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Even Ted Cruz had to back down on the Texas swagger about ERCOT saving the state from communistic FERC after hundreds froze to death. Care to explain how you ar

• chrisco255 3y ago
  Yes, natural disasters happen in every state that kill thousands of people every year. A freak blizzard that plunged TX below freezing for more than a week straight, something I don't believe has ever been recorded in the state, caught the infrastructure off guard. Nature continues to throw curve balls at humanity, as ever.
  • viraptor 3y ago
    It's not really "off-guard" when they were warned about exactly that issue in a federal report in... 2011 https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-report.pdf https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-re... and still have not followed the recommendations. That does not count as a curve ball for me. Especially when the report about 2011 says: > Despite the recommendations issued by the PUCT in its report on the 1989 event, the majority of the problems generators experienced in 2011 resulted from failures of the very same type of equipment that failed in the earlier event. And in many cases, these failures were experienced by the same generators
    • plagiarist 3y ago
      It's just a delusional and brainwashed right winger interacting disingenuously. I notice they have yet to author a response as to what government regulations were good to avoid, but they have a canned response why it's fine that this debacle of a grid cannot keep up with a single winter storm.
      • varelse 3y ago
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