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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,498
    Sledog said:

    Sounds like a typical week in any rural area with cold weather where everything's running and everyone's working as usual. How do they do it! Oh yeah hydro power and fossil fuels along with wood and people that actually know a thing or two about life.

    So places where they winterize their infrastructure, in other words.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,204
    HHusky said:

    Sledog said:

    Sounds like a typical week in any rural area with cold weather where everything's running and everyone's working as usual. How do they do it! Oh yeah hydro power and fossil fuels along with wood and people that actually know a thing or two about life.

    So places where they winterize their infrastructure, in other words.
    Is your house bullet proof Dazzler? The weather Texas is experiencing now is freakish and unprecedented. Is there some expectation that we should all insure against unprecedented events?

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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,996 Standard Supporter
    The major problem is that the wind turbines are frozen. When the federal government (both dems and rinos) decide to subsidize wind to the tune of $25 a megawatt hour you get lots of non-economical wind turbines that should never have been built. Hell, Buffet is one of the biggest owners of wind turbines in the US. He just looks at cash flow and lobbies the sh*t out of the US Congress to keep the grift going. Conservatives object to this. Leftards think wind turbines are god's gift to the earth. In spite of this temporary fiasco, Texas's energy situation is much better than in Cali. I'll take Texas for the win even though they had a couple of turnovers.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,498
    SFGbob said:

    HHusky said:

    Sledog said:

    Sounds like a typical week in any rural area with cold weather where everything's running and everyone's working as usual. How do they do it! Oh yeah hydro power and fossil fuels along with wood and people that actually know a thing or two about life.

    So places where they winterize their infrastructure, in other words.
    Is your house bullet proof Dazzler? The weather Texas is experiencing now is freakish and unprecedented. Is there some expectation that we should all insure against unprecedented events?

    Not unprecedented and Texas has been advised to winterize after each similar event.

    Devastating earthquakes don't happen every year either. No point in preparing.
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  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,498
    WestlinnDuck said:

    The major problem is that the wind turbines are frozen. When the federal government (both dems and rinos) decide to subsidize wind to the tune of $25 a megawatt hour you get lots of non-economical wind turbines that should never have been built. Hell, Buffet is one of the biggest owners of wind turbines in the US. He just looks at cash flow and lobbies the sh*t out of the US Congress to keep the grift going. Conservatives object to this. Leftards think wind turbines are god's gift to the earth. In spite of this temporary fiasco, Texas's energy situation is much better than in Cali. I'll take Texas for the win even though they had a couple of turnovers.

    What a steaming pile.

    Frozen wind turbines are not remotely "the major problem" in Texas right now. And that's not to ignore that they can be winterized too.

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