Stick them in the parking lot.Jbob04 said:
Yeah I'm not buying that bs.
Stick them in the parking lot.Jbob04 said:
Yeah I'm not buying that bs.
medicines have to be stored at a specific temperature, not just "cold". Putting them outside like you do with beer will make them go bad just as fast as leaving them on the counter.black_ice said:thirdcoast said:
Hidalgo is frantically looking for a way to refrigerate vaccines after power outage at supply storage!
Lol morons
Okay then, since people naturally assume that "overloading the grid" or some such causes blakcouts, if it is not a demand problem ----- then it appears to be a lack of enough units working or online to meet the need. If that is the case, what is holding up committing reserve power as a stop gap, since its not even an over-demand issue?MisterScott said:Agreed. I have not seen figures but I cannot imagine, and happy to admit I am wrong, that peak demand right now is near what it is on the hottest days. Happy to be proven wrong. This is a supply-side failure.Zobel said:
It's not a demand side problem. If everyone set their thermostat to 60 the grid would still have had the same problems.
Be interesting to know the source for this. Someone within SAWS but not rolled out to the public?hedge said:
Hearing reports that SA is shutting water off at 8pm
hedge said:
so theyre shutting it off
missyaggie said:
We just moved our parents into assisted living and were staying at their house cleaning and organizing. We headed back to Tennessee Saturday afternoon to beat the weather. We left heat on, cabinets with pipes open, and outside spigots wrapped.
If we had known that blackouts were planned, we would have shut off water completely and turned off water heater. No telling what damage might occur now, and we're too far away to do anything about it.
Not possible (at least in any real capacity) unless we want to be subject to federal regulations (FERC).WestAustinAg said:
Maybe Texas should have load sharing agreements with the east and western grids. Does it?
NomadicAggie said:
This is incorrect on so many levels. Just plain wrong. You are upset, think you know something, and are on here making accusations you know nothing about. I'd be careful.
*With distillate tanks to use as back up.CDUB98 said:
We don't need the Feds or the other grids.
What we need to do is fix our own problems.
Start with building more generating capacity that uses nat gas. We're going to need it anyway as illegals and Cali jackwagons flood across our border in increase the population.
But we are subject to federal regulations...at least on polution standards that keep getting raised necesarrily so that more and more power plants have to be mothballed.HerschelwoodHardhead said:Not possible (at least in any real capacity) unless we want to be subject to federal regulations (FERC).WestAustinAg said:
Maybe Texas should have load sharing agreements with the east and western grids. Does it?
Texas wanted to be independent so bad that we can't share power with our northern neighbors in times like this. We can point fingers every which way (which I'm sure will happen), but this is an example of Texas-isolationism gone wrong. Can't really blame the feds for this screw-up, we have to own it.
If you have a gas furnance a basic generator will run it just fine and your fridge and maybe a few other appliances. Not your stove or cook top (if they are electric).Ozzy Osbourne said:
How does one prepare for this? A basic generator may run a space heater for a while, but it's not going to keep the pipes unfrozen. Not to mention, you'd need diesel fuel with a special additive to keep it from freezing.
My house doesn't have a wood burning stove as an alternate heat source. I have a gas fireplace, but I could foresee gas outages as a possible failure mode as well.
I'm having a hard time knowing what could be done to prepare for a similar scenario.
The fed's regulations killed a lot of coal power generation in Texas. They certainly share some of the blame.HerschelwoodHardhead said:Not possible (at least in any real capacity) unless we want to be subject to federal regulations (FERC).WestAustinAg said:
Maybe Texas should have load sharing agreements with the east and western grids. Does it?
Texas wanted to be independent so bad that we can't share power with our northern neighbors in times like this. We can point fingers every which way (which I'm sure will happen), but this is an example of Texas-isolationism gone wrong. Can't really blame the feds for this screw-up, we have to own it.
Distillate backup for every gas turbine. That's how it used to be in the good old days.CDUB98 said:
Interesting thought.
Whitetail said:Distillate backup for every gas turbine. That's how it used to be in the good old days.CDUB98 said:
Interesting thought.
CDUB98 said:
We don't need the Feds or the other grids.
What we need to do is fix our own problems.
Start with building more generating capacity that uses nat gas. We're going to need it anyway as illegals and Cali jackwagons flood across our border in increase the population.
username checks outpolarice said:CDUB98 said:
We don't need the Feds or the other grids.
What we need to do is fix our own problems.
Start with building more generating capacity that uses nat gas. We're going to need it anyway as illegals and Cali jackwagons flood across our border in increase the population.
Isn't gas based generation the bulk of capacity that was lost due to the icing?
CDUB98 said:
It wasn't lost just because it was nat gas based.
There are multiple failures across multiple points in the infrastructure. We can't blame one thing. But, we (TX) do need to get our **** together for the years to come.
polarice said:CDUB98 said:
We don't need the Feds or the other grids.
What we need to do is fix our own problems.
Start with building more generating capacity that uses nat gas. We're going to need it anyway as illegals and Cali jackwagons flood across our border in increase the population.
Isn't gas based generation the bulk of capacity that was lost due to the icing?
fake newsZobel said:
Whoo boy that's an expensive retrofit. Couple million per GT and no true DLN - no guaranteed CO performance, and gotta inject water or steam, which means a water plant... which would probably fail in the cold.