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Texas braces for water & cell service outages as massive blackout leaves MILLIONS freezing in the dark ahead of 2nd snow storm

 
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Insulation works both ways. If the houses were more energy efficient instead of cheaply built they would heat and cool better.
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Cheaply built? LMAO

The house I'm in was built in 1935 with double walled long leaf pine from an 1880s school house. Many houses this age and construction across the state still standing.

How long do you expect your house to last? 90 years?

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light snow right now,ne texas
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Cities across Texas are preparing for widespread outages in cell phone and water services as the state continues to be pounded by a ferocious winter storm, which has already left millions without electricity.
Ravaged by the first storm on Sunday night, Texas’ power grid has taken a beating over the last 24 hours, leading to rolling blackouts across the state for around 4.3 million residents as officials rush to repair ailing infrastructure. The power outages have set off a cascade of other problems, knocking some water treatment plants and cell phone networks offline.

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Cell towers are not getting turned off though which makes this a purposeful outage. DARK WINTER!
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ERCOT in TX is going to have to answer a TON of questions. We pay through the damn nose for power here, so WTF is all the money from that AND FEDERAL grants from all of the natural disasters that TX has had in the last 5 years. ERCOT was given SHIT TONS of money to harden the grid after each one of those to rebuild and harden the grid.

For example, the load on the grid right now is no more than what happens in the summer. AC in TX blows 24x7 in the summer, especially between July and Sept creating a much heavier load than right now. Most furnaces in TX use gas, not electric to run them like AC.
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In the summer, there wouldn’t be the loss of wind turbines due to freezing or loss of solar due to stormy skies. The loss of renewables in the winter months shows the weakness; a system that relies on renewables will experience supply collapse in certain weather conditions.
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Large area of freezing rain developing again west of I-35, and snow north of Dallas

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California entered states with power outages.

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You want to see some broken water pipes, wait til it warms up
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Texas/Oklahoma border here,,,, still about 5 inches of snow from last storm,,,, snowing now,,, got about another inch in the last hour or so,,, here is the story,,, most businesses closed due to no power, ones that are open have already ran out of nearly everything, lots of places where credit card/atm cards not working, so cash only,,,, any fast food place open has ran out of food, 3-4 hour lines to fill propane tanks, water off in most places, power only on about 15 minutes in 8 hrs if lucky, no pet food left in any store open, gas stations that are open are running out of fuel,grocery stores closed due to no water or broken pipes, shit getting real out here folks.... stay safe....
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People will gladly march into a fully-lit crackling-warm FEMA camp to escape weather like this, right?
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Shit you not. They have warming centers set up to go warm up. But you can’t stay. So I guess those using cars as warmers now have a destination for a short bit.
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Calm down. FFS. It’s cold in the winter.
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does your power company shut down for days on end?
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this is going to have long lasting ripple effect,,,, lots of truckers are stranded due to no power to pump diesel fuel and roads closed due to ice, so, lots of deliveries not being made, things going to snowball, no fuel deliveries be made either so nothing moving for a while,,,,
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This is weather warfare -- a message from DC to Texas to OBEY. to stop talk of seccession and for Texas to integrate into the continental grid.
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You want to see some broken water pipes, wait til it warms up
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texans should study pex piping. they are going to need
a lot of it. i moved to arkansas from texas. i pexed
everything in three houses up here.
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Looks like Dallas has plenty of power.

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oridin biden : the big fail
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Re: Texas braces for water & cell service outages as massive blackout leaves MILLIONS freezing in the dark ahead of 2nd snow storm
Calm down. FFS. It’s cold in the winter.
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does your power company shut down for days on end?
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Power company
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Water company
AND
All transportation
AND
Cell phone service
AND
Grocery stores
AND
Gas stations
AND
Pharmacies

All when it's zero degrees for days?
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I'm in the USAF. We super seeded the clouds to get this exact result across the USA to fight ,,,,Global Warming Hearsay !!

