San Antonio weather

[Millennial_Messiah]

More like Greg Abbot and Rick Perry ensuring our power grid fails if there is any cold weather. We had five days of rolling blackouts from temperatures in the 20s in 2021.

Feb 2021 was single digits in SA... negatives in DFW. For several days, plus moderate to heavy snow. This is nothing.

[Millennial_Messiah]

My friend in Colorado was warned the storm had dust associated with it that was to be avoided.
He was driving in his car, took a picture of his temperature gauge 43F, and then a picture of the Huge wall of dust.
Fifteen minutes later after he broke through the dust storm he took a picture of the temp gauge in his car... 6 F

37 degree drop in 15 minutes.
He said it was recommended that they check a lot of their equipment at the ranch because the materials are not made to experience drops that quick. Ie dont freeze dry your tractors and such. I am glad I am in San Antonio. I am NOT glad Abbott can lie so easily in Texas . "Everything is winterized..." No. No its not.

The snow storm in Feb 2021 stopped the bleeding for the GOP in Texas. Just like Hurricane Ian with Desantis, natural disaster helped prop up and secure Abbott another strong double digit victory and now the state is trending back red.

I guess you can say something similar about Minnesota from summer 2020 onwards due to the George Floyd riots even though that wasn't a natural disaster. MN was on track to flip red for the first time since 1972 until Derek Chauvin / George Floyd and the ensuing chaos happened. Chaos benefits the in bents.

[ChumpDumper]

How does Abbott's FWB Gretchen Whitmer do it then? It's going to snow the whole next month in Michigan and be mostly freezing temperatures throughout each January and February. How do they manage to have power and internet?

Michigan is connected to the national grid.

[baseline bum]

Feb 2021 was single digits in SA... negatives in DFW. For several days, plus moderate to heavy snow. This is nothing.

It hit 9 degrees once in that span. The days were mostly in the 20s and actually nice in the sun.



The snow also wasn't very heavy, it was like 3 inches on the night the rolling blackouts started and then we got an inch or two again one day later in the week.

[baseline bum]

Feb 2021 was single digits in SA... negatives in DFW. For several days, plus moderate to heavy snow. This is nothing.

And we also had rolling blackouts in 2011 for one morning where it dropped to 19. It's colder than that already.

[baseline bum]

Never can recall seeing air this dry in San Antonio. Dewpoint is like -3 right now.

[Xevious]

It's actually nice outside today. The wind has died down, the sun is out, and there's zero precipitation. Just dress appropriately for the temp.

[Mark Celibate]

tbh I have a few friends from up North that have had their pipes frozen already for forgetting to trickle their pipes. It's hilarious, because the common theme from them is "This never happened up there and it gets much colder" rofl I'm like 'weren't your water lines like 12 feet underground and run through a conditioned basement?"

IMHO, I think more and more people around here are starting to see why barely nobody settled in North Texas (South Oklahoma i saaiiid) until recently...crazy extremes in weather and sh!tty, inhospitable ground. Outside of a few decent farming areas, the rest were just badlands

[Millennial_Messiah]

It hit 9 degrees once in that span. The days were mostly in the 20s and actually nice in the sun.



The snow also wasn't very heavy, it was like 3 inches on the night the rolling blackouts started and then we got an inch or two again one day later in the week.

I actually spent that week in DFW where the outages, snow, and temps were all significantly worse, more typical for Minnesota.

[Millennial_Messiah]

tbh I have a few friends from up North that have had their pipes frozen already for forgetting to trickle their pipes. It's hilarious, because the common theme from them is "This never happened up there and it gets much colder" rofl I'm like 'weren't your water lines like 12 feet underground and run through a conditioned basement?"

IMHO, I think more and more people around here are starting to see why barely nobody settled in North Texas (South Oklahoma i saaiiid) until recently...crazy extremes in weather and sh!tty, inhospitable ground. Outside of a few decent farming areas, the rest were just badlands

Yeah. Horrible foundations to build houses and buildings on, no fall, pretty much 3 seasons.... hot summer, not summer, and storm season (spring).

DFW just isn't a good place to call a long term home. The food is far inferior to San Antonio too. They actually consider El Fenix and On The Border to be "authentic Mexican food" up there.

[Millennial_Messiah]

It's actually nice outside today. The wind has died down, the sun is out, and there's zero precipitation. Just dress appropriately for the temp.

Sea World and Six Flags are both closed today and tomorrow and nobody's at the park playing basketball, because unlike me they can't take the cold. So, ergo, Nothing to do.

[baseline bum]

I actually spent that week in DFW where the outages, snow, and temps were all significantly worse, more typical for Minnesota.

The outages were statewide from rolling blackouts. Well, statewide for any sucker on ERCOT's grid. El Paso was fine.

[Millennial_Messiah]

The outages were statewide from rolling blackouts. Well, statewide for any sucker on ERCOT's grid. El Paso was fine.

What is El Paso on? The Texas-New Mexico system?

[Millennial_Messiah]

lol, it's going to be in the 70s all this week now.

[SpursforSix]

No water for three days. Not ERCOT's fault but that gets pretty brutal pretty quick.

[leemajors]

No water for three days. Not ERCOT's fault but that gets pretty brutal pretty quick.

Damn that sucks, sorry.

[SpursforSix]

Damn that sucks, sorry.

I guess we kind of just dealt with it comparing it to 2021 when we didn't have water or electricity for about 4 days.
I can't imagine being a pioneer.

[baseline bum]

What is El Paso on? The Texas-New Mexico system?

It's connected to the national grid so they were alright when most of us on the ty Texas grid were dealing with rolling blackouts in 2021.

[Millennial_Messiah]

It's connected to the national grid so they were alright when most of us on the ty Texas grid were dealing with rolling blackouts in 2021.

Isn't there a separate national Western and national Eastern grid though?

[Millennial_Messiah]

It's actually five, plus Texas:

[Millennial_Messiah]

Reliability First seems to have the toughest job out of all of them yet they tend to be the most reliable. Hmm, wonder why.

[ChumpDumper]

Reliability First seems to have the toughest job out of all of them yet they tend to be the most reliable. Hmm, wonder why.

The priority of the Texas grid is explicitly not reliability.