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If only Georgia was part of an interconnection none of this would be happening.
Oh wait, it is.
Almost like the energy grid is more complex than the quasi-arbitrary borders some bureaucrat drew on a map in the 1970s based mostly on where it was convenient to run an office from.
Somewhere Ted Cruz is boarding a flight for a Long weekend. >

Already wrote a speech to blame his kids that he left behind. >

“As you may know my family recently dealt with a harsh reality facing many Americans and as such I’ve decided I need a vacation from them over the holidays” >

It has to be a harsh reality knowing that your kids are becoming old enough to understand what a piece of shit their father is. >

His kid actually tried to end it all, so if that doesn't tell him how hated he is nothing will >

I saw his daughter’s “explanation” video on Tiktok, poor kid. She seems like a good kid though and pretty smart too so its good to see at least his kids turned out to be nothing like him. >

Poor thing. If anyone deserves to spend Christmas an entire country away from Ted Cruz, it's her >

ITT: People who cannot understand scale. Texas has 67000 customers without power. That is a large neighborhood in Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio. There is no threat to the grid at large (unlike last time where we were seconds from uncontrolled cascade failure on the first night of the storm), and most of the damage is either wind damage from tornado strength gusts or from people not knowing how to drive in the cold and taking out power poles.
Texas is fine. Sure, it sucks that 67000 out of 28 million customers are without power, but it's not a statewide outage that will take days to correct. Most power will be back up in a few hours and everything should be back up by tomorrow. >

ITT people who didn't read the article >


ITT

In every frickin' thread… >

You’re no Google, but what does ITT stand for in these threads? >

In This Thread. 
Happy to help. >

Are people misreading the headline? The 300,000 is acrosss multiple states. Looking at the chart in the article, Texas doesn't have any more outage than Georgia or Connecticut, albeit more than other states like NC or NY.
Like there's a lot of shit to hate on Texas for, but this particular article ain't it. >

The article singled out Texas specifically to get this kind of reaction. They knew what they were doing. People here saw "Texas" and "power outage" and immediately started falling over each other to post their own version of "Texas bad lol" in the comments like mouthbreating drones. >

As long as it doesn't get as bad as last time where adults and children froze to death. A sarcastic joke now and then is ok in some situations. Especially since the Texas grid among others have yet to be fixed/weather proofed. >


As long as it doesn't get as bad as last time where adults and children froze to death.

It won't. This is not a statewide grid issue, nor was this storm even remotely comparable to that of last year. These are local outages probably caused by common things. It's nothing to be alarmed about.
Texas gets freezing weather literally every year. The freak storm last year and the resulting outages were obviously horrible, and people should absolutely hold leadership accountable, but now every time Texas gets cold all these goons come out of the woodwork to post their idiotic takes and get their karma. I honestly think a lot of these people actually hope Texas has more problems just so they have more chances to feel superior. >

People don’t need to “hope” Texas has these issue….they WILL have these issues in the future. And for that you can blame entirely on their awesome government leaders that continue to let these things repeat. >

I think I found one of those people hoping for it >

I’m not hoping for it, I just know it will happen, and won’t be at all surprised. >

According to poweroutage.us there are approximately 82,000 people in Texas without power with a total of 12.7 million customers. This comes to 0.6% of the state power customers. I know everyone wants to jump on the Texas is bad circle jerk, but this isn't the same as the last multi-day blackout. >

As of December 23 at 4:00pm EST here are the biggest power outages in the US as measured by number of customers without power:

Maine - 163,000
North Carolina - 142,000
Virginia - 122,000
New York - 116,000
Pennsylvania - 105,000
Maryland - 98,000
Tennessee - 82,000
Connecticut - 60,000
Ohio - 58,000
Vermont - 53,000

Texas has already fixed most of its downed power lines from this morning and currently has 44,000 customers without power. >

Yeah it was wild this morning in Portland Maine and I woke up without power.  Left to MA so here’s to hoping my fridge is back on… or at least before I’m home 4 days from now >

What a weirdly worded headline. >

That east coast in Texas be struggling. >

ITT: People who don't read the article. 
Yes there's homes without power in Texas, but the ratio of outage of homes without power / with power is actually lower than almost every other state mentioned.
It's a sensationalist title. >

I'm also curious what they are counting in those numbers. Is it people who have had any outage at all, or is there a certain threshold in time that matters?
I'm in NC and lost power for an hour, tops. It was also during the warmest point of the day (still in the 50s) but was windy as fuck. While that is technically an outage it's so benign that it isn't worthy of a news blurb, much less an article. >

Those numbers represent the number of customers (retail meter meaning homes and businesses) who are currently known to be experiencing a power outage at a specific time. >

The East Coast is not in Texas >

it reads as east coast AND texas. >

Should* read as >

I thought Texas is independent for its electricity, why would other states need to pay more? >

