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(NPR)   It's almost like Texas is a third-world backwater filled with uneducated rubes who are too cowed and stupid to believe that their government actually owes them functional services   (npr.org) divider line
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markie_farkie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 9:43:06 AM  
"Cousin Cleetus froze to death when the power went out for the third time in three years due to completely preventable reasons, but we can console ourselves by knowing his death wasn't in vain, because shareholder ROI was almost fully maximized, but with hundreds dead and no longer paying customers, dividends are down a fraction of a cent per share.  We have to feel sorry for those shareholders who suffered through these tough times"

 - Average Texan
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:00:13 AM  
Not like anyone could be expected to predict that winter will be cold
 
koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:25:03 AM  
"Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.
 
vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:30:36 AM  
Almost, Subby?
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:43:17 AM  
Well, I guess on the plus side, since this is a lege session year they might actually remember to pretend to do something about it this time.
 
Nah'mean [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:45:29 AM  

Gubbo: Not like anyone could be expected to predict that winter will be cold


But you libs keep saying the world is warming (har-har-har)! Also, it's so typical for the negative lamestream media to obsess over the hundreds of thousands without power while there are millions of Texans who still have lights and heat.

/s (in case there was any doubt)
 
LarryDan43
2023-02-03 10:49:41 AM  
These once in a hundred year storms seem to be more frequent
 
Bullitt
2023-02-03 10:51:04 AM  
I do miss my friends, but after 15 years in Houston, I'm glad I moved out of Texas.
 
asmodeus224
2023-02-03 10:51:32 AM  
Texas problem.  Lots of power over here ini a blue state hellscape.
 
FloriduhGuy
2023-02-03 10:51:50 AM  
You couldn't pay me to live in this suck ass state!
 
ThighsofGlory
2023-02-03 10:51:56 AM  
Well, they're used to living in California, subby.
 
psychosis_inducing
2023-02-03 10:52:39 AM  
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iheartscotch
2023-02-03 10:52:44 AM  
American Exceptionalism proves that it is deadly....to Americans.
 
FormlessOne
2023-02-03 10:54:38 AM  
And while hundreds of thousands of Texans struggle without power, Gov. Greg Abbott is telling residents that there is enough power in the state.

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cfreak [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:54:51 AM  
Oh look, it's this thread for a second day in a row.

The Texas state government sucks donkey-ass and ice is heavy and breaks trees which brings down power-lines literally everywhere there's ice, trees, and power-lines.  Both can be true. Nuance is hard!

/ Heavy ice is a conservative conspiracy!
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:55:19 AM  
If Texas provides basic services, it will put their bootstrap industry out of business!
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-02-03 10:55:29 AM  

Shostie: Well, I guess on the plus side, since this is a lege session year they might actually remember to pretend to do something about it this time.


Nah, they're going to be too busy protecting guns, giving tax cuts to wealthy people, and hurting women and gays.
 
Stephen_Falken [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:55:43 AM  
Whoever wrote this headline, I want to have your children. You are a true hero/heroine, a solid citizen who knows exactly what's real in this crazy old world - that Texas Sucks Balls™.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-02-03 10:55:50 AM  

koder: "Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.


PEPCO for decades kept saying that tree trimming didn't do anything, so there was no reason to do it.

I don't know who forced their hands in the issue, but miraculously I stopped having random power blips 2-3 times a week shortly after they started their tree trimming campaign.

During the lockdowns, I don't think I heard my UPSes start serenading me with beeps a single time.

(One for the TiVo, one for the server and router, one in the office for a MacMini and TimeCapsule)
 
mistahtom
2023-02-03 10:56:42 AM  
The decades is election fraud there is one reason why we don't have nice things.
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2023-02-03 10:57:18 AM  

iheartscotch: American Exceptionalism proves that it is deadly....to Americans.


American freedom is the freedom to die from relatively easily preventable causes.
 
AAAAGGGGHHHH
2023-02-03 10:57:59 AM  
They had their chance 3 months ago to vote for Beto. They re-elected Davros for another term instead.

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Tyrone Slothrop
2023-02-03 10:58:52 AM  

cfreak: Oh look, it's this thread for a second day in a row.

