For those of you stuck in Texas wondering how it is the power is still out, fear not. Â I will not, in the most cowardly fashion, make fun of you while I know your internet is probably out.
Okay, maybe a little. Â Current weather in Phoenix today is about 75F.
This is my review of Begyle Barrel Aged Imperial Pajamas (H/T Swiss Servator)
The idiotic hot takes from various representatives of the quadrants of the political landscape brings me back to another story about Iraq.
The military uses several models of electrical generators in contingency environments.  Most are suited to the size of the expected load.  A MEP-06 for example is good for a building the size of a typical house.  The generator I am thinking of is its bigger brother called the MEP-012 (left).  The MEP-012 is powered by a Cummins KTA-38 V12 turbodiesel rated to provide 4160VAC Wye 50/60hz for a max output of 750kW.  Naturally, depending on the size of the base  more than one of these can be tied into a high voltage distribution circuit.
The first three months of my second deployment was an almost daily occurrence where the Power Production shop had to call my shop because they were trying to parallel another generator into the circuit, so they could take one off line for maintenance.  Should they muck up the process my role was to pull arc-stranglers at the switching station so they could bring the generators back online, and then “throw” the stranglers back in to close the circuit.  This being a government operation, the process was mucked up on an almost daily basis.
This is not a fuse. Do NOT call this a fuse.
They needed four MEP-012 generators at any given time.  A fifth was  tied in parallel.  This means it was turned on, and then once running its circuits were closed with the three phases in sync with the HV distribution circuit.  Then the generator requiring maintenance was opened relative to the HV distribution circuit and the engine was turned off.  Sounds easy?  Maybe.  We later found a lot of their cables were in disrepair and kept causing ground faults.  So when Power Pro went to parallel the generators for maintenance one of them hit a ground fault, which tripped the MEP-012 breaker.  This took one of the four generators offline, putting its load on the remaining three. All of this taking place around 2000hrs when everybody went back to their CHU and jacked up the AC to “Max”.
Instant black out.
The issue I take with the hot takes insisting the problem was not the windmills freezing but the inability of the natural gas plants to pick up the slack or the ones saying they have wind turbines on Antarctica (I’m sure those are designed specifically for the environment) is they are missing the problem entirely:  a large portion of generating capacity went down within a relatively short time.  Per WSJ:
The problem is Texas’s overreliance on wind power that has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather. Half of wind turbines froze last week, causing wind’s share of electricity to plunge to 8% from 42%. Power prices in the wholesale market spiked, and grid regulators on Friday warned of rolling blackouts. Natural gas and coal generators ramped up to cover the supply gap but couldn’t meet the surging demand for electricity—which half of households rely on for heating—even as many families powered up their gas furnaces. Then some gas wells and pipelines froze.
I take the 42% number with a grain of salt, since the state quotes wind power accounts for 20%. Â Even with a 10-12% loss the demand for power exceeded any reserve supply the grid might have. Â Considering this is being touted as a once in a lifetime winter storm, meant everyone turned up the heat. Â Instant black out.
I don’t doubt the possibility they can engineer away the shortcomings renewables have but the insistence this can be fixed simply by building more wind turbines because whether they like it or not the wind turbines were not weatherized and failed.  Similarly the people saying we can just drill for more gas is equally short sighted because the pipelines were not weatherized and also failed.  A freak storm knocked out the power, this sort of thing happens even where the weather gets this bad on a regular basis.
Swiss was kind enough to present this to me as a gift at Glibfest.  Even nicer was his secretary didn’t call me first to insult me.  This being a 2018 vintage took me back to a simpler time…okay not really.  Its a heavy oatmeal stout which is a bit sweeter than a dry (Irish) stout but much less so that a milk stout.  What sets this apart from other run of the mill bourbon barrel stouts I’ve reviewed?  These barrels once held Elijah Craig.  This was fantastic and highly recommended if your town froze over. Begyle Barrel Aged Imperial Pajamas :4.8/5 (Please don’t hurt me Swiss)
the surging demand for electricity—which half of households rely on for heating
Propane heat (with pilot lights), FTW!
