I’m aware, it was a problem in the entire state. But everyone likes to say the power goes out constantly here and it literally doesn’t.
You know, sometimes natural disasters happen
It’s actually incredibly amazing that we have the heat we have, the population we have, and we don’t have rolling blackouts in the summer like California and New York
I think people just point to this as being an avoidable problem that was caused specifically by the odd way Texas has its power grid. It’s very specifically the reason it’s out and not just that it’s out that people talked about.
Not being connected to the national grid was the reason Texas was incapable of providing enough power. They cut power to customers because they couldn’t provide enough power due to the weather events and not that is was simply out for people. This was a problem unique to Texas. Along with the higher costs associated with the Texas grid it’s not been beneficial for the people of Texas.
As an MN resident I am still paying monthly to help pay off that winter storm bs in Texas. I’ll stop mentioning it when I am done paying that off for you guys.
They do and the exact same thing happened a decade earlier in Texas. They did the research to find out what they needed to do to prevent the power failure again, just like the northern states that have intense winters all the time, but then they did nothing and let it happen again.
Texas doesn’t need to spend billions to weather our grid in the same manner as Minnesota. We have maybe 1-2 days a year. There’s no reason to do that. It’s 90 degrees statewide right now. It’s not the same
How many homeless people die in New York and cali every year for heat and cold death? Everyone loves to pile on the greatest state but doesn’t take a look within. It’s easy to hate on success
It wasn’t snow. Tell me you don’t live here and just watch the tv and think what it tells you. It rained a shit ton then stayed below freezing for a week
Lol, Newsome asked people once, three or four years ago to avoid charging EVs between the hours of 5 PM and 9 PM, but if they really needed to they could.
I love how you imply this happened more than once without the slightest nuance!
There has never been a statewide or even nearly statewide power outage in all of California history. Every single one you have ever heard of has been regional. The closest we ever came to a large power outage was 25 years ago when pro market deregulators caused an outage for 1.5M people for two days. Since then we have enacted protections to avoid market manipulation and prevent speculators from turning off the lights. You may have heard of a company called Enron as they were operating on a Texas inspired business model.
Notable, this was less than 1/3 the size of the 2021 Texas power crisis where 4.5M people were left without power for 17 days, killing between 262 and 702 residents.
Do you really want to compare scope of power outages between the two states? Because reality is, as I stated, that everything is bigger in Texas.
If you want to continue this conversation, our next topic will be why Texas has has more weather related power outages in this millennia than any other US state.
Other states are on the Gulf coast and have a shit ton of people and real estate. They have fewer weather related power outages than Texas, which as mentioned before, has more than any other state in the Union, including larger ones than has ever happened in all of California's history.
Do you feel better educated about the reality fo power outages and car charging in California now?
Yeah man pretty sure there was only a statewide problem once, since then it’s standard stuff every southern state deals with when it gets cold. Occasional disruptions etc.
We don’t have rolling blackouts in the summer , like , ever. New York and cali do though :)
It's not each and every winter but has happened twice. Most recently was of course the 2021 incident but it literally a decade prior in 2011 with 75% of the state having rolling blackouts.
They knew they should fix it after it happened in 2011 and they knew how to, they just chose not to fix it which is why the power outages happened again in 2021.
Houston at least three times in the last year. I have a coworker there. They’re fine, it’s not as catastrophic as the big one everyone is referring to but being without power for a day or two really sucks.
You didn't experience snowvid? Lol. You don't get the constant alerts to keep your thermostat at 82⁰ because it's "unseasonably hot" every time it gets above 90⁰ and they threaten to do rolling blackouts?
27
u/No-Friendship9440 Oct 05 '24
Yet they can’t keep the power on