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Looks like that baby needs to be warmed up and filled with smoky goodness!
What? No cover? Proves that no place is safe from bad weather.And the last couple days have been in the 70s by afternoon, wild weather.
As for the electric bill thing, yeah it's happened, even one guy got a bill for over $16k on the week. There's a lot of nuance as to the whys behind that which requires thought and understanding. A portion of our citizenry doesn't like that Texans are more independent than some others and those people have a large megaphone, so you'll be hearing lots of negative stuff about the Texas power grid. Some will be marginally true, a lot will be incomplete or fabricated speculation disguised as "news". The glitches in our power grid management will be repaired just like downed lines, broken pipes, and shattered water heaters. Unusual events most often result in unusual problems.
I hope you are right. I read an article that said the same thing happened back around 2010 or 2011, though it wasn't state wide. They were supposed to put a lot of measures in place then but ultimately nothing was ever done. My main issue with the whole ordeal was the lack of "uniformity" of the black outs. I was lucky and mine would go out for 30 minutes to 45 minutes. But I had coworkers where theirs would stay off for hours at a time. Then there were others that never lost power, and they were no where near a hospital or fire station.And the last couple days have been in the 70s by afternoon, wild weather.
As for the electric bill thing, yeah it's happened, even one guy got a bill for over $16k on the week. There's a lot of nuance as to the whys behind that which requires thought and understanding. A portion of our citizenry doesn't like that Texans are more independent than some others and those people have a large megaphone, so you'll be hearing lots of negative stuff about the Texas power grid. Some will be marginally true, a lot will be incomplete or fabricated speculation disguised as "news". The glitches in our power grid management will be repaired just like downed lines, broken pipes, and shattered water heaters. Unusual events most often result in unusual problems.
I'll give you a bit of what I've learned, but it really is a very nuanced thing that actually dates back to WWII, with lots of twists and turns. I'm not going into full detail, first because there's even more than I know/learned, and second, I'd be at the keyboard all day just to get part of the story out. Anyone interested in the full stuff should research, but I would recommend local Texas reporting as the "National Media" are hacks, and are purposely slanting the stories to serve their ideological masters.I hope you are right. I read an article that said the same thing happened back around 2010 or 2011, though it wasn't state wide. They were supposed to put a lot of measures in place then but ultimately nothing was ever done. My main issue with the whole ordeal was the lack of "uniformity" of the black outs. I was lucky and mine would go out for 30 minutes to 45 minutes. But I had coworkers where theirs would stay off for hours at a time. Then there were others that never lost power, and they were no where near a hospital or fire station.
As for cost, I'm not sure how those people are getting billed such high bills. Our electric company sent out an email over the weekend saying at this time our rates had not changed. With all that was going on there was no way to determine the cost of the electricity. So someone is lying and my bet would be on the one trying to get the most money now.
There's a story behind the uneven rolling black outs, some of which isn't probably fully known as yet. It's basically tied to the way power is distributed at an equipment style level. And there's an automation variance factor as well. At our house we had pulsing power for near two days, followed by near 3 days of full outage.
But is your night time low 5 days later 68 degrees!NICE .... for Texas !
But that is what we can get on any given overnight at our place .... when I forget to put the Cover back on !
It is already getting interesting. Brazos filed for bankruptcy. It said that for the 7 days of winter weather it racked up close to $2.1 billion in charges compared to $774 million for all of 2020. ERCOT is currently $1.3 billion short of what is owed to producers. I read one source that said the state may dip into it's "rainy day" fund to pay what is owed. I also saw that the Texas AG has already filed a lawsuit against the company that was sending out the big bills and they were barred from the states power market on Feb 26th.Maybe one last dose of reality for anyone interested. I get weekly notices of prior week electrical use and cost, so today I got the report for "the week from hell". I probably pay, on average, a couple cents per kwh more than the guy noted several posts up who got the $16k bill on the "wholesale" billing plan. My bill for that week was about $160. That had 2 1/2 days with no usage, and roughly 1 1/2 days of heavy use getting the house and three refrigerator/freezers back up to normal use temp. I'd say a huge majority of folks in this state got something more like my experience than the sensationalized reports you folks out of state have seen reported. We're in a sad state where "news" is driven by click bait reporting.