I think they called it off / myLot

United States

February 16, 2021 6:01am CST

If I understood correctly, I believe we were able to escape the rolling outages, and that is a good thing. It is almost 6 a.m. Current temperature is -14F or almost -26 C. I will not even open the door to let the cats out. In keeping with conserving, I have not turned up the heat yet. I am the only one up and I am warm enough. I am making a baked egg dish in the oven, though. And I have hot coffee. Why can't the power grid keep up? Because it is even cold and snowing in Mexico. The entire state of Texas and of Oklahoma is under a winter advisory. The power generating windmills are frozen up. The solar panels are snowed over. I guess it is time to burn something for some heat. By this time next week they are predicting temperatures in the 50's F or about 12 C. Maybe this will be the last big chill of our winter, but I doubt it.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

16 Feb 21

Today is our last wind chill advisory day. I was encouraged to see -12 for the wind chill when I got up and 6 for the air temp for the first time in over two weeks. Tomorrow we'll be in the 20s and it goes up from there.

I hope you come out of the deep freeze soon. To hear it's snowing in Mexico is unreal. They must be in shock. Stay warm. I don't blame you for not letting the cats out.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169448)

• United States

16 Feb 21

I will let them try it when it is light. I may go crawl back in bed for a while, too. I did not check wind chill but I am grateful we are not having the winds that we sometimes get.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

16 Feb 21

Snowing in Mexico? sounds weird to me

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

16 Feb 21

@marlina Me too, but not surprising with the map I saw with all of Texas getting snow. It means my daughter and granddaughter got snow.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

16 Feb 21

I can't see these wind turbines, solar panels and power grids working in these cold winters we are having. You see in Texas, it is all down.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169448)

• United States

16 Feb 21

My nephew says solar works better in the cool and that the snow actually reflects more light into the chamber. I would hope so, but I think we need to rely on a variety of fuels and conserve more when we can.

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CarolDM

@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

16 Feb 21

@GardenGerty I agree about a variety of fuels.