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duncang's JournalSomething's to remember about the Tx. Power outage.
After the deadly freeze and subsequent deaths in Texas most if not all of the Electrical Reliability Commission of Texas retired and were replaced by Gov. Abbott. The commission had a leader from the utilities over the Flint Michigan water crisis stepped down. Abbott thought she was best choice to lead them. The latest batch which is in power right now includes an energy company insider.
So just to reiterate his first choice was a person who was over the biggest water health hazard in the country. His next was an electrical company insider that now has seen a massive failure of the Texas grid by a cat 1 then downgraded to a tropical storm that hit here. As a tropical storm it took out the cities of Conroe, Willis, Cleveland, and Splendora. There’s more but just mentioning a few that were affected by it after it dropped in strength from cat 1.
ERCOT needs to remove the reliability part out of their name. Maybe replace it with AEFC.
Abbott’s electrical Failures Commission.
Even the company website I checked can’t get it right. If you look at the wide view my power is on. But plug in the address and the whole area is out. My daughter looked at it and it shows power back on the 15th. When I do it I get the 14th. We sent each other screenshots to confirm the dates.
Where's the taco trucks?
Remember when maga said if President Biden was there would be taco trucks on every corner? Sounded good at the time. But sounds great now. At least for Texas. With the world class electrical grid failure Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick gave us after all the promises after the deadly freeze and power outage. Those taco trucks would be about the only place to get food now. Restaurants, fast food places , grocery stores almost all closed down from Galveston to Willis Texas. A category 1 hurricane will probably cost hundreds of millions dollars if not billions. Abbott replaced his very fine appointees with more very fine appointees overseeing the grid and now we can’t even handle a category 1 hurricane. Give republicans another 4 years here and a sneeze will knock out the power from Brownsville to Dallas.
All the people who aren’t working since where they work at has no electricity. All the food in stores and home refrigerators/freezers being thrown out. The few gas stations that had electricity a lot were out of gas today.
I decided to use my comp points at a casino in Louisiana so I’m at the hotel for 2 days. When I checked in and said I was fleeing the power outage she couldn’t believe a cat 1 could do that and what the hell is the problem in Texas.
Again I return back to how bad the grid is being handled in Texas. In Conroe we had 60 mph winds. Tropical storm winds crippled the grid here. You appoint idiots and industry insiders to regulate this is what happens. One more time it was Tropical Storm Beryl that took out Conroe’s grid. Not hurricane Beryl!!!
Beryl and the power is out.
Lost power just a little ago. Not sure how strong the wind is. Haven’t lost any big limbs. So the tree trimmers I had out last year did a good job. Hoping my power will be restored later today. I’m on the same circuit as the city hall, police department, and water department. So normally we get power back fairly fast. In between bands now. We should have what’s left of the eye over us soon. It sounds like our city works department is already clearing a tree from the road north of us.
A few years back one of our trees fell across the road during a tornado. The city had it cleared off the road within a few hours. It’s nice living in a small town.
For those in Beryl's track. How ya doing?
I’m just north of Conroe so nothing happening yet. It will be a while for it to hit.
They did up the expected wind speed from 35-45 to 50-60 mph when it hits here.
I’ll probably be taking naps during the night so I can check weather here.
Don’t have worries about flooding since I’m well above any flood prone areas. Wind, well maybe have some tall trees around my house. But have removed some problem trees a branches over the last few years.
If you’re up and feel like posting how you’re doing please do. Just please stay safe.
Made a trip to Louisiana.
Last Friday I went over to Louisiana to hit the casino. While driving there and back saw the rivers were already over their banks because of flooding in the north. It looks like people close to them may have dodged a bullet. Right now the tropical system in the gulf will be going into Mexico. I don’t know how much moisture will be pumped into the Texas Louisiana border area. But they can’t handle much.
The forecast shows most of the rain to the west of Houston.
Follow the money and the russians
With all the investigations in to the tRump clan and associates for possible money laundering or other illegal activities the russians may be taking a big hit. Any money laundering that turns up could cause the russians to have their assets seized. I doubt if they will take kindly to tRump clan for the extra attention they receive. I have a feeling after some of the cases come out there may be repercussions from the russian oligarchs against him.
Will donnie sr. change his will?
Of course not for donnie jr. doing it, but getting caught. Think about it. He likes the competition in his underlings. And you can bet he just thinks of them as a family form of that. Grading them on how they do. It really wouldn't surprise me to see shifts in who controls what businesses.
Snorting again?
I only saw a few short segments of his time in Poland. But I thought it looked like he was back at snorting again when he talked about fake news and russia. He seemed to have the same thing going on during the campaign when he lied.
Motorcyclist detained after riding through San Francisco health care protest
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/motorcyclist-detained-after-riding-through-san-francisco-health-care-protest/SAN FRANCISCO — A man who allegedly rode his motorcycle through a crowd of activists blocking a San Francisco street during a Wednesday afternoon protest against the GOP health care bill was detained by police after the dangerous stunt.
CBS San Francisco reports protesters had gathered outside the San Francisco Federal Building at 7th and Mission streets at around 12:30 p.m. and were conducting a "die-in," in which a group of around 20 people laid down on Seventh Street to block traffic, when the incident occurred.
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Emily Lee, a spokeswoman for the group Bay Resistance, which organized the protest along with Senior and Disability Action, said the man drove up on a red motorcycle, traveling the wrong way on Seventh Street.
"Everyone thought he was just confused, but he didn't stop, and at some point it became clear he was going to come through the crowd and people jumped out of the way," Lee said.
Motorcyclist detained after riding through San Francisco health care protest
Source: CBS News
SAN FRANCISCO — A man who allegedly rode his motorcycle through a crowd of activists blocking a San Francisco street during a Wednesday afternoon protest against the GOP health care bill was detained by police after the dangerous stunt.
CBS San Francisco reports protesters had gathered outside the San Francisco Federal Building at 7th and Mission streets at around 12:30 p.m. and were conducting a "die-in," in which a group of around 20 people laid down on Seventh Street to block traffic, when the incident occurred.
Trump protests around the world
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Trump protests around the world
Emily Lee, a spokeswoman for the group Bay Resistance, which organized the protest along with Senior and Disability Action, said the man drove up on a red motorcycle, traveling the wrong way on Seventh Street.
"Everyone thought he was just confused, but he didn't stop, and at some point it became clear he was going to come through the crowd and people jumped out of the way," Lee said.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/motorcyclist-detained-after-riding-through-san-francisco-health-care-protest/
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