February 18, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: It would appear that while uncommon, 3 days of deep cold has happened twice in the last 40 years with a handful of cold snaps in between where temps below freezing impacted power supply. At what point do you decide you need to prepare for these conditions as an essential service? Meh... It doesn't happen often enough to make sense from a pure cost-benefit standpoint for the power companies so unless there were some kind of over-arching requirement that they prepare for these situations they really don't have incentive to do so. And there's just no way that Republicans would want any kind of over-arching requirements or regulations imposed on the private power industry so these occurrences are simply inevitable. 3 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: It would appear that while uncommon, 3 days of deep cold has happened twice in the last 40 years with a handful of cold snaps in between where temps below freezing impacted power supply. At what point do you decide you need to prepare for these conditions as an essential service? Meh... It doesn't happen often enough to make sense from a pure cost-benefit standpoint for the power companies so unless there were some kind of over-arching requirement that they prepare for these situations they really don't have incentive to do so. And there's just no way that Republicans would want any kind of over-arching requirements or regulations imposed on the private power industry so these occurrences are simply inevitable.
February 18, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, Imp81318 said: Meh... It doesn't happen often enough to make sense from a pure cost-benefit standpoint for the power companies so unless there were some kind of over-arching requirement that they prepare for these situations they really don't have incentive to do so. And there's just no way that Republicans would want any kind of over-arching requirements or regulations imposed on the private power industry so these occurrences are simply inevitable. That's the main problem. The reason public utilities were carved out from an antitrust perspective was both to deal with them being natural monopolies and to ensure that profit wasn't the overriding rationale for decision making within these monopolies. I love the free market. But there are times it sucks at delivering what's needed because the incentive isn't there. As someone misapplied earlier in this thread, not everything is a nail so you need more than a hammer.
February 18, 20214 yr 21 minutes ago, Toastrel said: This was pretty well done. Not really, bunch of liberal BS
February 18, 20214 yr Anyway I’m calling BS. I heard the democrats used weather modification technology to put the vortex there so they could use the crises to turn the state Blue
February 18, 20214 yr Just now, Seventy_Yard_FG said: Anyway I’m calling BS. I heard the democrats used weather modification technology to put the vortex there so they could use the crises to turn the state Blue I heard you wear a dress and hang out by the docks. Must be true.
February 18, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, Seventy_Yard_FG said: Anyway I’m calling BS. I heard the democrats used weather modification technology to put the vortex there so they could use the crises to turn the state Blue I've heard the lips of your vajeen hang so low that you can use them as socks.
February 18, 20214 yr 16 hours ago, The_Omega said: If there's one thing that's perfectly clear, it's that the hardships caused by once in a generation events would be non-existent if the Monday Morning quarterbacks stroking themselves off on the internet were in charge of everything. Exorbitant costs be damned, everything would be overengineered to account for every possible scenario. A couple things... 1. Business continuity and DR planning, in the real world, include the ability to sustain operations even in the event of low frequency disasters. That's the point of having them. I'd legit be fired if an asteroid fell out of the sky onto one of the data centers I'm responsible for and we weren't able to sustain business operations. 2. I've been in TX for going on 6 years now and we've had what seem to be like endless "once in a century" floods and disasters. At some point you can't call them "once in a century" anymore.
February 18, 20214 yr 16 hours ago, DaEagles4Life said: It isn't rocket science. To have plows. To be prepared for a storm, if it comes. It does cost money, though. Good thing we spent $15 billion on the border wall. That will show HUGE returns.
February 18, 20214 yr I agree. The best thing Ted Cruz can do for Texas is leave to Cancun. He should resign.
February 18, 20214 yr I'm more offended that Cruz went to, of all places, Cancun. What is this college?
February 18, 20214 yr And he’ll go on Hannity tonight and blame AOC, Hunter Biden and windmills. All will be fine in Cruz world.
February 18, 20214 yr 47 minutes ago, DEagle7 said: I'm more offended that Cruz went to, of all places, Cancun. What is this college? Tulum is the new Cancun
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