The cause of the problem is of course gay sex, trans people using bathrooms and a lack of guns and bibles.
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As long as bitcoin farms have power, there is no problems
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Filthy sodomites asked for it! Also all the steamy hot gay sex is heating up the atmosphere. Steamy hot gay sex that I never fantasize about!
There is a guy, a politician, who said that gay sex releases too much greenhouse gas. Also blew cigar smoke into a plant terrarium calling it 'necessary CO2 for the plant to live'.
We live in a simulation, and it's breaking down.
Ann Coulter makes for quite the Prophet.
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It's a bigger economic problem than people are talking about. I have a manager who works from Houston. He can't work right now. Several other coworkers as well.
At some point, employers will have to consider the liability of employing someone in Texas, simply because a power outage could seriously impact them.
So Texas and Florida are out?
Florida, all the craziness aside, is actually part of the national grid and, like the other commenter said, usually rebounds quickly.
Texas OTOH keeps insisting their independent unconnected grid is superior, even though the evidence is stacking quite tall against that claim. If it's not a hurricane, it's the heat. If it's not the heat, it's the cold. If it's not the cold, it's the wind.
It's always SOMETHING with their grid, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with their insistence that their grid be independent. It's all the WoKeNESs that's the problem!!! /s
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Florida rebounds really quick after a hurricane. I do have coworkers in Florida, at most they are out for a day or two.
It's been 4 so far for Houston. And I'm not talking a hurricane which won't impact most of the state, I'm talking about any power outage across the state.
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Yeah, red states are very poor, mostly due to their backwards economic policies. I know someone is going to being up that Texas is actually rich over all, but they still have far worse wealth disparities and widespread poverty than a comparable state like California. So they are indeed still a very poor state.
This poverty is a huge liability. It's all fun and games complaining about how the gov wrecks everything until you need something like well regulated utilities.
Poverty is always a liability. In the healthcare system, poverty raises the costs for everyone else when they don't get things treated or prevented.
What bothers me is that there is a whole bunch of financial types who seem to blissfully ignore liabilities. "Those are unrealized costs," when it should be "those are ticking time bombs." If you don't mitigate liabilities like through well regulated utilities those ticking time bombs will always have bigger consequences when they ARE realized.
That's a problem for the next guy once I get my paycheck and leave in 2 years. Repeat ad nauseum.
The company I work for has a production and shipping facility down near Houston that has been closed down since Monday due to the lack of power. It's insane.
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It sure would be stupid if Texas wasn't connected to the national grid because that would make solving this problem a lot slower and a lot more expensive.
Sure would be stupid...
Trust me, you don't want connect your grid to our disease. The infection needs to be cut out first.
You guys do have the wind farms. Fat lot of good it's done you, but...
Poor (not really, fuck him) T. Boone Pickens. He thought they would power all of Texas after he was gone.
Like I said, gotta cut out the infection
You're admiring our shoes but the foot's still gangrenous
Remember this at the next elections, when you will have that incredible urge to not vote or to vote right.
Republicans in Texas focus their voter suppression efforts on Houston since it is the biggest Democratic voting population in the State.
Don’t worry. They’ll vote for the same folks who allowed this unpreparedness to continue.
Wow we've done nothing and nothing changed
they most loyal and obedient slaves are the slaves who think they're free
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But if we tax rich people to pay for services that's Communism! Also black people would benefit, is that what you want commie?!
Keep voting republican!
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Will they get angry enough to do something about the GOPers that are causing the problems? Probably not.
They've been brainwashed into thinking that the GOP is the only solution to their problems and the reason why they never solve the problems is that the enemy is both too strong and too weak.
See point 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
But not so angry they are going to do something french about it.
I see a lot of people here blaming the TX grid but not all of Texas is under ERCOT.
SE of Houston, power is supplied by Entergy Texas which also supplies power along most of the gulf coast.
Here is a statement from them, "As of 6:30 p.m. Friday, Entergy Texas crews have safely restored electrical power to approximately 199,100 of the 252,460 customers impacted by Hurricane Beryl. We expect all customers who can safely take power to be restored no later than Monday, July 15."
These are not TX policy decisions causing these outages. It is simply economical decisions that are made throughout the national grid system to make it affordable to deliver the vast quantities of power that people need at a price they can afford. It's simply a fact of life that when you have such a powerful storm passing through, any human built system is going to fall to the power of mother nature.
I was a electrical engineer back in college, so if anyone has any specific things they want to ask, I'll try to respond.
I'm not an economist though so I can't tell you why it's more important for peoples heating and cooling bills to be closer to $100 a month instead of $300 and why the policy decisions are made to support that. And this is with modest electrical usage setting my AC to cool down to a conservative 78-80 degrees since I'm cheap and want to conserve energy.
As a Texan, the problem is we have 0 below ground lines, we don’t stage workers even when we know storms are coming, we don’t require structures to be built in resilient ways (including solar or wind facilities for new builds) and the end result is that our communities aren’t resilient.
Sure we pay less in taxes (note: if you’re wealthy), but you need a generator and an interlock kit to have the electric uptime other places have. You’re still paying a tax to live here, it’s just not going to the government to give you a nicer community, it’s going to businesses so their execs can get wealthier.
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