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As are all the initial forecasts. Then they seem to vaporize.................
I imagine most people have heat pumps in that part of the country? I can't imagine furnaces are all that necessary.
It's an unmitigated disaster here in the Alamo City.Periodic managed/rolling blackouts have turned into 24-hour+ power outages for most people.I've been super lucky so far - only one outage that lasted all of 45 minutes - but we're dealing with no running water since this morning thanks to burst pipes (again, kind of lucky here because it was a neighbor of ours whose apartment actually got flooded).It got down to about 10 degrees two nights in a row. Needless to say I haven't seen anything close to that in my previous five winters here. Hell, that was a rarity back in Maryland.
When I lived in crystal square a transformer blew, so no heat for a week
true.
A hallway in a Dallas apartment building, where it's been colder than any time since 1903.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kZJD3tXWSnI_nh7f6kG3Lqa6xIvGY_cM/view?usp=sharing
Texas ERCOT says their grid is back to normal. But half the state is under a boil water order.
the state announced a big loosening of restrictions for those seeking plumbing licenses or able to come into the state with existing plumbing licenses from elsewhere.
Those that didn’t lose power are looking at an electric bill of $10k.
Deregulation for the win
the folks who are facing the high bills bought electricity based on spot-market pricing rather than a fixed price. the spot market went nuts.
Another report says they're now as high as $17k.
the wholesaler was telling people to switch plans, but no other plans wanted customers when they knew they would be selling them energy at a massive loss. Fortunately, that pricing seems like a Texas only phenomon
yes, the fixed-price plans produced massive losses, only mitigated by the outages I guess.
On Saturday, Typhoon Surigae exploded into a historic tropial cyclone w/ 190 mph winds.* Strongest storm globally on record in 1st 5 months of yearr* Only 4 stronger storms reliably measured ANY month per meteorologist Jeff Masters
It might not have made landfall but that is an area with a lot of very heavily used shipping lanes. That's crazy wind.