So, this week I've been dealing with Ice. Snow on Top of Ice, and rolling blackouts. Needless to say - this is NOT NORMAL for my area of Dallas/Fort Worth Texas. It's been an insane week.
Caused in part by scheduled maintenance on power plants in Texas that normally occurs during winter months when demand for power is supposed to be LIGHT. But noooooo! Several power plants were down for maintenance at the WORST possible time. But I REALLY blame the Texas Power Commission, who obviously think that it's more important to save money on the State budget by refusing to buy power from the neighboring power grids than keeping things like... oh say LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES IN BLOODY HOSPITALS GOING!!!! Yes - that really happened. Power got cut off to HOSPITALS. They were supposed to be exempt from the black-outs. Nope. BWWEEOooooo.... there go the lights in the operating rooms! Yes they have generators, but those take a few minutes to kick in. I'm sure someone's life was put in some serious danger because of all this.
All during SUPERBOWL Week with all these people from out of town clogging up the freeways. For once, though, it's not the out-of-towners I worry about. THEY are used to this! It's the natives who are skating all over the roads. It's just the roads are that much more crowded.
There's another thing to lay on the state government, you'd think SOMEBODY would take some BLOODY INITIATIVE and say "Hey now fellas. Maybe it might help our image with all the out of state visitors and media if we bought a little power from off-grid instead of having rolling blackouts? That's got to be sending the wrong impression, you know."
But NO. Nobody did. 15 Degrees outside and the power goes out for 15, 20, 50 minutes. One time for over FOUR HOURS at my house.
So I've stayed at home. All week long. The truck hasn't been touched in almost 6 days. Go out and drive in this craziness? HELL no. I admit I'm getting a bit of cabin fever, really. But I don't want to go out yet until the last Superbowl fan packs up and leaves to go back home to Wisconsin or Pennsylvania and until the ice melts.
But there's one question that keeps popping up in my head over and over:
"So how's that Global Warming theory working out for you guys?" ^_^
Caused in part by scheduled maintenance on power plants in Texas that normally occurs during winter months when demand for power is supposed to be LIGHT. But noooooo! Several power plants were down for maintenance at the WORST possible time. But I REALLY blame the Texas Power Commission, who obviously think that it's more important to save money on the State budget by refusing to buy power from the neighboring power grids than keeping things like... oh say LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES IN BLOODY HOSPITALS GOING!!!! Yes - that really happened. Power got cut off to HOSPITALS. They were supposed to be exempt from the black-outs. Nope. BWWEEOooooo.... there go the lights in the operating rooms! Yes they have generators, but those take a few minutes to kick in. I'm sure someone's life was put in some serious danger because of all this.
All during SUPERBOWL Week with all these people from out of town clogging up the freeways. For once, though, it's not the out-of-towners I worry about. THEY are used to this! It's the natives who are skating all over the roads. It's just the roads are that much more crowded.
There's another thing to lay on the state government, you'd think SOMEBODY would take some BLOODY INITIATIVE and say "Hey now fellas. Maybe it might help our image with all the out of state visitors and media if we bought a little power from off-grid instead of having rolling blackouts? That's got to be sending the wrong impression, you know."
But NO. Nobody did. 15 Degrees outside and the power goes out for 15, 20, 50 minutes. One time for over FOUR HOURS at my house.
So I've stayed at home. All week long. The truck hasn't been touched in almost 6 days. Go out and drive in this craziness? HELL no. I admit I'm getting a bit of cabin fever, really. But I don't want to go out yet until the last Superbowl fan packs up and leaves to go back home to Wisconsin or Pennsylvania and until the ice melts.
But there's one question that keeps popping up in my head over and over:
"So how's that Global Warming theory working out for you guys?" ^_^