They're not considered emergency services.
Proximity to the airport might have something to do with that. I imagine that keeping power at the airport might be *something* of a priority.We still haven't had any brownouts here in Hill Country Village. Hopefully they skip us
I am working sort of close to it today and this office hasn't had any outages either.
I live in Ft. Worth and my power was out this morning for awhile. It got down to below 60 in my apartment. Of course, it's only about 14 degrees outside right now so it doesn't take long for the temp to drop inside. My apartment is an older one and the windows and sliding door aren't well insulated - I had snow on the inside track of the door yesterday and I still have ice covering the inside of the door and windows today!
It really sucks for all the people in town for the Super Bowl. I heard that even the team's hotels were hit with the blackouts. Of course, having about a 100,000 extra people in town has probably contributed to the added strain on the power grid - what with all the bars and restaurants being open and all the parties going on.
Back in the mid 90's I lived in Olympia, Washington and our only heat source was a wood stove that had a similar apparatus. And that thing sure did work! During the coldest days of winter, I'd start the big fire about 3pm and by 6pm it got so hot we'd all be in our undies until bedtime, but our 3 bedroom house was toasty until morning. When he got up at 6, my hubby would throw one log on the coals and that kept me and the babies fine until the afternoon.Also speaking of fireplaces, I remembered something my dad installed in our house in Wyoming that made a big difference.
Imagine a series of hollow tubes under the fire, and a fan blowing air through those tubes out into the room.
Looks a bit like this:
Happened at the shopping center at IH10 and DeZavala, too, but my house has been fine.
Lockhill Selma and Huebner was fun this morning during rush hour and school time!
The ice on the inside of the windows happens to us. I figured it was just condensation that freezes on the windows because its so cold. I had condensation on my glasses this morning that froze.
His office isn't in a medical building anyway.
Yeah. I feel for all the businesses and people this is affecting. Well, everyone but Jerry. I'm sure Tom is grinning ear-to-ear right now. Looks like Saturday will be the only day to make up for all that lost business. I hope see it as a freak occurrence of global, oops........a freak occurrence of climate and it doesn't reflect bad on the area.
Well that explains it.
just another scare to raise prices.......wait and see
Nah. Candidate Obama was forthcoming about that.
There are working theories that AGW will lead to the type of block we've seen in place this year (and in the past few years) which allows arctic air to slide down south and develop these large storms while warming up the arctic a great deal.
The net result is an increase a warmer arctic and a colder continent due to an overall net increase in temp throughout the whole system. Far from a widely accepted theory but the weather this winter has done a lot to make scientists view it as a plausible scenario.
I didnt know such a thing existed, I was thinking about inventing something like this. When I was young our fireplace had 4 vents built into the brick. The pipes were built into the top of the fireplace and exposed to the fire which then were connected to those vents and it just blew out hot air due to the expansion of the air (no blowers). this worked great!
I am glad to know that such a thing exists, even though they seem to be 500 dollars. Unless someone finds one with a substantially better price, I won't be getting one.
the damn light at 281/1604 was out.
If you know how backed up traffic usually is around noon....just double that.
Authorities will definitely be called out for that.
There should definitely be coordination between CPS and SAPD regarding those huge intersections. You can't just make that a free for all.
makes sense.
ERCOT said at 1:45 that the rolling blackouts were done (according to statesman.com, I'm too lazy to look up the link again).
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...ide_power.html
Weee.ERCOT has ended the emergency rotating blackouts, but officials said there is a strong possibility that they will be required again this evening or tomorrow, depending on how quickly the disabled generation units can be returned to service.
Officials with the state’s power transmission grid operator urged residents and businesses to continue to conserve energy, particularly between 6 and 10 p.m.
The Austin utility has begun sending out repair crews to customers who have had extended power outages, spokesman Ed Clark said.
Anyone who has experienced a power outage of one hour or more to contact the utility at (512) 322-9100.
Clark said there have been other outages not related to the rolling blackouts, but he could not say how many customers were affected or where they had occurred. The immediate focus today has been addressing the rolling blackouts, he said.
Pipes froze at the house. Not cracked that we know of, but no water.
Lucky for us the heat is a gas furnace, so if the power goes out, we don't freeze.
CPS Outage map.
http://www.cpsenergy.com/CPSEnergyOu...MapV2_EXT.html
ERCOT called off the rolling blackouts and CPS admits not being prepared for cold weather
Like I said in the other thread, any energy company caught unaware of what was going to happen is just extremely poorly prepared and it is pretty inexcusable.
I'm at Medical and I-10 and didn't experience any power outage. My father in law said the lights were out at his house when he got home from work.
Ah, the bit about more blackouts being possibly needed later was added after my post. You think they'd get figured out by now, with all the businesses going offline the demand shouldn't be dramatically higher in the evening.
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