What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by ulisesrmzroche on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:58PM (#26161193)

We’re not ready for this kind of weather here in Texas. I’d you’re so smart you should know people 150 years ago lived differently and built their houses differently

Are you without power? I don’t think so. Real easy to talk shit when you’re warm and comfortable. It’s not like you built any infrastructure or built your house, so don’t take credit for keeping it warm

What’s more is that it’s not only hackers and engineers in this situation. There’s a lot of elderly people, sickly people, families with babies, small animals, and so on, that are far more at risk. I made it the two days but I know some of my neighbors didn’t

The real question is why are so many people rubbing their nuts till they pop with schadenfreude, it’s not just you

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by lordgroff on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:26PM (#26161438)

Yeah, living here in Canada, when I read the temperatures I had to rub my eyes in disbelief. Temperatures of -30,-40C are by no means unheard of here but we know it will come every winter. I can't imagine a prolonged, unprepared for infrastructure failure, with houses getting down to minus territory indoors. Sounds terrible.

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by stephenhuey on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:56AM (#26163209)

Exactly. Several of us here in Houston are taking refuge at a friend’s house and one person in the group is from Minnesota. She says that even though it’s not so terribly cold outside she still wouldn’t want to repeat this, that it’s much easier in Minnesota because the power doesn’t go out or if it does it’s something that can get fixed quickly rather than be prolonged over several days.

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by theshrike79 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:56AM (#26163501)

I Finland the electric network companies have spent years and billions of € digging our electric grid underground after we had a few high-profile cases of electricity being cut off during winter because of snow-logged trees crashing on remote power lines.

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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid? by ulisesrmzroche on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:23AM (#26176607)

That happened a lot here, plus tons of burst water pipes and carbon monoxide poisonings. Seriously, nothing here is built for the kind of cold you guys live with.

The first day without power is doable, but that second day is just killer.

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