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I don?t think Texas has any snow plows. And why would they? I think overall the state averages about one inch per year. Obviously the panhandle and the western part of the state get more than the majority of the state.
I can't really blame Texas for being unprepared for snow given how rare it there. Doesn't keep me from enjoying things like the Cowboys trying to play against the Packers in snow. The Texas side of Texarkana should negotiate an agreement with the Oklahoma side for these rare occasions.
What I do blame peopel for is being unprepared for things like power outages. Modern society is soft and you see it every time we have one of these events. The fact that these happen once in a while is perfectly predictable. Power outages happen. How do you NOT have emergency plans?
Yet Arkansas does...in literally the exact same city that Texas didn't see a need for em. That city is in the east and not all that far north. Arkansas invested (and from the looks of it not just in a plow, but ice melt too) and fared better.Originally Posted by ray1970
Debate on reasonable state expenditures aside, it shows how one state was able to handle it at least a little better, in a way other than just the energy failure.
I'm curious if that stretch of road in the picture of Texarkana (which is actually two cities...one in TX and one in AR) is in the city limits or not. If it's inside the city it's usually up to them to remove the snow. I was in Altus (small...about 18000 pop) and Lawton (medium...about 90000 pop) today and both cities looked as though there was minimal effort at snow removal. Roads were in pretty poor shape...especially side streets. But all state roads for the 55 miles between my house and Lawton were as clear as if it were July.
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It is in city limits
1718-1798 N State Line Ave
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Aii19HJwDgD1K1AM6
$3,801 electricity bill this month for one 1,300sf Texas home that paid only $1,200 all of 2020.
And many more outrageous bills to come I'm sure...
https://twitter.com/katandtonyT/stat...60057447849987
There's been tons of these popping up... from what i saw on the news last night, they don't owe that much.
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Apparently those are "griddy" customers where the customers sign up for Griddy, and then get to pay wholesale electric rates, which is an awesome deal until the state decides to artificially raise the wholesale rate in order to make people conserve electricity. Wholesale prices went from 0.3 cents per kWh to an artifically imposed $9.00 per kWh. And the artifically high rate was held high even after there was more energy production available.
Seems like "griddy" service could offer some kind of insurance policy in place to cap the max rate it's customers get hit with... But too many people just saw they could save a few bucks during normal times and jumped onboard without thinking thru the "what if" situations.
EDIT: found this, kind creepy fore-shadowing:
https://www.griddy.com/post/wholesal...on-coming-soon
Last edited by DenverGP; 02-19-2021 at 14:23.
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Good video explaining the whole situation.
Kind of a departure of his usual videos and very well done on his part.
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