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Re:‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are runni... by ceejayoz on Sunday July 17, 2022 @10:08PM (#32133762)
Sure, but the message after the ice storm was “look, it isn’t cold here very often, who could have foreseen it?”, and some ham-handed attempts at blaming green energy (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/abbott-republicans-g...) for bonus political points.

That’s a little harder to do with heat in Texas.

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Re:‘Things are going to break’: Texas power plants are runni... by mrguyorama on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:04PM (#32143684)
For reference for other readers, the situation that happened in Texas to cause the power grid to fall over was widely forcasted as a "once in every ten years" event. It was not an unimaginable extreme. Most other states plan or require planning for such events, either out of caution, or from direct harm caused by similar events
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