Energy Capitol of the world, bay-bee!TEXAS BLACKOUT UPDATE: Right now, @ERCOT_ISO is supplying **less** power than it did yesterday at the very same time. More than 60 hours into the blackout, there's little sign of improvement (other than potential demand is a bit lower, so that gives breathing room) #TexasBlackout pic.twitter.com/CP8gzUgrsD
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) February 17, 2021
And having spent two very cold nights without heat, these people have my sympathies (especially the families with children):
It’s above freezing here on the coast, but not just north of us, and further north and west of here. This shitshow ain’t near over.“I know carbon monoxide poisoning, but what else can we do?"
— Elizabeth Findell (@efindell) February 17, 2021
The desperation in Texas is intense as many head into a fourth subfreezing night with no power. https://t.co/cz9AqRtxMi pic.twitter.com/YbBHaDrY69
Oh when them cotton balls get rotten ....
ReplyDeleteYou ain’t wrong. That slave economy/mentality still runs deep down here.
ReplyDeleteI was tempted to point out when I used to sleep in an unheated attic room in Maine, I used terry-cloth towels between me and the sheets, they were effective in keeping more of the heat under the blankets. Other than things like that, it's rough when you have to live without heat when it gets that cold. Anything you can do, sleeping in a tent in your house, in a box, fully clothed, WITH SOCKS AND SHOES can save you.
ReplyDeleteI had five blankets. In flannel PJ pants and a sweatshirt. I'd have worn a turtleneck under the sweatshirt, if I still had one. Oh, and socks. Last week I was sweating under one blanket. This week, I just stayed warm. Gave me a whole new appreciation of REALLY cold weather (down here below freezing usually means for one night, at most; not for three days, as we've had). I lived with taht kind of weather in Chicago, for one winter. I used to joke it took me a year in Houston to thaw out. It wasn't that much of a joke, though.
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