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All of our network is based out of Texas so everything has been down all day. Was actually pretty nice not having to answer stupid emails every 20 minutes.
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Borzak
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Plus it's just shit that would be burned out for the pines anyway. Nobody grabs pine to burn lol. So all the oak and hickory needs to go anyway.
Frenzied Wombat
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I was at Central Market today and pretty much most fresh produce, all seafood, and most meat was totally out of stock. You basically had the pick of some prepared food, canned stuff, and some frozen/dairy.
I'm definitely going to start investing in some home resiliency and survival type shit. When an entire State can be brought to the precipice of breakdown/anarchy over a few days of Canadian April weather because some retards can decide to take a pass on their power plant winter package, it really makes you wonder what the fuck else is being mismanaged and can blow up in our faces. Throw in a Full Retard federal government and everybody should be working on becoming self sufficient. FFS if there's more snowfall and this went on beyond Friday, we'd be totally fucked. Literal fucking looting/starving and FEMA fucking trailers over a few pathetic inches of snow and cold.
I'm definitely going to start investing in some home resiliency and survival type shit. When an entire State can be brought to the precipice of breakdown/anarchy over a few days of Canadian April weather because some retards can decide to take a pass on their power plant winter package, it really makes you wonder what the fuck else is being mismanaged and can blow up in our faces. Throw in a Full Retard federal government and everybody should be working on becoming self sufficient. FFS if there's more snowfall and this went on beyond Friday, we'd be totally fucked. Literal fucking looting/starving and FEMA fucking trailers over a few pathetic inches of snow and cold.
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Fucker
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People have become genuinely soft headed in the last 30 years. We've gone from a can-do nation to a bunch of dumb chimps wandering around with their heads up their asses. Covid showed me that we will be genuinely fucked if some shit really hits the fan. Hell, I am surprised we haven't been invaded by Nicaragua yet.
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Kaines
Potato Supreme
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Give Biden time. The caravans are forming and they won’t have to fire a shot to invade
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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Erronius
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I'm in KC. I've been keeping my work phone close to me, half-expecting to get a call about going on an emergency service call to this or that power plant. I cover about 2-1/2 states, so I was a little worried. By this point, though, I figure that pretty much even the 'cold' coal units have been brought up, so I'm probably in the clear. But most power plant electricians & instrumentation guys are pretty sharp, and they can handle most issues that come up during startups themselves, so maybe we overestimated the odds of getting a call from a plant at 3am.
Everyone at work is pretty pro-coal. We do work with gas plants too, though we didn't see the NG shortage coming, to be honest. Solar and wind can fuck right off, though. That shit is years, probably decades, from being mature enough to take over the majority of power generation (if it ever can).
We've watched our local utility (KCP&L, now part of Evergy) close quite a few older coal units, rather than fuss with the additional cost and hassle of upgrading them to modern compliance. I can't really blame them. Everyone has been so anti-coal, and NG has been cheap for long enough now, that all the eggheads thought coal was, literally, dead.
Just last year Sunflower Power gave up on a plan to build a large plant in Holcomb (west of Dodge City). They literally said 'fuck it', and decided to write off the $100 million they'd already spent. Well...I bet there's a lot of regrets about that now, on all sides. And this is really just some examples from 1 state. Imagine every instance of this, happening in pretty much every state:
www.powermag.com
Point is, all of the political pressure, combined with lower NG costs, put us into this position, and everyone just seemed to think that all of the best-case scenarios would hold. So now I just kind of feel like:
The oddest thing is that most of the problems we've been seeing, within my small corner of the industry, is the midstream pipelines having issues, particularly with remote valves. Especially with valves that don't get used or exercised much during the year, until fall or winter. Like valves on butane lines for blending winter fuel mixes. Or actuators shitting the bed in the cold. We've had a couple customers have to shut lines down and start pulling valves out for rebuild, hoping that works, otherwise they'll have to find 1:1 replacements and then hope it's a common size/pressure/fit.
Everyone at work is pretty pro-coal. We do work with gas plants too, though we didn't see the NG shortage coming, to be honest. Solar and wind can fuck right off, though. That shit is years, probably decades, from being mature enough to take over the majority of power generation (if it ever can).
We've watched our local utility (KCP&L, now part of Evergy) close quite a few older coal units, rather than fuss with the additional cost and hassle of upgrading them to modern compliance. I can't really blame them. Everyone has been so anti-coal, and NG has been cheap for long enough now, that all the eggheads thought coal was, literally, dead.
Just last year Sunflower Power gave up on a plan to build a large plant in Holcomb (west of Dodge City). They literally said 'fuck it', and decided to write off the $100 million they'd already spent. Well...I bet there's a lot of regrets about that now, on all sides. And this is really just some examples from 1 state. Imagine every instance of this, happening in pretty much every state:
Sunflower Finally Scraps Plans for 895-MW Kansas Coal Plant
Sunflower Electric Power Corp. has abandoned plans to build the $2.8 billion Holcomb Expansion after its partner on the 895-MW coal-fired power plant
www.powermag.com
Point is, all of the political pressure, combined with lower NG costs, put us into this position, and everyone just seemed to think that all of the best-case scenarios would hold. So now I just kind of feel like:
The oddest thing is that most of the problems we've been seeing, within my small corner of the industry, is the midstream pipelines having issues, particularly with remote valves. Especially with valves that don't get used or exercised much during the year, until fall or winter. Like valves on butane lines for blending winter fuel mixes. Or actuators shitting the bed in the cold. We've had a couple customers have to shut lines down and start pulling valves out for rebuild, hoping that works, otherwise they'll have to find 1:1 replacements and then hope it's a common size/pressure/fit.
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We always go out a couple times a year to see what that place looks like. It's always awesome.
Lendarios
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I was talking to my brother who has boots on the ground on Houston. He lost power for two days and had to go to the car with his family to warm up. He had just gotten the power back today and I was trashing some of the ridiculousness and planning shortcomings of the Texans, and he was defending them. He was saying that even if he were the governor, he would not authorize a single cent to be spent on winterizing the Texas infrastructure. I told him I disagree with him, and he mentioned that 2 days without power every 50 years is not that bad, that is not a reason to change things.
So we had some fun talking other things then he goes ‘shit.. the power went out again, fuck I was talking so much trash”
It was pretty hilarious
So we had some fun talking other things then he goes ‘shit.. the power went out again, fuck I was talking so much trash”
It was pretty hilarious
Fucker
Log Wizard
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Power co where I used to live outsourced line maintenance. I was watching the guys in the bucket rig and ran up to tell them to pay attention...they came close to hitting the wires a few times. A year later the bucket rig operator flash cooked himself by bumping into the wires. They quit outsourcing after that. Wonder why.
Sanrith Descartes
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I ran a line crew for more than 10 years. Working 36" or less from power and the fuckers didn't like to wear hard hats because "its hot outside". Lanyards? "It slows me down". I only had one near-miss in ten years.
Tldr there are too many low IQ types doing line work.
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Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Seems to me that people with higher IQs would think 'man working around power lines sounds terrible'
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Fucker
Log Wizard
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Or at least have an innate distrust of things that can cause an unpleasant death.
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Chukzombi
Millie's Staff Member
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Galveston County requesting aid to store bodies after brutal freeze, power outage
Officials are gathering details about the reason for an increase in reported deaths in the past 36 hours.
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Kuro
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Coldvid deathsGalveston County requesting aid to store bodies after brutal freeze, power outage
Officials are gathering details about the reason for an increase in reported deaths in the past 36 hours.www.galvnews.com
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