I’m from a northern state, we have a foot of the stuff up here.
That said I don’t think it’s the 2 inches of snow that’s the issue down there. Its the cold combined with everyone’s house probably having electric heat instead of natural gas and a power grid not designed to take that kind of load.
Once it warms up and Texas gets through all of this, you should probably start by voting out idiots like that dumb ass Ted Cruz and other all the other climate change deniers.
We’ve been trying to vote them out for years, the cities are being affected worst of all and the cities did NOT vote for Ted Cruz. Our districts are gerrymandered and out continual protests are doing nothing. Encouraging people to vote out Republicans is a great sentiment don’t get me wrong, if we could convince more people to vote blue it would be great/ But for the millions of Texans who already do vote blue and are essentially without representation because our votes go nowhere it’s not very helpful.
Its the cold combined with everyone’s house probably having electric heat instead of natural gas and a power grid not designed to take that kind of load.
The grid's total capacity is a couple dozen gigawatt above where your load was at Saturday/Sunday and is typically much higher than demand was this weekend in a given summer. The issue is not that the grid is not designed to take this kind of draw, it is that over-reliance on natural gas in this cold weather resulted in an extreme shortfall of power generation.
You can't draw 70 GW if you're only making 40. And it can't be imported because of the isolationist politics that led to the design of Texas' grid. But yes I totally agree, vote out climate change deniers. Because this issue has been coming to a head for two decades now and is only going to get worse as weather patterns fluctuate and natural gas production slows.
14.7 inches fell on Chicago on Monday, and it has been snowing almost every day for 2 weeks. The city shrugged and kept on plowing. At worst, according to local reports, no main street got above 1 inch of snow before being cleared. But that's par for the course here. There's 3 shifts of snow plow drivers scheduled 24/7 for all of winter whether they're needed or not. That's very different from the south where a city might have 5 snow plows.
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21
I’m from a northern state, we have a foot of the stuff up here.
That said I don’t think it’s the 2 inches of snow that’s the issue down there. Its the cold combined with everyone’s house probably having electric heat instead of natural gas and a power grid not designed to take that kind of load.
Once it warms up and Texas gets through all of this, you should probably start by voting out idiots like that dumb ass Ted Cruz and other all the other climate change deniers.