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I don't think I'm overreacting or hand-wringing.  Just noting that I hope a lot of people don't have the troubles they had then. 

And it's 'notable' to me because while we do get below freezing a couple of nights every year here, we don't get down into the teens often....that is irregular.  Thus I find myself hoping nothing similar occurs.  We fared just fine last time.  We never lost power and I don't think it would've been a big deal if we had, heating-wise.  I have some in-laws in North Texas who didn't fare as well, so I hope nobody has a similar experience. 

At any rate, it doesn't hurt to be prepared for oddball circumstances, no matter how unlikely you or I think they are.  Texas can do  better for itself by simply not subsidizing a bunch of green energy that produces relatively little power for the investment.  Just allocating the current amount of money spent into more effective energy sources would've seen the state through that last storm.  My handwringing comes from my belief that the idgits in Austin didn't learn anything from that experience. 

Everybody knows that the wind turbines and solar panels didn’t fare well during the ‘21 freeze. But it was the natural gas and coal plants that failed the grid and lost the biggest % of generating capacity by far. 

It takes a whole lot more effort and money to winterize a plant for what was needed in sub-20 degree weather for several days than what a typical Texas freeze looks like. 

Certainly glad to not live in Buffalo.

Hey 847- seen any frozen Iguanas?   We have quite a few here.  They fall out of the trees. 

anyone living in Buffalo should be aware and able to deal with adverse winter weather

losing power is always a problem

if not a generator, a heat source such as wood burning stove would be a must

just throw them in a snow drift

I heard somewhere that the coldest temperature recorded in the state of Ohio was in Cincinnati (-25°F).  So that is incorrect.

So, what's the most extreme temperature Ohio has ever experienced? The all-time lowest temperature ever recorded was -39° F, which was recorded in Milligan on February 10, 1899. That's a difference of more than 150 degrees from the all-time highest temperature of 113° F, recorded in Gallipolis on July 21, 1934.

Why isn't the U.S. electrical grid run on 100% renewable energy yet? (cnbc.com)
Why isn't the U.S. electrical grid run on 100% renewable energy yet? (cnbc.com)

I doubt that increases CO2 emissions as probably it'll be loaded on a regularly scheduled flight, but maybe that is wrong.  

I keep wanting more realism in all of this, but I realize that is a forlorn hope.  We're going to be wed to fossil fuels for decades no matter what we cry about.