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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by rcurry on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:34PM (#26188398)
Texas didn’t have a statewide outage. I live in Rockwall and our power hasn’t so much as flickered all this week. There were a lot of outages in outlying areas for sure, I think it impacted about 1/3 of the population here in some way or another.
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by belltaco on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:47PM (#26188493)
You might be on the same circuit as a hospital or fire station or other essential place that power stations avoid load shedding to at any cost.
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by rcurry on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:51PM (#26188535)
Good point - I’m right off Lake Ray Hubbard, and we have a big natural gas power plant on the other side of the lake.
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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by JamesBarney on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:33AM (#26190378)
I live in Houston and I only knew 1 person who had electricity the whole time.

85% of the people I know plus myself had over 24 hrs of contiguous down time.

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