Place Your Bets! Texas Xmas Freeze 2022!

[Paratus]

No snow or precipitation here. Not even frost on the roofs. It did get to down to 18F. If SE Texas hit that the northern states and Canada must be Arctic like.

Looks like ERCOT pulled through


They did underestimate the demand. Heard their models underestimate the amount of electricity poorer areas use for heat since they have fewer gas furnaces.

 

[nakedfrog]

Yesterday it was actually colder where my friends in Nebraska are than it was where my mom is, in northern Minnesota.
Here in the south Puget Sound area, everything is covered with a thin layer of ice. It should melt today though, temperatures are on their way above freezing.

 

[hal2kilo]

Yesterday it was actually colder where my friends in Nebraska are than it was where my mom is, in northern Minnesota.
Here in the south Puget Sound area, everything is covered with a thin layer of ice. It should melt today though, temperatures are on their way above freezing.

Watching snow and ice finally washing and blowing out of the trees as I type. Power has only blinked once, fingers crossed. Will not see freezing weather again for at least 5 days. Yay!

 

[nisryus]

Some people around Austin and surrounding areas did lost power sinc eyesterday, and the numbers have been goign up anddown throughout yesterday and today.

However, majority of the issues around here is natural gas related. Few of my co workers up in Cedar park and Leander have low gas pressure to no gas since yesterday. City if Leander had ot open up warming center now. Many households around RR and North Austin also have low to no gas for their furnance or cooking.

 

[hal2kilo]

Some people around Austin and surrounding areas did lost power sinc eyesterday, and the numbers have been goign up anddown throughout yesterday and today.

However, majority of the issues around here is natural gas related. Few of my co workers up in Cedar park and Leander have low gas pressure to no gas since yesterday. City if Leander had ot open up warming center now. Many households around RR and North Austin also have low to no gas for their furnance or cooking.

Heat tape it.

 

[Viper1j]

Last two times San Antonio dropped into the teens we had rolling blackouts, so expecting it again starting Friday morning when the forecast low is 18.

That's where my dad is. (Lackland AFB) Can't reach him all day. Hope he's ok.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

That's where my dad is. (Lackland AFB) Can't reach him all day. Hope he's ok.

There have been no rolling blackouts today nor last night, though the consumption vs capacity is getting tight right now. Demand is ~68000MW and capacity is 72000MW right now on ERCOT's grid. Looks like 8PM CST might be cutting it very close.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

No snow or precipitation here. Not even frost on the roofs. It did get to down to 18F. If SE Texas hit that the northern states and Canada must be Arctic like.

Looks like ERCOT pulled through

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They did underestimate the demand. Heard their models underestimate the amount of electricity poorer areas use for heat since they have fewer gas furnaces.

Don't count your chickens yet

 

[Paratus]

Don't count your chickens yet

I guess it ain’t over yet.

 

[Paratus]

I guess it ain’t over yet.

Spot prices are maxing out.

 

[Viper1j]

There have been no rolling blackouts today nor last night, though the consumption vs capacity is getting tight right now. Demand is ~68000MW and capacity is 72000MW right now on ERCOT's grid. Looks like 8PM CST might be cutting it very close.

Thanks

 

[SteveGrabowski]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1606530215836110855

 

[uallas5]

I guess I should add that it doesn't just "go out" because it gets cold 'round here, at least in my 35 years in New England. If it goes out, it's due to a bad weather, or some kind of accident where vehicles go off the road and take out power lines.

The last time I can remember going without heat due to weather is a snowstorm October 29, 2011 that crushed the entire region.

Not only was it a lot of snow, but the fall had been very mild, and the temperature was barely freezing...

Cool, right?

Wrong for these reasons:

1. Mild fall meant most of the trees still had green leaves, and barely any had fallen by the end of October. We we're all enjoying it pretty thoroughly.
2. 32 F meant the snow was very heavy and wet.
3. Trees leaved in green acted as catchers mitt's. The snow literally was "caught" by the trees, breaking enormous amount of large branches, and many trees just falling down altogether.

It took weeks to clean up some areas, I had no power for 7 days. to this day there's still some hangers up in the trees that haven't rotted enough to fall.

Maybe I'll dig up some pictures I took if I care to.

edit: Pictures added, lower numbers are pictures from the house down the driveway, the two higher numbers are up the driveway.

Ah yes the infamous Halloween nor'easter, I remember it well. We lost power for 3 days and my sis-in-law in Bolton, one town over, didn't have power for almost 3 weeks. We tried to savage as much from the fridge as we could by filling up coolers with food and snow.

 

[iRONic]

Ah yes the infamous Halloween nor'easter, I remember it well. We lost power for 3 days and my sis-in-law in Bolton, one town over, didn't have power for almost 3 weeks. We tried to savage as much from the fridge as we could by filling up coolers with food and snow.

I was in hispanic Willimantic during that fiasco. 2 days shy of a month without power. 😡

 

[ch33zw1z]

Ah yes the infamous Halloween nor'easter, I remember it well. We lost power for 3 days and my sis-in-law in Bolton, one town over, didn't have power for almost 3 weeks. We tried to savage as much from the fridge as we could by filling up coolers with food and snow.

yes, in your link it also references the tornado that ran like 50 miles west to east earlier that year. Literally cut my town in half, destroying the only real populated area in the town. My town worked to replace dozens of trees downtown, only to have all destroyed on October 29th.

I can still remember venturing outside that morning after the storm, trees were cracking g under the weight of the snow. Sounded like gun fire and I was pretty slow to make progress as I was keeping my head up for falling g branches

 

[iRONic]

We scraped by with minimal tornado damage. Thought we dodged the big one. Nope…

 

[Zorba]

I was in Stillwater, OK the last couple of days, there is a small lake in the middle of town. On Thursday there was lake effect snow/ice around it that was cool seeing. And then on Friday there was a bunch of pack ice piled up on the south end of the lake.

 

[Drach]

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