Snow on the beach in Galveston

[Fast Freddy]

Just drove along the seawall a little while ago. It’s never this cold here. Most people have lost power, lots of people sitting in their cars. I’ve got a generator so I’m good. Still it’s crazy, It’s way colder and worse North of here. Hard freeze tonight.

 

[Duck]

Oh look @Sinister, another Texan complaining about winter weather.

 

[Sinister]

Here lemme help.



Thats my old plow tank. I dont have it anymore so you can use it.

 

[Duck]

 

[Fast Freddy]

Here lemme help.

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Thats my old plow tank. I dont have it anymore so you can use it.

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That’s just it. You far northerners are used to this horrid weather. We don’t have the equipment nor the experience you have with it. I’m guessing 95% of businesses don’t close there as they have here when this happens.

 

[Fast Freddy]

 

[quillcom]

That’s just it. You far northerners are used to this

The only thing I think about when you say Galveston is those hurricanes that live down there.

Keep your hurricanes, we'll deal with sub zero icy roads over that any day. Just glad lake Michigan is not big enough for that

 

[Duck]

That’s just it. You far northerners are used to this horrid weather. We don’t have the equipment nor the experience you have with it. I’m guessing 95% of businesses don’t close there as they have here when this happens.

This was halfway between my house and the pole barn. I had to walk through that to get the snowblower out.





Until you fully understand why someone might consider putting tire chains on a snowblower,..

Or until your entire back explains to you why they put reverse on such a thing,..

 

[Slowpoke KW]

That’s just it. You far northerners are used to this horrid weather. We don’t have the equipment nor the experience you have with it, or the desire to deal with the shit. I’m guessing 95% of businesses don’t close there as they have here when this happens.

Fixed it for ya

 

[Duck]

 

[Duck]

Texas Mother, Daughter Die After Heating Home with Car

HOUSTON, Texas -- The severe Texas winter storm left a mother and her young daughter dead as they attempted to stay warm.

www.breitbart.com

 

[Mike]

Texas Mother, Daughter Die After Heating Home with Car

HOUSTON, Texas -- The severe Texas winter storm left a mother and her young daughter dead as they attempted to stay warm.

www.breitbart.com

Stupid to do this, but people got desperate.

Texas, a state overrun with oil, has rolling blackouts all over the state because they can’t produce enough electricity.

This falls back into the hands of Rick Perry, and hopefully the state has the sense to make some immediate changes to how they operate.

Add the rolling blackouts to the typical problems with utilities that come with storms like this, and you have a disaster.

The town I am from, my family members have gone two days without power and water. Water issue would be easy to deal with if the geniuses in charge would plan ahead and bury the main lines deeper.

Plan for worst case scenarios and you eliminate 99% of your problems.

 

[Fast Freddy]

Well I made it through ok. Worst of it is gone. At least in my part of Texas. This event showed the vulnerability of the power grid. About 20% of Texas energy is windmill. Drive through west and north Texas and you’ll see tons of them. Turns out a lot of them froze and wouldn’t turn. I’m glad I had my generator and lots of food and fuel I was well prepared, though I never thought my hurricane generator would be used for an arctic storm.

 

[Sinister]

Theres windows farms in Iowa and Minnesota and Wyoming and all sorts of places with lots of snow.

This whole "wind turbines froze" thing didn't make any sense.

Mostly they're all GE brand towers of the same model. There's are a few other manufacturers. They all don't completely fail when the weather gets bad.

Something doesn't sound right about this.

 

[Fast Freddy]

Theres windows farms in Iowa and Minnesota and Wyoming and all sorts of places with lots of snow.

This whole "wind turbines froze" thing didn't make any sense.

Mostly they're all GE brand towers of the same model. There's are a few other manufacturers. They all don't completely fail when the weather gets bad.

Something doesn't sound right about this.

Client Challenge

The Austin American Statesman is a pretty liberal paper, and likely pro green energy pro wind power. They first broke the story. I can’t say if the wind turbines work better in places like Wyoming or Kansas. But they surely screwed us here. I had no electricity for 3 days.

 

[Sinister]

Client Challenge

The Austin American Statesman is a pretty liberal paper, and likely pro green energy pro wind power. They first broke the story. I can’t say if the wind turbines work better in places like Wyoming or Kansas. But they surely screwed us here. I had no electricity for 3 days.

It's important to remember that no energy source was supposed to be more relied on than any other. It seems that was forgotten at some point and they were relied on too heavily.

Remember GW Bush's speech about all sorts of sources including switchgrass. Whatever that is.

But the same model tower is the same model tower. There might be heavier or lighter oil in them for various reasons, but for thus many megawatts to completely fail is very strange to me.

 

[Fast Freddy]

They’re saying it could of been much worse.

Officials: Texas was near catastrophic power failure

Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid

www.news-journal.com

 

[Rigjockey]

Wind turbines are not a reliable source of power.
No wind=No power.
Too much wind= No power. They need to be locked in position in high wind. I am not sure why, but they do. Maybe it is the oil they use? (tree huggers everywhere gasp*. wind turbine use oil?) yes.

Anyway, I feel bad for the people in Texas in a situation they typically would not see or have reason to be prepared for.
Water you can get by with for a bit, But no heat can become deadly very quickly!

 

[Sinister]

Wind turbines are not a reliable source of power.
No wind=No power.
Too much wind= No power. They need to be locked in position in high wind. I am not sure why, but they do. Maybe it is the oil they use? (tree huggers everywhere gasp*. wind turbine use oil?) yes.

Anyway, I feel bad for the people in Texas in a situation they typically would not see or have reason to be prepared for.
Water you can get by with for a bit, But no heat can become deadly very quickly!

Thats because they don't spin freely. There's a braking system inside which keeps them from spinning out of control and landing in the next state- as fun as that is to watch.

And no single form of energy is 100% reliable. There have been failures of every kind.

And you can keep warm for much longer than if you dehydrate.

 

[Fast Freddy]

It’s true, every summer some far northerners come down to Texas and die in the heat. I see the tourist gasping for air in the hot months.