Thread: U.S. energy crisis leaves millions without power in big freeze

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Perhaps the science is too complicated for you.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

I've never claimed to be an expert in the area.

Only experts are here allowed...

For christs sake, can we PLEASE confine that fucking klongdick to the doghouse (please please please.) His constant dribbling nonsense is distracting from the discussions. It's EXTREMELY annoying.

Ted Cruz books economy flight back to Texas after Cancun vacation goes viral, records suggest.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is reportedly on the way back to Texas after photos of him flying to Cancun went viral this week.

Punchbowl News's Jake Sherman dug up flight records showing that someone with a name similar to Cruz's had booked a flight from Cancun to Houston.


According to the records, Cruz narrowly missed his chance to upgrade to businesses class, presumably leaving the senator in economy-class seating.

News of Cruz's apparent return comes soon after Fox News confirmed that he had traveled to Cancun despite a massive power outage in Texas.


Ted Cruz books economy flight back to Texas after Cancun vacation goes viral, records suggest - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism

And of course people are reminding the obnoxious prick about his tweet when CA had blackouts...

“California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity. Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide. Hope you don’t like air conditioning!,” Cruz tweeted with condescension.

Ted Cruz's tweets about California blackouts look really dumb right now

Originally Posted by Cujo

For christs sake, can we PLEASE confine that fucking klongdick to the doghouse (please please please.) His constant dribbling nonsense is distracting from the discussions. It's EXTREMELY annoying.

He's a drunk buffoon . . .



Cruz . . . Easily one of the most vile characters in US politics . . . and he's a senator ffs

Originally Posted by panama hat

Cruz . . . Easily one of the most vile characters in US politics . . . and he's a senator ffs

Why he better did not stay at home playing a computer game with the daughter?

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Why he better did not stay at home playing a computer game with the daughter?

Like you should have learned English and stayed off the sauce . . . and do you stay at home and play computer games with your 'daughter'?

Luckily, the state(s) owns a huge army with their mighty gear and other servicemen. So in such a disaster the citizens (and the other residents) can surely rely on that help... (in case the army is not momentary engaged in other more necessary tasks...)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Why he better did not stay at home playing a computer game with the daughter?

Better he take off his shirt and ride around on horseback in the snow or jump into an ice plunge to show how tough he is like (no names mentioned here.)

The latest on the storm:


As of Friday morning, more than half a million people in the U.S. did not have electricity — Texas topped the list with less than 200,000 power outages, according to tracking website poweroutage.us.


In Texas, about 13 million people were under boil water orders in the wake of a winter storm that froze and bursted pipes, creating chaos for water treatment facilities.


Memphis International Airport was forced to temporarily close its passenger terminal and cancel all flights due to water pressure issues.


At least 43 people from 10 different states have died because of weather-related fatalities since Thursday, the majority in Texas.


Power comes back for most in Texas, but other problems pile up

Have we discussed how Cruz, rather than stay and fight, said fuck this for a game of soldiers and took of to sunny Mehico. fucking hilarious.
What an utter cretin.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Anything built in the last fifteen years is suspect. Cheapest material "findable", the major prerequisite for purchase.

Are you insinuating that the wooden (chipboards) houses supplied by electric power on wooden poles are not the best solution for the country with frequent hurricanes and bush fires?

^If only the USA was more like Russia!

Thank Putin this woman has a concrete electrical post! Helps to keep her warm in the winter storm.

Lights come back on in Texas as water woes rise in the South


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back, but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, with many people lacking safe drinking water.


Nearly 185,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Texas according to poweroutage.us early Friday, down from about 3 million two days earlier, though utility officials said limited rolling blackouts were still possible.

The storms also left more than 335,000 from Virginia to Louisiana without power and about 71,000 in Oregon were still enduring a weeklong outage following a massive ice and snow storm.


The snow and ice moved into the Appalachians, northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, and later the Northeast as the extreme weather was blamed for the deaths of at least 57 people, including a 17-year-old Oklahoma girl who fell into a frozen pond Thursday, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.


A growing number of people have perished trying to keep warm. In and around the western Texas city of Abilene, authorities said six people died of the cold — including a 60-year-old man found dead in his bed in his frigid home. In the Houston area, a family died from carbon monoxide as their car idled in their garage.

Utilities from Minnesota to Texas used rolling blackouts to ease strained power grids. But the remaining Texas outages were mostly weather-related, according to the state's grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.


Federal Emergency Management Agency acting administrator Bob Fenton said Friday that teams were in Texas with fuel, water, blankets and other supplies.

“What has me most worried is making sure that people stay warm,” Fenton said on “CBS This Morning," while urging people without heat to go to a shelter or warming center.


Rotating outages for Texas could return if electricity demand rises as people get power and heating back, said Dan Woodfin, the council's senior director of system operations.


Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that residents “are not out of the woods,” with temperatures still well below freezing statewide, south central Texas threatened by a winter storm and disruptions in food supply chains.


