I think this will end Abbott. A lot of heads are going to roll. The insurance costs from the flooded houses alone will be insane.
I think our distant ancestors, huddled in their caves and huts, if shown what could be done with nuclear and coal, would think us utter fools for choosing to rely on wind and solar instead.
The grid did not fail.
Somebody factcheck AP
I have a hardcore leftist friend who lives down in Austin, she said the wind turbines have frozen and she has no electric and she is freezing her ass off. I had no idea what to say so I just wrote back “BWA HA HA HA HA! Come on babe, suffer through it, do your part to prevent GLOBAL WARMING!” Maybe if they shine flashlights on the solar panels it will get the electric heater going
It is really bad.
It just so happened I am in California on business this week. Looks like I took exactly the right week to do it.
The latest trick is hotels are price gouging. The local TravelLodge is charging $999 a night for rooms that went for $90 last week.
I am glad not to be in the middle of it but I really feel for my fellow Dallasites who are getting totally screwed by the stupidity of the power company.
More windmills and solar farms of course!
They first said there would be rolling blackouts, but then changed the term as it was more like sustained outages. Of the 10 households in my family, we had not one outage or break in service, yet I know people who have been out for days. As we drove through Comanche last night, the convenience stores were closed and dark as were over half the businesses and from the outskirts of town and the next 15 miles no homes were lit.
What’s really happening? Is this a bungle on Abbott or liberal sabotage?
It’s sounding like Texas got hit with a long enduring unexpected arctic Tsunami Waves nobody anticipated nor were prepared for. The results are very similar.
The companies who run the power plants did not winterize as recommended.
This is the predictable result of letting folks with a liberal mindset run government - not, perhaps, at the tip of the helm, but in the innerworkings of the government bureaucracy. Liberal politicians and those in the middle, leaning left in their thinking (”Let’s all just get along”), institute laws and rules that encourage unsound and unwise planning for our utilities and our infrastructure, plus our schools. The result: when things go wrong (and something always does not go as planned, as that is the natural order of things in our fallen world), the pie in the sky concepts fail those whom they are designed to serve.
Great example: promoting wind and solar power via our federal state and tax programs. While we have lots of wind and solar available, harnessing their use for electricity is an iffy proposal, as they are not consistently dependable. Their power literally ebbs and flows. And when one does not adequately take into consideration ebbing and flowing environmental factors, such as weather in its extreme ranges, we get what we’ve currently got in states like Texas.
Irony? Texas is oil rich. And Texas has lots of space for nuclear generation.
Instead of working with these proven, dependable technologies, our government liberals and rinos have been promoting tax policies that encourage unreliable wind and solar. And American taxpayers have been paying the bill for it.
It’s time for the grown ups to be in charge, and stop listening to the liberals, who, at best, are stuck somewhere in middle school, mentally.
My power was out for 52h. Came back on this morning at 3:30. However, there is an ice storm underway and I can already hear lots of breaking tree branches around the neighborhood...
Our grid failed because we literally have 6-8 illegal Mexican/Central Americans living here along with several million more ‘legal’ Indians and Asians. All recent arrivals. Add on top of that the Cali-scum who has moved here and the rapid rise in population has far outpaced the grid’s capability.
The same submbitches who carry on incessantly about “global warming” will conclude February was the warmest on record. I’d be the farm on it.
AP, a Texas enemy, gloats
They spent huge money on Green wind farms. Hmmm.
with CCP in charge of our power grid
per EO by the pedophilePOTUS, there is
nothing to worry about.
We’d be done within a week of an EMP.