If only they had solar panels and wind turbines down there, this would have never happened.
That beer sounds interesting. I’ll look around for it.
Burn pit smells and the constant roar of generators, that brings back things, you heartless bastard. Now you just need to add some jackass lawyer whose incoming email sounded a tone that sounds like the C-RAM alarm going off.
Did you use 3M ear plugs in the military between 2003 – 2014? If so you can be entitled to compensation….
Hah! Not to worry, didn’t use earpro except on the range or in aircraft, dodged that bullet… sorry, what’s that? Say again and speak a little louder?
WHAT?
So what is it, a cutout? I prefer my electricity dc and under double digit amps. Milliamps is fine.
Edison was a loser too.
Its an arc strangler. Similar to a cutout, but there is no fused link in an arc stranger.
Heidi Cruz.
Would.
Speaking of using spouses to funnel money to politicians…
She’s got a weird jaw.
She’s big enough for you?
That beer sounds delicious. The only generators I got close to in Army were smallish, heavy, loud and smelly 1.5KV machines. We used them to power our towed Vulcans when not slaved to the HMMWV’s power. Olde timey ropes that had to be wound around the starter time and again until the things finally caught and a big copper grounding rod that had to be pounded into the soil were just icing on the cake.
Dealt with those a ton in the arty. Refueling them with a 5 gal can and donkey dick in the middle of the night.
*shudder* donkey dicks and 5 gallon Jerry cans… can still smell the JP-8 that splashed over me and the guy holding the 5 gallon using one.
https://www.wfaa.com/weather/
For all of the headlines we’re getting right now, at the end of the day, I’m happy to live in a place that makes international news when it drops below 10 degrees.
It’s beautiful outside. I took the 3 year old out to run a few errands, and it was nice to see all the roads pretty clear again. The snow will be basically gone by monday morning.
Yes sir. It’s good to live in Texas. I don’t see why we wouldn’t be back to 100% within a couple of weeks.
I had the well/plumbing guys out to my place today. When they said they wanted to charge me $2k for a 2hp jet pump that had burnt up, plus install, I promptly told them to take a hike.
I’ll be wiring and piping in my own for that price.
I’m eyeballing these right now. Maybe flip them and make a quick buck. But I REALLY don’t want to drive to AZ.
https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucindx/
Here’s a good link:
https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucalsrh/?sl=91QSCI21142601
“Whisperwatt.” Somehow that seems like wishful thinking.
Tactical quiet generators are a thing. In tech school our instructor demonstrated this with the generator on an EALS kit. We gathered around it, he started it saying we didn’t need earpro.
…Then completed the rest of the lesson next to the running generator without having to shout.
Interesting article on the Texas power kerfuffel.
TL/DR. There were the usual (or maybe a few more) planned and unplanned outages and the usual govt incompetence. The real problem is economic distortions in the power market to make renewables economically feasable and disadvantage coal, nuc and gas. Texas has no capacity market for power (basically power capacity futures). Renewables can’t play in the capacity market because they can’t guarantee delivery at future date. So Texas is stuck in the spot market which is OK until it isn’t. And once you start counting renewables as part of your baseline grid you have to duplicate them it with gas/coal/nuc or you’re screwed like Texas is.
https://judithcurry.com/
Or… we could go back to giant piles of coal, months of supply, sitting outside of power plants.
Another interesting solution may be large natural gas reserve tanks at power plants, but I don’t know how explosive or dangerous something of that nature may be.
If we’re sticking to natural gas, weather hardening our fairly new natural gas distribution systems would go a long way.
Wind/solar… meh. I don’t think they’re ever going to be as useful as people would like them to be.
Hydro, as far as I know isn’t really feasible in Texas. Maybe a few spots, but not on the scale of the Rocky Mountain states.
Apparently municipalities ran into some huge issues with back up generators also failing from the cold. They couldn’t get them up and running before the municipal water pumps and valves froze. There seems to be some huge push to lay this at the feet of capitalism when all I see is crony and government failure.