Adding to the misery: The weather jeopardized drinking water systems. Authorities ordered 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — to boil tap water before drinking it, following the record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and pipes. In Abilene, a man who died at a health care facility when a lack of water pressure made medical treatment impossible.


Water pressure dropped after lines froze and because many people left faucets dripping to prevent pipes from icing, said Toby Baker, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Abbott urged residents to shut off water to prevent more busted pipes and preserve municipal system pressure.

President Joe Biden said he called Abbott on Thursday evening and offered additional support from the federal government to state and local agencies.


Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said residents will probably have to boil tap water in the fourth-largest U.S. city until Sunday or Monday.


Federal emergency officials sent generators to support water treatment plants, hospitals and nursing homes in Texas, along with thousands of blankets and ready-to-eat meals, officials said. The Texas Restaurant Association was coordinating food donations to hospitals.


Two of Houston Methodist's community hospitals had no running water and still treated patients but canceled most non-emergency surgeries and procedures for Thursday and possibly Friday, said spokeswoman Gale Smith.


As of Thursday afternoon, more than 1,000 Texas public water systems and 177 of the state’s 254 counties had reported weather-related operational disruptions, affecting more than 14 million people, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.


About 260,000 homes and businesses in Tennessee's largest county, which includes Memphis, were told to boil water after cold temperatures led to water main ruptures and problems at pumping stations. Memphis International Airport canceled all incoming and outgoing passenger flights Friday due to water pressure issues.


In Texas, more than 300 flights in and out of Dallas and Houston were canceled Friday, according to flightaware.com. Particularly affected was American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth. The website’s “misery map” showed even more delays and cancellations at airports from Washington, D.C., to Boston as the latest winter storm front moved through the Northeast.


In Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said most of the city of about 150,000 was without water Thursday night. Crews pumped water to refill city tanks but faced a shortage of chemicals to treat the water, she said.


“We are dealing with an extreme challenge with getting more water through our distribution system,” Lumumba said.


About 85 seniors in a Jackson apartment building lost water service Monday and were relying on deliveries from a building manager, said resident Linda Weathersby.


Weathersby went outside collecting buckets of ice to melt it so she could flush her toilet and said “my back's hurting now.”


Before the wintry weather moved from Texas, the city of Del Rio along the U.S.-Mexico border, got nearly 10 inches (25.4 cm) of snow on Thursday, surpassing the city’s one-day record for snowfall.


Bleed reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press journalists Terry Wallace in Dallas; Juan Lozano in Houston; Ken Miller in Oklahoma City; Leah Willingham in Jackson, Mississippi; Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama; Kevin McGill in New Orleans; Darlene Superville in Washington; and Tammy Webber in Fenton, Michigan, contributed.

Lights come back on in Texas as water woes rise in the South

Originally Posted by misskit

^If only the USA was more like Russia!

^Whataboutism? Who was here recently outraged about "whataboutism" and Off-Topic? Wondering whether he/she (the one outraged and mighty "deleter") will act...

Originally Posted by misskit

Thank Putin this woman has a concrete electrical post! Helps to keep her warm in the winter storm.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

^Whataboutism? Who was here recently outraged about "whataboutism" and Off-Topic? Wondering whether he/she (the one outraged and mighty "deleter") will act...

You think its OK, so lets go with it.

These very nasty winter storms are predicated under normal circumstances to dip down into the Dallas area once every fifty years.

I don't know what's happening in Texas but in the rest of the western world there are normally regulations governing where and how you can build. Along the Pacific coast although a super siesmic event may occur every 300 years building codes now require that structures must be built to withstand them. Folks are not allowed to build on floodplains, etc., etc. Experts are now telling us it will take at least two years to clean up the mess and untold billion of dollars. So the government gambles to go without an insurance policy.

We shouldn't forget that these events generate billions of dollars of new opportunities, especially once the public purse is fully open.

I hope a few lessons are learned here.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Whataboutism?

Why woud you complain about whataboutism used against when it is the cornerstone of most of your posts?

FOK

Originally Posted by panama hat

Why woud you complain about whataboutism used against when it is the cornerstone of most of your posts?

FOK

The likes of him, Backspin and OhOh are what makes this forum eminently less contributable to with every passing day. A clusterfuck of stupidity and indoctrination which offers nothing to the board.

At least Paleo Robbie got waxed, so the stupidly is down.a notch. But not much.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

If i read this correctly , a big part of their problem is that to avoid federal regulation they developed a system totally independent of the rest of the US.
Obviously a great move .

Yes, the great Republican dream of self-governance and 'showing California' . . . clearly victorious steer-botherers

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Good thing trump did all these infrastructure work he promised

How much of the promised has been done? Every POTUS before him had liked to promise. There are many archive shots of their fiery speeches. Not lately the hopeful candidate last year and Obama years before.

And the current POTUS in his care of 50 years...