More than a million customers in Texas were without power Tuesday as powerful storms delivered another round of violent weather to the state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms in recent weeks.
Storms unloaded hurricane-force wind gusts across the Dallas area, with Dallas Fort Worth International Airport recording a wind gust of 77 mph early Tuesday as power outages in the area started to skyrocket.
The same damaging storms that tore through Dallas hit Houston with hurricane-force winds Tuesday afternoon. Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport recorded a wind gust of 75 mph.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the power outages!
Finally a news article using the word slammed correctly.
I’ll allow it.
I think peak “slammed” was this, though: https://time.com/4793561/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-guardian-body-slam/
Remember, of course, that these extreme weather events can’t have anything to do climate change because climate change isn’t real. /s
Equally important to remember that this has nothing to do with the ‘quality’ of the Texas electric grid because Texas it’s superior to all other states in every possible way.
Maybe not as equal, but lets also remember that congress just passed a bill to make private jets impossible to track.
Now the media tried to figure out a way to sell this headline to get as many clicks as possible, and they came up with putting Taylor Swift in the headline. Thats fans now can’t track her jet.
But the real story there is, that THIS time, we have no idea if Ted Cruz flew to Alaska.
What? If it’s cold he flies to Cancun. I figure if it’s hot he flies where it’s cold. Stands to logic.
Point is…how do we know if Ted Cruz is being a slimey little weasle again? Besides the fact that it’s Ted Cruz.
For these events it’s people not keeping their trees trimmed and away from power lines. Nevermind Oncor refuses to bury the lines because the upfront costs are too expensive.
The outages we saw last year because demand outpaced supply was definitely because we have a shitty power grid.
TIL: Texas is the only state with trees.
Dude, electrical substations were in shambles and high voltage towers were knocked to the ground in the storm that hit Houston a couple weeks ago. This isn’t a tree trimming issue, there were 100mph sustained straight-line winds
For these events it’s people not keeping their trees trimmed and away from power lines.
Unless Texas is somehow different than Ohio (possible, I know) people aren’t responsible for this. The power company is the one that should be maintaining proper clearances, installing protective devices to isolate sections, etc.
Source: I worked for a power company for almost 2 decades and now am doing grid mod consulting.
But look at how close those trees are to the power line!
What many Texans don’t know (or don’t wanna know) is that theirs is not a flag, but a rating.
I just flew through Dallas, barely missing these storms by like 2 hours. It was the first time I’d been there.
Holy crap, that airport is a shit hole. Everything feels disgusting and in disrepair. The bathrooms were so unclean, the carpets looked 50 years old, the trams were falling apart.
That’s the first and only time I will ever be in Texas. Texas is the “shit hole country.”
Oh no remember these storms are from god to punish the gays and the sinners, so…
…so, there must be lots of homos in Texas…
Maybe the storms are there to punish the conservative leadership of Texas… that claim Christian morality, but rule with supply-side Jesus….
Or maybe this is all very predictable because ERCOT isn’t effectively hardening the grid for extreme weather and refuses to tie into neighboring grids for backup because it doesn’t want to follow federal standards.
I’m doing my part! "kisses all the homies*
I’m cishet, but I’ll totally make out with you if it means a tornado wipes out the governor’s mansion…
Oh no! Your disconnected power grid can’t recover? That’s so sad, mmmm…This is not a statewide power demand issue. It’s localized power outages from trees falling on power lines and similar
It’s a joke. Have fun. Bangarang.
No need to be an asshole here.
If i see any, I’ll inform you immediately
Asked for comment, Senator Ted Cruz said “The weather here in Cancun is great!”
Derecho? You mean the towel boy?
My house was one of the ones hit in this storm. Baseball sized hail was blowing in sideways and broke a window. We lost a huge limb from our oak in the front yard. I got a roof inspection yesterday and it’s shot, it needs replacement. This was an expensive storm for me, but it could’ve been much worse. One of my coworkers said her neighbor’s tree fell on her house.
