Yep, east Texas is where wind goes to die.If I was waiting on wind to move my water in the Big Thicket, I would only be moving it in Hurricane season.
Yep, east Texas is where wind goes to die.If I was waiting on wind to move my water in the Big Thicket, I would only be moving it in Hurricane season.
This thread was started originally by a great guy whom we haven’t seen for quite some time. God bless him wherever he is.
Found this about our electric grid and thought it might be helpful for those in these areas to get prepared.
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https://powerthefuture.com/two-thirds-of-the-country-face-the-prospect-of-blackouts-this-summer/
It's strange.
Texas has its own grid and in all my 56 years we've never had an outage problem.
Now all of a sudden we're having problems. Seems sketchy to me.
We also have a lot of people moving in here that aren't used to the heat...."what do you mean keep my house at 78 degrees?"
It's strange.
Texas has its own grid and in all my 56 years we've never had an outage problem.
Now all of a sudden we're having problems. Seems sketchy to me.
You know, I've thought that sketchy, too, from the get-go. We've had triple digit temps every summer since I came to TX in 1966. Never had any outages in summer or winter. Hurricanes bringing lines dowon is the ONLY time we've ever had power problems in Texas to my recollection. Not until the Feb. 2021 ice storm, that is, and I said when that was happening it was geoengineered to "punish" Texas for being cocky enough to have said publicly our grid could handle anything. That, plus the powers in control just don't LIKE Texas. I think TX was the 'test run' for the future PLANNED outages to punish the country even further.
With all the bad going on we shouldn't lose sight of other issues that would be even more devistating
Kyle Mills: Terror or bio attack, nukes? No, America's greatest threat is our vulnerable electrical grid
It’s been called the most complex machine in the world and that’s probably a fair description. Three thousand three hundred utility companies, fifty-five thousand individual substations, and two hundred thousand miles of transmission lines all coordinate to meet the country’s insatiable demand for power. Unfortunately, it’s this scope and complexity that makes us so vulnerable.
And this isn’t just a theoretical threat. In 2013, a meticulously planned attack was carried out on a substation near San Jose, California. It caused fifteen million dollars in damage and looked very much like a dry run for something bigger.
None of the perpetrators were ever caught and if they are indeed plotting something more ambitious, it could be unimaginably destructive.
According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, only nine critical substations would have to be disabled to plunge the entire country into darkness for eighteen months or more. Nine. None of which likely have much more security than the San Jose facility.
Even more sobering are the cyberattacks. According to former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, malicious actors probe our systems hundreds of thousands of times a day.
One of the most serious incidents occurred in 2017 when Russian hackers penetrated deep enough to actually take control of parts of our grid. Based on testimony given to Congress by the director of the National Security Agency, a number of our enemies likely already have the ability to put the entire country in the dark.
COVID has given us all a glimpse into the dangers of not being prepared for a crisis. We now have some inkling as to what it would be like to try to survive without the machinery that makes modern society possible.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terror-bio-attack-nukes-threat-power-grid
Back in the days before air conditioning, my mother would do her housework wearing a wet bathing suit. Kept her cool just fine. I have invested in torso-sized Chilly Pads to help with sleeping at night when we lose power. Works for me.
Here ya go. Looks like they've gone up a few dollars since I bought mine 2 years ago. You could possibly find them (or something similar) elsewhere if you don't like doing business with Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Frogg-Toggs-...=1654436118&sprefix=Chill,aps,104&sr=8-6&th=1
Back in the days before air conditioning, my mother would do her housework wearing a wet bathing suit. Kept her cool just fine. I have invested in torso-sized Chilly Pads to help with sleeping at night when we lose power. Works for me.
I grew up with some brutal humid triple digit summer heat. For a while we had central heat but no central A/C. There was one wall A/C in the den but nowhere else. The windows were not shaped right for window A/C units. No insulation in the walls or ceiling. Playing in the sprinkler was very popular, LOL
But we had a huge attic fan in the hall that pulled a good breeze in all the windows and kept the attic relatively cool so that there wasn't radiant heat coming through the ceiling.
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