Someone mentioned at work that fossil fuel plants had failed Texas and I reminded them that if there were more fossil fuel plants there wouldn’t be a problem right now.
They're dismantling the one that I worked at when I was in college. I was the third generation to work there. Grandpa was there the day it came online and dad was there to shutdown the last turbine.
It’s a damn shame what’s happening to our nation’s coal plants. Incredible feats of engineering performed in a time when hand calcs and hand drawings were the norm. I’ve done a lot of work at coal plants and I’ve always felt a special connection to them.
I’ve done a lot of work at coal plants and I’ve always felt a special connection to them.
Never had that chance in the US, and the ones I got a chance to explore were made low-scale or mid-scale, the one midscale one was in operation since 1930. A lot of the stuff, especially the exposed stuff reminded me of steam train engines(there's another thing we should bring back). It all felt...alive. No better word for it.
And this is why California burns to the ground all the time. They FORCED PG&E to dump money into renewables instead of allowing them to use that money to upgrade/replace/fix the old lines and infrastructure that caused the fires. ALl those fires are on the stupid fucking Dems running that state.
It blows my mind that they don't run their HVAC via ground conduit in 200m chunks with inner connects. For the amount of money they've blown on stupid shit the core trunk network could be protected against things like that, and with the short runs in the event of an earthquake you can bypass the bad sections by running topside.
The grid is at max,,,,, just like pipelines, libs don’t want them,,,, I say you should self identify yourself to be turned off of all electricity and gas and gasoline if your that stupid! My electricity has been off for 45hours, no fire place and no gas, and I have a baby. Liberals suck and they are dumb shits to the Max!
100%, they want to "save" the earth(I think they are crazy and I dont belive in this global warming bullshit, the earth has cycles), stop flying in your private jets to the green summit every year or using your private yachts. Stop buying things packaged in plastic, stop buying food since its all fertilized for the most part which well fossil fuels, go crawl into a cave and enjoy life with no fossil fuels...its used in almost everything you use on the daily. Fucking idiots, I hate them all.
Just surprised they haven't blamed global warming for the winter cyclone. Look, unusual weather is unusual. Preparation is good, but shit is going to happen anyways, and it's not like a hurricane where you can try to make sure you're on high ground. Good luck, you'll be sick of the heat before too long.
Yup, we have 30000MW or 30GW of nameplate wind power potential (practically max measured is 19GW) and another 5GW of solar.
We were short about 30GW of power at the start of the week because renewables were almost 100% down and to a smaller extent the natural gas backup generation had issues starting up due to the cold.
For every renewable source that depends on climate conditions (wind or sun), there should always be a natural gas or oil backups. Oil and Gas because Texas has both.
Today was a warmer day so power is coming back up, but mainly from the backup generators getting their equipment unstuck. Wind only produced 4GW and solar about 2GW today.
Does Texas have a lot of peak generation natural gas plants? I remember that there was a surge of power companies plopping those down when natural gas was really cheap. The plants themselves are pretty much turnkey.
First I’d like to correct my numbers as I double checked them later. Wind was only up to about 4GW today and solar to 2GW.
Problem with natural gas is households. It’s much more efficient to heat houses with direct heat from burning natural gas than it is to first convert it to electricity and then to heat. So many fast depoly natural gas plants had several issues, one being cold and iceing of the equipment and the second being fuel.
Many houses heat with natural gas, even ones that don’t have electricity. Gas fireplaces, backup generators and gas stoves come to mind. My house heats water with gas. So when you have a situation like this it’s vest to prioritize direct heat since the problem is the cold.
So if you are operating a natural gas grid, should you prioritize supply to housing or power generation. The instant peak demand is too high to do both since 20% (wind and solar) were pretty much offline after Sunday night.
But yes, there are many quickfite natural gas generators, just not enough peak gas supply plus they were all spec’d probably to higher ambient temperatures, because Texas has a chronic need for power for cooling during the summer.
This is also a once in a 30 year event pretty much. Last time it was this cold in Houston was 1989.
Wind Energy in Texas typically is about 20% of generation. Loading on Tuesday that could be coped with in total was 45-46MW, wind generation was 4GW so proportonially half of normal. Solar was 2GW, solar typically is 4-5GW.
