Somebody needs prison time

[busykngt]

Some people ought to go to jail over this.
The electric bills we pay are so high and we have infrastructure that can't this? Incompetent bass turds. Where the hell has the money been going...
certainly NOT reinvested into more modern and stronger equipment. It's criminal. Heads should roll... (maybe literally).

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Deeeeeeeeep Deeeeeeeeep pockets same as political and government money.

 

[Sam Colt]

There are 28 million people in Texas right now who think they could do a better job than the professionals.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

There are 28 million people in Texas right now who think they could do a better job than the professionals.

Just because someone holds a job doesn’t in any way shape or form make them a professional.
Just look at Pelosi and AOC

 

[Sam Colt]

The prostitution rests. ;-)

 

[angel71rs]

Devil's advocate: would you have agreed to pay an extra 5 - 10% per month on your electric bill for the past couple of decades in order to build out the infrastructure needed to prepare for the possibility of an event like this happening?

I remember years ago when Suzy Azar was mayor of EP they wanted to raise water bills to pay to improve flood infrastructure in case EP was hit by something like a hundred year flood. There was outrage, plan did a lead zeppelin.

Then the flood of 2006 hit... soon after water bills were raised with little opposition to improve flood infrastructure.

 

[busykngt]

Jack Frost hasn't come nipping at your nose....
he's managed to bite most folks squarely in the ass!

 

[Ozzman]

Meh, ill play devil's advocate here...

Back in 2011, the exact thing that is happening to you guys this week, happened to us here El Paso.

No one in Texas cared, thus I now return the sentiment. Haha, my"evil laugh" while sitting with my working Wifi, at 72 degrees, with another storm forecasted to come in and not a care in the world.

 

[iMac]

Meh, ill play devil's advocate here...

Back in 2011, the exact thing that is happening to you guys this week, happened to us here El Paso.

No one in Texas cared, thus I now return the sentiment. Haha, my"evil laugh" while sitting with my working Wifi, at 72 degrees, with another storm forecasted to come in and not a care in the world.

It is a little different when just one little part of Texas has these issues and when most of the state has them.
El Paso is a secluded town far away from most Texans that is closer to California than to Houston.
So believe me if we get these power issues fixed they won’t stretch all of the way to El Paso. But maybe you can get some help from California. Or Mexico


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[Ozzman]

^^No argument there lol.
But really... California or Mexico helping us out?? Yea right.

 

[Txhillbilly]

Well, We can thank all the Tree Hugger/Green Deal types for any power grid issues.
Nuclear, Coal fired and Natural Gas powered power plants don't shut down from snow and ice storms.
Wind generator's and Solar panel energy producing systems do.

 

[Sam Colt]

Well, We can thank all the Tree Hugger/Green Deal types for any power grid issues.
Nuclear, Coal fired and Natural Gas powered power plants don't shut down from snow and ice storms.
Wind generator's and Solar panel energy producing systems do.

The natural gas wellheads froze.

 

[baboon]

Some people ought to go to jail over this.
The electric bills we pay are so high and we have infrastructure that can't this? Incompetent bass turds. Where the hell has the money been going...
certainly NOT reinvested into more modern and stronger equipment. It's criminal. Heads should roll... (maybe literally).

This is what a in a 100 year storm? So are you going to invest in a pair of snowshoes?
Yes we will need more power plants built, but how many outages are from tree limbs taking out lines?

 

[jrbfishn]

Use a torch and thaw them out.....

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[Txhillbilly]

The natural gas wellheads froze.

Then someone forgot to order or turn on the Methanol injection to keep them from freezing up.
When I was in the Oil & Gas fields, we had the Methanol tanks filled and ready month's before cold weather hit. Then once it got cold, all we had to do was turn on some valves to keep things from freezing up.

 

[avvidclif]

How many nuclear power plants are sitting idle??? Another forum a guy posted that 12,000 wind generators have frozen up. My money says they will need expensive maintenance to go back on line.

 

[DoubleDuty]

More reliance on windmills and solar too

 

[BBL]

I agree with the sentiment here. It's not really about customers paying for new infrastructure when this was not an infrastructure failure, this was an incompetent management failure.
They KNEW the cold was coming and they failed to prepare. They could have pre-ordered electricity from Mexico or New Mexico. (actually there is no need to pre-order, just pick up the damn red phone, call 'em up and ask to buy some juice instantly)
They could have ensured reliable gas supply.
They did not have to cave to the new-green-deal morons and close down useful powerplants.
They could have ordered mayors to conserve power in their cities and lead by example. The pictures of lit up skylines of every major city are infuriating.
They could have managed the rolling blackouts properly to keep them rolling. Instead, they started with the first wave of victims and never actually rolled over to another neighborhood. We have people here who have not had power or water in 2.5 days. And we never lost power. That was a huge eff up for real.
So all-in-all, I don't blame the infrastructure. I blame the incompetent people in key positions. This was a human failure.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

I got nothing against Ol El Paso. Hell I would love to be there guarding the wall and maybe finding some Non TexMex Mexican food.

 

[Big Dipper]

Well, if you can’t blame DJT it must be (wait for it)....











Climate Change

A Glimpse of America’s Future: Climate Change Means Trouble for Power Grids (Published 2021)

Systems are designed to handle spikes in demand, but the wild and unpredictable weather linked to global warming will very likely push grids beyond their limits.

www.nytimes.com