For Ted Cruz? January 3, 2025Where is the dislike button?
So basically when everyone forgets or is convinced it was actually Green Energy's fault. Got youFor Ted Cruz? January 3, 2025
And approved by Biden. Not that he shouldn't have. He is president of all Americans after all, even shitty ones who erthwhile did not acknowledge him as such, tho that last bit was seemingly quickly forgotten when the time came to hold out their hand.Texas governor reaches out for federal assistance... you can't script this shit.
Funnily enough, despite my joke title the night sky was still pretty bright.The OP is missing photos of the Texan starry night to drive the point home. I am disappointed...
Priorities. Save the lives of the poor or stroke the egos of the rich?Because it took them a couple days of rationing power to realize the empty business districts were still lit up at night.
Well, those buildings happen to be on the same tier 1 grid section as emergency services, they can't just cut power to those buildings without losing emergency services. I've been lucky and since I live near an old folks home I am on tier 2 and haven't lost power during the whole thing either.Priorities. Save the lives of the poor or stroke the egos of the rich?
Oh they cut those lights on later nights, without disrupting emergency services.Well, those buildings happen to be on the same tier 1 grid section as emergency services, they can't just cut power to those buildings without losing emergency services. I've been lucky and since I live near an old folks home I am on tier 2 and haven't lost power during the whole thing either.
Then they got ahold of the building managers to cut those lights.Oh they cut those lights on later nights, without disrupting emergency services.
It shouldn't have happened in the first place. The people monitoring the grid didn't see or take action when that was happening? And issued condescending tweets telling people to unplug their appliances to stop phantom draw and LED lights?Then they got ahold of the building managers to cut those lights.
A rifle is like a dislike button, and there's a lot of them in Texas.Where is the dislike button?
Pretty much all those office buildings are on timers and such. Yeah they should have been dealt with before time but pretty much all of TX's responses to this have been "oh shit, this happened, we need people to do so and so." Like, they expected bad, but not this bad and they seemed to have prepared for less bad then they thought it would be.It shouldn't have happened in the first place. The people monitoring the grid didn't see or take action when that was happening? And issued condescending tweets telling people to unplug their appliances to stop phantom draw and LED lights?
To be fair, how could anyone have possibly seen that? I mean...it's not like it's lit up like it's the Fourth of Fucking July at The Fireworks Factory where unsupervised children were all given matches and lighters and a fuckton of Mountain Dew and told to just go fucking nuts...Funnily enough, despite my joke title the night sky was still pretty bright.
Because it took them a couple days of rationing power to realize the empty business districts were still lit up at night.
I would advise against speculation here. You have no idea what is involved in running the grid or even what laws and requirements there are for ERCOT. Saying something like this without much more information is at best, foolish. Now, that article does sound like them trying to cover their asses, but all this shit is complicated enough without random guessing.Texas was "seconds and minutes" away from catastrophic months-long blackouts, officials say
ERCOT officials said that grid operators implemented blackouts to avoid a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months.www.kiiitv.com
Regarding that talk about the business district and how you can't just turn it off because of hospitals and all, here's some cold calculus. Hospitals have generators and might have theoretically lasted the night, but the energy saved would be a large buffer against a total implosion.