I don’t get why this is some outrageous debacle. Texas experienced a cold snap at an intensity not seen but once or twice in a lifetime, and the infrastructure couldn’t keep up. We could proceed like this never happened and likely not see ill effects of our lack of action within our lifetimes. Why are people surprised and outraged and agitating for change?
Oh yeah, people who think power comes from the plug want daddy government to make sure the plug doesn’t run dry again.
Agreed. Texas tried a different system from everyone else. Some things didn’t work. Let’s look at our options, make adjustments and move on.
Does anyone seriously think there wouldn’t have been issues like this with our old power grid? If there were, would anyone be asking for the governor to resign?
I don’t get why this is some outrageous debacle.
Politics. Texas is a Red state on the verge of being competitive, plus it has a history of embarrassing a bunch of Blue states by comparison, so when it has a failure of course Team Blue, which has a lot of cheerleaders in news and social media, is going to pounce and try to whip up a frenzy. People who lost power/water of course will not be happy about that, and it is cathartic to have someone to blame. Blaming the weather is no fun and scores no political points. And the systems did fail, but that’s because as a risk calculation it doesn’t make economic sense to build a system for extreme events. Texas didn’t harden for blizzards because it rarely gets them, just like places that rarely get tornadoes don’t build basements and places that rarely get earthquakes don’t harden their systems for that.
Blaming the weather implies there are things beyond their control.
…to make sure the plug doesn’t run dry again.
And doesn’t do harm to mommy earth! The problem is a majority of the voting public are complete morons (for one reason or another).
I must sadly concur.
Also because everything that happens now must turn into a political shitshow. Heads must roll, someone must be punished, etc.
That’s a pretty high rating! Are you usually partial to oatmeal stouts or was it just a really good beer?
Its really good, and lI appreciate a thoughtful gift.
because they were trying to parallel another generator into the circuit,
*Flash backs to some distant before time in the bowels of some boat when switching generators*
Considering this is being touted as a once in a lifetime winter storm
That is the thing. This is not a once in a lifetime storm. I know of three this bad and one of them I had the unpleasant experience of living in OKC just north of the death zone known as TX. They pump Nat gas in N Dakota at -40 fer fucks sake. How the fuck does Nat gas freeze in Texas? This is no unprecedented thing.
*types this in front of wood stove*
This is not a once in a lifetime storm.
That’s the thing: for the region, it is a once in a lifetime storm, if not more than one lifetime. Where my parents live (north of San Antonio) they had temperatures that broke records for lows set in the 1800s. And in the DFW area we had temperatures in the single digits when it’s usually a big event if the temp drops below freezing.
I just looked. In DFW we had the 2nd (tied) coldest day on record (Sunday night) followed by the 5th coldest day on record (Monday night). When did DFW last have a night as cold as Sunday night? 1947. The only colder day on record? 1899.
Checks the “once in a lifetime” box for me.
Where is global warming when you need it?
Natural Gas is mostly Methane and it vaporizes at -258F so it wasn’t the gas that froze but the components of the pipeline and storage.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/methane#section=Boiling-Point
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7678255,-97.6017821,3a,15y,262.98h,90.71t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPiknpZb361T_R3k2RVKsAg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DPiknpZb361T_R3k2RVKsAg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D287.68036%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
This is what you see at the top of every gas well in Texas. No insulation. No heating. Water all over in the systems, valves and piping. There wasn’t ever an incentive to make it resistant to cold. And as the article linked earlier points out, there isn’t an incentive to do so because of how the markets work. If the supplier fails to supply, they just don’t get paid. There is no penalty. The same goes for the power suppliers.
I joke about what happened in TX because I am kind of a dick, but it honestly got me thinking about where my power comes from. I tried to find out. We are under a “cooperative” here. No info on where our power is generated except the high fiving of what percentage we get from renewables. One I am down with that being hydro. The solar? ya, ok whatever.
Hydro isn’t considered a renewable to the fish huggers because of damage to the fisheries.
