Texas has seen no help from fema or red cross. Not one fucking ounce of help. We are Freezing, We have No Water, No Power, No Internet. Grocery Stores are empty, cant find anything.
Now This Story Comes Out On Our Local Fake News.... https://abc13.com/weather/fema-sending-60-generators-to-texas-amid-power-outages-/10349070/... But if you read story it seems like they are more worried about vaccine spots. This is now going on 5 days and they are talking of sending food and water and supplies and Generators... Wtf where the hell has all this shit been... Still Have Not Seen Anything.
Got that many generators just in my neighborhood.
They're not talking about home units, that are in the 5-20kw range. We're talking the big boys, that are basically a shipping container on wheels with a massive diesel generator in it. They can provide hundreds of kilowatts each.
It's not nearly enough, and should have been deployed days ago, but at least they can run a hospital off one, if they don't have one already.
I thought part of the problem with the hospitals was not because they don't have generators but because they don't have the fuel to power them.
Correct, the lines for the nat gas were freezing as well. People are bitching this was preventable this and that but even the Cities Mains that were double insulated froze and busted... It was just that fucking cold. And it ain't the kind of cold Northerners profess to brave... we're talking Freezing weather with actual Humidity in the air still.... this is the kind of cold only Sailors know about.
When I was a Boy scout a friend of our troop leader was the captain of a Coast Guard ice breaker serving Lake Michigan. I got to go out when it was somewhere in the range of below zero to insane fucking cold. I know from wence you speak. Good luck fren!
As far as I’ve seen from civil work I’ve done in Texas most hospitals opt for a diesel system with sometimes quite sizable tanks (10-30k gal). Water and food is more of a concern at the moment.
God help you all!
Most crucial facilities like Hospitals and main utility locations will have permanent generators with auto switch-overs somewhere next to the building the size of a van. Other small buildings may have a generator plug available near the power entry to the building, so that they can roll up a mobile one like construction crews use whenever they need it.