Update - power back after 127 hours

[lee_carvallo_12]

libs are the worst sad!

Also, yes, please start GoFuckMe Facebook page.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

That sucks. We never lost power in the burbs.

 

[Southendzonehusker]

Maybe Texas should oh I don’t know join the national power grid.

What national grid?

 

[cwessel76]

Maybe you should go tread somewhere

 

[cwessel76]

What national grid?

I’ll bite.

North American power transmission grid - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The grid that all states but AK, HI, and TX are attached to via some capacity to other states.

But Texas hurr murr derp.

 

[Southendzonehusker]

I’ll bite.

North American power transmission grid - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The grid that all states but AK, HI, and TX are attached to via some capacity to other states.

But Texas hurr murr derp.

We don’t have a national grid. We have multiple grids sync’d together while Texas due to its size has ERCOT.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Not sure that downed power lines can provide electricity, regardless of which grid they're attached to.

But maybe that's just because I don't believe hard enough in Tesla's Tower & other wireless transmission theories.

 

[Southendzonehusker]

I’ll bite.

North American power transmission grid - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The grid that all states but AK, HI, and TX are attached to via some capacity to other states.

But Texas hurr murr derp.

Interesting nugget if you would have actually read the first part of the link you sent it clearly states that.

 

[cwessel76]

Interesting nugget if you would have actually read the first part of the link you sent it clearly states that.

Yes I can read. Texas is being retarded and “going on its own” and not connecting to other states. The effect is the exact same.

That’s worked for so well for them in the recent past, too.

2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Terrible storm in Dallas early morning yesterday. Lost power at 6:15am and it’s been off ever since.

Seppuku is looking like a legit option. Knee mails and big TnA pics welcomed.

Quit being a baby about it you are a Wyoming Cowboy

 

[Jim14510]

Is opee still alive or did he perish? Shame he had to go out like this. A little weird but seemed like a good guy.

 

[Southendzonehusker]

Yes I can read. Texas is being retarded and “going on its own” and not connecting to other states. The effect is the exact same.

That’s worked for so well for them in the recent past, too.

2021 Texas power crisis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Once again, if you read the article you sent it clearly states ERCOT is tied to the sync grid. NPPD directly sold power to ERCOT during 2021 and OPPD agreed to purchase less power so it could be sent south while keeping congestion off the grid. This isn’t new. ERCOT has been around since the 70s. You’re talking to someone works in transmission and distribution. What you are claiming is 100% not correct.

 

[doublewing]

Is opee still alive or did he perish? Shame he had to go out like this. A little weird but seemed like a good guy.

He went out on his own terms.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Is opee still alive or did he perish? Shame he had to go out like this. A little weird but seemed like a good guy.

Crazy to think we've lost @Jim14510, @HuskerGarrett, & @lee_carvallo_12 all just within the last few months.

 

[BugeaterInWa]

Seems like there would be a update in the Ding check in thread... ?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Is opee still alive or did he perish? Shame he had to go out like this. A little weird but seemed like a good guy.

This feels more harrowing than that time you went blind (and probably gay) in central America

 

[Baron Winnebago]

And everyone knows that we have a national grid.


It's a shitty power company in NY/MA that doesn't care whether you live or die or how many times they try to cash the check you used to pay your bill

 

[Jim14510]

This feels more harrowing than that time you went blind (and probably gay) in central America

I'm good now. Thought I was blind for good after the surgery but it cleared up.

 

[lee_carvallo_12]

Is opee still alive or did he perish? Shame he had to go out like this. A little weird but seemed like a good guy.

If I can survive HTO trying to find out where I live and work so he could murder me, I can survive a 4+ day power outage.

 

[cwessel76]

Once again, if you read the article you sent it clearly states ERCOT is tied to the sync grid. NPPD directly sold power to ERCOT during 2021 and OPPD agreed to purchase less power so it could be sent south while keeping congestion off the grid. This isn’t new. ERCOT has been around since the 70s. You’re talking to someone works in transmission and distribution. What you are claiming is 100% not correct.

So explain to me how this power grid is so great at handling a cold snap that killed 700+ people back in 2021? Oh, it’s designed that way to avoid federal regulations and can only draw a very limited about of power from out of state sources.

To be fair it was a hell of a cold snap that would have unfortunately cost lives regardless but if TX wasn’t so goddamn stubborn less people would have died.

All for ideological purposes and money - $16B in unnecessary charges thanks to that spike in wholesale prices.

The bolded part is what seriously pisses me off.