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Houston, Austin, DFW, San Antonio metro areas is like 20/29 million. If 20 out of 29 isn't a majority I don't know what to say. Keep proving to me you don't un

Houston, Austin, DFW, San Antonio metro areas is like 20/29 million. If 20 out of 29 isn't a majority I don't know what to say. Keep proving to me you don't understand what you're talking about if you want. I'm probably done after having to say 20/29 is greater than 50% and point out El Paso isn't in ERCOT.

Retric 3y ago
Most of the Texas triangle is rural. When they say 20 million people in the Texas triangle they are including many farmers etc who aren’t living in a town or city. As to different experiences: https://publichealthmaps.org/motw-2021/2021/2/17/17-february-2021-state-of-texas-power-outage-map-united-states https://publichealthmaps.org/motw-2021/2021/2/17/17-february... Wilson, Guadalupe and a few outer counties within that metro area didn’t lose power, others had saw only a fraction of their area suffer blackouts. “At the peak, over 5 million people in Texas were without power,[67] with 11 million experiencing an outage at some point,[22] some for more than 3 days.[68]” out of 29 million that’s a long way from 50%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis Similarly the temperatures experienced across the Texas triangle varied significantly, it’s a big area. (The site I use for weather data seems to be down for maintenance.)
- vel0city 3y ago
  > Most of the Texas triangle is rural. Sure, but not most of the population nor most of power usage. That 20M figure was simply adding those metro areas, ignoring College Station, Corsicana, Waco, Hearne, etc. Only the metro areas, only the dense (for Texas) areas. Empty fields don't use much electricity. And yeah, many areas never lost power. I'm not arguing against that. After the giant issue most operators stopped trying to do rolling blackouts as obviously operators didn't know what was safe to turn off. Trying to resume rolling blackouts was a massive risk, so most just stayed static. Once again you're showing you don't really know what was going on during the time. I never lost power, but circuits all around me were without because my grid operator did some initial rolling blackouts and gave up after they took out a bunch of gas refineries. If you really think it was mostly a distribution problem it really shows you don't know what was going on. Keep digging that hole deeper buddy.
  - Retric 3y ago
    > That 20M figure was simply adding those metro areas Metro area does not imply urban or dense, you’re counting farmers in that “metro area.” Austin has an urban population of 1,809,888 at 2,921.0/sq mi (4.6 people per acre) covering 620 square miles which is already fairly low average. The metro area is however 2,421,115 people covering 4,285.70 sq mi but remove the urban bits and (2,421,115 - 1,809,888) = 611,227 people across (4,285.70 - 620) = 3,665 sq mi your down or 166 people per square mile (0.26/acre) which is in no way dense. Hell the state of Tennessee averages 168 people per square mile, good luck arguing the entire thing is dense.

Retric 3y ago

Most of the Texas triangle is rural. When they say 20 million people in the Texas triangle they are including many farmers etc who aren’t living in a town or city. As to different experiences: https://publichealthmaps.org/motw-2021/2021/2/17/17-february-2021-state-of-texas-power-outage-map-united-states https://publichealthmaps.org/motw-2021/2021/2/17/17-february... Wilson, Guadalupe and a few outer counties within that metro area didn’t lose power, others had saw only a fraction of their area suffer blackouts. “At the peak, over 5 million people in Texas were without power,[67] with 11 million experiencing an outage at some point,[22] some for more than 3 days.[68]” out of 29 million that’s a long way from 50%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis Similarly the temperatures experienced across the Texas triangle varied significantly, it’s a big area. (The site I use for weather data seems to be down for maintenance.)

vel0city 3y ago
> Most of the Texas triangle is rural. Sure, but not most of the population nor most of power usage. That 20M figure was simply adding those metro areas, ignoring College Station, Corsicana, Waco, Hearne, etc. Only the metro areas, only the dense (for Texas) areas. Empty fields don't use much electricity. And yeah, many areas never lost power. I'm not arguing against that. After the giant issue most operators stopped trying to do rolling blackouts as obviously operators didn't know what was safe to turn off. Trying to resume rolling blackouts was a massive risk, so most just stayed static. Once again you're showing you don't really know what was going on during the time. I never lost power, but circuits all around me were without because my grid operator did some initial rolling blackouts and gave up after they took out a bunch of gas refineries. If you really think it was mostly a distribution problem it really shows you don't know what was going on. Keep digging that hole deeper buddy.
- Retric 3y ago
  > That 20M figure was simply adding those metro areas Metro area does not imply urban or dense, you’re counting farmers in that “metro area.” Austin has an urban population of 1,809,888 at 2,921.0/sq mi (4.6 people per acre) covering 620 square miles which is already fairly low average. The metro area is however 2,421,115 people covering 4,285.70 sq mi but remove the urban bits and (2,421,115 - 1,809,888) = 611,227 people across (4,285.70 - 620) = 3,665 sq mi your down or 166 people per square mile (0.26/acre) which is in no way dense. Hell the state of Tennessee averages 168 people per square mile, good luck arguing the entire thing is dense.