The Texas state government sucks donkey-ass and ice is heavy and breaks trees which brings down power-lines literally everywhere there's ice, trees, and power-lines.  Both can be true. Nuance is hard!

/ Heavy ice is a conservative conspiracy!


Gosh, if only the power company had spent money to trim trees near power lines. But that would have cut down on profits.
 
Martian_Astronomer [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 10:59:29 AM  
Getting electricity from a power grid that is shared by everyone? Sounds like socialism to me. Real 'muricans have their own diesel generator on their farm.
 
Gergesa
2023-02-03 11:00:47 AM  

asmodeus224: Texas problem.  Lots of power over here ini a blue state hellscape.


That is because you godless blue states keep extracting argent energy from hell!  Don't come crying to read states when the cyberdemons and icons of sin start invading.
 
Eightballjacket [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:01:32 AM  

asmodeus224: Texas problem.  Lots of power over here ini a blue state hellscape.


Yeah, storms  never cause power outages in blue states

https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/new-england-storm-causes-widespread-power-outages/

The wind and rain caused 1.3 million homes and businesses to lose power in New England and led to closed schools throughout the region. Luckily, the storm hit during an unusually low low-tide due to the current phase of the moon, which prevented five feet of storm surge from potentially flooding parts of New York City.
 
Two16
2023-02-03 11:03:22 AM  

LarryDan43: These once in a hundred year storms seem to be more frequent



JACKPOT!

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BitwiseShift
2023-02-03 11:03:31 AM  
npr: In Central Texas, which includes the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a little over 100,000 customers are without power, according to Oncor, which services the area.

Say what.  DFW is 200 miles north, in NORTH TEXAS, at four hour drive?

Oncor service area is nowhere near Austin, except for one section near Round Rock.  Killeen/Waco is almost 100 miles north of Austin.

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It's difficult to believe a story that is written for shareholders in a for-profit company that mistakenly refers to The Central Texas Market®, serviced by LCRA, City of Austin, City of San Antonio (non-profit government energy suppliers) as customers.   NPR stories must be written by the GPS robot.
 
acouvis
2023-02-03 11:03:40 AM  

koder: "Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.


Or the concept of redundancy....

Such as having a SECOND of cables set up to major arteries so that if a tree falls in one transmission canle it could be diverted to the other...
 
Eightballjacket [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:04:45 AM  

cfreak: Oh look, it's this thread for a second day in a row.

The Texas state government sucks donkey-ass and ice is heavy and breaks trees which brings down power-lines literally everywhere there's ice, trees, and power-lines.  Both can be true. Nuance is hard!

/ Heavy ice is a conservative conspiracy!


Exactly right.    I swear people on this site are getting dumber by the day.  I live in Michigan and lose power 4 or 5 times a year, but I don't blame the Governor because it was windy or icy.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 11:05:36 AM  

Oneiros: koder: "Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.

PEPCO for decades kept saying that tree trimming didn't do anything, so there was no reason to do it.

I don't know who forced their hands in the issue, but miraculously I stopped having random power blips 2-3 times a week shortly after they started their tree trimming campaign.

During the lockdowns, I don't think I heard my UPSes start serenading me with beeps a single time.

(One for the TiVo, one for the server and router, one in the office for a MacMini and TimeCapsule)


AmerenUE (the electric company in St. Louis) was the same way regarding tree trimming. They had a change of heart though after a derecho came through and knocked out power to 1 million+ people and the news kept showing power lines that were taken down by trees.
 
APO_Buddha [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:07:03 AM  

Eightballjacket: asmodeus224: Texas problem.  Lots of power over here ini a blue state hellscape.

Yeah, storms  never cause power outages in blue states

https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/new-england-storm-causes-widespread-power-outages/

The wind and rain caused 1.3 million homes and businesses to lose power in New England and led to closed schools throughout the region. Luckily, the storm hit during an unusually low low-tide due to the current phase of the moon, which prevented five feet of storm surge from potentially flooding parts of New York City.


One of the worst fall storms in recent memory hit New England on the evening of Sunday, October 29. Winds reached 93 miles per hour in parts of Eastern Mass, accompanied by 1 to 5 inches of rain across the Northeast United States

Big farking difference between an ice storm and what I highlighted above.

but you knew that, you just want to be an asshole.
 