If the supplier fails to supply, they just don’t get paid.
From where I sit that is incentive.
Heading out soon for a race. Last night was a bit of a shit show. We were trying to repair one item on the boom and ended breaking a second item. So as long as we were repairing TWO things we fixed a third that we had on deferred maintenance. Since I hadn’t had any citrus for the day I could feel the scurvy coming around. A pitcher of G&T later we were safe from the scurvy and malaria.
Good luck to the Texas Glib contingent. I am sure the AZ crew are doing fine. Go for a hike OMWC! Jake should still be slumbering.
I’m convinced dbleagle just comes here to make me envious.
Not just you.  ??
Mind you, I temper my feelings with the realization that he’s living in a state where the government’s utterly screwed over the population in its response to the commie cough, and I start feeling sympathy for him and better for me. ?
Also, you can go 100 miles in any/every direction without getting wet.
And he pays ten bucks a gallon for milk.
Once in a lifetime, my ass. The on in 72? was worse than this one. The one in 91 was not quite as bad as this one. This one was pretty bad but mid range bad.
What happened in Texas is that T.Boone Pickens ran a windmill scam. He and his buddies in Govt transferred huge amounts of taxpayer money into their pockets. 25% of the state’s power comes from green energy boondoggles. When a. snow/ice storm hits solar panels are covered up and windmills freeze up or the wind stops blowing. So, demand goes up, supply goes down.
As usual with any disaster you can look to the corruption and incompetence of TOP MEN. That is what the Green New Deal is, this same con on a national scale. Congratulations to everyone that did not vote Trump.
*Remembers watching FEMA agents preventing tractor trailer loads of food and bottled water donated by War-Mart, Dasani and others from reaching Katrina victims trapped in hell.
Here in Dallas, temperatures have gotten below 5°F only 6 out of the last 115 years. Last week we had a nearly 72 hour period where the temperature didn’t leave the single digits, with a couple days on either side where it hardly got into the teens.
Maybe y’all didn’t get the brunt of it in LA, but as far as sustained, intense cold, this area has only seen it this bad a couple times in the last 120 years.
It is not as much about the temperature as the build up of snow and ice. All you need is below freezing mixed with precipitation. I dont know about the rest of the state but here where I am we got it as bad as y’all did. Snow/sleet mix then a slight thaw then refreezing followed by a second wave of sleet/rain/snow and then refreezing at night. It was like concrete over everything with power outages and the water system had so many burst pipes that the whole parish lost pressure and there was no water. I prepared so wife and I only suffered inconvenience. A lot of other people here suffered terribly.
I lived through the other two and remember them vividly. The first one I mentioned lasted 2 weeks and was much heavier on the precipitation. The second one maybe a week and slightly less precipitation than the current one. It had no snow, just ice an inch or two thick on everything. the pine timber took a hell of a beating on that one.
It is not as much about the temperature as the build up of snow and ice.
Y’all got an ice storm. We got a cold snap with snow (no ice). Different problems caused by a storm behaving differently for y’all than for us. The power didn’t go out because of the snow (we got 4″ followed by another 1.5″ on Wednesday… big storm by Dallas standards, but nothing civilization wrecking). It was the cold that caused the issues. At the airport it was low of -2 followed by low of 4. Up here in the northern suburbs, you could probably subtract another couple degrees. Thats what did us in.
However much I think the ‘renewables’ are partially to blame, I believe the vast majority of fault can be laid at the feet of natural gas. The same plants that are no burning natural gas, burnt coal before. They had literally months of coal stock sitting outside of their plants. That’s not a thing anymore.
“We are going to destroy the coal industry.”
-Obama/Biden/Clinton circa 2008
That’s an easy fix, just ban natural gas.
Settle down President Biden.
Wait I’ve got a better one…
“Put the pen down and back away slowly President Biden!”
I’m imagining that scene from The Simpsons in which Springfield releases new invasive species to kill off the other invasive species, except in this case it’s more and more convoluted regulatory policies to fix the old regulatory policies.
What could possibly go wrong?
