Houston will have extreme cold and temperatures could drop below 20 (MERGED) (motel, buying)

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

Yes exactly.
And this time they had about two weeks to prepare for this storm.
Instead of increasing energy supply they cut off millions of people during the deadliest night.

Kind of hard to increase the energy supply when it's natural gas that' sin the wells., and the wellheads freeze up and the gas plants freeze up and the power plants freeze up. It would have taken way more than 2 weeks to be ready for this. There's no magic switch they can flip to make things work in the cold.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by WRM20

Kind of hard to increase the energy supply when it's natural gas that' sin the wells., and the wellheads freeze up and the gas plants freeze up and the power plants freeze up. It would have taken way more than 2 weeks to be ready for this. There's no magic switch they can flip to make things work in the cold.

Not to mention when the power is out most gas can't be pumped.

TX' electric producers keep thin buffers on hand only - sort of a JIT delivery scheme. Once things thaw a little more gas will move to plants quickly.

It would take years and billions to change the above much.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

Houston is a Disaster City.
Enjoy floods, tropical storms and arctic blasts every year in a city equally unprepared for any of this.

The last time it got this cold was 1989, the time before that was 1930, and the time before that was 1897. Every year? Stop being dramatic and so over the top with everything.

Originally Posted by NoHyping

Each year some 100 yr event or 300 yr event or 500 yr event occurs anymore. Yet for the Cheap..... keep the sprawl going and steal from the North and now desired from the West boasted of gaining relocation's and booming the state.

No one wants to see Texas have these issues. Yet the boast is it is the Greatest in so much and the Big Steal to gain Corporate relocating a huge boast. These events show what minimum infrastructure requirements that were not cause of booming in many decades ago eras.... and having the most lax regulations lead to events that have no safeguards in place for. The rarer occasions of issues keep happening more ..... are giving plenty of issues and showing short-comings. Of course it is cheaper initially and growth continues no matter what. Just this fast growth and build it without plans for these extremes as it cost more.....are showing more and more.

God forbid another Dust Bowl episode that did effect Northern Texas isn't another even to deal with episode too. Maybe a plague of locust yet. If it is possible..... seems Texas will be prone sadly.

Youre very transparent DavePa.

"steal from the North"

Its the same thing with you every time you post in the Texas forum. Nobody stole anything from you. Tell your representatives and local leaders to try and do more to retain businesses.

What has happened here this week was awful and there were some failures on behalf of ERCOT and the state. There have to be some adjustments, but this over the top disaster cheerleading is ridiculous.

Lest you think stuff like this didnt happen up north, allow me to introduce you to the Storm of the Century in 1993 which is comparable to what were dealing with:

https://www.weather.gov/ilm/Superstorm93

[Ghost Town]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

The last time it got this cold was 1989, the time before that was 1930, and the time before that was 1897. Every year? Stop being dramatic and so over the top with everything.

Well I didn't say arctic blast every year.
Different disasters every year.
2015, 2016, 2017 major floods, 2018 freeze, 2019 tropical storm/flooding, 2020 pandemic (I know it's global, but it counts anyway), 2021 arctic blast.

Houston is a Disaster City!

[WRM20]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

The last time it got this cold was 1989, the time before that was 1930, and the time before that was 1897. Every year? Stop being dramatic and so over the top with everything.

snippage

It got this cold in December of 1983. It was 10 degrees in Katy that time, the Houston area went 91 hours below freezing, and the bays froze hundreds of feet from the shorelines.

[Ghost Town]

"Texas furniture store shelters residents without power" https://nypost.com/2021/02/16/texas-...out-power/amp/

[kemahkami]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

Well I didn't say arctic blast every year.
Different disasters every year.
2015, 2016, 2017 major floods, 2018 freeze, 2019 tropical storm/flooding, 2020 pandemic (I know it's global, but it counts anyway), 2021 arctic blast.

Houston is a Disaster City!

I disagree, only because all these events affected large swaths of land - whether its simply the rest of Texas/Southern US, or global like this pandemic. Climate change is known to be affecting the jet stream, so events like this are just a sign of things to come around the whole world.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

Well I didn't say arctic blast every year.
Different disasters every year.
2015, 2016, 2017 major floods, 2018 freeze, 2019 tropical storm/flooding, 2020 pandemic (I know it's global, but it counts anyway), 2021 arctic blast.

Houston is a Disaster City!

15-17 are the only unique to Houston. Tf kinda comparison is the latter to the first

[Ghost Town]

There can be different points of view.
But simply put, all these disastrous events took place in Houston anyway and that's the fact.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Ghost Town

There can be different points of view.
But simply put, all these disastrous events took place in Houston anyway and that's the fact.

Get around it all you want. People here are laughing at your comment for a reason. Bumped in Covid and an arctic blast of all things. You make a good point. Unlike the northeast and the Great Lakes, Houston freezes every year. If only we had mild winters like chicago