My school superintendent in NE Ohio once got into a twitter fight with a local weatherman arguing over the actual windchill temperatures. It was school policy (perhaps unofficially) to cancel school when it hit -15. It hit between -17 & -20 and he refused.
Wind was the least of the factors but Abbott, Cruz and the MAGA crowd will blame it all on the turbines. It's confirmed: The blackouts in Texas are primarily because of frozen instruments at gas, coal and nuclear plants -- as well limited supplies of gas, according to Ercot.Frozen wind turbines were the least significant factor.https://t.co/10L8Br20iY pic.twitter.com/MBoWt7BDmu— Catherine Traywick (@ctraywick) February 16, 2021
Is anyone here arguing that wind was the biggest reason for anything? Anyone at all? Not even Chief MAGAHead POd is saying that.
The superintendent where I went to high school did this too. It worked great for the majority of his career until folks started lobbying the president of the School Board to call him the night before and convince him to cancel school "for the kids sake." I'll never forget the night my senior year when a bunch of us were gathered at the house of said school board president (her daughter was in my class) enjoying a couple inches of snow and movies and hot cocoa and cookies when someone mentioned that it would be great if we didn't have to go to school the next day. A little bit of pleading with dear ol' mom and a quick phone call later and sure enough there wasn't going to be school tomorrow. Superintendent retired a couple of years later. Shocking, right?
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aus...le-thousands-of-residents-were-without-power/ Cannot make this sh!t up.
This Austin group seems to be continuing a troubling trend when it comes to lights at the stadium. Maybe I’m wrong, but I recall they had a hard time replacing light bulbs in Mapfre Stadium. Now they can’t turn them off without a licensed electrician in Austin. My bold prediction - in the near future Austin will have light bulbs go out at the stadium and struggle to replace them.
I just remembered a funny dream I had a couple of nights ago. I dreamt that I was was stranded at the Austin airport and saw an Austin FC pop up store. I went inside and all I saw was green and green-trimmed clothes that looked like they were surplus from an outlet store (no logos). I asked why thee was no logo and they said they kept missing the shipments from Adidas when they came (no one to pick them up). Is it a good thing that I'm having dreams about them doing something embarrassingly inept or bad that they're living in my subconscious rent-free?
In NYC, that's a union job. At a national hobby show in NYC, they had a grievance filed against them--because one of the show people picked up and moved a broom that was a sitting in an aisle because he almost tripped over it.
Not sure why it takes an electrician to unlock the padlock to throw the breaker. That also seems to be a safety issue.
Sorry for misreading this as someone saying it was wind. “It appears as if a large part of it may also be that Texas relies heavily upon wind power which isn't performing at peak capacity right now.“
a neighbor was a janitor at Frigidaire in Dayton in 1976. He said he left a pile of dirt in the middle of a walkway. After the dirt layed there for an hour a supervisor swept it up. The janitor then filed a grievance against the supervisor for doing his job! Not to mention he told me he had a little to much to drink on his lunch hour and he had a place he could hide and take a nap!
But that's not actually a primary cause. That isn't stopping Abbott from going on Fox News and lying about it rather than trying to do anything.
You managed to find the one person who was actually saying what you contended was being said, and you found him before he even said it! Nicely done. It would be nice if you would stop lying about the rest of us, though.
We did say that the Texas grid is heavily reliant upon wind power and, well, not so much. Unless you define heavily reliant as about 13%, which is roughly what wind is expected to generate on the Texas grid in winter.
He then uses the language of the Tweet to imply that anyone said it was the biggest reason. I have helpfully added highlights to show the lying that is taking place. Other things: 1. "Heavily reliant on" != "biggest reason for failure" 2. 13% is not a small for a single source of energy, especially when it's not really considered base load. 3. THE MIX OF ELECTRICITY SOURCES IS NOT THE POINT. 4. The fact that Texas is overly reliant on electricity for home heating (cooking, water heating) is the point.
Use other fuels in parts of the state where it makes sense. Right now, they've made their bed by being stupidly reliant on electricity. Maybe ship them some propane so they can thaw their pipes.