Me, a Texan Conservative, am in the same situation. However, my neighbor down the way had his pipes burst and flood his place. He’s a Trumper too. Unfortunately the hardships caused by dumbass legislation from Biden don’t discriminate.
He is right, my retarded ass city advertises every month that they are switching to be more "green" aka wind-reliant, and guess what not even Walmart or HEB has fucking power.
Our power plants relying on fossil fuels are either shut down or unable to operate at full capacity thanks to your senile Biden. Our governor has been asking him to use them but clearly that answer was no. This is simply Biden getting revenge on Texas. He hates us and Florida more than anyone else.
When my husband and I built our house last year, we made sure to diversify with propane, electric, and a wood stove with 2 acres of wood on it. I’ve also been accumulating long term storage food in case the shtf. I have lost faith in the government to manage anything at this point.
Me, an Idahoan, looking at Texas and not understanding what the problem is. We deal with several feet of snow at one time and temps in single/negative digits every winter on top of wind chill.
This kind of weather in Texas and Louisiana is very unusual. We are prepared for hurricanes. Is Idaho prepared for something very unusual like a hurricane?
Me, a Californian Conservative just received my tenth "Emergency Weather Alert" e-mail of the day regarding... "gusty winds". Better duct tape those masks on.
Yeah you won't get that happening when importing power from other states is impossible on the current interconnects since there's no power on them too, Texas isn't the only state experiencing outages, it's just unique in ERCOT dropping the ball for proper rolling blackouts.
As someone who worked in both the Electrical and Natural Gas industries, I can assure you that all today's problems have been caused by crony capitalism in Government.
Same people think Hank Hill from King of the Hill is a liberal who would vote for Biden (and not Trump) just because he wouldn't vote for George W Bush, and Hank specifically hates communists. (Same episode FYI)
I think Hank was an LBJ style dim. I recall him saying something about liking LBJ and even his dog is named Lady Bird. Idk tho it’s been a looong time since I watched it.
They are already trying to blame this on "not using renewables." The wind power TX has is operating at HALF capacity in this weather. Solar panels don't work in snow. The left is GOING TO regret trying to use this situation to push the things that contribute to the problem. Another thing contributing is their constant screaming to shut down power plants that are actually reliable.
I want to agree with you...but I don't think the left will ever regret it.
If Texas had absolutely no power source but wind power, and 2/3 of the state were blacked out, the left would say we don't have enough turbines and solar with batteries.
Actually I take back part of what I said...they MAY say we don't have enough renewables but they WILL say we're using too much energy and we need to reduce our day-to-day usage.
They'll be reviving the "Global Cooling" momentarily. I also have heard numerous times proclamations that winters are getting colder because of "Global Warming" which is a part of their "extremes are getting more extreme" narrative. It's not supported by any long-term data.
They've long since migrated to muh "climate change" catches any direction of the temp so whether cool or hot they can toss it under that category and use lingual gymnastics to prove it to themselves.
Oh yeah, daily changes due to Earth's rotation are now deemed "anthropogenic climate change", let alone tidal, micro-climatic, atmospheric, and seasonal cycles.
It's all a clown show now, especially since NOAA's dumped all their weather stations in favor of the ones that show hottest temps for the area (for example, in local airports, sitting in concrete fields, like we have in the area where I live), and so on.
I mean, technically, it is "mad-made": some men made it via data manipulation, since day 1 -- the "hockey stick" graph and all!
Within a half-month, we will see another full moon. This increase in full-moon-edness is clearly the result of human pollution, as we know historically, there's only 12 full moons per year, but if we take the current snapshot of one in two weeks, there will be 24 full moons this year, and thus, global warming is a clear and present threat.
They think they're being targeted for blackouts, btw. I think it's because they live in wealthy residential zip codes without any necessary infrastructure, but that's kind of the same thing isn't it?
My kids live in a suburb of Baton Rouge and it’s 28 there right now. They’re just hanging out watching Netflix not worried about a damn thing. They’re also not a couple of bitches though so there’s that.
I had a chuckle when I saw on the news that the texans are struggling to survive because it's 53 degrees in their home. That's bathing suit weather for minnesotans!
My upstsirs neighbors are two transplants from California and they noped the f**k out of their apartment barely a few hours into the outage yesterday. Libs vote for green energy then don't stick around when it fails.
