There is a lot of water vapor in natural gas. Coming out of the ground, it's shit hot, but as it travels in pipes near the surface, it cools.
Second, is that, normally, Oklahoma weather is 90 degrees from April to October. There is ZERO winter, as it is known up north. Thus, the system is not prepared for snow, ice, cold temperatures. Pipes freeze, wall insulation is a parody, even small ice loads take out power, and streets are snot on a glass door knob slick, and impassable. The best you can expect is sand on the major intersections, maybe... Add to that people who have never been out of the state, except to Branson for a week, and have no idea of how to drive on snow or ice.
There is a state law that if a snow flake hits the ground, drive into something solid to stop...
Why don't we have these problems every year? Kansas sees single digit temps every year, these kind of artic blasts happen once every 7-10 years, maybe not as long as this one though. I just think there's something else going on.
Lived in OKC for 28 years. I could count the number of single digit nights, in all that time, one one hand. Call it, maybe, one ice storm a year, in all that time. It snowed, badly, twice.
A couple hundred miles north makes a difference.
Remember, the only thing between Kansas and the North Pole is a barbed wire fence, and it's down...
There is a lot of water vapor in natural gas. Coming out of the ground, it's shit hot, but as it travels in pipes near the surface, it cools.
Second, is that, normally, Oklahoma weather is 90 degrees from April to October. There is ZERO winter, as it is known up north. Thus, the system is not prepared for snow, ice, cold temperatures. Pipes freeze, wall insulation is a parody, even small ice loads take out power, and streets are snot on a glass door knob slick, and impassable. The best you can expect is sand on the major intersections, maybe... Add to that people who have never been out of the state, except to Branson for a week, and have no idea of how to drive on snow or ice. There is a state law that if a snow flake hits the ground, drive into something solid to stop...
Why don't we have these problems every year? Kansas sees single digit temps every year, these kind of artic blasts happen once every 7-10 years, maybe not as long as this one though. I just think there's something else going on.
Lived in OKC for 28 years. I could count the number of single digit nights, in all that time, one one hand. Call it, maybe, one ice storm a year, in all that time. It snowed, badly, twice. A couple hundred miles north makes a difference. Remember, the only thing between Kansas and the North Pole is a barbed wire fence, and it's down...
What you HAARPing on about?