Rolling blackouts ordered for Texas - prepare your stuff

Plus- think about all of the schools and businesses that are closed today. There should be less load on the system.

About the time I hit Enter the damn power went out again. This time it was only for a few minutes. I had a day of baking planned :(

Last Edited by IllumiNaughty on 02/02/2011 02:13 PM

No doubt that our power load should not be an issue just because it got cold.

Strangley enough here at my house in South Austin I haven't lost power once. I am in a residential area no where near a hospital or downtown, but I hear the street lights are out all around here, but not a flicker here.

So, I'm kinda stumped as to why my service hasn't been interrupted if this is a systematiac process.

Not complaining, of course, but find it very curious.

I live in San Antonio and have yet to experience a power outage...

Troll much?

We have our own powergrid. We could leave the US and form our own country and not get our power turned off like the rest of you assholes. We have the fourth largest economy in the nation. We have massive technology and energy industries and we force you fuckers to use our history books.

homeless people who dont go to the homeless shelter and sleep outside are fucked... jet we have no such thing as power outages because we have the best power grid u can think of!!!

Someone else said this -- and I heard my husband repeat it just now. He thinks that this is a dry run to 'test' the system and see how everything performs and how far they can push us. Similar to the swine flu pandemic/ test they pulled last year.

Or, they have to take down power stations for maintenance and considering our high use is during the summer, the winter is ideal to do so.

OK, so we both have Austin Energy and I have had NINE outages so far today and won't be surprised if I have more. If you are in South Austin, maybe you are near Alex Jones' studio and TPTB have to keep him on the air. LOL

Lucky you. What part of town?

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boy, how I like that writing, Uggs,...you are spirited, Texass is cocky to the rest of 'them', but only for as long as your/Tx concept of energy is in demands. That is changing right now.

Last Edited by SoaringBear on 02/02/2011 02:37 PM

I live in El Paso and we have hd three outages, of exactly 15 minutes each.

Freaking El Paso? WTF?

Guess those 2 survival nuts that bought 25k worth of gold and silver last week in a friends shop was onto something when they said(SHTF in a couple of days).

Texas

uhhh...tacos???

Ercot just order an end to the rolling blackouts!

[link to www.statesman.com]

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said late this morning that a broken pipe and a frozen pipe at two Central Texas electric generating plants helped trigger a statewide power emergency that forced rolling blackouts in Austin and across Texas.
Dewhurst said problems at the Luminant-owned Oak Grove plant east of Temple and the Sandow plant near Rockdale apparently were caused by a winter storm that has dropped temperatures to below freezing across the state, and stalled activity in some parts of North Texas with blizzard-like conditions.

There was an article on the Chron or somewhere stating that the blackouts are caused by a couple of coal power plants that had their cooling pipes freeze/burst. The plants that back them up were having trouble due to low pressure caused by the cold. So they are doing rolling blackouts for ~330,000 people at time to keep the operational plants from being over loaded.

---DOOMSDAY-----------------------------------------------
Yeah,too:here in the midle of EU it's all of best
(maybe a little warmer)
<in the middle of the coming beast,hhehe You know what'i
mean>
..and the REST,beginning with Aussies&Amies go to(cold)
HELL..
---DOOMSDAY-----------------------------------------------

Mine was out between 8:45 and 9:15. Not bad, but I'm pissed because I was planning on slow-cooking a chicken in the crock pot today. Can't do that if I don't know when the powers actually gonna be on.

Edit: Fort Worth, by the way.

Last Edited by Bit on 02/02/2011 02:52 PM

So far still haven't lost power in my neighborhood but I suspect that is due to the zip code next to ours being out for 5 hours!
I hope when they get around to us it won't be that long!
CPS has really f'ed it up here in SA.

Yeah, we just had a 15 minute blackout here on Resler.

WFAA in Dallas just announced that the rolling black outs were over.

I don't know about you,
but My electric bill never goes over $250-$300
bucks in the summer. I live in a house that was built in 83, it's not as efficient as I would like.

My A/C runs constantly during the summer.
I have electric heat, as do a lot of people here.
My bill has went as high as $600.00 bucks in Dec of 2006, Imagine the load on the grid with that kind of drawl...

That being said:
You are correct,

"AUSTIN - Burst water pipes at two coal-fired power plants forced them to shut down, triggering rolling power cuts across the state, the lieutenant governor said Wednesday.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said this is something that "should not happen."

Dewhurst said he was told that water pipes at two plants, Oak Grove and Sand Hill, forced them to cut electricity production. Natural gas power plants that should have provided back up had difficulty starting due to low pressure in the supply lines, also caused by the cold weather.

The lieutenant governor said the demand placed on the Texas grid was nowhere near peak capacity. He said he was frustrated by the situation."
[link to www.chron.com]

hardly a conspiracy.
someone just forgot to let the water run a little...

I'm in South Austin and my power hasn't so much as flickered. I'm on the St. Davids Hospital Grid

Yes indeed. odd.... also 17 deg ALL day Odd....

Yeah... it's a Texas thing. Good drunk food.

I was told that pipes froze and burst at 2 natural gas power plants in Austin and this was the main cause... they didn't want to tax the system for those that needed it... Hospitals, nursing homes, etc.

EVERYTHING CHANGED,EXPECT NOTHING IS NORMAL,WAR IS
ON THE WAY,THING'S THERE're NEVER'd SEEN...........

Over by the airport. Hope it stays on for awhile so the heater can catch up. Brrr!!

I'm at a Starbucks in Austin because our power keeps going on and off. It first started at 6:05am and was off for about thirty minutes and came back. Then went off again. So me and my girlfreind started keeping track of the times and counted the minutes. And basically it has a pattern of being on for 5 - 15 minutes and off for 30 - 45 minutes. We were able to get a rough estimate on when we each could take a shower and cook food. But, the Internet stoped working after the third blackout. So we are here. We have had about 8 blackouts and when we left the power was on and when we get back I'm sure it will be off again.

Alpine, TX lost power earlier on. Everything back to normal