Dromaeosaur
2023-02-03 11:07:26 AM  
But heeeeey! At least those immigrants aren't aborting our guns with their pronouns or whatever.

Farkin' morons.
 
Thank You Black Jesus! [BareFark]
2023-02-03 11:09:04 AM  

Gubbo: Not like anyone could be expected to predict that winter will be cold


it's Texas - people try to shoot the sun every morning ANGRY YELLOW DEVIL FACE!
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-03 11:09:14 AM  
Thoughts and prayers, no red state bailouts.
 
meat0918 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:09:28 AM  
But are the Ar-15 pins ok?
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 11:11:19 AM  
I spent 2 weeks in Texas many years ago
 
JessieL [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:13:22 AM  
Functional services = Socialism = Communism

Republicans actually believe this.
 
max_pooper
2023-02-03 11:13:28 AM  

acouvis: koder: "Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.

Or the concept of redundancy....

Such as having a SECOND of cables set up to major arteries so that if a tree falls in one transmission canle it could be diverted to the other...


Its not transmission lines that get knocked out in storm, its distribution lines that run through peoples' back yards. Its pretty hard to run a redundant lines to each house.
 
The Sophian Church
2023-02-03 11:13:43 AM  
"We have ample power in the State of Texas, for only $400,000/kwh," Gov. Abbott said.

Also, are Texans so dumb they can't spell legislative? Do they have to use the kindergarten 'lege' to compensate?
 
Alebak
2023-02-03 11:15:28 AM  
This will continue until a solution is forced by the locals.

There's no situation where the Feds roll in and fix it for good, so long as the people who are responsible continue to be rewarded with kickbacks and reelection.

Climate change is getting worse and I don't know if Texas has they time they need to do this the slow way.
 
Turbo Cojones
2023-02-03 11:15:57 AM  
Places that are regularly hit by hurricanes trim the damn branches.
 
Jeebus Saves
2023-02-03 11:16:05 AM  
Ice is the fault of the government now?  Some of you really need to see a therapist.
 
Kris_Romm
2023-02-03 11:16:37 AM  
They're blaming wind turbines and solar again (without admitting that the percentage of those not functioning is their OWN fault for not paying for deicing equipment).
 
Barnhawk72
2023-02-03 11:16:48 AM  
Was spooky driving 290 between Austin and Dripping Springs last night, power out for miles.  And a grand total of 0.0 crews working on anything anywhere.

/on the plus side, folks were very well behaved at the intersections with no power to traffic lights
 
dennysgod
2023-02-03 11:16:59 AM  

koder: "Any outages are due to local issues like fallen trees and downed power lines."

You do realize those are problems you're responsible for fixing too, right?  Like there's this whole "budget" thing that you could use to both prevent that in the first place and/or increase the resolution time for those incidents?

Pfff... What am I saying, of course you realize it. You just don't want to work.



In more civilized areas of the county the power company employs these bad asses to keeps areas around major power line clear to limits damages caused by trees during various types of storms

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JessieL [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 11:17:29 AM  

Jeebus Saves: Ice is the fault of the government now?  Some of you really need to see a therapist.


Ice is some kind of insurmountable force that nobody could ever predict or prepare for?
 
Nana's Vibrator
2023-02-03 11:17:38 AM  

cfreak: Oh look, it's this thread for a second day in a row.

The Texas state government sucks donkey-ass and ice is heavy and breaks trees which brings down power-lines literally everywhere there's ice, trees, and power-lines.  Both can be true. Nuance is hard!

/ Heavy ice is a conservative conspiracy!


It has to be hard to defend Texas.  I'd guess only someone who lives there would do it.
 
NINEv2
2023-02-03 11:17:53 AM  
The lights at night
Aren't very bright
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Halfabee64
2023-02-03 11:18:47 AM  
OK, this one's not on ERCOT, though I do wonder if their bootstrappiness extends to going it alone with interstate pacts for emergency repairs.

Years ago, I lost power in CT for ten days in November and the crew that finally hooked us up was from the Murphy Electric Power Board in the hills of NC.  They were hailed as heroes and showered with what food and beverages the neighborhood had left.
 
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