1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

So, did you read the part of my post that you quoted which said I would get a wood stove and take my cheap electricity?

No, I read the part where you talked about Maine.  Pretty much everyone in Maine would have a fireplace, wood, insulation, etc.  Very few in Texas would have the same.  Kinda the same concept as the companies in Texas not having the cold weather tech on their wind turbines.  Common sense for the most part (well, unless you are a true prepper).

2 minutes ago, DiPros said:

He's prepared for anything apparently.  Everyone in TX should have been too.  

trumper on trumper hate is real. so sad to see them eat their own. 

Just now, DrPhilly said:

No, I read the part where you talked about Maine.  Pretty much everyone in Maine would have a fireplace, wood, insulation, etc.  Very few in Texas would have the same.  Kinda the same concept as the companies in Texas not having the cold weather tech on their wind turbines.  Common sense for the most part (well, unless you are a true prepper).

Ok well my original point is that I would prefer the cheap electricity for myself and buy a wood stove in case of emergency 

I understand there are many people who do not plan and when you fail to plan you plan to fail

Just now, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Ok well my original point is that I would prefer the cheap electricity for myself and buy a wood stove in case of emergency 

I understand there are many people who do not plan and when you fail to plan you plan to fail

You seem to like their system, so you should move to Texas....and then push for secession.  

5 minutes ago, DiPros said:

He's prepared for anything apparently.  Everyone in TX should have been too.  

Right so it’s stupid to be prepared 

2 minutes ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Ok well my original point is that I would prefer the cheap electricity for myself and buy a wood stove in case of emergency 

I understand there are many people who do not plan and when you fail to plan you plan to fail

Right, so you think you would be ok if you live in Texas and turned your power completely off with a wood stove? Got it.

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Ok well my original point is that I would prefer the cheap electricity for myself and buy a wood stove in case of emergency 

I understand there are many people who do not plan and when you fail to plan you plan to fail

Yeah, but there is also a level of reasonableness to consider.  Do you have a full blown prepper facility you can fall back on when the sheet hits the fan?  If not, you can buy one for about $10M out in the middle of Kansas (or was it Oklahoma).  You're going to need your own jet to get you there as well.  I suppose you already have that level of fall back sorted out based on your posting.

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Right so it’s stupid to be prepared 

No, just your thinking that Texans should be is wrong.  You provide no solution.  If I were a TX resident under a variable rate plan, I'd have to have $20K put aside for this sort of thing?  That's being prepared right?   It's a reach and you know a lot of people don' have that kind of cash laying around--yet it's OK with you that oh well, they weren't prepared, then turn the juice off.

1 minute ago, DrPhilly said:

Yeah, but there is also a level of reasonableness to consider.  Do you have a full blown prepper facility you can fall back on when the sheet hits the fan?  If not, you can buy one for about $10M out in the middle of Kansas (or was it Oklahoma).  You're going to need your own jet to get you there as well.  I suppose you already have that level of fall back sorted out based on your posting.

I could throw that same argument right back at you in order to explain why there was no reasonable reason to expect the power company to be prepared

"Just get a wood stove."

 

To quote another moron, this really shouldn't be free.

i should prepare for a piece of halleys comet hitting our local reservoir and invest in my own drinking water collection system. 

1 minute ago, DiPros said:

No, just your thinking that Texans should be is wrong.  You provide no solution.  If I were a TX resident under a variable rate plan, I'd have to have $20K put aside for this sort of thing?  That's being prepared right?   It's a reach and you know a lot of people don' have that kind of cash laying around--yet it's OK with you that oh well, they weren't prepared, then turn the juice off.

You can have a wood stove for under a grand

Just now, Alpha_TATEr said:

i should prepare for a piece of haleys comet hitting our local reservoir and invest in my own drinking water collection system. 

Right and so should the power company

9 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

No, I read the part where you talked about Maine.  Pretty much everyone in Maine would have a fireplace, wood, insulation, etc.  Very few in Texas would have the same.  Kinda the same concept as the companies in Texas not having the cold weather tech on their wind turbines.  Common sense for the most part (well, unless you are a true prepper).

 

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

I could throw that same argument right back at you in order to explain why there was no reasonable reason to expect the power company to be prepared

 

Already covered that one.

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Right and so should the power company

are you prepared if aliens land and invade our world as well ? 

1 minute ago, DrPhilly said:

 

 

Already covered that one.

Having cold weather tech doesn’t sound the equivalent of having a full blown prepped facility and yet you tried to compare buying a wood stove to preparing for the apocalypse 

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

You can have a wood stove for under a grand

I have alternative heat source.  Propane fireplace.  I also have a generator, and have an outlet just for the furnace.  I'm not f'ng around with wood.

1 minute ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

are you prepared if aliens land and invade our world as well ? 

Obviously he is.  He has a wood stove.

1 minute ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

are you prepared if aliens land and invade our world as well ? 

Is the power company?

4 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

i should prepare for a piece of halleys comet hitting our local reservoir and invest in my own drinking water collection system. 

Just get a wood stove.

Just now, DiPros said:

I have alternative heat source.  Propane fireplace.  I also have a generator, and have an outlet just for the furnace.  I'm not f'ng around with wood.

Well to each his own but the point is you don’t have to spend 20k if you don’t want

Just now, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Is the power company?

i know peco is, not sure about in texas or maine though. 

1 minute ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Having cold weather tech doesn’t sound the equivalent of having a full blown prepped facility and yet you tried to compare buying a wood stove to preparing for the apocalypse 

Yeah, I agree, you're wrong.

1 minute ago, DrPhilly said:

Yeah, I agree, you're wrong.

So power companies are idiots for not preparing but regular people are just helpless victims?

2 minutes ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

Well to each his own but the point is you don’t have to spend 20k if you don’t want

Right, and shouldn't have to since customers should be able to get reasonable service from a provider.   It's almost like your saying if the wind comes in from the east X customers will get shut down, but they should be prepared for winds from east and any given time or day.   That's not what happened here.

Just now, Seventy_Yard_FG said:

So power companies are idiots for not preparing but regular people are just helpless victims?

No, neither of them should have been required to prepare on their own by choice alone.

The Texas govt should have prepared though.  They could have regulated the industry to require either up front planing (as Vikas said those investments could have been passed along as costs over the entire population and an elongated period) OR they could have chosen an alternative and more costly backup plan involving some other type of solution.