Looking @11 here.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
May you all make it to the end of the tunnel without further mishap
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
From the NYT:
Not sure how that was allowed to ever happenIn 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.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis