OK so it doesn't have much to do with code, but here in Texas yesterday, today, and tomorrow is 100+ temps. The utilities are imposing rolling 15-minute blackouts everywhere in north Texas. It isn't bad enough we are under extreme drought from last year and this one, and now the 100 degree weather showed up 3-months early.
Dang it is HOT
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Pierre C Belarge
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Dereck
Texas, land of the big.... temps!!! :shock:
Better you guys than us... we will be complaining in another couple of months about the heat... but I can wait. :wink:
Just think how much earlier your fishing season is. 8)
Texas, land of the big.... temps!!! :shock:
Better you guys than us... we will be complaining in another couple of months about the heat... but I can wait. :wink:
Just think how much earlier your fishing season is. 8)
I moved from NY to Southern (as far south as you can go), Texas a couple years ago. I'll take this over working in feet of snow, trying to dig up underground cables and water mains in frozen ground. Ice pulling down power lines, dirt, mud and salt all over the place. Just plain yuckkkk!!!!!
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It has snowed the last couple of days here 
Pierre C Belarge
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Snow... heat... rain, the apocalypse is upon us :shock:
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I was born and raised in San Antonio. As far as I can tell, Gabriel has yet to blow his horn, so I must conclude that the Eyes of Texas are still upon me. :wink: But I do not choose to live there. I guess I just hate the weather there more than I love the family I left behind. :lol: :lol:
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I was watching SNL the other night, they had a funny piece on Weekend Update on that. Seth Meyers concurred with your analysis.Pierre C Belarge said:
It was 86? yesterday here, and turned 50? and blowing cold today. I regretted wearing shorts. :x
Pierre C Belarge
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"I regretted wearing shorts. "
So did your coworkers. :shock:
So did your coworkers. :shock:
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Dereck,
The LONE star state.
Don
Is this releated to the fact that Texas is on a stand alone grid that is not connected to the rest of the US making is difficult to import power? I know that there are a few large converters that are used to transfer power from the eastern to western grid, but I have not read of any that tie the Texas grid to the rest of the US....maybe that is just keeping with the motto
The LONE star state.
Don
Don, yes it certainly does have something to do with TX not being on an out of state grid. That was imposed way back when NYC had the massive blackouts back in the 60's I think from under frequency trips.
TXU claims they did not expect the heat wave, so they did not bring up generating capacity to meet the demand and got caught short. Not sure how they could have missed the heat wave, it was forecasted a week ahead of time
When I worked for a Oklahoma utility, in 1980 something, I worked in a AC-DC-AC interconnect with TXU. Basically a two back-to-back 69 KV substations in the same yard with rectifiers and inverters.. So the state of Texas does have some interconnect to the outside world, they just are not synced up with any other state or grid other than their own.
TXU claims they did not expect the heat wave, so they did not bring up generating capacity to meet the demand and got caught short. Not sure how they could have missed the heat wave, it was forecasted a week ahead of time
When I worked for a Oklahoma utility, in 1980 something, I worked in a AC-DC-AC interconnect with TXU. Basically a two back-to-back 69 KV substations in the same yard with rectifiers and inverters.. So the state of Texas does have some interconnect to the outside world, they just are not synced up with any other state or grid other than their own.
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My understanding is that another reason for this is so that Texas can regulate its own power grid. Something to the effect of; if grids are connected across state lines, they then fall under the jurisdiction of interstate commerce.
Eric
speaking of weather ... I've been working in "Valdez Alaska" recently ... a week ago I woke up to 6 inches of snow at 5 am then rain in after noon ... 4 inches snow next day ... blizzard type squalls at 4pm ... I'm not sure I'd like 100 degrees but sure would like to ride my "Bike" before june ... still 32 degrees in Wasilla Ak today ... (ok anybody got some cheese for my "Whine") ... M
Personally I love the weather here in MI. We have relatively few earthquakes, few tornados, never had a hurricane that I am aware of.
The earthquakes have all been very mild ones in my lifetime. We do not have much flooding, and have more fresh water than anywhere else in the country as far as I know. In my part of MI it is rare that it gets below -20F and I think we average 5 to 7 days a year where it is above 95F. I can dress for the cold, but I cannot dress for the heat.
Besides that I have a brother and 4 sisters here along with 3 of my children and grandchildren.
The earthquakes have all been very mild ones in my lifetime. We do not have much flooding, and have more fresh water than anywhere else in the country as far as I know. In my part of MI it is rare that it gets below -20F and I think we average 5 to 7 days a year where it is above 95F. I can dress for the cold, but I cannot dress for the heat.
Besides that I have a brother and 4 sisters here along with 3 of my children and grandchildren.
yo Larry..am originally from SW Detroit (Downriver).. worked at FOMOCO "Rouge Plant" for 11 years ... on or around 1980 there was a storm that they called an "In-Land Huricane" .. trees uprooted all over including 4 on my street as I watched ... one fo the cranes at the plant even was blown over .. sky was green .. power was out for weeks in some areas ... here in the "Mat-Su Valley" of AK we get a ton of wind for days at a time (30 + with gusts into the 60's and higher ... and as I said .. today (7am) its 30 degrees ... what a year !!!!! ... m
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