Frozen gorillas in the street?
That’s the beautiful part!
I’m just wondering at what point there are serious discussions about assassinating Greenwald:
He frames a very solid argument demonstrating what we’ve all already known: Democrats are pulling the strings in BigTech, with a heaping course of “That violates the 1A.”
There has to be a lawsuit. It appears that Democrats are openly flouting the law with impunity. I can’t imagine it’s gone unnoticed.
But who would have standing to sue? We already known standing us elusive for the common man, and I don’t expect Amazon or Facebook to complain raise an issue.
Aaaaaaand the link:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech
“There has to be a lawsuit. It appears that Democrats are openly flouting the law with impunity.”
They impeached an ex-president who is now a private citizen FFS.
Amazon, facebook and twitter want to keep their precious section 203. If they sue it will get yanked. Easier for them to donate to democratic campaigns and the rest of us can fuck right off.
No they didn’t.
They impeached him a week before he left office.
He was tried by the Senate and acquitted in that sham after he was out of office.
But that might actually be a point for the idea that despite their wishes and what the media portrays, they are not able to act with complete impunity. Roberts walked away from the trial, signifying that it was a sham he wasn’t willing to go along with. Almost 1/2 the senate refused to even engage with the process.
I’m not a believer in the tin foil theory that Democrats have won in perpetuity, and all elections are now just formalities and the rule of law is completely dead.
Yet it still happened. Every word about the capitol riot has been a lie. Yet it still happened. They knew from the beginning it wasn’t going to result in a conviction. Yet it still happened. They introduced a law that any twice impeached former president must be ostracized. They know it bullshit. Yet, it still happened.
Everything happening is bullshit and based on lies. That’s the game the pussy assed republicans have allowed the truly evil democrats to force upon us. Just the fact that so much bullshit is brazenly supplanting all facts means they have won and will continue, barring something drastic.
The Democrats are Ted Bundy, the Republicans are that cop at Parkland who hid behind the building when kids were being slaughtered.
Both contemptable for very different reasons.
^^ I like that. Sadly people think Ted Bundy was dreamy and the Parkland cop did nothing wrong.
I suppose America could put a stop to this by waking up and voting against Democrats in sufficient numbers that even they can’t cheat their way out of it. The Dems have two years to figure out a way to make sure that doesn’t happen. Let’s see what they try.
I’m not a believer in the tin foil theory that Democrats have won in perpetuity, and all elections are now just formalities and the rule of law is completely dead.
No one ever wins in perpetuity, unless they can rig elections. And if that happens on a regular basis it will drive up support for either reform, or for secession. A recent poll (and yes, all polls must be taken with a helping of salt) indicated that 29% of Americans support breaking up the US, with support for secession being highest among Southern Republicans (50%), Southern Independents (45%), and Pacific Democrats (41%).
Same issue with outsourcing violation of the 4th Amdt – if industry collects all manner of information on you, you have no inherent right to have it protected, or to keep them from doing it in the first place.
it does bar the U.S. Government from coercing or threatening such companies to censor. In other words, Congress violates the First Amendment when it attempts to require private companies to impose viewpoint-based speech restrictions which the government itself would be constitutionally barred from imposing.
I would love to live in a world where this was actually true. However, the SCOTUS, in their infinite wisdom, has dictated that only direct action by the federal government is restricted by the constitution. Using the power of the purse to coerce others to do the rights violating is perfectly fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Dole
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_actor
That isn’t true at all.
See Hammerhead Enterprises, Inc. v. Brezenoff, 551 F. Supp. 1360 (S.D.N.Y. 1982).
And to make it even more clear, the 9th Circuit held that to be considered a state actor there need not even be the DIRECT result of a threat against a private entity stating, “[s]imply by “command[ing] a particular result,” the state had so involved itself that it could not claim the conduct had actually occurred as a result of private choice.”
There is definitely gas in this particular tank.
Yes. These we can be find 1A infractions made by companies if there is sufficient evidence that the state threatened them were they to not comply. And it doesn’t even matter whether the infraction was a direct result of the threat. That there is a threat at all is enough.
