Texas, Texas, what do you need to see before you vote this bum out of your lives? He let the power grid go to hell last winter, costing 151 Texans their lives, including a young boy who simply froze to death in his bed and two elderly people who died at the ER. Now it looks like summer is going to be a redux of winter. It’s only the second week of June and already ERCOT wants you to put a lid on it, no ovens, washers, dryers and no A/C below 78. What a great life. I went over to the local CBS affiliate outlet’s website and they said, “If you cook indoors, use a microwave or slow cooker.” Can’t eat properly unless you bar-b-que or wash clothes, but at least you can still take showers — for now.

Just listen to this. Greg Abbott sounds like he’s trying to convince himself.

“Power grid reform in Texas is now law,” Abbott intones at the end. That’s great to know, Greg. Should we throw the grid in jail for breaking the law when it breaks down? Because it looks like that’s what it’s fixing to do.

Here’s what ERCOT is saying and this is not a picture of an electric company in good shape.

In electrical engineering terms, a “forced outage” is the shutdown condition of a power station, transmission line or distribution line when the “generating” unit is unavailable to produce power due to unexpected breakdown. You don’t have to be Thomas Edison to figure out that a “high number” of forced generation outages is not a good thing.

What’s that you say? How could this be happening when Greg Abbott just assured us all that the state was in great shape? Dunno. But personally, I’m watching the airports to see if Ted Cruz decides to book a flight to Montreal, which is a nice 71 degrees and raining.

Governor Abbott understands what’s important. Governor Abbott is focused on having plenty of guns out on the streets and a dearth of abortions being performed, while nobody can cook, do laundry, or even sleep at night. 78 degrees is way too hot to sleep at night.

Oh, well, Texans, get some battery powered fans and stock up on cold cuts. You have a rough siege ahead of you, and that is from now until 2023, when Abbott’s term is up and you can vote the bum out. I do not envy you having to wait that long.

 

 

 

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Excel, which serves a lot of cities and towns in west Texas, decided a month or so back to join ERCOT. I think their customers are going to be regretting that.

  2. “78 degrees is way too hot to sleep at night.”

    Sorry, but that’s entirely relative. When it’s a balmy 80 degrees at 2am and you’ve got a relative humidity of 70%, 78 degrees is almost like standing in front of your open refrigerator. I live in Montgomery, AL and the above numbers are VERY likely. Such temperatures, incidentally, work out to roughly 80 degrees on the heat index–and, in Montgomery, relative humidity tends to stay over 70% year-round.

  3. The Texas power grid works EXACTLY as designed…so that power providers can maximize profits when it breaks down! BTW some estimates of the number of dead from the winter storm in Texas when the grid mostly went down run as high as 700! But of course, Abbot and ERCOT don’t care how many die because of their incompetent management!!

    • That is the number I have heard as well, over 700. I think they might be covering up even more. It was freezing for days for people without power. I had power so I don’t know how bad it was, but I know others who were without. abbot is a pathetic loser who thought he could get a jump on the presidential race with his rep street cred in Texas. His dreams are crumbling before his eyes as he actually has to do real governing and cant seem to pull it off.

  4. On the TV news they said Abbott was unusually quiet about this power issue, but he did make time to wish former guy a happy birthday. The man does have priorities.

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