Rolling blackout

[trippletap]

Been out since 4:30 this morning.

[Full Throttle]

Seems as though theyre rolling some places out and not messing with others. We’ve been without power more than we’ve had it since 3am, and my mom, my dad and my mother in all (all separate houses 10+miles apart) have had electricity this whole time. Whats up with that??

I feel for yall that have been without electricity for hours on end with no backup generator. We’d be sitting in the car if that happened as I dont have a generator either.


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I still haven’t lost power. We live about 2 miles from a hospital and pretty large medical area is even a bit closer. I’m wondering if that has anything to do with it...

[Mike D]

Gas heat and wood burning stoves instead of electric heat pumps.

Electric heat pumps still use much less electricity than conventional electric heat.

The problem with nat gas/propane is delivery. You still have to have compressor stations operational for natural gas and of course propane has to be delivered and stored.

There is no perfect solution. But overall for Texas heat pumps make the most sense. This is a once a decade at best event for Texas. I’m still running in my heat pumps. I’ve not switched to emergency heat. No doubt the foam insulation is a huge help as well.


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[bphillips]

I’m not buying that. People losing power in the middle of the night for hours. Some still don’t have power now. I work at a power plant and we do all the major jobs in the middle of the night where they have to drop the load or what we call a de-rate on the unit because that’s when usage is the lowest. I’m betting most of these outages are due to snow and ice. Knock on wood, I haven’t lost power yet.
The last snow/ice storm we had last month, I was out of power for 3 straight days. At least I had hot water to take showers and gas stove to cook meals.

People losing it for hours aren’t because of rolling blackouts. Those are ice issues for sure. Seen lots of downed lines and poles around here because of that.

[Mike D]

Down twice tonight. Once for 25 minutes. Still in #2. ...

Sleeping with a CPAP, that’ll wake you up quick.

Jason get you a battery back up UPS unit. We have my wife’s CPAP on one and it will typically run for 3-4 hours on battery alone.


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[miket]

Been lucky so far, no outage here yet. Working today ( as always ) but just roughing out, scared power will go out if threading or running a finish pass ( machine shop )

[Smart]

People losing it for hours aren’t because of rolling blackouts. Those are ice issues for sure. Seen lots of downed lines and poles around here because of that.

Yup. Probably plenty of both. Ours here in my area have been blackouts. At least they have been timed like it ....

[LarryP_1989]

Just got power back in Madisonville

[bphillips]

Yup. Probably plenty of both. Ours here in my area have been blackouts. At least they have been timed like it ....

Here too. 15-20 minutes out about every hour this morning

[Killer]

Joe said he was going to model the country after California. They have been having rolling blackouts for about 6 or 7 years at least. Vote Democratic if you like it!!!!!

[Maddox]

Hearing Lewis Creek powerplant and new Montgomery County powerplant in Willis as shut down due to “frozen instrumentation”

[bakin7005]

People losing it for hours aren’t because of rolling blackouts. Those are ice issues for sure. Seen lots of downed lines and poles around here because of that.

Mines been out since 1am...no ice here just about 4 inches of snow. That won't cause downed power lines. What else could it be?
North Richland Hills

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[BJ DUPLECHAIN]

If it's a rolling blackout, how long does the blackout typically last for a given area?

[Maddox]

Center Point has said rolling blackouts are lasting 1 hour each and if yours is lasting longer than an hour its a equipment failure and you should expect to be without electricity till “at least the rest of the day”.

[sp-bow]

Still out, since 5 AM. Just heard a spokesman from Centerpoint on the radio that we will be out for awhile, possibly til tomorrow. He didn’t say anything about it being because of downed lines. Essential areas will have power.