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There’s been massive growth in the number of homes in the past decade. One might guess that energy use there now with everyone pretty much at home that they’re seeing the peak usage being redefined to the present.

The new SS Biden will have em.

If it's that cold and the power is out, put your perishables in a cooler and set it outside. Better yet, keep the damn freezer door shut and use up the perishables first.

Does the power demand increase when the temp drops and people heat their homes as opposed to when the temp rises and people must cool their homes?

One would think that hot summer power usage would exceed cold weather usage as not to many people have wood, propane, fuel oil, NG powered air conditioners.

Yup - and they ain't gonna be burnin' wood any time soon either...

For power outages, having a portable generator on hand can be a lifesaver..

Many newer homes have “clean electric heat “ and I’d guess that everyone pretty much being at home right now has increased to demand substantially plus the ice on the power lines thing.

Just guessing, Steve.

The power generation capacity in TX during the summer is far higher than in the winter. I'm not exactly sure why but suspect it has to do with nat gas supplies.

http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_conditions.html

Excellent point!

My 2 portable generators are on loan right now.

I wonder how many of those people have lots of ammunition and/or components, but no generator or alternate heat source.

Makes me think of Seinfeld and the entirety of Manhattan.

They lived at that coffee shop.

The problem right now isn't iced over equipment, or
bad power lines, etc.
The power is being turned on and off at the direction
of the ERCOT beaurecrats according to their poor
game plan.
We've had fantastic electrical generation plants
that have been closed up by other beaurecrats.
Some in this area have said I was FOS, and the
lines were the problem, and to stop blaming the
linemen. It's not the linemen. I've had power out
from down lines and when it's restored, it's not
switched back on by the clock on the dot at the
hour. This outage goes on and off at precise
timed intervals by the clock. By their words,
supposed to be 1 hour out, but more like 6

These incidents should teach people that they need to become at least somewhat self sufficient, unfortunately the message a majority of them take away from it is that we need to make the Government even bigger to do a better job of taking care of us if it happens again. You can’t convince these people that the government can’t protect you. Sheep.

I dont have a fireplace so if the letric goes out, I'm up the creek without a paddle.....after the gas natural goes off (in 61 years it's never shutdown but there is always a first time), and after we've used up 45 gal of propane running 2 large heaters, and after we've used up 20 gal of gasoline running a generator for a small electric heater.

If I got to cut firewood, a whole passel of folks are in worse trouble than me.

No 2hr. school delay back in the day, I got up early enough to shovel the family property with 2 car garage but hiked two blocks down the street and shoveled a place that had a 6 car garage. Then back home in time to walk 1/2 mi. to school, no school busses. H ell I walked to elementary school, HS and even sometimes 2-3 mi. to college.

We're pretty well stocked up on firewood, food, water and we have a back up generator. It's surprising to me how many folks in Alaska are not prepared for emergency situations.

By the time I'm done cutting logs on a couple of 10 acre lots this winter, opening up some views for the landowner, I'll have enough saw logs to keep the mill running all year and I'll be 2 1/2 to 3 years ahead on firewood. And that doesn't include the slabs that are a by product of the mill.

I see folks buying those little bundles of firewood at the grocery store and gas stations and just wish they'd come by the mill. I'd load all the slabs they want for free. Of course most of them don't own anything they could use to reduce the slab to firewood. It's hard to give the slabs away. I have one guy who will come get a trailer load occasionally but most people don't want to work that hard.

This is called common sense, it’s not so common anymore.
What would happen if we had a real disaster like major earthquake, asteroid strike or a city getting dirty b ombed?
Folks would have a meltdown.

Aw hell, this aint nothin. When I was a little chap, I had to walk 2 miles to and from school every day. Rain, sleet, snow meant nothing, and it was uphill both ways.

Natural selection is a thing.