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Sadre Spinegnawer

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My bro in MIdland TX told my mom thei morning it has been below 10 degrees for two days straight, and yes, they are having brownouts, and no this doesn't happen. I am familiar with that region. Sure, it can WHIPPPP down to 20, 10, and then, in a few hours, be 60 again.

Maybe I am exaggerating, but solid arctic cold just never "blobs" down there. It whooshes. No wonder DFW is getting slammed. This is the WORST kind of winter storm there is, a south storm, it brings ice ice ice ice.

Here in NE PA: fuck fuck fuck. I have about a quarter inch of frozen ice on my car already. Yeah. Glad I am supplied.

plz don't try to drive in the ice unless you are pro level. Plz. At best you will just be stuck in the body shop with hundreds of other people. Ay worst, your car is still somewhere in a ditch, Thursday.
 
Hekotat

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Some of this factors into Covid as well. Due to people not wanting to work, layoffs, reduced staff and remote restrictions. I've been lucky enough to have power all day, but internet was down most the day.
 
Cybsled

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People really do underestimate how a car drives in snow if they aren’t used to it. One reason why I always get manual transmission, snow driving is far far easier when you have more direct control over shifting and being able to quickly put into neutral
 
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Sadre Spinegnawer

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Cybsled said:
People really do underestimate how a car drives in snow if they aren’t used to it. One reason why I always get manual transmission, snow driving is far far easier when you have more direct control over shifting and being able to quickly put into neutral
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True story. I used to drive a 75 dodge dart. solid shape. I'm used to it, as you say,but still, I am riding 2 tons of steel with 70's era braking technology. During a snow, if I can swing 10mph I'm feeling smug. Of course, normies honked at me, and zipped past me, because of course. But once, during bad winter weather which can be constant in Cleveland someone swerved in front of me, lost control and my dart when right into the side of her minivan. Took down infos, I looked my front end, bumper had moved in a pretty nasty 1/4 inch, looked at her entire side punched in. "Don't worry, I'll tell your insurance company the weather sucked."

Steel. Drive it.
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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Furry said:
Hearing a lot of stories of power out all day in dfw area with temps near zero tonight. Prolly gonna be some deaths from this shit. Completely nuts how this is shaking out.
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"Trump responsible for deaths of thousands in Tx due to intense cold "

Tomorrow's New York Times headline.
 
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Malakriss

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Gas processing plants across Texas are shutting as liquids freeze inside pipes, disrupting output just as demand for the heating fuel jumps. Prices have surged more than 4,000% in two days in Oklahoma. Electricity in some parts of Texas have topped $5,000 a megawatt-hour. Meanwhile oil output in the Permian Basin, the biggest U.S. shale play, is moderating as wells slow down or halt completely.
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The gas wells themselves have frozen over since the article was written. Entire infrastructure wasn't designed to hit subzero.
 
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Borzak

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Use NG more than ever now. Used to be flared off all the rigs instead of being pumped through pipelines for distribution.
 
Lanx

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Ritley said:
This shit is going on in the Midwest as well. Kansas City has rolling blackouts and this weather happens nearly every year there.
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yea just got a txt from evergy(power comp) to conserve as much energy as possible and they might be doing blackouts too
 
Sanrith Descartes

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Cybsled said:
People really do underestimate how a car drives in snow if they aren’t used to it. One reason why I always get manual transmission, snow driving is far far easier when you have more direct control over shifting and being able to quickly put into neutral
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Really cool cars give you the option of manual or automatic...

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Borzak

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We used to get rolling blackouts in the south when a really big heat wave would hit. Our power company would say they had contracts to provide the power to the east coast and they had to shift all their stuff over to the next company and so on up the coast. The power company changed hands about 30ish years ago and that stopped.
 
Sanrith Descartes

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This cold snap is going to be responsible for a mass increase in the Tx population in about 9 months from now as couples snuggle up under the blankets to keep warm.
 
Ritley

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lurkingdirk said:
This is all crazy to me. Here in the MidWest everyone has a gas furnace, and anyone who heats with electric is considered an absolute imbecile. A lot, if not most, people who live outside the city have an alternate heat source, mostly wood stoves. Even in the most extreme cold in the winter, and extreme heat in the summer, we have never had rolling blackouts.
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Wonder how many have gas furnaces but electric thermostats without battery backup
 
Ritley

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Its not. We discussed this in the investing thread. The energy market went insane with this usage spike across such a large geographic area and many of the electricity providers didn't hedge so it is cheaper for them to turn off the grid rather than pay insane prices for electricity.
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If that’s the case I’d be ok with executing the CEOs of any of these companies that do this if someone dies.
 
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lurkingdirk

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Ritley said:
Wonder how many have gas furnaces but electric thermostats without battery backup
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Gas furnaces require electricity to work (fan/thermostat), so there is certainly electricity required. But it is a fraction of the electric required to heat with electric alone.
 
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