From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   Boron Elgar  wrote in   
   news:euer2gtfb9sqmh5d94vg6r63cujans6vdq@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:53:34 +0000 (UTC), Howard    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Boron Elgar  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:32:54 -0600, Tim Wright    
   >>>   
   >>>>On 02/16/2021 20:31, Beaver Fever wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> A fucking ice storm?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>-1 Monday night here in North Texas.  About 5 inches of snow last   
   >>>> night. Rolling blackouts, plus, the fuel valve on our furnace is   
   >>>> flakey and is on order since last Friday.  Sometimes it will come on,   
   >>>> some times it won't.   
   >>   
   >>I found out a while back that the valve on my furnace needs electricity   
   >>to work. I really ought to figure out how to run it off a backup battery   
   >>before there is a long outage during the winter.   
   >>   
   >>>>This is NOT why I live in Texas.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you have any alternative heat such as a fireplace? How is your   
   >>> water? Are you ok?   
   >>>   
   >>> I've a niece in the suburbs of Houston. Oh, the stories she has been   
   >>> telling, although she is safe.   
   >>   
   >>It sounds astonishing the state system refused to winterize the system   
   >>or have sufficient backup systems for the electrical grid.   
   >   
   > The Texas system is a kingdom all unto itself.   
   >   
   > Disasters can happen, but a disaster waiting to happen is different.   
      
   It sounds like the leadership had plenty of warning but just didn't care:   
      
   https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-grid-failures   
      
   But then its seems to be fine to be a leader there and head off to Cancun   
   for vacation while people are freezing to death.   
      
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