"Can you imagine if during a heat wave, Texans were told to turn off their power ..."

[sl8]

Texas Rep's tweet doesn't age well.

Link to tweet

Beth Van Duyne
@Bethvanduyne
·
Sep 7, 2020
Can you imagine if during a heat wave, Texans were told to turn off their power, their appliances and sit in the dark. That won’t fly in the Lone Star State and it shouldn’t happen anywhere in our country. #TX24

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MayorOfLA
@MayorOfLA
· Sep 6, 2020
It’s almost 3 p.m. Time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees (or use a fan instead), turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you’re not using.

We need every Californian to help conserve energy. Please do your part. #FlexAlert

[marble falls]

1. Goldfish have steel trap minds compared to Texan GOP memories.

[Blues Heron]

2. turning off excess lights is sitting in the dark? WTF

She has to lie to make her (now non-operative) point - typical lame-ass rhetorical technique from the RW bozo crowd.

[MineralMan]

3. Texas! First, they had a cold snap that shut down their

isolated electrical grid. Now, it's too hot, and the grid can't keep up with demand. "Texas! It's a whole other country!"

Whatever Democrat runs against Abbot in the next election should make hay with those two examples of Abbot's incompetence in his/her campaign ads.

[Nictuku]

4. It has been this way in California for a long time now

I don't use our heater in the Winter (we get wood for the fireplace, and have installed these ceramic wall mounted warmers, which help take the chill off, and we wear layers. Fortunately in CA it doesn't snow and get as cold as many other places). I do this because if we use the heater in the winter, my electric bill is over $600.

Same thing for the summer and the AC. Except for when it is over 90 like it has been in the 100s these last few days. The house gets so hot and my 80 year old mom just can't take it so I'm going to just have to bite the bullet and pay the high bill. We run around in our paraous when it gets this hot. In winter you can put on layers, in summer you can only take so many clothes off.

I also have a hot tub that I don't use because I can't afford the electric bill. That reminds me, I haven't cycled it in a while I should probably do that to keep it working so that in the event I ever am able to afford to install solar it will still be working.

We do our laundry on the weekends, or early in the morning. All to keep the electric bill down. The difference in the bill if you don't is substantial.

During the time of year where we don't need heat or AC, the bill is around $200.

[kimbutgar]

12. Where do you live in California ?

My biggest bill where I live is $200 monthly and when it’s cold we turn on our heater.

[Nictuku]

14. Napa

I live in the hills near Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Wine Country (now better known as Fire Country)

It may be due to the fact that we are 100% electric here (water heater, cooking, heat), we don't have propane or gas installed in our house. My cousin does have propane, and getting that tank filled is not cheap either.

I think they charge so much because they can. And then if you use utilities after 4 pm, they really sock it to you by putting you in another 'tier' where you are allowed to use so much, but if you go over, then you are in the next 'tier'.

Highway Robbery! PG&E

Oh, and then we not only get subjected to rolling blackouts when those are happening, we also get our electricity turned off now if it gets too windy (in summer) due to fire hazard. I think we should be exempt from the rolling blackouts due to supply and demand because we also get it turned off due to their poor maintenance of their power lines.

I have to do so much work around my house to prepare for fire season, and I ain't no spring chicken any more, and god knows my 80 year old mom can't help with that.

This year our Fire Department and HOA are asking that every tree around your property be cleared to 7 feet (meaning no low branches, or dead brush is allowed). You drag all the branches and brush cut to the side of the road and the County does free Chipping.

Our HOA does hire contractors to do the areas in between properties and along the roadways (there are about 200 houses in my rural area here). And this year, I totally lucked out because my mom made homemade lemonade for the workers when they were doing the road in front of our house, and they actually came onto our property and did a lot of the 7 ft. clearing on several trees!! A little kindness can go a long way! I am sooooo grateful, I could have never done that. I did shop around trying to see what it would cost to hire someone, and the quote I got was $1200.

The other thing of note is that when they do the chipping, they just shoot all the chips back onto your property, so it makes me wonder if that is not a good thing to have piles of wood chips (flammable?). I did find them useful where I had a big hole that needed filling and I thought I would have to buy gravel and then cover with soil. I took 3 wheelbarrows full of woodchips to fill the hole, then I bought soil and covered it over.

[moonscape]

13. Whoa, $600 is amazing! I live on

the Central Coast so obviously more temperate than wherever you live in CA, but my bill is never over $100.

[Ilsa]

15. I'm a curious outsider here:

Are there (still) shopping malls nearby that are not open-air malls or strip centers. I used to take my kids to the mall on really hot days to get them into AC for a few hours while my thermostat at home was set higher.

[Nictuku]

16. Not where I am

I think there still is a mall in town (Napa), but that is a 15 mile drive. There are movie theaters and restaurants and such, but that is all not quite back up to speed due to covid.

[Lovie777]

5. We are in a drought too . . .

Rolling blackouts ain't no fun either.

As to Texas, the governor's priorities apparently is not with the grind but that damn boarder keeping non whites from entering.

[Hortensis]

6. That's the fallacy about conservatives in general. They do accept

and support a lot of oppression, injustice, and exploitation of themselves as part of the social hierarchy and in the name of authority. Sometimes even extreme degrees of it. And TX's authoritarianism exalted proudly and noisily as Texas freedom is very pervasive and can be extreme.

When cons get unhappy and restive, their authorities just tell them it's necessary to keep you-know-who in line and they're back in line themselves.

Lack of AC to the middle classes in summer, though, just may be harder than usual to put up with to "own the Dems," in current terminology. Hope so.

[Baked Potato]

11. So true, well said. Nt

[onecaliberal]

7. Imagine your entire state in a deep freeze causing a lot of death because greedy state reps were

Owned by state energy corporations could not be bothered to care more about their constituents than their wallets.
#TbisFliesInTheLonestarState

[keithbvadu2]

8. "California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable elec

Texas electricity Patrick Cruz Paxton blame democrats toon

Pic Of The Moment: Ah, The Party Of Personal Responsibility

Power outages

“California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity,” Cruz wrote back then.

[XanaDUer2]

9. will Cruz now head to Antartica? Nt

[captain queeg]

10. Are there current blackouts in TX or just voluntary restrictions?

I haven’t read that rolling blackouts have started. Just some stuff about “suggested” actions. P