The 9th Circuit Case is Carlin Communications v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1987).
Excellent, Señor.
Instead of freaking out and trying to rework everything for a once in a lifetime storm, hopefully the lesson will be to improve local back up.
The beer sounds great! I think that’s the highest rating I recall seeing from you.
This beer sounds delicious.
Seen in southern NH today: A car with personalized NH plates reading “MASK UP”. Fuck I could use a beer.
I’ll have a Duff; you have one too.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E13/1080945
🙂
Yeah? I saw a bumper sticker that said “In Fauci We Trust”.
It made me think of this.
Fuck.
JFC.
I bet that asshole is goddamned insufferable all of the time.
So put on a mask and slash his tires.
…okay don’t do that.
[pssst – valve stem remover]
Picked up a 6 pack of Founders Porter yesterday, since it is very much dark beer weather still.
Founders Porter is delicious.
I should get some good beer this weekend and step away from the PBR.
I recommend Strohs.
Thanks Hype. I take back half the things I say about you
Which half?
So I see we have moved on from “blame the president for all COVID ills” to “there are just things outside of his control” when it comes to COVID. I am so glad we have a ‘free’ press.
DAG NAB IT. I give up.
Live Free Or DieMask Up Or Kill GrandmaYou’ve inspired me. I’m drinking a barrel aged stout.
And a great day for Everton!
Back from the grocery store.
Mask sightings report: several people, perhaps a quarter of the customers I saw (and a couple of employees) were maskless.
Woohoo! Tear down that
wallplacebo, Comrade. Embrace freedom.After doing a deep dive into my family tree I have learned that my natural state is one of lordship and having power over people; sadly, freedom, is not our natural state. People will always want someone to tell them how to live.
I guess it falls on me.
Boom Boom!
When they go down?
There’s plenty more, what’re ya’ll blind?
Seen in southern NH today: A car with personalized NH plates reading “MASK UP”.
Only if I can have one of these right above it.
Good candidate for an alternate glibs logo.
The local Walmart was semi-restocked with mason jars. I was able to get a case of quart jars; two cases of pint jars; and six cases of half-pint jars.
Good reminder. I’ll wait a few days for the delayed restocks to happen and see if i can snag some quarts and pints.
The beer sounds good, glad we have power up here, it’s only 30! today, Tee shirt weather,
/Michigan Summer
It was -11 at 3 am. It’s up to 27 now. Awesome.
Sunny and +5° Celsius (+41° Fahrenheit) on the back deck right now.
Gotta get the mitre saw set up to cut some baseboard! (Reno’ing master bedroom, almost done.)
Of course, the weather goes back into the toilet by the end of the week. Farg.
sadly, freedom, is not our natural state. People will always want someone to tell them how to live.
I was looking for something loud and stupid last night, so I watched The Avengers (superhero Avengers, not Mrs Peel Avengers).
Loki says, more than once, that exact thing. Kneel before
ZodLoki, human sheep. You know you want to.Slate sharpens the knives for Cuomo.
Why Do Democrats Pretend Andrew Cuomo Did a Good Job With COVID?
Most concerningly, Cuomo’s administration admitted this month that it had been excluding nursing home residents who died of COVID but didn’t technically die on the grounds of their facilities from its official count of COVID-related nursing home deaths. Since many such residents died only after being hospitalized, this had the effect of making the state’s nursing home outbreak look thousands of deaths smaller than it actually was. Cuomo’s office appears to have compiled the more comprehensive, accurate data months ago but didn’t release it until the state’s attorney general—who is elected independently of the governor—issued a Jan. 28 report alleging that nursing home deaths had been undercounted. (It does not look like the discrepancy could have resulted from innocent semantic misunderstandings: A representative of the data team that manages the AARP Public Policy Institute’s Nursing Home COVID-19 dashboard noted to Slate that “CDC guidance for the data we use in our dashboard specifically states that resident deaths are supposed to be counted regardless of the place of death,” while the managing editor of the COVID Tracking Project said its staff is “not currently aware of any other US state or territory that reports deaths associated with nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities in the way that New York did for most of the pandemic.”)
