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Old 02-18-2021, 11:22 AM   #1
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Crazy Texas cold snap 🥶

Someone sent me this pic in Kemah, near Galveston Texas. Not normal. Looks like one of Murray’s Canadian boating pics. Click image for larger version

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Have y’all seen any other pics from the southern cold snap?
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Old 02-18-2021, 12:05 PM   #2
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Yikes! Some serious chipping needed there. . .
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Old 02-18-2021, 12:10 PM   #3
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Wow. So at 20f there are power outage in Texas?

What will happen when they plug in all those electric cars?? [emoji848]
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Old 02-18-2021, 12:20 PM   #4
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Wow. So at 20f there are power outage in Texas?

What will happen when they plug in all those electric cars?? [emoji848]
The Texas power grid failed because Texas wanted to be seperate from the National Power Grid. Because of this their system was built to less stringent standards and without the robustness to operate in the cold weather. Notice that all the power generation facilities in El Paso are functioning fine. El Paso is not on the Texas grid, but is on the US Grid.

Texas wanted to be free from Federal regulations and they are now reaping what was sown.
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Old 02-18-2021, 01:34 PM   #5
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The Texas power grid failed because Texas wanted to be seperate from the National Power Grid. Because of this their system was built to less stringent standards and without the robustness to operate in the cold weather. Notice that all the power generation facilities in El Paso are functioning fine. El Paso is not on the Texas grid, but is on the US Grid.

Texas wanted to be free from Federal regulations and they are now reaping what was sown.
Well I worked in the electrical transmission business. I would disagree that Texas is free from government regulations.

They are required to follow the Department of Energy, FERC and NERC federal standards.

BTW only 10% of Texas are on wind, which seems to not be doing too well.
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Old 02-18-2021, 01:51 PM   #6
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Damn. It’s about to get political already. [emoji30]

Any interesting cold snap pictures? Anyone?
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Old 02-18-2021, 01:58 PM   #7
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Damn. It’s about to get political already. [emoji30]

Any interesting cold snap pictures? Anyone?

No no no.. no politics here.
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Old 02-18-2021, 03:20 PM   #8
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Just like in the midwest and the north, this ice will melt off. Can you imagine the damage or injury a 20 pound of ice falling from the top of a mast will cause?

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Old 02-18-2021, 03:35 PM   #10
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Greetings,
It IS cold. NO idea of the veracity of these pictures:


https://9gag.com/gag/aV7DNo8
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Its Global freezing right? Oh wait- that was in the 70's. Its global warming now. Uhhh no its climate change. So its so warm its freezing right? I forget.
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Saw the same picture on FB, poster admitted it was NOT Kemah, TX.
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Its Global freezing right? Oh wait- that was in the 70's. Its global warming now. Uhhh no its climate change. So its so warm its freezing right? I forget.
Global warming doesn't just mean the temperature goes up. It means there is more energy being added to the system. That extra energy often shows up as a simple increase in temperature. It also manifests as more movement. In the case of the cold weather moving further south than normal there was extra energy to move the air further south.

I expect more forehead banging as a display of "no, I'm not gonna, you can't make me." And, no, the voting machines were not made in Venezuela.
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All I know is that the A/C unit on my RV trailer has not shut off all day here in Punta Gorda. The sun is just setting behind the tree line so relief is at hand.
Best of luck you guys in the newly frozen tundra.
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Crazy Texas cold snap 🥶

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Saw the same picture on FB, poster admitted it was NOT Kemah, TX.

Oh crap. Sorry I posted it. My wife sent it to me and I didn’t verify it obviously. 🤨
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Texas is one of three grids in the US. It does connect on the East side, but only nominally.

You can not excuse the sequence of errors that started last Sunday. You can not imagine the cold. Saturday it was mid 70s, trees and plants blooming.

The cold was manageable, with power. My house went from 73 to 45 in half a day. Low temp was 8.

Only reason it stopped at 45 was the gas oven going full blast.

Thirty hours later we had power. I slept in the car in my ski clothes Monday night. After we had power it took eight hours for the house to reach 70, and another day before the pipes dethawed.

Boat came through great, never lost power, had a big heater in engine room, but could not get there for a few days.

Worked in Alaska in winter, but we had power.
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Yikes...feel bad for you guys!

I love winter, but our houses and infrastructure are designed for it.

Canadian meteorologists explanation is...the Arctic is warmer so has set the jet stream into having larger oscillations. This is what pulls warm air north or cold air south. They made the point that counterintuitively, a warming Arctic means winter cold snaps can reach further south.

This last event brought air from Siberia that normally would have stayed north, well down the North American continent and the jet stream stayed in place for a long time.

It is a small planet. We have had smokey air and red sunsets/sunrises because of fires in Siberia here on BC's north coast.

Our cold snap has ended and it's been hovering just below freezing for days. Weird.
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ha I love it when the south gets cold maybe they won’t ship half the parts you need now like Alaska. It really brings it home beating ice as a drop out of school kid on board the F/V Tuxedni in the bearing sea my first real experience with ice That was when it was a wards family boat before trident owned her. . My dad was right should have stayed in school it will melt don’t mar the boat. Please stay safe and check on folks.
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