As part of PDJT's tremendous legacy from his first term, he showed us the total corruption at EVERY level of government. Millions now have a more discerning eye when viewing politicians and their favorite causes. Global warming, climate change, call it what you will is and always has been a manufactured crisis to give the CCP an economic edge over the US. It was always about the destruction of capitalism in our country.
From the article listed below:
"At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism."
The whole solar business- remember Hussein and Solyndra?- is just another way that the libtards gift their own. As we are seeing in TX, when there really is a deep freeze, solar and wind turbines DON'T WORK.
This is a cold truth. On the neighborhood app, you see the fall out. Some folks helping and some folks bitching and demanding. I'll let y'all guess which is which. The betolovers are oblivious to the reality that it's the 'trumptards' that are saving their cold asses and desperate grandmas.
I am originally from NJ and while i hate the northern part of the state and their dem bullshit they have a really solid grid. 51 percent nuclear, 43 natural gas and the rest other stuff. Texas needs to go nuclear which is the only true renewable solution. Texas has no natural disasters that can impact nuclear like earthquakes. Also nowadays nuclear is very safe no chance to explode like chernobyl.
If you've seen the commercial that shows all the things in our lives that come from fossil fuels, you know what idiots the people are that want to do without.
It's cheaper to run the coal and natural gas plants. All of this green energy focus has been driving up prices.
I'm still waiting on cheap fusion power but considering they've been shutting down every fission nuke plant i won't hold my breath for a technology that is always 20 years out.
TVA shutdown and dismantled the coal burning steam plant in our area to remove any chance of flipping the switch back ON in an emergency situation that could justify the cost.
Someone mentioned at work that fossil fuel plants had failed Texas and I reminded them that if there were more fossil fuel plants there wouldn’t be a problem right now.
Yup. Never forget that these libs pushed HARD to close down coal and natural gas plants.
Dude is SO based
Yep, our county’s coal plant is headed for decommissioning. You don’t just turn one of those on and off.
And given the dearth of unicorns of color..💁🏼♂️
They're dismantling the one that I worked at when I was in college. I was the third generation to work there. Grandpa was there the day it came online and dad was there to shutdown the last turbine.
You sound like a RealRedneck!
I love rednecks! They are the soul of Texas!
It’s a damn shame what’s happening to our nation’s coal plants. Incredible feats of engineering performed in a time when hand calcs and hand drawings were the norm. I’ve done a lot of work at coal plants and I’ve always felt a special connection to them.
If you've worked on the ball mills that is a life long connection. the shit is in my ass crack 2 years later!!
Don't forget the slide rule
Never had that chance in the US, and the ones I got a chance to explore were made low-scale or mid-scale, the one midscale one was in operation since 1930. A lot of the stuff, especially the exposed stuff reminded me of steam train engines(there's another thing we should bring back). It all felt...alive. No better word for it.
Why did Texas listen to them?
i wish the law empowered us to completely get rid of any downright shitty person who hold no value as human beings whatsoever
And this is why California burns to the ground all the time. They FORCED PG&E to dump money into renewables instead of allowing them to use that money to upgrade/replace/fix the old lines and infrastructure that caused the fires. ALl those fires are on the stupid fucking Dems running that state.
It blows my mind that they don't run their HVAC via ground conduit in 200m chunks with inner connects. For the amount of money they've blown on stupid shit the core trunk network could be protected against things like that, and with the short runs in the event of an earthquake you can bypass the bad sections by running topside.
BUT WE NEED THAT HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO LAS VEGAS!
...and then we get rolling blackouts and the like because muh rEnEwAbLe eNeRgY isn't capable of making up the difference.
The grid is at max,,,,, just like pipelines, libs don’t want them,,,, I say you should self identify yourself to be turned off of all electricity and gas and gasoline if your that stupid! My electricity has been off for 45hours, no fire place and no gas, and I have a baby. Liberals suck and they are dumb shits to the Max!
100%, they want to "save" the earth(I think they are crazy and I dont belive in this global warming bullshit, the earth has cycles), stop flying in your private jets to the green summit every year or using your private yachts. Stop buying things packaged in plastic, stop buying food since its all fertilized for the most part which well fossil fuels, go crawl into a cave and enjoy life with no fossil fuels...its used in almost everything you use on the daily. Fucking idiots, I hate them all.
