... rolling black outs , frozen turbines, and downed power lines...
My friend had to rig cover for heat pump in San Antonio...
Very few of those in El Paso...
We have gas furnace as most older homes have...my house is very well
insulated.. only sheet rock in our house is in room additions and storage
rooms in back.
Walls are solid...ac and heat run through same duct system...redid it a few
years ago when we replaced roof and Master cool.
It's 27° outside right now and heater is off...it's 72 in here.
Can't do that in most new homes...one friend had pipes burst inside his
wall on Sunday... luckily in garage...yep sheetrock...
Stay safe folks...
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 8:21 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> media reports from the last few days were scheduled rolling blackouts
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:12 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> They explained on PBS tonight that they are not "rolling blackouts", they
>> are widespread power outages b/c of the ice bringing down power lines.
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 2/15/2021 5:56 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>
>> I dont understand the rolling blackouts. its hot as balls in texas in the
>> summer so youd figure peak demand with all the AC then is well over what it
>> is in the winter. Whats stepping up the winter demand? are you guys mostly
>> electric heat and hot water or something there?
>>
>> We maybe see some brownout here in peak summer, but winter its never an
>> issue other than storm damage outages because we never learn to harden
>> anything here
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:07 PM Ron M. <ccie4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My home in Fort Stockton has been out for going on 8 hours now, and TNMP
>>> says repair time is 5pm tomorrow.
>>>
>>> I'm in Austin, so won't be back out west until the weekend. At least
>>> I've got someone looking after the house while I'm gone.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 5:39 PM Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> El Paso Electric which serves our area and Southern New Mexico is not
>>>> part of the other Texas utilities experiencing rolling power outages. Back
>>>> in 2011 we had power outages and water pipe damage. Both utilities took
>>>> steps to prove systems with anti-freeze technology and all types of
>>>> sensors.
>>>> We installed several sensors and links for many of these projects
>>>> years ago.
>>>> As of 6:00pm today only 3,000 customers lost power for five minutes.
>>>> Hope you guys are safe.
>>>>
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