Because the energy company that is based in Texas is recouping their costs by jacking up the prices for people who had fuck all to do with their energy issues here in Minnesota.
It's infuriating how much other states subsidize GOP failure in their own states at this point. >

The GOP doesn't solve problems, they simply find ways to push them onto other people. >

Their favorite is kicking the can down the street to the next generation.
More specifically, kicking the can to when a democratic nominee gets a win. >

Or when democrats plans to lower inflation start working, the GQP immediately goes, “we did this,” while voting against the very bill that lowered inflation. >

What bill are you referring to? Inflation has gone down because interest rates have risen to their highest level in 20 years and supply chain issues have eased.
Additionally, the Fed has begun to reduce it’s balance sheet - which is literally pulling about $100 billion out of existence every month.
Finally, the high demand created by excess savings cause by the pandemic and stimulus payments has begun to wear off now that most people have spent that money. We know this because consumer spending growth is slowing and credit card debt is already back to prepandemic levels >

That bill is simply called The Inflation Reduction Act because bills get titled whatever politicians think is a good title to help it pass. The actual contents of the bill has nothing to do with inflation reduction. >

Downed trees and power lines, Rabun County GA. We got some wind snow and rain last night but it really wasn’t that bad except for the cold.Sure as hell didn’t go to work today though lol >

What kinda headline singles out a specific state like that. East coast, oh and this one none east coast state. If that's not a intentional narrative I don't know what is. >

Terrible headline, wow. >

Honestly as bad as this storm system is, that's not bad nationwide. Well done, linemen. >

Either OP changed the title or the article did. Either way the original title was confusing at best and misleading at worst.

More than a million homes and businesses were without power on the U.S. East Coast, Midwest and Texas on Friday as winter storms battered much of the country, according to data from PowerOutage.us
Most outages were in North Carolina, with over 164,000 customers without power, followed by Virginia with over 92,000 and Connecticut with more than 89,000 >

Our power in east Houston went out @ 05:30 amcame back on at 07:00 am >

What a strange headline to dump “Texas” into given the power outages are extremely minimal and almost entirely due to high winds downing power lines and nothing to do with grid generation. >

Texas has 26 million power customers, this is a 0.2% outage during a freakishly cold and windy storm and the outages are due to down lines not because of generating capacity. This is non-news just to elicit a response….that appears to have worked. >

Yea Reddit was already stirred up about this days ago when the cold weather front was predicted. The issue here is high winds knocking down above ground power lines. Even if the Texas grid was connected to the rest of country, it wouldn’t make any difference in this instance. But very few people have any understanding of how the grid or power markets work. They don’t care either. They just want an excuse to play with their pitchforks and torches. >

And even when it’s the middle of the summer and a large storm comes through, the same outages happen because of limbs and fall trees. It happens, they fix it and get power running again. Looking at my areas outage map, the only outages are on a few streets that ALWAYS have outages during wind storms. Of the two outages in my county, it’s effecting less than 100 people according to the map. >


a few streets that ALWAYS have outages during wind storms.

Wouldn't wanna live on that street.  Just a lot of trees or something? >

Yeah heavily wooded area around a bayou, actually the street I’m talking about is where I grew up, where my dad lives. Tall oaks which are notorious for large limbs falling or complete root systems uprooting. >

Ah, I hear ya.  I'm well familiar with oak trees.  had a windstorm up here in Wisconsin last summer and spent weeks up at my relatives' place cutting up fallen oaks and limbs. >

Why is everyone bashing Texas when east coast states are also dealing with a power grid issue?? I'm confused lol. >

Texas went down again on its own. Because they failed to prep. Again. >

But we didn't go down? There are localized outages from lines being knocked down due to high winds, but the entire grid hasn't collapsed. More people are without power in other states. >

Texas should have built earthworks around their power lines like any reasonable modern state government would. >

Will you say the same for Georgia and Connecticut, who currently have more people without power than Texas? >

Read it again. I'm trying to point out the absurdity of blaming people for the outage. >

News: BREAKING, 14 states across the US, specifically the East coast, have extreme power outages.
Reddit: FUCKING TEXAS (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻) >

ITT: People frothing at the mouth to make "lol Texas bad jokes" because some 0.2% of its population is without power after a big storm, and completely ignoring the other states that are also currently experiencing [larger] power outages.
You people are so utterly braindead, so easily deceived by the media. It's pathetic.
Anyone who tries to compare this to last year's catastrophe is a complete fool. This article is about localized power outages across multiple states where most people that affected aren't even in Texas. So to all you clowns trying to make it about le evil Texas - learn to read, and then learn to think. >

80k out of 12 million. But gotta hate TX since it's the cool thing now >

80k customers out of 28 million customers. It's a non issue and we will have power back up for nearly everyone over the next 2 days at most, if not by end of today.
This isn't a grid failure... >

Tbf the headline is kinda written by a redditor singling out Texas even though it's several states.