We're looking at 19° tonight, so I'll have multiple faucets dripping hot and cold...:hatoff:...Ben
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Looking @11 here.
May you all make it to the end of the tunnel without further mishap :peace:
You should warm up soon, they are predicting upper 70's - lower 80's around here coming tomorrow. We send our weather towards you.
It appears we may have dodged a months long outage.
https://www.cbs19.tv/mobile/article/...f-804ddcb1946e
Well, Utahans are involved in the Texas freeze now. Members of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary have mobilized to help the thousands of Texas sea turtles stunned by the cold. My wife has been setting up money channels into Texas as we speak. She's trying to avoid PayPal (etc.) and get the money in clean. Some of the turtles I've seen in pics are 3 to 4 feet across and up (reportedly) to 200 years old.
Us? Not much happening here - just 7 inches of snow yesterday and clearing today. Oddly, it's been a relatively warm Winter for us. We're getting mountain snow, which is good for everyone South of us for next year. Our precipitation all ends up in Lake Mead, outside of Las Vegas.
Hunter
The politicans will try to forget, it will be up to the voters to remember.
With electrical bills for consumers at around $10,000 I think they will remember.
It appears 5 members of the ERCOT board who do not live in Texas will resign tomorrow. Good riddance! Now, the rest need to leave as well. Time to start over.
From the NYT:
Not sure how that was allowed to ever happen :dunno:Quote:
In a statement on Tuesday filed with the Public Utility Commission, four of the board members said they were stepping down “to allow state leaders a free hand with future direction and to eliminate distractions.” In a footnote, the filing added that a fifth member was also resigning.
Those departing are Sally Talberg, the chairwoman and a former state utility regulator who lives in Michigan; Peter Cramton, the vice chairman and an economics professor at the University of Cologne in Germany and the University of Maryland; Terry Bulger, a retired banking executive who lives in Illinois; Raymond Hepper, a former official with the agency overseeing the power grid in New England; and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra, who oversees regulatory affairs for a company headquartered in Canada. Another person who was supposed to fill a vacant seat, Craig S. Ivey, has withdrawn from the 16-member board.
The board became the target of blame and scrutiny after the winter storm last week brought the state’s electric grid precariously close to a complete blackout that could have taken months to recover from. In a last-minute effort to avert that, the council, known as ERCOT, ordered rolling outages that plunged much of the state into darkness and caused electricity prices to skyrocket. Some customers had bills well over $10,000.