Anyone In Mid South Deep Freeze At The Moment

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After living in both Arkansas and Louisiana for HS and college I am utterly shocked at temps and weather predictions there. Hope everyone in TX/AR/LA areas are coping ok with this arctic intrusion. I lived in the area so many years and never saw anything such as this.
 
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I saw it's 16 in Little Rock, where I went to HS, that is insanely cold and I can't believe it.
 

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Here in East Texas and West Louisiana, we're kinda sorta starting to thaw out a touch. Ice tore down our power lines, shorted out transformers, people having hell getting anywhere to get essentials to eat and keep warm simply because the roads were ice.. Rolling blackouts from extreme demand caused pipes to freeze.

There's no more firewood to be had. Water pumping stations in most towns lost power so no water for many and boil notices for those who are lucky.

Many are running generators as necessary and using hurricane survival techniques just to not freeze and eat.

I'm teaching many how to make an alcohol stove from soda cans so they'll at least have some warmth however small.
 

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Hopefully Texas will reevaluate its decision to be isolated on its own power grid. If it were part of either the larger Eastern or Western grids it would have plenty of power to weather this weather. Luckily El Paso, the Panhandle and some of W Texas are so far away from the energy centers in C & E Texas that they're on the Western grid.

Here in S Arizona we sell plenty of power to W Texas.

How many have died in this weather event because the arrogance of separation? SMH. Link up Texas!
 

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Goes to show how fragile life is doesn't it. Over here we are in heat....roll the Earth over..you are freezing.

A little tilt of the axis. A little ecliptic in orbit around the sun...............and we either freeze or fry.

But, like the Moon, lets all race for Mars.............and guess what..................There are no Moon bases..........Taaa Daaaa.

Our moon is way too big for our planet...........It attracted a lot of the fallout which allowed life here...us eventually to evolve...evidence....the craters on it's surface.

So, what do we do, we go there. Nah, nothing there apparently................then the race is on for Mars. Mars is just over 2 times the size of our Moon................and we are going there because?

Huh? Whatever happened to using the Moon as a launching pad to the Solar System?

I have crazy way out ideas too......................but I'm afraid I don't have a degree where it allows me to sprout bullshit on a theoretical level.

I wonder if the figures have been done on the age of the craters on the lunar surface correspond to the Earths position at the time of their impact. Because if they had not have impacted the moon, would they have impacted the Earth, would we have evolved as humans, be here, if the Moon was not where it is?
 
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120 identified impact craters on Earth.............43 thousand on Mars with a diameter of 5 kilometres or more.

Mars has tiny moons........There's a hint right there as to why life never evolved. But yeah...........it's a race.
 

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More than anything, it’s a lack of the bits that make winter survivable elsewhere.
That cold hit us first, but for just a day and a half. Yeah, yeah, we are getting another drop in a day or so, but to us, it’s tourism!
We NEED snow, for the ski hills, for water come summer, to crack the drought.

what is so rarely needed in the south (I include TX and OK in this) are things like snowplows, the sheer volume of mag chloride to deice, building codes that put pipes through inner walls.

So an inch of ice is very problematic. You close school for a day, maybe two depending on the bridge situation. (In middle school, we often got dismissed early when storms came through North Texas, because our busses had to go over a LOT of bridges. Our county used sand, but the school went conservative in decisions.)

where I live now? Schools might open a couple hours later.
When you have six plows for a metro area, you can’t keep on top of such a wet storm.
 
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Ok I will say this -- when I started this thread I didn't know people in Texas would endure such losses of power and water - basic necessities. I lived in the Austin TX area for 6-7 years and never had to deal with that. My company has a division there and they are still as-of-yet not operational. I meant this just to be a weather query sort of thing - but apparently has gone beyond that. My heart goes out to anyone Texas-side without power (or Louisiana or Arkansas either since I've lived or college those places too)
 
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I will say who will maintain this equipment in the deep-mid-south? They cannot keep snowplows and brining equipment that get used once every 30 years or so. They need a contingent plan and that utilities will be safe during that period.
 

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I will say who will maintain this equipment in the deep-mid-south? They cannot keep snowplows and brining equipment that get used once every 30 years or so. They need a contingent plan and that utilities will be safe during that period.

I haven't been paying that much attention to this, but isn't it only Texas that is suffering from these massive power outages? Other southern states are snowed in but still have power, right?

If I am correct, then Texas's issue is probably something that needs to be discussed in the politics section.
 

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I will say who will maintain this equipment in the deep-mid-south? They cannot keep snowplows and brining equipment that get used once every 30 years or so. They need a contingent plan and that utilities will be safe during that period.
I was watching all the local to me (colorado) private snow plows, which are basically blades mounted on pickup trucks.
Now, the American South is well populated with trucks.
Blades on, blades off.


Yes, their grid needs “bizarre emergency” plans.
 

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I am in Memphis Tennessee. Today was the first day I was able to get out all week. I caught upon reading LPSG forums. Hopefully the snow is on the way out as we are warming up to the 50s tomorrow. Now rare have a boil water warning. I have all of Texas in my prayers.