WDM resident here. Looked out the window just now and it looks like the roads are starting to melt. First time since Friday last week you can say that
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Northerners that are quick to mock should think what would happen in the upper Midwest if it hit 100 degrees for two weeks. Grid crash and blackouts. Hell, a couple of days of high 90's and you get brownouts and calls to conserve energy.
What? It gets above 100 in the Midwest/Iowa. Like sometimes 2 weeks straight.
In college, me and some friends nearly got arrested for getting pulled in a sled behind car during a blizzard. Weren't going very fast and weren't going on major roads (except we did go down Welch.. Which is were he saw us)
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Isn't the problem Texas' independent power grid, not the temperature? I mean, Iowa often has 90-100+ days in the summer with minimal/no blackouts. We've gotten almost 14 feet of snow this winter and I don't think I've lost power once.
It's not just Texas.
The problem is the energy industry being unprepared. There's fossil fuel plants that have frozen lines. There's fuel shortages. There's solar/wind farms shut down/reduced because of ice. Then there's a huge increase in demand because of the extremely cold temperatures. I'm sure there will be investigations and changes based on what happened.
We have plenty of fuel after the derecho...
Now my apartment building might be on fire. Everyone is just chilling outside now wondering what the **** we're gonna do.
Look on the bright side. For at least a couple hours your apt will be much warmer.
It was the CO2 alarm. Some dude triggered the one in the hallway or something because he was running a generator indoors and not ventilating it.
We're reaching critical levels of dumb here
We're reaching critical levels of dumb here
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