My first post after 42 hours without power or cell service. Didn’t have water for 30 hours. We have 3 kids all under 8 years old. We have a generator and it was slightly uncomfortable but good God you’re all a bunch of snowflakes after reading all the complaints. Try to grab your nuts every once in a while to make sure their still attached.

In aggregate for the US, it is around 10%. According to ERCOT, it is about 16% 20% in Texas. If Texas had zero wind turbines, it would have no effect on the outages this week whatsoever.

EDIT: I was looking at a wikipedia chart attributed to ERCOT. No telling if it was accurate, or how old the data was. I'll accept the 20% number, but still ascertain that has little effect on how these power outages played out.

Our power finally came back at about 8pm last night after being shut down for 60+ hours. Oh, we got power Tues and Wed mornings for about 45 minutes each time. But our whole area east of I35 to the lake was out of power. Lots of generators being used. Lots of fireplaces being used (I've gone through two truckloads of wood) But loads of people, especially in the apartments, had diddly squat to stay warm. According to my TNMP map, it's over 11,000 people just in my area.

Yet just on the other side of the highway, the McDonald's and QT had power and were open. Families need heat in their homes more than they need a ******* cheeseburger.

I understand the causes of this series of outages, but "rolling" outages should prioritize homes keeping SOME hours of power each day.

Nothing will come out of an investigation because guess who MISO, ERCOT and SPP answers to?.... NERC and FERC..the federal government... I’ll bet the grid authorities end up getting paid..

Nothing will come out of an investigation because guess who MISO, ERCOT and SPP answers to?.... NERC and FERC..the federal government... I’ll bet the grid authorities end up getting paid..

Take planned parenthood and foreign money and fix the power grid.

America first.

Jpurdue - I have to call BS on your statement that it is cheap. Yes the hockey puck of uranium might be cheap but all of the stuff around it - the nuclear plant is not. I know of no public nuclear reactor that has been built on budget - I don't count the Chinese and Russian reactors where government financing skews the numbers. The company with the best technology and know-how to do these projects is the French company EDF and they are losing their butt on a British project. The nuclear expansion project in Georgia is severly overbudget and behind schedule. Originally budgeted at 17 billion and they are now close to 25 billion. The main issue not what most Americans would believe - environmental permitting but rather that their subcontractors cannot perform work on time and to the quality specificied. This is a typical issue with large projects with long durations and procurement chains that extend throughout the world.

I agree with your assessment we need more nuclear power. The best path forward in my mind is for the US to standardize on one reactor design for use all over the US. I also suggest that the plant layout be stardardized as much as possible but this may have to be tweaked for the local areas due to soil conditions and surrounding terrain.

How many deer whistles do you have on your truck?

My first post after 42 hours without power or cell service. Didn’t have water for 30 hours. We have 3 kids all under 8 years old. We have a generator and it was slightly uncomfortable but good God you’re all a bunch of snowflakes after reading all the complaints. Try to grab your nuts every once in a while to make sure their still attached.