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Texas/Oklahoma border here,,,, still about 5 inches of snow from last storm,,,, snowing now,,, got about another inch in the last hour or so,,, here is the story,,, most businesses closed due to no power, ones that are open have already ran out of nearly everything, lots of places where credit card/atm cards not working, so cash only,,,, any fast food place open has ran out of food, 3-4 hour lines to fill propane tanks, water off in most places, power only on about 15 minutes in 8 hrs if lucky, no pet food left in any store open, gas stations that are open are running out of fuel,grocery stores closed due to no water or broken pipes, shit getting real out here folks.... stay safe....
 Quoting: beenthere 70904402


Damn! I think I would set my oven to 350 & fill it with my dutch ovens and cast iron weights. Then when the power came on for 15 minutes the whole thing would heat up.

Best of luck...that sounds really bad!
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Apparently, the grid in Texas was deregulated in 1935 in texas so a small number of wealthy individuals could make money.
Cruz makes fun of California but what is he doing now?

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20+ Confirmed Deaths across USA DUE TO OUTDATED INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSE power outages (freezing to death) and carbon monoxide poisoning
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Lots of people are suspicious about this cold snap

They are wondering if it is weather mod. All I have to say in reply is DARK WINTER. We were promised one, and now, in many places, the LIGHTS ARE OUT. And this never happened before. Gosh, how did Biden know beforehand???

REPEAT: Witness the results of vote fraud. REPEAT: Witness the results of vote fraud. REPEAT: Witness the results of vote fraud. REPEAT: Witness the results of vote fraud. Can you see them yet?

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Bad things on the horizon. All the restaurants that we supported for years . Are shut down when we need them most. I'll never eat out again. F what a burger
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Re: Texas braces for water & cell service outages as massive blackout leaves MILLIONS freezing in the dark ahead of 2nd snow storm
Cell towers are not getting turned off though which makes this a purposeful outage. DARK WINTER!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74840632


Most cell sites have generator power that will probably keep them going for a good week or two, as long as the data umbilical doesn't loose service. Especially in a hurricane prone area, by law in florida cell sites and other places like grocery stores have generator backup power.
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Comments on Steve Lookner's Agenda-Free TV live coverage are great. Someone said "it's raining ice in west Texas." Just started snowing here again.
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Stupid ass Green New Deal! The wind turbines and solar panels are frozen!
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There's wind turbines in Canada and in the mid west working fine all winter. Much colder than Texas. Blame the stupid texas grid system monopoly. Call a spade a spade. It needs to be fixed. What a joke of a state. They turned the power off.
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Just sitting here with a half gallon of justerini and brooks scotch. Fire in a barrel in my garage. Pack of smokes.

Im good. Havent had power since sunday lol
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My dog and me about to have some oscar meyer hot dogs btw over this fire.

Make the best of this guys
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...

No one wished death on you. When I said your day was coming, it's because we are all at risk for disasters, even you
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You won't see me online blaming the president for my own lack of planning and preparation.
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Not even Bush for New Orleans? Did you complain about Trump? tell the truth
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Bush didn't have shit to do with the epic New Orleans fuck up that was all the State of Louisiana and the Mayor.
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That is the truth but the usual gang attacked him anyway, just like they blamed President Trump for every made up ill imaginable. Plus Biden isn't the legitimate President anyway. He didn't send in FEMA, he's out of it, kookoo
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Re: Texas braces for water & cell service outages as massive blackout leaves MILLIONS freezing in the dark ahead of 2nd snow storm
Texas, a state full of inbred red necks who want to leave the United States and start their own country


but as soon as 1 snow flake hits the ground, Texas turns into a snowflake state, with republicans begging Biden for help.


I mean, it's bad enough they are so stupid down there they get into 300 car pile ups


here is a tip, don't go driving around in a blizzard, stay home you inbred retarts
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How unbelievably rude.

Texas is a wonderful place with good solid people with kind hearts, I'm from NYC.

They are having a really hard time and we need to extend our help to them not be assholes to them.

So Rude..

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