Rolling blackout

[Dale Moser]

I hope every mother lovin piece of trash that voted for joe biden is freezing their *** off right now! This is what he has planned...no oil, no coal, no fossil fuels, no nuclear.....and no ****ing heat! Wind and solar kids, that’s where your fearless leader sees the solution, unless it gets cold, of course.

I hope those sobs are miserable....morons.

Anyone want to guess what happens to batteries in extreme cold?


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[Hart8]

Originally Posted by DNTRanch

But even if you have gas you need electricity to run the fan, we are very unprepared.

Yes sir.That's what makes it so insignificant..Very little draw on the electricity grid.Think Minneapolis,Chicago,Detroit,New York,etc,etc..

[Hart8]

Originally Posted by Dale Moser

I hope every mother lovin piece of trash that voted for joe biden is freezing their *** off right now! This is what he has planned...no oil, no coal, no fossil fuels, no nuclear.....and no ****ing heat! Wind and solar kids, that’s where your fearless leader sees the solution, unless it gets cold, of course.

I hope those sobs are miserable....morons.

Anyone want to guess what happens to batteries in extreme cold?


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Dale,they aren't..Maybe in Texas..But Texas didn't elect Biden,Obama,Clinton,or Jimmy Carson.They were all a bunch of pinche politicians..Hell,we survived that **** show,all of em..We'll survive this one too.

[boomerball]

this was passed along to me from friend of my wife. can't confirm it is accurate, but is seems to make sense

[Txhuntr2]

Power back on in Tomball. 13 hours later.

[captainsling]

We need to spend a couple
Million on a congressional hearing so we know who to blame for this bull****!

[wellingtontx]

Originally Posted by captainsling

We need to spend a couple
Million on a congressional hearing so we know who to blame for this bull****!

Don't worry, they just spent somewhere in the 15-20 Million on a failed impeachment attempt, so I am sure they have no problem spending more of our money.

They all should be run out of office.....just waiting for Beijing Biden to start pointing fingers.

[sp-bow]

Originally Posted by brokeno

Wind turbines froze up with ice and snow on them-no power
Solar panels covered with ice and snow on them-no power
Politicians believing all the bull**** and crap on global warming have all the power in the world. No investments in current energy supplies just green energy. Time to join together and take a stand against the idiotic lifetime politicians that need to be removed from office.

Amen

[sp-bow]

Originally Posted by Dale Moser

I hope every mother lovin piece of trash that voted for joe biden is freezing their *** off right now! This is what he has planned...no oil, no coal, no fossil fuels, no nuclear.....and no ****ing heat! Wind and solar kids, that’s where your fearless leader sees the solution, unless it gets cold, of course.

I hope those sobs are miserable....morons.

Anyone want to guess what happens to batteries in extreme cold?


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I like the way you think.

[orchard]

This is an epic failure of colossal proportion. Also lot's of people on here saying things that are false. Please quit guessing. The reason why I haven't had power to my house in almost 16 hrs now isn't because of "downed lines."

There is a lot of disinformation going around the web right now about this.

I am typing this from a hotel room not even 1/2 mile from my house where I lost power at midnight. Nothing rolling here. Fine at the hotel, just not the house.

Anybody watch the news this morning in Houston and see the "skyeye" shot? Funny how downtown buildings were lit up with no one in them yet surrounding neighborhoods were blacked out.

I have talked to people this morning that are in Pearland, Texas City, Spring, Woodlands, The Heights, all without power since midnight.

Got a 93 year old grandmother? What about a 2 month old baby?

Another day/night of this without power to heat homes and this will end badly.

ERCOT is deciding who gets power and who doesn't.
How does that decision get made? Why do some nursing homes have it and some don't?
Why are some rolling and some without it for an entire day?

[perow]

Well our house is starting to look like a flop house—some friends of ours haven’t had power since 3 this morning and are headed over with their kiddo to stay here. We have another couple with out power and they too might be headed over. Our little 2 bed/ 2 bath house is going to be cozy

[savin yours]

Going on 15 hrs without power. We are blessed to have a fireplace and plenty of wood, gas stove and a generator to run fridge and freezer. The power has come on 3 times in 15hrs, for about 10min each time. I’m in brazoria, and I want answers!


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[Smart]

We are back up and running after being down since 9. Not gonna unhook the generator for an hour or so to see if they knock it back off again.

[Smart]

Originally Posted by orchard

This is an epic failure of colossal proportion. Also lot's of people on here saying things that are false. Please quit guessing. The reason why I haven't had power to my house in almost 16 hrs now isn't because of "downed lines."

There is a lot of disinformation going around the web right now about this.

I am typing this from a hotel room not even 1/2 mile from my house where I lost power at midnight. Nothing rolling here. Fine at the hotel, just not the house.

