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Post by castletonsnob on Dec 1, 2021 13:08:47 GMT -5
Fellow Texans, how worried are you that the power grid will fail again this winter?
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 1, 2021 13:13:26 GMT -5
Dont worry about it. Im sure your politicians have their generators or flights lined up so it wont affect them at all.
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Post by floundertime on Dec 1, 2021 13:41:48 GMT -5
Yes.....the short simple answer
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2021 16:46:44 GMT -5
Texas has become Florida II, lol.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 1, 2021 17:44:28 GMT -5
Texas has become Florida II, lol. The entire south is becoming a third world nation (not in the actual definition but the common current definition).
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 1, 2021 21:01:36 GMT -5
Our Governor "guaranteed" no failures, so I'm pretty concerned.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 1, 2021 21:04:35 GMT -5
Yes. And not just Texas.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 1, 2021 21:06:08 GMT -5
Dont worry about it. Im sure your politicians have their generators or flights lined up so it wont affect them at all. Few months later they'll be at conferences "joking" about events where hundreds of their constituents died and billions were lost in property damage and productivity.
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Post by castletonsnob on Dec 1, 2021 21:11:42 GMT -5
What do you mean, "Not just Texas"? Which other states are in danger?
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Post by chrom on Dec 1, 2021 23:22:21 GMT -5
Texas has become Florida II, lol. The entire south is becoming a third world nation (not in the actual definition but the common current definition). Still better off than California
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 1, 2021 23:32:19 GMT -5
If it does, wonder if Stephen King and Marina Sirtis say the dead deserve it again.
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Post by J. Hova on Dec 2, 2021 0:39:54 GMT -5
We are going to see a lot of infrastructure failures over the next few years. We keep spending money on things that don't matter and cutting taxes for those who don't need it, but refuse to invest in roads, power grids, etc. and when we do, it has to be bloated out of sight with contractor bloated costs. We invest in solar and wind energy. Where I live, I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a wind turbine, but the moment you mention the most efficient clean energy known to man (nuclear) people act like radioactive fish are going to be in their rivers tomorrow.
So yeah, it will fail, it will fail multiple times, those in power will shrug their shoulders, and nothing meaningful will be done. Rinse, repeat.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 2, 2021 5:02:30 GMT -5
What do you mean, "Not just Texas"? Which other states are in danger? The US power grid coast to coast is antiquated and the demands on it are growing fast. There are cables hanging that should have been replaced Ed decades ago, while there are more and more electric cars snd crypto mining. And extreme weather is the new normal, happening more snd more routinely.
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Post by castletonsnob on Dec 2, 2021 6:13:27 GMT -5
What do you mean, "Not just Texas"? Which other states are in danger? The US power grid coast to coast is antiquated and the demands on it are growing fast. There are cables hanging that should have been replaced Ed decades ago, while there are more and more electric cars snd crypto mining. And extreme weather is the new normal, happening more snd more routinely. Yeah, Texas's power grid is bad, but US infrastructure as a whole is WAY behind most countries. That's what you and J. Hoya were saying, right?
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 2, 2021 7:31:09 GMT -5
The US power grid coast to coast is antiquated and the demands on it are growing fast. There are cables hanging that should have been replaced Ed decades ago, while there are more and more electric cars snd crypto mining. And extreme weather is the new normal, happening more snd more routinely. Yeah, Texas's power grid is bad, but US infrastructure as a whole is WAY behind most countries. That's what you and J. Hoya were saying, right? Yes. The Netherlands is largely below seal level yet has had nowhere near the issues with flooding they the US has had. Nothing was learned from Hurricane Katrina and that was nearly twenty years ago.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 2, 2021 7:37:43 GMT -5
If you see zero money spent on actual physical things you can see, then the answer is Yes. And likely worse.
I work on the government side of building roads/bridges. The vast majority of my local inventory of bridges was built to last 50 years and they are 70+. My highways were all built to last 30 and only 1 of them is younger than 40. And we are rated as "above average" locally. Yet every time we spend money on trying to redo something everybody screams because of the price tag... and that tag gets higher every year.
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Post by Flo360 on Dec 2, 2021 7:40:32 GMT -5
We are going to see a lot of infrastructure failures over the next few years. We keep spending money on things that don't matter and cutting taxes for those who don't need it, but refuse to invest in roads, power grids, etc. and when we do, it has to be bloated out of sight with contractor bloated costs. We invest in solar and wind energy. Where I live, I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a wind turbine, As one does...
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Dec 2, 2021 9:27:17 GMT -5
Yes, because somehow we never learn our lesson
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Post by Venti on Dec 2, 2021 11:02:09 GMT -5
I'm very worried.
That whole week I was out of power and it was one of the most miserable things I've ever experienced.
I live on the third floor and it was cold as heck. I could see my breath in the living room.
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Post by castletonsnob on Dec 2, 2021 13:48:13 GMT -5
How worried should I be?
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