Texas Is Declared a Disaster by Pres. Biden
 

AOC raises $3.2 million for Texas amid weather crisis
The New York Democrat traveled to Houston on Saturday

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ale...weather-crisis

...meanwhile, TX junior senator Teddy Cruz flees to Cancun...

Good. Notice there was no nonsense comments about party the way there was with the western fires during the Trump Administration. This is what America needs, not what the Trump Cult had to offer.

;)What no space lasers to the rescue!

Hopefully enough Texans are paying attention to the whys and hows of they're freezing their asses off and their water is undrinkable without boiling. Ted Cruz should be looking for a new job next election and their idiotic homegrown grid needs to be rethought.

Turn Texas Purple!:D

Real disaster for Texans is their Junior Senator Cancun Cruz who went MIA while Texas became a tundra. AOC and Betto are rolling their sleeves and helping them and I wonder if some don't feel that they made a mistake in reelecting Fled Cruz, though his approval rating has dipped to 45.

This is worth reading to get a quick synopsis on Texas energy predicament. Its mind boggling that Texas is the larger producer of fossil fuels and up there with the renewables too.

https://www.vox.com/2021/2/20/222929...r-storm-griddy

Spot prices for energy, which can be 1000 times the base rate, should to be retroactively rolled back as the shortages responsible for the extreme prices are the fault of the suppliers.

Perhaps it could even lead to (gasp) r-e-g-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.

My power company in Kansas City sent a couple of emails, saying they were going to start rolling black-outs in order to send power down to Texas.

It never happened.

I'm wondering if it's even possible to transfer electricity that far ?

Anybody know ?

Sounds like they're blowing smoke, if you ask me. I'd be looking into a gen set tho for my house if I lived in the midwest. You can transfer electricity long distances but there has to be a connection. Most of Texas has their own grid disconnected from the two grids supplying the rest of the country. Some libertarian nonsense behind that decision, if I recall.

Texas simply skimped on weatherizing their equipment and the citizens are paying a heavy price, ie 50 dead so far and untold millions suffering with undrinkable water. Gotta love these Ayn Rand worshiping chuckleheads.

I've read where Austin was losing hundreds of millions of gallons of water.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...ons-this-week/
And that's just in Austin. When all those pipes that are busted but still frozen thaw out it's going to be real bad.

Meanwhile in Bizarro World AKA tRumpville...
 

Former tRump advisor Larry Kudlow blames the power grid failure in Texas on president Biden.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1805398.html
These comments happily beamed into your brain courtesy of Faux News*. At least he didn't say it was space lasers :rolleyes:

I'm not positive but I don't think that there is much of a transmission intertie between Texas and other regional reliability councils. There are just two DC interties; I don't know how much power they can pass through. But yes, it is possible to send power that far. Kansas City is pretty close to Texas as part of the Southwest Power Pool.

Have you noticed lately, that these clowns all have disclaimers following their comments........?

Sounds more like an austerity plan. Power moves within a grid from the nearest generator with power to spare (they actually borrow) and then to the next and so on. Theoretically if Texas was connected to one of the two national grids, power could have been sent from neighboring states with extra power generating capacity or with additional power available on hand. And states beyond their neighbors could have made up for their deficiency if possible.

One would think that when the power went out most homeowners would have known that they needed to shut the main water valve and open taps to drain any standing water.

Few people know that, or could find or operate the pertinent valves if they did.

73* yesterday, in Texas.

wow.

When you seldom experience sub-freezing temps for decades knowing what to do to handle it isn't fresh in your mind. Warnings could have and should have gone out ahead of time since it was known what was coming. Instead, after the fact we have blaming and finger pointing. Since there's only a month or so of winter left will anything get done to prevent a recurrence?

Nothing was done a decade ago when this last happened. :rolleyes:

A once in a decade occurrence? Texas's current Repub leadership won't be around in ten years so don't hold your breath waiting for them to do changes now. The only chance Texas has is if they start electing Democrats.

Ted Cruz pinata is a big hit in DFW since he effed off to Cancun while his fellow Texans froze to death.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/se...store/2560281/

https://media.nbcdfw.com/2021/02/cru...size=850%2C478

I wonder what comes out when you whack the pinata? It surely isn't candy.

Speaking of Ted Cruz, whiney snowflake extraordinaire, some polls are showing a distinct amount of disapproval after last week's hijinks to Cancun. Maybe it was that picture of Ted's poodle shivering in an empty house while the family was away? Poor pooch.

https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruzs-a...fiasco-1571764

Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation
Competition in the electricity-supply business promised reliable power at a more affordable cost

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-e...on-11614162780

From that liberal rag, the WSJ. :D

This is what happens when you elect Repubes to run you state, morons! ROFL.