I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I’ve grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they’ve had.
This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
There are no regulations they’re circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn’t help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.
Let’s wait and see how their recovery process goes compared to the other states it affected. Then you might have a point. I predict it’s going to go poorly and probably there will be rate hikes for the captured customers, while the politicians pocket whatever they can squeeze out of the federal government.
Yep. There’s shit down all over the place. Usually I’d be getting ready to go out drinking right now (I’m a drunk, it’s what I do) but I’ve taken in a few friends with no electricity and we’re currently smoking a brisket and playing music on the back porch.
This will be the first weekend since the snowpocolypse that I’m not out doing something all weekend long. I’ve seen the pictures and heard what’s going on from friends. I don’t have any desire to go see how bad it is myself.
Thank you for pointing out the truth of the situation.
I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I’ve grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they’ve had.
This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
There are no regulations they’re circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn’t help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.
Let’s wait and see how their recovery process goes compared to the other states it affected. Then you might have a point. I predict it’s going to go poorly and probably there will be rate hikes for the captured customers, while the politicians pocket whatever they can squeeze out of the federal government.
Yep. There’s shit down all over the place. Usually I’d be getting ready to go out drinking right now (I’m a drunk, it’s what I do) but I’ve taken in a few friends with no electricity and we’re currently smoking a brisket and playing music on the back porch.
This will be the first weekend since the snowpocolypse that I’m not out doing something all weekend long. I’ve seen the pictures and heard what’s going on from friends. I don’t have any desire to go see how bad it is myself.
Thank you for pointing out the truth of the situation.
Interesting take. Noted.