Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by stephenhuey on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:56AM
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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
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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.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by ulisesrmzroche on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:23AM
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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.