Anybody watch the news this morning in Houston and see the "skyeye" shot? Funny how downtown buildings were lit up with no one in them yet surrounding neighborhoods were blacked out.

I have talked to people this morning that are in Pearland, Texas City, Spring, Woodlands, The Heights, all without power since midnight.

Got a 93 year old grandmother? What about a 2 month old baby?

Another day/night of this without power to heat homes and this will end badly.

ERCOT is deciding who gets power and who doesn't.
How does that decision get made? Why do some nursing homes have it and some don't?
Why are some rolling and some without it for an entire day?

Sounds like some more guessing using a tiny sample size.

[bphillips]

Originally Posted by bakin7005

Mines been out since 1am...no ice here just about 4 inches of snow. That won't cause downed power lines. What else could it be?
North Richland Hills

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Not sure what all causes it with snow but we had power out here at home and at our ranch last time there was snow and no ice. I’m not a lineman so I don’t know all the different reasons. This time though we had a little ice not been heavy and I have see lots of poles laid over in the roads. Luckily the ones I have seen here affect very few people

[Dale Moser]

Originally Posted by Smart

Sounds like some more guessing using a tiny sample size.

Bad guessing, at that.


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[Bro. Bill]

Out since 2.30 this morning

[Casey]

22 hours without power here. Fun is long over.

[Smart]

Originally Posted by Smart

We are back up and running after being down since 9. Not gonna unhook the generator for an hour or so to see if they knock it back off again.

Well that lasted an hour. Generator is refueled and gonna run it all night so if we fall asleep Darth Vader on his Cpap isn’t interrupted ... still have friends and family local and in DFW that haven’t been out once and we have now been out 5 times ...

[John Paul]

Called Karnes Coop a couple times today, been off an on since last night. Karnes said Ercot has directed them to do rolling outages do to strain on the grid. On for an hour off for 3-4 hours.

[orchard]

Originally Posted by Smart

Sounds like some more guessing using a tiny sample size.

Tiny? Explain tiny when people from all over the state are posting on this thread about not having power for 22 hrs?

It's just a couple of us right?

[bphillips]

Originally Posted by orchard

Tiny? Explain tiny when people from all over the state are posting on this thread about not having power for 22 hrs?

It's just a couple of us right?

What’s causing it? You said it isn’t downed lines so I assume you know what’s going on?

I have seen natural gas plants are having lots of isssues also so maybe just a bad combo of things not keeping enough power available. At least here at home they’re keeping us going but it’s been in and out 20-30 times today since we got up

[Greenheadless]

Originally Posted by bphillips

What’s causing it? You said it isn’t downed lines so I assume you know what’s going on?

I have seen natural gas plants are having lots of isssues also so maybe just a bad combo of things not keeping enough power available. At least here at home they’re keeping us going but it’s been in and out 20-30 times today since we got up

It isn’t a guess. Ercot came out and said it is a capacity issue. Notice how the distribution companies are always on their game on telling when you should get your power back, are all of a sudden quiet?

The president of Centerpoint laid out very distinctly what is going on in an interview with Houston ‘media’.

They basically said to Houston, there are no more rolling blackouts in our area. If you do t have power now, don’t bet on power till tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. They are trying to protect critical infrastructure right now.

[texansfan]

Power is back in The Woodlands

[Maddox]

Originally Posted by texansfan

Power is back in The Woodlands

Not in Sterling Ridge

[texansfan]

Originally Posted by Maddox

Not in Sterling Ridge

Surprising with the fire station right there.
Does Walmart have power?

[Maddox]

No clue, i rarely go back that far except to get my hair cut at Lisas.

[orchard]

Originally Posted by bphillips

What’s causing it? You said it isn’t downed lines so I assume you know what’s going on?

The lack of Nat Gas. We know that.

The issue is why have over a million households been without power for close to 24hrs now and some have never lost it.

[texansfan]

Originally Posted by Maddox

No clue, i rarely go back that far except to get my hair cut at Lisas.

Me either
Let time i went there was this summer when the power went out
That was the only Starbucks that had power

[Greenheadless]

Originally Posted by orchard

The lack of Nat Gas. We know that.

The issue is why have over a million households been without power for close to 24hrs now and some have never lost it.

Areas/grids with critical infrastructure gets the juice.

If you are on the same grid as the local hospital, more than likely, you have lights.

Same thing happens during hurricanes and who gets power back first.

[Killer]

Tucker Carson’s show tonight talked about Texas blackouts good stuff hope everyone watched

[Greenheadless]

Originally Posted by Killer

Tucker Carson’s show tonight talked about Texas blackouts good stuff hope everyone watched

Once again, this s humble brag of something?

