20 inches of snow. I can't remember the last time we had so much snow. There is no place to even put it all. I am exhausted but still need to shovel more.
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Did I ever tell you about the time I was buried under 15 feet of pure white snow?
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Is this a drug story?
It can be if you want
Living the Scrooge lifeSaving the planet. Cold at my home office, so I'm wearing a pair of gloves.
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Are they tactical camo mittens?
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My driver's gloves actually. I'm thinking of actually cranking the thermostat a bit though. The cold today is actually kind of eerie. The air is crystal clear and even the trees are quiet. I feel it through the soles of my shoes. I feel like it's going to turn into that one scene from Day After Tomorrow where everything starts to crystalize.
My driver's gloves actually. I'm thinking of actually cranking the thermostat a bit though. The cold today is actually kind of eerie. The air is crystal clear and even the trees are quiet. I feel it through the soles of my shoes. I feel like it's going to turn into that one scene from Day After Tomorrow where everything starts to crystalize.
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Every day I have to shovel snow from last week. Constantly breaking up the snow and putting some from the pile into the sun. It's actually good exercise. I hope to never have to do it again.
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The yellow corvette is still snowed in in the driveway
Shoveling snow sounds stupid
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Snow is the price I pay to live in a state that isn't on fire for a quarter of the year.
I could raise my finger and make a snarky remark, but I live in Washington. We get both.
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RIP Texas. Why did liberals destroy the Texas power grid?
I got the whole anti-environmentalist routine from my conservative friends the other day. It's funny how it turns out that Texas is primarily a natural gas state with perhaps enough material to keep up with demand, but difficulty distributing it in cold weather.
Also, that picture of the frozen turbine that flooded social media was from Sweden(?) in like 2013 or '14.
Also, the pollution output of a de-icing helicopter or drone is dwarved by things like coal power.
"Stupid turbines, Texans are pissed!"
Ugh, my head.
Also, that picture of the frozen turbine that flooded social media was from Sweden(?) in like 2013 or '14.
Also, the pollution output of a de-icing helicopter or drone is dwarved by things like coal power.
"Stupid turbines, Texans are pissed!"
Ugh, my head.
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I am not invested in environmentalism. You could burn all the fossil fuel you want in my book. I am deeply annoyed at red states blaming blue states for their problems, asking for money, and then blocking federal money for blue states when we need it.
I do appreciate that Biden refused to play that game. In helping Texas, he acts as a president should.
Now that my conservative friends had the wind power wind taken out of their sails due to the natural gas revelation, they are now blaming the engineers. I could easily imagine that recommendations from engineering were made, and then ignored. I imagine Dilbert would back me up on that.
Now that my conservative friends had the wind power wind taken out of their sails due to the natural gas revelation, they are now blaming the engineers. I could easily imagine that recommendations from engineering were made, and then ignored. I imagine Dilbert would back me up on that.
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Please correct me if I am wrong but Texas entire power grid is self contained from what I understand? Like it doesn't connect to any other states?
If that is so texas deserves a dunce cone.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/how-the … again.html
e:Texas has the only deregulated power market in the U.S.
That sounds correct? I seem to remember brushing over that in my reading the other day, but would have to double-check.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Please correct me if I am wrong but Texas entire power grid is self contained from what I understand? Like it doesn't connect to any other states?
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https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/us-elect … id-marketsLarger electricity networks are created through the interconnection of local grids, which are linked for commercial and reliability purposes. At the highest level, the network covering the lower 48 states is comprised of three major interconnections EXIT, functioning predominantly independently of one another with limited exchanges of power between them.
Imagine freezing to death because your state thinks it is so important it should have its own grid.
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Also my district says we aren't having a snow day tomorrow. I am praying to God the state declares a state of emergency so that we get our snow day.
Imagine using an emergency crisis as an opportunity to "own libs" instead of using your power and access to resources to help people.SuperJail Warden wrote:
https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/us-elect … id-marketsLarger electricity networks are created through the interconnection of local grids, which are linked for commercial and reliability purposes. At the highest level, the network covering the lower 48 states is comprised of three major interconnections EXIT, functioning predominantly independently of one another with limited exchanges of power between them.
Imagine freezing to death because your state thinks it is so important it should have its own grid.
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A Texas mayor resigned after seemingly telling residents to fend for themselves in a Facebook post amid a deadly and record-breaking winter storm that left much of the state without power Tuesday.
As then-mayor of Colorado City, Tim Boyd wrote an insensitive message for people desperate for heat, water and power, saying "only the strong will survive and the weak will [perish.]"
"No one owes you [or] your family anything; nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this!" he said. "Sink or swim it's your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I'm sick and fired of people looking for a damn handout."
What a bad ass