doesn't have service the other might. Get a couple of those weirdo phone batteries. Return a propane tank that didn't work. Stop by the cable company to see if they could give me directions on getting the box to work - yeah, last time the box didn't work they refused to hand us one over the counter but wouldn't be out for 3 weeks but would still charge us or we could cancel service with them, sigh. And meds that Mr. b refused to stock up on. Anyone know how to fix a tv cable box that is on "standby"? Yes, unplugged and plugged it back in but no luck. Thankfully, PEC power company figured out a good off and on schedule two nights ago. Instead of freezing us out with no power all day, they decided to turn it on for say an hour and off for an hour and a half. Rinse and repeat. Guessing they were following dumb bunny orders from ERCOT prior to yesterday.
It’s going to be fun the next few days of thawing.
I have small space to heat. So it’s easy.
We put heat lamps in the pump shed and the garage. The garage on froze even with an extra blanket but crossing fingers when it thaws. The pump shed seems ok since we have water but haven’t been out there to make for sure.
“The Electric Reliability Council”
You know how you can tell these must be a bunch of leftists: They accomplished the opposite of their name.
We need to write a book of survival during the Texas Big Chill.
I forgot that there was not a single drug store open due to the total power shut down for 60 miles.
WalMart 20 miles away is still not open.
This is insane.
We survived a year with occupation of some states under Covid19 Dictators and now this crap.
Communism really sucks.
Electric Reliability Council? Is that like Minitruth, Miniplenty, and Miniluv?
Great advice on uninhabited homes but not one you want to flush toilets. People have been using snow and ice to flush.
Knock on wood. When this is over, I’ll have to make sure the septic is electrically pumping up hill. Before the authorities told us to buy extra land and install a whole new $$$ septic that runs up the street and onto another street, it flowed for free by gravity down hill to similar tank that’s official approved.
Thanks!
Takes a lot snow for that, few inches probably is not enough.
Not to gross anyone out but in these types of emergencies you open a black garbage bag over the toilet and do "non-tickle" operations. Then take the bag, seal, and place it some frozen garage space or outside until normal life returns.
non-tinkle
The Plot thickens. ERCOT Board of director members are in Germany.
ERCOT Will Restore Board of Directors’ Names to Website After Death Threats Prompted Their Removal
That write-up at the top of this thread seems to me to be a lame dodge of responsibility of ERCOT and saying that someone else is at fault.
Regardless of who is at fault, what they have done is criminal.
Forgot Minipeace.
I am not sure what happened. Every time there is bad weather kicking up my power goes out. All the neighborhoods surrounding mine usually have their power back on before our neighborhood. But, for some odd reason, our power did not go off at all.
Reducing Zero consumption by lowering thermostat will do absolutely nothing.
Only with a computer is such logic possible.
Insane.
Thanks for this information!
DfG wrote:
A third of the ERCOT board members live out of state
—snip—
The ERCOT website biographies prior to being pulled down listed ERCOT Chair Sally Talbert as a former state utility regulator in Michigan. Records indicate she lives in Williamston, Michigan.
ERCOT Vice Chair Peter Cramton was listed as an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the University of Maryland, the website biography said.
—snip—
Terry Bulger, who lives int in Wheaton, Ill., according to the ERCOT website.
Raymond Hepper was listed as a retired general counsel and officer for a New England company. Records indicate he now lives in Maine.
Vanessa Anesetti-Parra was listed as serving as vice president of regulatory and compliance for an energy company. A social media page lists her home as Toronto.
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