[Bumpy]

Originally Posted by bakin7005

Mines been out since 1am...no ice here just about 4 inches of snow. That won't cause downed power lines. What else could it be?
North Richland Hills

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You can't be serious

[orchard]

Originally Posted by Greenheadless

Areas/grids with critical infrastructure gets the juice.

If you are on the same grid as the local hospital, more than likely, you have lights.

Same thing happens during hurricanes and who gets power back first.

The bar down the road has power. The subdivision across the street from it does not. Is the bar critical infrastructure?

[Greenheadless]

Originally Posted by orchard

The bar down the road has power. The subdivision across the street from it does not. Is the bar critical infrastructure?

I would think so. Why are you not there?

[howabouttheiris]

on our 3rd outage in NW Austin.

1 hour at 230am
3 hours at 1230pm
off since 7pm

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[Txarrowhunter]

Originally Posted by Geezy Rider

I’m 7 miles north of Weatherford but we haven’t lost power yet. Certainly hope we don’t.
Good luck.

Both of my trucks fuel gelled up and couldn’t go anywhere. Luckily I had my trailblazer 325 here and I wired that sucker up to my cutoff box and we pretty much have electricity for nearly the whole house. So as long as we do t run out of fuel we should be good. I did pick up 20 gallons during the whole January ordeal so that kinda worked out I guess.

[bphillips]

Originally Posted by Greenheadless

Areas/grids with critical infrastructure gets the juice.

If you are on the same grid as the local hospital, more than likely, you have lights.

Same thing happens during hurricanes and who gets power back first.

I did read that and makes sense for several areas here that haven’t lost.

I talked to my grandma earlier and their retirement community has been kept on the whole time so that’s good

[cbarnes]

We lost power at 3:45 this morning and it has not been back. Contacted our provider which is Taylor electric coop, they said it was because of the rolling blackouts. Sent me a couple of links in the reply. I went to them and read what they said, 15 minutes to possibly and hour. I replied to our coop that 8 hours was a **** long time for a 15-60 minute rolling blackout! They then said it was AEP transmission line that went into their metering location that was down. Now they are saying AEP is going to fix their line until sometime tomorrow. It is -2 right now in Callahan County. 48 in the house with a propane Dearborn heater trying to keep up.

[sqiggy]

Sure are a lot of whiny titty babies here!!
Was out of power for 3 days in the last go around!
Haven’t lost power yet this time and I live in rural Texas!!!
Suck it up buttercups!!!

Just poking the bear. I really feel for all that are without power. Just a few more days we’ll be back to normal.

[OldRiverRat]

Originally Posted by Greenheadless

Areas/grids with critical infrastructure gets the juice.



If you are on the same grid as the local hospital, more than likely, you have lights.



Same thing happens during hurricanes and who gets power back first.

Well that has worked for us through all the hurricanes and storms but didn’t work today
Power went out at the house two hours ago and still down
We are on the hospital and ER grid
No one is immune this time I don’t think


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[SJP51]

Gents,

I manage a power plant in east Texas. Almost 900 MW of power. We're doing our best in a plant designed for 20F, but operating down to -1F tonight.

Will try to keep the lights on for you!

[Traildust]

Still no power since 5 am. Rode into town to get generator fuel. Plenty of power there. There is nothing but power lines from town to my house. Not sure ***! Got a generator set up with a light a small heater at my mom so she's comfortable.

[BJ DUPLECHAIN]

Originally Posted by SJP51

Gents,

I manage a power plant in east Texas. Almost 900 MW of power. We're doing our best in a plant designed for 20F, but operating down to -1F tonight.

Will try to keep the lights on for you!

Good luck! Keep warm!

[Adgerc15]

We got power back for about an hour and a half late this afternoon. Enough to pump some heat back in but just shot temps on the door jamb and window frames reading 15ish degrees. Fire cranking, gonna be a long cold night. I’d pay crazy money for a 15K generator right about now...

Y’all be safe and keep warm!

Ac

[Swampa]

We rolled 13 hrs, but had a blast in the snow today. Pulled my kids with the ranger on their bogey boards till my nose and hands were about to break off!


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[HoustonHunter]

We’ve been fortunate to keep power this entire time. Starting to think I am on the hospital grid that ties into The Woodlands hospital systems. We only lost power for a few short hours during Harvey, and that’s the only time in my 5 years here.

I feel for you all and sure hope your power comes back on. This week is going to stay cold.

[Texas Grown]

My power came back on about an hour ago. Been off since 4AM.

The fish are biting, and there's hogs to be kill-t. Gotta go!

[joel45acp]

NW san antonio (helotes area) our power has been on/off since last night about 10pm. It’ll stay on for 2:40sec or so and off for 30-45mins. thank God our fireplace is gas which has been on since yesterday evening. so tell me again why folks voted Dem?

[Aggiehunter08]

I’ve never even heard of ercot until this cluster f**k.