Abbott for the win - Bringing death and misery to Texas
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I thought Abbott was going to fix the electricity issue.
250,000 without power in Texas, at least 6 dead as winter storm sweeps US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...nessee-wednesday-weather-updates/11150433002/
250,000 without power in Texas, at least 6 dead as winter storm sweeps US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...nessee-wednesday-weather-updates/11150433002/
Great job, Abbott.
Hundreds of thousands of Texans without heat, with no clear timeline for getting power back
https://www.kxxv.com/news/hundreds-...with-no-clear-timeline-for-getting-power-back
Hundreds of thousands of Texans without heat, with no clear timeline for getting power back
https://www.kxxv.com/news/hundreds-...with-no-clear-timeline-for-getting-power-back
The outages are mostly because of an ice storm -- the Texas power grid wasn't an issue.
It's possible greater trimming of trees could have helped, but it seems a reach to blame Abbott for not doing that.
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so....the tree pruning professionals from the AEP did not prune trees that could be a danger during a freeze? How's that not a grid issue? Also, is a judge (Obama appointment I'm sure /s) an electric grid professional to be lecturing us on outages?
So the electric power companies lack available crews to restore power. Texas is the only state in the U.S. to cut themselves off from the national power grid -- and they do not have viable mutual assistance agreements with out-of-state utility companies to bring crews into Texas to help despite the Texas Mutual Assistance Group. A complete disaster. Great job, Abbott. You know the guy who promised you would not be cut off from power for days and freezing in the middle of winter. Maybe he should join Ted Cruz in Cancun.
So just how many days or weeks will it require to restore power. Seeing that the national recovery in winter ice/snow storms is usually under 24 hours.
Austin Energy says some customers' power might not be restored until Friday night
https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2023-02-01/austin-winter-storm-2023-ice-power-outages
And let's take a walk down memory lane on how Texas spent the recent Christmas holiday.
Greg Abbott Faces Texas Grid 'Emergency' as Power Plants Fail
https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-faces-texas-grid-emergency-power-plants-fail-1769570
12/25/22
Texas needs a better plan for managing its electric grid rather than getting on their knees and praying the plants & grid does not completely fail every time a storm or very hot day shows up.
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Yeah you are right -- when a weather-caused emergency happens it's the governor's fault.
Were these states' governors responsible for all the power outages from a weather event?
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/30/hurricane-ian-north-south-carolina-power-outages
450K without power across Carolinas, Virginia after Ian
My guess of your answers based on your long-term partisan opinions is VA - yes, SC - yes, NC - no.
Yeah you are right -- when a weather-caused emergency happens it's the governor's fault.
Were these states' governors responsible for all the power outages from a weather event?
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/30/hurricane-ian-north-south-carolina-power-outages
450K without power across Carolinas, Virginia after Ian
My guess of your answers based on your long-term partisan opinions is VA - yes, SC - yes, NC - no.
So now you are comparing a winter storm to a hurricane? Apples and oranges. And laughable.
Tell us how things are going in Texas? Any line crews showing up from other states under a mutual assistance agreement? How many days will they be out of power and freezing. Is Abbott and ERCOT still on their knees praying the grid doesn't collapse again -- like it has over a dozen times over recent years.