Sure hope that doesn't happen! Guess there will be many sitting in their cars listening to the radio with the a/c blasting. Time to fill up the tank.tireman4 wrote:Watch out for blackouts/burnouts:
From Portastorm:
Saw a couple of interesting items on Twitter this morning, including:
* As of 8:30 a.m., demand for power in Texas is exceeding the forecasted load by ERCOT. Should this trend continue, I bet we'll get to that emergency level 2B quicker than we did yesterday afternoon. Brownouts or blackouts will be likely.
* Folks at SMU were told there will be no warning if the power is shut off. For those of us working on computers, save your docs early and often!
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 2#p2155662
Does anyone know how long they would keep the power off for a given area? When we had the black outs during last year's freeze, our office building got it 3x, each one lasting more than hour. The last one was about 2 hours. Yet at my house, only lasted about 15 minutes, 2x.
Also, why no warning? I had a friend who had to do several appliance repairs due to the sudden outages last year.
I have been mindful of conserving where I can. All lights are off, only 1 TV on in the house, guess I could turn off the ceiling fans when I am not in the room. Would that even make a difference?