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| February 4th, 2022 at 2:50:45 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Storms cause outages. Linemen fix them. Just part of life. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| February 4th, 2022 at 4:09:53 AM permalink | |
| RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 9 Posts: 2582 |
It is idiotic to compare the type of outages happening due to this storm here in Texas to anything that happened last year. Lines get iced. Trees get iced. Winds blow. Stuff fails to hold up to the ice. Totally different than the lack of power to serve customers last year… There is still work to be done, of course. |
| February 4th, 2022 at 4:42:38 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 13466 |
Safe? Yes. Warm? Get real. Time for a tropical vacation, methinks. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| February 4th, 2022 at 5:01:10 AM permalink | |
| Tanko Member since: Aug 15, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 2470 |
Power lines burdened with snow and ice accumulation, snap under the weight. Very small numbers, considering more than 100 million people live in the path of that storm. |
| February 4th, 2022 at 5:06:22 AM permalink | |
| OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 15 Posts: 1789 | I see from your media that some of you are getting 'severe weather'. I don't like weather extremes either way and I sometimes forget the massive climate variety across your vast nation. Well, let me boast that I've never heard of Ice bringing down power lines over here. EVER*, and today is a beautiful sunny spring day, perfect for a bit of light gardening. Jealous yet? No. I thought not $:o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhVdoxrTvA * I reckon maybe one or two hour long outages a year when transformers trip out or there's careless groundwork.. |
| February 4th, 2022 at 5:16:37 AM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 76 Posts: 12501 |
Yup In Texas Below 32 is considered severe Because they don't prepare in TX like they do in say Colorado TX they have to let the water drip They don't do that in colder CO TX water lines are not buried deep like CO TX typically has the water heater in the unheated attic CO keeps their water heater in the heated home If you don't drip water in TX, your water heater can become a block of ice Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| February 4th, 2022 at 6:44:55 AM permalink | |
| OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 15 Posts: 1789 | Interesting that you refer to 'the water heater' I suspect your home heating is more about water heating and that half the time you are trying to air-con the heat out of your homes? We very rarely have air-con over here and typical central heating uses a gas* boiler mounted within the kitchen or in the heart of the home, (*no, not gasoline) . The idea of having a central heating boiler in an unheated attic sounds plain silly. European energy efficiency rules are pretty strict, because energy is expensive here. You guys seem more easy going about energy wastage? Having to let water drip, so as to not freeze the pipes? Weird! Our ground does not usually get cold enough for underground pipes to freeze. Pipes within the home might only freeze to exposed areas like garden taps (faucets?) |
| February 4th, 2022 at 6:59:01 AM permalink | |
| RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 9 Posts: 2582 | Pipes freeze when you get extended periods in the lower 20’s. The biggest worry at higher temps are things like plants and pets. People have to be smart also. An example with our 27 degree lows is that stuff has ice on it from the wet stuff that fell yesterday. The donkey’s water trough was iced over (busted that up). The pipes are fine. In our part of Texas, the coating of ice on roads and surfaces (including trees) is the biggest danger in this storm. Many of the issues with frozen pipes IN houses last year was extended power outages which allowed the inside of many houses to reach the same low temps as outside. Pipes burst in places that would normally never get that cold even with those temps—he grid issues caused a lot of the problems. I had no power loss (save a three hour rolling blackout one night) and one PVC pipe failure outside during that storm. |
| February 4th, 2022 at 7:08:15 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5753 |
Riviera Maya in a short while.... Breakfast... pool..... Lunch.... pool.... (nap...) Dinner..... show...... drink Rinse and repeat...... |
| February 4th, 2022 at 7:17:51 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 5753 | So Biden wants to nominate someone for SCOTUS this month. There is no filibuster for this, which I am happy about. Let the President pick his nominee and let her sail through even if the minority party is 100% opposed. Buttttttt....... Until further notice, the Senate is now 50-49 Republican, as a Dem Senator is (temporarily?) out of commission. I think Biden waits until he is sure he has 50 voting Dems available before he makes his nomination, even if it extends past February. I remember there was a vote that was going to be just about tied. And one Senator or Congressman had a child's wedding or something like that and thus was going to miss the important vote. I believe a voting member from the other side agreed to abstain to help the father of the bride go to the wedding and not change the outcome of the vote. Facts are a blur but the concept is real..... I would hope that there will be a Republican to do the same if necessary. |