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It's cold AF, this southerner doesn't do cold. At 50 degrees it's fucking cold for me. I can count in one hand how many times I've seen snow at my home my entire life.
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It's been over 48 hours without power, it's fucking cold inside my house. I have a generator but no electric heaters. I've never felt the need to have them. Stores are wiped cleaned so can't find one either.
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It's so fucking cold that multiple pipes have already burst flooding my first floor. I didn't flood during Harvey and the 52 inches of rain that came with it but this freeze flooded my home.
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To the northerners that say oh that's just light sweater weather. Our infrastructure isn't designed to handle this cold. Kinda like where you're from, the infrastructure might not be able to handle 100+ degree weather for over two months straight, or 15 inches of rain in a single weekend. Our infrastructure is built for that, not prolonged subfreezing temperatures.
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Fuck ERCOT
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I'm "essential" so still have to work and do my best to take care of the family from work.
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I love Texas
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Trump is the legitimate president.
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Why am I making this post? Green energy is cool and all but it will never replace fossil fuels. To anyone that says solar and wind power are the future, just look at this fucking mess.
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I'm not waiting for the government to save me. My dad came over to my house and helped me clean and fix the pipes. My neighbors are helping me out with water, I'm helping them by letting them charge their phones and flashlights. I fired up the grill and my neighbor brought over deer meat that was going to go bad.
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Don't turn off my fucking gas centrepoint. The fireplace is the only heat that I have.
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Stay warm pedes, some of you have it way worse than I do.
Sorry I'm rambling.
They don't. The Chair, Sally Talberg, lives in Michigan. A good chunk of the Board of Directors don't list where they live, but for many of them, none of their schooling is in Texas which leads me to believe they live elsewhere. There's a few who went to Sul Ross, etc ... but they're the minority.
One lives in Germany tho not sure if American or German. Just know they are a lot of green weenies.
Posted this in another thread:
Apparently Sally Talberg was elected as Chair for ERCOT on February 9th and has been acting as an Unaffiliated Director since January 1st. Her previous position was Chairman of the Michigan Public Service Commission. She served on the Commission since 2013.
"Prior to the MPSC, Talberg worked as a senior consultant at Public Sector Consultants, most notably co-leading the development of Michigan Saves, a nonprofit green bank that has financed over $200 million in energy efficiency projects. She also helped staff the state's wind zone board and offshore wind council."
http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/224860
https://mi-psc.force.com/sfc/servlet.shepherd/version/download/068t0000005JfDbAAK
I'm also seeing Keith Emery on the Board of Directors for ERCOT who is Vice President of Origination for Tenaska Power Services. I remember there was a huge battle when they wanted to build a plant outside my hometown around 10 years ago. The biggest argument was that to build the plant, it would destroy a bunch of ranch and farmland, and I think people were worried that the water would be contaminated. Tenaska pushed for years, but finally gave up and moved elsewhere.
Thank you again. Got someone to direct anger toward. I heard on radio she was appointed originally. Will find out uf governor had anything to do with it.