We should save the earth by getting rid of elitist luxuries!
The Sun has cycles too and we are entering into a Grand Solar Minimum that could last as long as 3 sun cycles into 2053.
I wish you warmth and tenacity in this trying weather. God bless you and your family.
Just surprised they haven't blamed global warming for the winter cyclone. Look, unusual weather is unusual. Preparation is good, but shit is going to happen anyways, and it's not like a hurricane where you can try to make sure you're on high ground. Good luck, you'll be sick of the heat before too long.
Yup, we have 30000MW or 30GW of nameplate wind power potential (practically max measured is 19GW) and another 5GW of solar. We were short about 30GW of power at the start of the week because renewables were almost 100% down and to a smaller extent the natural gas backup generation had issues starting up due to the cold. For every renewable source that depends on climate conditions (wind or sun), there should always be a natural gas or oil backups. Oil and Gas because Texas has both. Today was a warmer day so power is coming back up, but mainly from the backup generators getting their equipment unstuck. Wind only produced 4GW and solar about 2GW today.
Does Texas have a lot of peak generation natural gas plants? I remember that there was a surge of power companies plopping those down when natural gas was really cheap. The plants themselves are pretty much turnkey.
First I’d like to correct my numbers as I double checked them later. Wind was only up to about 4GW today and solar to 2GW.
Problem with natural gas is households. It’s much more efficient to heat houses with direct heat from burning natural gas than it is to first convert it to electricity and then to heat. So many fast depoly natural gas plants had several issues, one being cold and iceing of the equipment and the second being fuel.
Many houses heat with natural gas, even ones that don’t have electricity. Gas fireplaces, backup generators and gas stoves come to mind. My house heats water with gas. So when you have a situation like this it’s vest to prioritize direct heat since the problem is the cold.
So if you are operating a natural gas grid, should you prioritize supply to housing or power generation. The instant peak demand is too high to do both since 20% (wind and solar) were pretty much offline after Sunday night.
But yes, there are many quickfite natural gas generators, just not enough peak gas supply plus they were all spec’d probably to higher ambient temperatures, because Texas has a chronic need for power for cooling during the summer.
This is also a once in a 30 year event pretty much. Last time it was this cold in Houston was 1989.
Ercot.com
Wind Energy in Texas typically is about 20% of generation. Loading on Tuesday that could be coped with in total was 45-46MW, wind generation was 4GW so proportonially half of normal. Solar was 2GW, solar typically is 4-5GW.
nuclear power: "Are you through needlessly suffering yet?"
Fucking this all day long.
But 3 mile island was a DISASTER. I was flying to Philly a couple of months later... the pilot treated it like a tourist attraction.
On your right, three mile island, scene of the recent nuclear event (or some such). Similar to flying over the grand canyon.
Deaths per megawatt-hour, nuclear is the safest energy source there is.
Me, A Texan Conservative: Just finished chopping some wood for the fire, time to relax and read some memes to cool down.
I could last another month without power if I needed to. This is just prep for me living off grid in the future.
Me, a Texan Conservative, am in the same situation. However, my neighbor down the way had his pipes burst and flood his place. He’s a Trumper too. Unfortunately the hardships caused by dumbass legislation from Biden don’t discriminate.
Wrong
He is right, my retarded ass city advertises every month that they are switching to be more "green" aka wind-reliant, and guess what not even Walmart or HEB has fucking power.
Our power plants relying on fossil fuels are either shut down or unable to operate at full capacity thanks to your senile Biden. Our governor has been asking him to use them but clearly that answer was no. This is simply Biden getting revenge on Texas. He hates us and Florida more than anyone else.
When my husband and I built our house last year, we made sure to diversify with propane, electric, and a wood stove with 2 acres of wood on it. I’ve also been accumulating long term storage food in case the shtf. I have lost faith in the government to manage anything at this point.
When SHTF, government is nowhere to be found
Government will be the shit.
Me a Floridan saying is it cold? It's 75 and sunny
Me, an Idahoan, looking at Texas and not understanding what the problem is. We deal with several feet of snow at one time and temps in single/negative digits every winter on top of wind chill.
