Record Freeze

[CrazyCobraManTim]

A question for everyone who’s had repeated power interruptions since Zero Dark Thirty Monday - has anyone:

#1 experienced equipment failure due to dozens of brownouts?

#2 - after resumption of power - are you noticing tepid heat from your unit (the heater - keeping it PG for everyone)?

i had to replace the control board in our primary Carrier heater today (been down 36 hours). Now when I run it - feels like the ejection temp is marginally above ambient downstairs room temps of 48-52.

maybe everything between the burners and registers are cold-soaked.... ??

 

[F350-6]

That wasn't fun. Power started flickering off Saturday morning every 10 minutes. Then around 4:30 it went out for a few hours. It came back on around 7:30 so it wasn't bad. Until it went out again around Midnight and stayed out until this (wednesday) morning.

The most depressing part was when Oncor stopped giving estimates on when power would be restored and it just switched to unknown.

 

[cycleguy2300]

Yeah, We can't read it.

Sorry 'bout that

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[ZX9RCAM]

Well, staying close will help combine body heat....

 

[kbaxter60]

Damn. We are at about 30 minutes on, 30 off.

That sucks. We had it off around 9pm last night, then, amazingly, it stayed on the rest of the night. First night with power in, what?, five or six days...

 

[Haystack]

breaker in the panel or the generator?

Breaker on the generator. But we got power back now.

 

[Haystack]

From what I have read, ERCOT allocated a certain amount of power from the grid to each electric company (ONCOR, SWEPCO, etc) and then those power companies decided what areas to cut off to stay within their allotment. For three days, we had power for 30 minutes about every six hours. The next road over (by the volunteer fire department) never lost power. I know of several other situations just like this where ONCOR kept cutting power to the same neighborhoods and left others untouched. Whomever at ONCOR made that decision should have to face the public in shame.

 

[ian]

It’s times like this I miss up north. We had huge blizzards and never lost power.

Yeah. I bet they sell snow blowers and snow shovels at the hardware store. I bet the motor sport dealers sell snow mobiles. I bet the power plants up north are designed for weather up north.

Seems silly to think that power companies would build arctic rated power plants in Texas.

 

[Spcwolf]

Yeah. I bet they sell snow blowers and snow shovels at the hardware store. I bet the motor sport dealers sell snow mobiles. I bet the power plants up north are designed for weather up north.

Seems silly to think that power companies would build arctic rated power plants in Texas.

Well, shoulda woulda coulda

 

[Vaquero]

Sigh

 

[Texas_Lone_Ranger]

Springfield’s Convoy of Hope leaves for Texas with water, other supplies

More than four million remain without power in Texas as a result of winter storms bringing record low temperatures to the south.

www.ky3.com

 

[oldag]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613605698?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

An accurate accounting of how badly wind failed during this cold front. Between midnight Feb. 8 & Feb. 16, wind generation dropped 93% while coal went up 47% and gas skyrocketed 450%. Yet the greenies are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn’t operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%.

PM me if you can't get past paywall.

 

[Spcwolf]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613605698?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

An accurate accounting of how badly wind failed during this cold front. Between midnight Feb. 8 & Feb. 16, wind generation dropped 93% while coal went up 47% and gas skyrocketed 450%. Yet the greenies are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn’t operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%.

PM me if you can't get past paywall.

I wonder if the windmills we have in Texas are of a different variety then the ones in the northern states and Canada.

 

[miniion26]

I wonder if the windmills we have in Texas are of a different variety then the ones in the northern states and Canada.

They're the same, but they lack the "cold weather package". Figures.....

 

[Texas_Lone_Ranger]

All these people that let their food thaw in the fridge! I keep hearing about them throwing it out and not having Dairy etc. now. It's FREEZING outside and if you put it out there it will stay fresh! WTH!?!?

 

[oldag]

All these people that let their food thaw in the fridge! I keep hearing about them throwing it out and not having Dairy etc. now. It's FREEZING outside and if you put it out there it will stay fresh! WTH!?!?

Our freezer was the back porch and our fridge was the garage. Perfect temperature ranges.

 

[Haystack]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613605698?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

An accurate accounting of how badly wind failed during this cold front. Between midnight Feb. 8 & Feb. 16, wind generation dropped 93% while coal went up 47% and gas skyrocketed 450%. Yet the greenies are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn’t operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%.

PM me if you can't get past paywall.

We had a cold snap like this back in the early 80's. Kids could ice skate on the ponds because they were 6+" thick in ice. Nobody lost power. But now that the EPA rules have shut down coal, gas, and oil fired power plants we ran out of power. Go ahead and throw slime at me. Tell me how they still have power in Yankee land in this kind of weather. Frankly, I don't care. Texas power grid was built on coal and gas plants. Climate change be damned! We just now reached temps not seen in 100 years. So what is the climate change going back to? The days before we had so many people giving off carbon from the fuel they burned?

I blame the tree hugging, EPA idiots for this crisis. And after being in survival mode for three days, yeah...... I'm still grumpy.

 

[London]

All these people that let their food thaw in the fridge! I keep hearing about them throwing it out and not having Dairy etc. now. It's FREEZING outside and if you put it out there it will stay fresh! WTH!?!?

I didn't even bother bringing my beer inside Sunday night. Still have a couple sixers left out there, too.

 

[TX oddball]

Our freezer was the back porch and our fridge was the garage. Perfect temperature ranges.

This is EXACTLY what we did on Tuesday- I emptied the fridge contents into the garage (35 degrees) and the frozen stuff in my back patio in shade, buried in snow and ice. We had a power outage for 20+ hours, it was the correct decision.

 

[Haystack]

This is EXACTLY what we did on Tuesday- I emptied the fridge contents into the garage (35 degrees) and the frozen stuff in my back patio in shade, buried in snow and ice. We had a power outage for 20+ hours, it was the correct decision.

Very smart. But where I live, if you left it outside a building the coons, foxes, bobcats, and other varmints would find it long before the next morning. They are desperate right now.