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| Homer J Simpson:
Lots in the news on the weather and power situation in Texas. |
| MikeK:
One of the many reasons not to live in Texas. lol |
| GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: MikeK on February 19, 2021, 10:57:32 pm ---One of the many reasons not to live in Texas. lol --- End quote --- Ha!!... I'm reminded of one of the (factual) quotes by some Aussies when Americans talk about how everything is so big there.... Well, in Australia, we have a single privately owned cattle station in the out-back, that is bigger than the whole State of Texas !! I don't know what it proves, but it's true! haha... :-+ |
| Ian.M:
So, living in a state that for historical ideological/political reasons, doesn't have its power grid linked to the rest of ConUSA, being reasonably well off, and not having any sort of non-electric heating in spite of the fact that winter temperatures regularly go below zero (C), seems short-sighted at best. Also anyone who's ever owned a boat big enough to sleep on or a RV, or a holiday cabin anywhere that it freezes in winter, and most DIYers know that if sustained below zero temperatures are expected with no or unreliable heating, you need to winterize all the plumbing. 'Bailing out' without shutting off the water was IQ below (unheated) room temperature stupid. A smart guy would have shut off the water and drained as much of the plumbing as was practical without special tools or compressed air. However he's got a history of 'stupid' https://www.eevblog.com/forum/vintage-computing/video-the-8-bit-guy-commits-atrocities-on-a-vintage-ibm-computer/ It doesn't help that modern American home construction doesn't cope with unexpected water leakage anywhere near as well as traditional European construction. Stud and plasterboard walls on a slab leave nowhere for any leakage to go without damage so instead of having to rip the plasterboard off one wall and re-do it, the whole house got flooded. If there'd been a plank floor with a void beneath it and a drain at the lowest point, the damage would have been limited to one room. If you are building a house on a slab, consider putting slot type floor drains across the doorways of kitchens and bathrooms, and sealing their flooring to the walls hospital style. |
| JohnnyMalaria:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on February 21, 2021, 02:51:44 pm ---So, living in a state that for historical ideological/political reasons, doesn't have its power grid linked to the rest of ConUSA, being reasonably well off, and not having any sort of non-electric heating in spite of the fact that winter temperatures regularly go below zero (C), seems short-sighted at best. --- End quote --- I lived in TX. I don't agree with "winter temperatures regularly go below zero (C)". It was rare and usually only for the hour or so before day break. I'm not surprised that heating is primarily electric. Now I live in NC, and every year we get ice storms (a scary term basically meaning freezing rain) and they can leave rural areas without electricity for a few days. We also get tornadoes and hurricanes. But so does TX. This is the bit I don't understand about The 8-bit Guy who lives in a hurricane and tornado-prone location - why doesn't he have a generator? In NC, often when the power goes out, you hear the hum of generators from all around. Granted, if it was 0F then you might have had no luck getting a generator going. |
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