Texas Freeze Power Cuts

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W-K 666 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67	Message 2069428 - Posted: 27 Feb 2021, 8:25:39 UTC I see in the Media that Biden went to Texas yesterday and met the Governor and lots of people, but no Cruz, he had headed off to sunny Florida. ID: 2069428 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2069493 - Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 7:27:50 UTC I see in the Media that Biden went to Texas yesterday and met the Governor and lots of people, but no Cruz, he had headed off to sunny Florida. He's just making sure that his nose is staying corrupt v2.0 brown at the Criminal Political Action Conference (also known as the Turd Political Action Conference). ;-) While his state criminal counter parts try to further cripple the voting system in their favour. Republicans roll out “tidal wave of voter suppression”: 253 restrictive bills in 43 states. ID: 2069493 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2069502 - Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 10:30:32 UTC - in response to Message 2069493. That looks to be scarily repressively backwards. Here's hoping that better good sense prevails! Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2069502 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2069503 - Posted: 28 Feb 2021, 10:40:14 UTC Well it's bad enough that most state voting regs over there already (rigged to) favour the republicans to start with anyway without further enhancements in that direction. :-( ID: 2069503 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2069538 - Posted: 1 Mar 2021, 0:50:23 UTC Last modified: 1 Mar 2021, 0:50:38 UTC Here is a crass example of USA politics in(-)action: Cancun Cruz Approval COLLAPSES... Among Republicans! wrote: Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz's approval rating collapses by more than twenty points among Republican voters after the Cancun fiasco... And yet... There appears to be no compulsion for him to resign, or for him to mend his ways, and he can be expected to get reelected!!! How?! Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2069538 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 2069540 - Posted: 1 Mar 2021, 1:02:58 UTC - in response to Message 2069538. How?! Fealty Cult. Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil. ID: 2069540 · Reply Quote

W-K 666 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67	Message 2069554 - Posted: 1 Mar 2021, 4:48:41 UTC - in response to Message 2069538. How?! Gerrymandering, voter suppression plus a few lies and Trump's approval. ID: 2069554 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2071107 - Posted: 18 Mar 2021, 21:31:27 UTC Good news for some. Texas AG says $29 million in storm-related energy bills will be forgiven. More than $29 million in unpaid electric bills are set to be forgiven as part of Griddy Energy's bankruptcy plan, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced. Griddy, the wholesale electricity provider that came under fire after many of its customers reported being hit with exorbitant bills during last month's severe weather, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this week. "My office sued Griddy Energy, under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, to hold them accountable for their escalation of last month’s winter storm disaster by debiting enormous amounts from customer accounts as Texans struggled to survive the storm," Paxton said in a statement earlier this week. "I ensured that Griddy’s proposed bankruptcy plan takes an important step forward by offering releases to approximately 24,000 former customers who owe $29.1 million in unpaid electric bills," Paxton added. The attorney general said his office is also engaged in "good faith negotiations" with Griddy to address additional relief for customers who have already paid their storm-related energy bills. ID: 2071107 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2077088 - Posted: 2 Jun 2021, 2:06:05 UTC Last modified: 3 Jun 2021, 9:52:13 UTC Is this just one costly consequence of the Texas power cuts? Delivery: Diesel Generators How many times is that being repeated across Texas?... And who pays?... (And who is paying for the short-sighted profits in unreliability? Or rather, who gains from those shoddy profits?) Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2077088 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2077177 - Posted: 3 Jun 2021, 0:57:51 UTC Last modified: 3 Jun 2021, 0:58:58 UTC Who pays for this?... Texas power outage: wrote: ... Samsung’s drop was attributed to the power outage that occurred in Texas last February and which caused the chaebol to shut down production lines resulting in a loss of 71,000 wafers valued between US$270M and US$360M. ... Ouch! All in our short term greedy political world... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2077177 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2077974 - Posted: 15 Jun 2021, 19:51:26 UTC Well it looks like Texans arn't out of the woods yet. Texas residents asked to conserve energy by ERCOT amid heat wave. The Texas corporation that operates the state's electric grid, and is being held responsible for the winter blackouts that killed more than 100 people, is asking residents to conserve energy for the rest of the week amid the heat wave. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced Monday that tight grid conditions have resulted due to a "significant number of forced generation outages" as well as the potential for record power use in the month of June due to the summer heat. ID: 2077974 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2077983 - Posted: 15 Jun 2021, 22:17:15 UTC - in response to Message 2077974. Last modified: 15 Jun 2021, 22:19:47 UTC ... "significant number of forced generation outages"... Should that be rephrased?: "profits greedy operators running cheap and shoddy generators that fail in the expected heat or cold for that region, leaving their customers abandoned and powerless"... Where is the oversight and regulation for that? Ohhh yes... Texas is deliberately exercising Rights and Freedoms and Liberty to be not connected to the Federal systems so as to not be bound by Federal requirements to run reliable equipment. All in our deadly greedy world, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2077983 · Reply Quote

