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mocat · « **Reply #2475 on:** February 16, 2021, 07:45:54 AM »

lost power at 7:15 this morning

steve dave · « **Reply #2476 on:** February 16, 2021, 07:57:12 AM »

Our power co has plenty of juice but says we’re part of some big regional multi state thing and may have to do blackouts to support you downgrades who can’t handle the cold. So thanks a lot.

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steve dave · « **Reply #2477 on:** February 16, 2021, 07:57:42 AM »

Also it was -20 at 7 AM lmao wtf

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mocat · « **Reply #2478 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:12:02 AM »

lasted less than an hour

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #2479 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:16:21 AM »

Mine went out at 7:45. Still hanging in the dark. I want to go to a McDonald’s or something to work, but how far would I need to drive?

Brock Landers · « **Reply #2480 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:35:32 AM »

Power out again, at 8:30 on the dot. Grumblings that it might last an hour instead of 30 minutes.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #2481 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:37:52 AM »

Just got to my office and the power had already been out for 30 minutes. Passed a wrecker towing a semi and trailer up the i-35 hill into downtown going like 10 feet a minute. Pretty lol start to the day

8manpick · « **Reply #2482 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:38:53 AM »

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #2483 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:43:31 AM »

Lasted about 40 minutes here

star seed 7 · « **Reply #2484 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:44:14 AM »

That's what she said

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #2485 on:** February 16, 2021, 08:45:58 AM »

cfbandyman · « **Reply #2486 on:** February 16, 2021, 09:00:48 AM »

alright alright alright

star seed 7 · « **Reply #2487 on:** February 16, 2021, 09:13:04 AM »

Ast getting all huffy about Texas having four million people without power overnight and comparing it to the great plains doing 20-60 minute pauses is very texasy

Kat Kid · « **Reply #2488 on:** February 16, 2021, 09:17:09 AM »

Not sure if anyone on here has one of those variable rate electricity plans, but if so, hold on to your buttholes, on CNBC they just said that a sale just went through at $87 kWh as opposed to usual $.12 kWh.

kim carnes · « **Reply #2489 on:** February 16, 2021, 09:20:50 AM »

Quote from: memphis on February 16, 2021, 09:05:41 AM

Quote from: AST on February 15, 2021, 07:58:23 PM
Weird, I had heard rolling blackouts were a Texas issue. Guess we have company.
Quote from: steve dave on February 16, 2021, 07:57:12 AM
Our power co has plenty of juice but says we’re part of some big regional multi state thing and may have to do blackouts to support you downgrades who can’t handle the cold. So thanks a lot.

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Oh interesting, was wondering why some of parts of the midwest (that actually get cold af on the reg) would have to do them.

westar or whatever it’s called now has decommissioned a few coal plants over the last 5 yrs

Kat Kid · « **Reply #2490 on:** February 16, 2021, 09:22:31 AM »

Evergy

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #2491 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:05:01 AM »

Quote from: WillieWatanabe on February 15, 2021, 12:48:46 PM

Quote from: WildcatNkilt on February 15, 2021, 11:22:30 AM
Is the Midwest in for some pretty nasty floods when we finally start thawing out?

I've done v little research, but i don't think the snowpack has been that ridiculous this year. As long as it doesn't get extremely warm quickly, i think it will be an average year.

Not much snow in the Dakotas.

https://twitter.com/wxbrad/status/1361697016561205253/photo/1

Brock Landers · « **Reply #2492 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:07:56 AM »

Quote from: Brock Landers on February 16, 2021, 08:35:32 AM

Power out again, at 8:30 on the dot. Grumblings that it might last an hour instead of 30 minutes.

Still down and now Evergy says to expect an outage of 2 hours. I mean eff those guys theres only like 6000 people in the entire rough ridin' county, how much power can they really be saving.

Brock Landers · « **Reply #2493 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:15:42 AM »

Man, I wonder if people's heat systems are gonna have to run like a [redacted] to catch up after being off for 2 rough ridin' hours in sub zero temps? Great strategy.

8manpick · « **Reply #2494 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:29:07 AM »

Assuming you have a gas furnace, the fan energy isn’t going to be that much different from normal times

WildcatNkilt · « **Reply #2495 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:49:56 AM »

https://twitter.com/evergypower/status/1361717793113190400

Institutional Control · « **Reply #2496 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:53:10 AM »

I have finally figured out how to get my gas fireplace to work w/o electricity.

IPA4Me · « **Reply #2497 on:** February 16, 2021, 10:56:53 AM »

I'm that thankful Kentucky is in a different power network. Heat pump going hard though.

Interesting to nerd dive into the central plains energy mess. Hopefully, natural gas utilities will add some delivery capacity to the NG plants after this. My buddy's plant was only able to run at 50ish% capacity. If they went higher, they would've sucked down the city pressure and fubar'd the residential network.

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Institutional Control · « **Reply #2498 on:** February 16, 2021, 11:11:28 AM »

https://twitter.com/EdEspinoza/status/1361718248643952640?s=20

pissclams · « **Reply #2499 on:** February 16, 2021, 11:18:34 AM »

Quote from: 8manpick on February 16, 2021, 08:38:53 AM

it took me way too long to figure out what i was looking at