This kind of weather in Texas and Louisiana is very unusual. We are prepared for hurricanes. Is Idaho prepared for something very unusual like a hurricane?
what are you doing for power atm?
Me, a Californian Conservative just received my tenth "Emergency Weather Alert" e-mail of the day regarding... "gusty winds". Better duct tape those masks on.
Unpopular opinion: This is bait to get people on-board with Texas being added to the national power grid, instead of remaining independent.
Yeah you won't get that happening when importing power from other states is impossible on the current interconnects since there's no power on them too, Texas isn't the only state experiencing outages, it's just unique in ERCOT dropping the ball for proper rolling blackouts.
https://i.imgur.com/0oUbasY.png
The state is outright exporting power LMAO.
Oh you may be right, but it’s still very little power and really only slight amounts are being imported.
So that everyone can suffer equally? I don't see any kind of attractive sales pitch here...
What exactly is the "national" power grid? Each region has its own RTO/ISO that control the area separate from other areas.
Here is a map of the regions: https://www.energyfreedomco.org/figs/rto_map2.gif
Also, the natural gas needs to be imported from Russia, even though Russia = orange man = bad, somehow tankers are better than pipelines
God it must be exhausting being that stupid
And cold. Don't forget cold. Sadly however leftist retards will be the death of us all in the end.
Take some tips from Idaho.
Be rude. Run them out. Anybody with a CA license plate gets blocked, cutoff, delayed, etc.
This is the way. Our house, our rules. If someone wants to move here but doesn't want to follow our rules, then they aren't welcome.
As someone who worked in both the Electrical and Natural Gas industries, I can assure you that all today's problems have been caused by crony capitalism in Government.
Does 10k power your whole house?
Same people think Hank Hill from King of the Hill is a liberal who would vote for Biden (and not Trump) just because he wouldn't vote for George W Bush, and Hank specifically hates communists. (Same episode FYI)
I think Hank was an LBJ style dim. I recall him saying something about liking LBJ and even his dog is named Lady Bird. Idk tho it’s been a looong time since I watched it.
Propane is technically a fossil fuel. Would he really want to move away from fossil fuels is the real question.
He also California and New York.
I remember that too about LBJ, it doesn't make sense, since he hates welfare and thinks everyone should have a job.
They are already trying to blame this on "not using renewables." The wind power TX has is operating at HALF capacity in this weather. Solar panels don't work in snow. The left is GOING TO regret trying to use this situation to push the things that contribute to the problem. Another thing contributing is their constant screaming to shut down power plants that are actually reliable.
I want to agree with you...but I don't think the left will ever regret it.
If Texas had absolutely no power source but wind power, and 2/3 of the state were blacked out, the left would say we don't have enough turbines and solar with batteries.
They not only will not regret, they will double down.
Actually I take back part of what I said...they MAY say we don't have enough renewables but they WILL say we're using too much energy and we need to reduce our day-to-day usage.
Sure, but by we, they mean you.
This makes sense. It's too bad that it's unlikely anyone will listen.
People are tweeting to Austin Energy "You said the power would only be out for a few hours!!!"
That phrase sounds familiar...where have I heard that before...hmmm...oh right....TWO WEEKS TO STOP THE SPREAD!!!!
They'll be reviving the "Global Cooling" momentarily. I also have heard numerous times proclamations that winters are getting colder because of "Global Warming" which is a part of their "extremes are getting more extreme" narrative. It's not supported by any long-term data.
They've long since migrated to muh "climate change" catches any direction of the temp so whether cool or hot they can toss it under that category and use lingual gymnastics to prove it to themselves.
Oh yeah, daily changes due to Earth's rotation are now deemed "anthropogenic climate change", let alone tidal, micro-climatic, atmospheric, and seasonal cycles.
It's all a clown show now, especially since NOAA's dumped all their weather stations in favor of the ones that show hottest temps for the area (for example, in local airports, sitting in concrete fields, like we have in the area where I live), and so on.
I mean, technically, it is "mad-made": some men made it via data manipulation, since day 1 -- the "hockey stick" graph and all!
Within a half-month, we will see another full moon. This increase in full-moon-edness is clearly the result of human pollution, as we know historically, there's only 12 full moons per year, but if we take the current snapshot of one in two weeks, there will be 24 full moons this year, and thus, global warming is a clear and present threat.