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 2077984 - Posted: 15 Jun 2021, 22:25:58 UTC - in response to Message 2077088. Last modified: 15 Jun 2021, 22:26:20 UTC Hope Boca-Chica has got these installed and running in time!!! Is this just one costly consequence of the Texas power cuts? Delivery: Diesel Generators How many times is that being repeated across Texas?... Again: And who pays?... (And who is paying for the short-sighted profits in unreliability? Or rather, who gains from those shoddy profits?) Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 2077984 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 2077994 - Posted: 16 Jun 2021, 0:49:53 UTC - in response to Message 2077984. Hope Boca-Chica has got these installed and running in time!!! Is this just one costly consequence of the Texas power cuts? Delivery: Diesel Generators How many times is that being repeated across Texas?... Again: And who pays?... (And who is paying for the short-sighted profits in unreliability? Or rather, who gains from those shoddy profits?) Stay safe folks! Martin If you have been watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOIkT9bq-1N2BvrsBjhNlag yo would have seen a lot of oversize transformers heading on freight trains in the direction of Texas. ID: 2077994 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2087257 - Posted: 1 Nov 2021, 21:07:48 UTC Abbott prefers a border wall over power this winter. Will Texas get clobbered by power shortages again? Abbott Is Wasting Billions in Taxpayer Money on Razor Wire and a New Wall Along the Southern Border. While Abbott’s focus is on the border wall, the state’s infrastructure remains vulnerable to the same freezing temperatures that shut down Texas last Feburary. Abbott signed a bill implementing some reforms and pledged that “everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas,” but Michael Webber, a University of Texas at Austin professor specializing in energy, recently told Bloomberg that the state has “not done enough to” prepare its electrical system to withstand another deadly winter storm. “We are not ready for another cold winter,” he added. ID: 2087257 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2093518 - Posted: 4 Feb 2022, 22:13:30 UTC Apparently things could still be better. Texas power outages hit counties where people need electricity for medical devices. This week’s freezing temperatures and winter storms in Texas led to far fewer power outages than a similar freeze last year. But worryingly, a handful of Texas counties with high rates of power outages also have high numbers of people who need power for medical devices, according to a new analysis by the data group CrisisReady. Losing electricity in bitter cold is always dangerous, but it’s particularly scary for people who rely on it to keep medical devices like ventilators running. The new analysis pulled federal data on Medicare beneficiaries to identify counties with high numbers of people using electricity-dependent medical equipment. It found that six such counties had more than 1 percent of the population out of power at one point during the storm. Lamar County — home to under 50,000 people — had a high percentage of people without power and also has nearly 900 people dependent on medical devices that need electricity.... ID: 2093518 · Reply Quote

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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 2101558 - Posted: 19 Jun 2022, 15:13:27 UTC Texas taxpayers' $'s not going where it should. Republican Governor Greg Abbott's plot to bus migrants to D.C. cost Texas taxpayers $2.9 million. Texas taxpayers are paying the price for Governor Greg Abbott's plan to bus migrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally to Washington, D.C. As of June 7, $2.9 million in taxpayer funds have sent only 1,778 immigrants to the nation's capital, according to Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) documents – and the figure is expected to rise as more buses have already been deployed and Abbott shows no signs of slowing the stunt. More than $1 million of the total cost has gone toward security alone, while taxpayers are also footing the bill for drivers and GPS tracking, among other things. To help curb the costs of the initiative, Abbott launched a crowdfunding page to bus migrants called the Border Transportation Funding Donations. As of May 27, 2022 the fund has raised just $112,842 toward the effort. Abbott's office said Friday that more than 70 buses carrying 2,100 people have so far departed from the border in Texas, meaning that the taxpayer bill will continue to increase in future reports.... ID: 2101558 · Reply Quote

MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0	Message 2101569 - Posted: 19 Jun 2022, 19:47:44 UTC Appreciate ALL da UPDATEs on What is WRONG in U S of A. I Don't Need to Spend Time when ALL I NEED to Do is Come to S@H Politics for da SCOOPs Thanks Broheim!!!!! You da Man!!!!! SUPERRead May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ID: 2101569 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30651 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 2101583 - Posted: 19 Jun 2022, 22:32:06 UTC - in response to Message 2101558. Texas taxpayers' $'s not going where it should. At least it is only Texan's taxpayer $. Wait until they have to raise taxes to cover their BS. ID: 2101583 · Reply Quote

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