They think they're being targeted for blackouts, btw. I think it's because they live in wealthy residential zip codes without any necessary infrastructure, but that's kind of the same thing isn't it?
If you think that’s bad wait until a Carrington Event happens and 100% of the solar panels become junk.
Thanks for reminding me I need a cabin in the woods with lots of forest ;-)
I got lots of popcorn waiting for that one
My kids live in a suburb of Baton Rouge and it’s 28 there right now. They’re just hanging out watching Netflix not worried about a damn thing. They’re also not a couple of bitches though so there’s that.
I had a chuckle when I saw on the news that the texans are struggling to survive because it's 53 degrees in their home. That's bathing suit weather for minnesotans!
Biden did say something about a dark winter. ..
My upstsirs neighbors are two transplants from California and they noped the f**k out of their apartment barely a few hours into the outage yesterday. Libs vote for green energy then don't stick around when it fails.
Two words: Nuclear Power.
DemoKKKrats are petulant children.
As part of PDJT's tremendous legacy from his first term, he showed us the total corruption at EVERY level of government. Millions now have a more discerning eye when viewing politicians and their favorite causes. Global warming, climate change, call it what you will is and always has been a manufactured crisis to give the CCP an economic edge over the US. It was always about the destruction of capitalism in our country.
From the article listed below: "At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism."
The whole solar business- remember Hussein and Solyndra?- is just another way that the libtards gift their own. As we are seeing in TX, when there really is a deep freeze, solar and wind turbines DON'T WORK.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
And their Playstations don't work now. Who's going to entertain the man-children?
This is a cold truth. On the neighborhood app, you see the fall out. Some folks helping and some folks bitching and demanding. I'll let y'all guess which is which. The betolovers are oblivious to the reality that it's the 'trumptards' that are saving their cold asses and desperate grandmas.
They want to be eternally outraged.
I live in the middle of the oilfiel ,my power hasnt gone off
The next chapter of “Let Them Freeze in the Dark”.
Supply and fucking demand
If they ain’t complainin, they ain’t libs
I am originally from NJ and while i hate the northern part of the state and their dem bullshit they have a really solid grid. 51 percent nuclear, 43 natural gas and the rest other stuff. Texas needs to go nuclear which is the only true renewable solution. Texas has no natural disasters that can impact nuclear like earthquakes. Also nowadays nuclear is very safe no chance to explode like chernobyl.
Well, increasing the price is greedy I think we can all agree on that.
Great meme.. although those wouldn't be lib tears, but rather lib icicles.
Also,this global warming is a bitch,isn,t it.
I'm cozzy and comfy with our 1.6GW nuclear plant and dirt cheap electricity in MD.
I shutter to think what my gas bill is going to be. Worth it.
If you've seen the commercial that shows all the things in our lives that come from fossil fuels, you know what idiots the people are that want to do without.
Just FYI, while we could have been updating our infrastructure, we were giving cash and uranium to Iran.
Feelings have consequences!
FUCK THESE MORONS. STILL NO CURE FOR STUPID !!!!!!!!!!
It's cheaper to run the coal and natural gas plants. All of this green energy focus has been driving up prices.
I'm still waiting on cheap fusion power but considering they've been shutting down every fission nuke plant i won't hold my breath for a technology that is always 20 years out.
Fusion isn't a thing we can easily replicate, dude.
it'd be nice, but the tech isn't there. We've been working on fusion for what? 80 years now?
typical liberal bullshit thinking. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and open their Demonrat eyes.
The democrat platform is : "We're way better person than you and you have to give us everything you own and shut the hell up forever"
I give you deep blue Austin.
Here's your "REEEEEE!!!!!!"
https://i.maga.host/rdk7f0H.png
TVA shutdown and dismantled the coal burning steam plant in our area to remove any chance of flipping the switch back ON in an emergency situation that could justify the cost.
Nuclear them. Nuclear power plants, that is. We need more than the two we have.
Another way of this, Texans scream secede, but cry for Federal help!
No offense meant, my F'd mind thinks like that sometimes, I've thought if TX does secede I'd see about immigrating...
When i hear a car alarm going off, I think "REE REE REE REE"