I asked a couple days ago if he was going to enjoy the Dem firewall and be defended or be offered up as a sacrifice. I think we are getting that answer…maybe, I have seen these turn on a dime in the past.
His press conference performances notwithstanding, the facts and evidence show that Cuomo is not someone who cares much about facts and evidence.
HisDemocrat press conference performances notwithstanding, the facts and evidence show thatCuomoDemocrats [are] not [people] who care[] much about facts and evidence.FIFY
My wife’s mother lives in one of those NY state nursing homes. They’ve had weekly webinar updates telling the truth about the situation since last March, my wife has diligently listened to every minute, and the home was forced to take hundreds of active covid patients. They had re-opened a long-closed building on the property specifically for the covid patients, to keep them separate, but since staff moved between the buildings it didn’t take long before the whole campus was infected and locked down. MIL tested positive on two separate occasions but never had any symptoms despite being in her late 80s with Alzheimer dx.
Wife said each week on the webinars the nursing home leaders were trying to be as diplomatic as possible, but she could read between the lines that they were seething at Cuomo. They spoke about how when any of the residents got sick enough they were moved to hospitals, and scores died, but they “didn’t count” against the nursing home tallies because they were in the hospital when they passed…. just like what is now finally being revealed in the media.
My wife has been trying for months to inform her old NYC friends about what was happening, but they all acted like she was crazy, because how could that have happened if it wasn’t in the NY Times or on 1010 WINS? No, they told her, Cuomo is wonderful, he’s so in charge and reassuring in his daily updates, why can’t he be president instead of that horrible Trump?
Now that she’s being proven to have been right all along, she has no desire to say ‘I told you so’, she just wishes she could visit her mother, whom she hasn’t seen in person for over a year. The occasional FaceTime calls just aren’t the same, and sadly the isolation hasn’t been good for MIL’s dementia — the home still has no plans to allow for visitors due to the state’s rules, but by the time they do open, at the current rate, her mother may not even know who her daughter is any more.
How are you Sir? Are you recovering well? Pain lessened? Prognosis?
No, they told her, Cuomo is wonderful, he’s so in charge and reassuring in his daily updates, why can’t he be president instead of that horrible Trump?
See, it’s all fine and good to hate Cuomo (or Trump), but you know who I hate in this morality play – all of those fucking people, with 10x the rage I feel toward any politician. Because we wouldn’t have shithead politicians if we didn’t have shithead voters like them.
Because we wouldn’t have shithead politicians if we didn’t have shithead voters like them.
This assumes, of course, that there are real voters who correlate with those shithead votes.
/trolllololols away snickering
Just read your comment. I am sorry for everyone involved, especially your MIL
she just wishes she could visit her mother, whom she hasn’t seen in person for over a year
That’s just awful. The vileness of the these statist tyrants make me sick. I hope Cuomo gets what he’s due, and it’s former allies that give it to him.
Weddings, funerals, hospital visits, family gatherings, businesses… all ruined by evil.
since staff moved between the buildings it didn’t take long before the whole campus was infected
Leaving aside the high rates of community spread at the time, if I had poor infection control and work practices, I’d want to blame Cuomo or anyone else too.
Because they have to or the whole charade might collapse.
Working today because wasn’t working most of the week except on an emergency basis. Had a “smart” customer (I know he’s smart because of the Duke sticker on his car and keychain in case you miss the one on the car) tell me the real problem was the TX legislature. I said it seemed to me it was more weather related and then suggested anyone who waits on the government to help dig them out of a mess was a fool or must have more patience than I can muster. He quit talking politics, thank doG.
Come on down to Uncle Bob’s Voodoo Talisman Emporium
Objects from the past fill every corner of the Farmers Co-op Antiques Mall in central Oregon: decoy ducks nested among the rusty typewriters, musky clothes and toys made for children who grew old long ago.
The floorboards creak as customers wander this maze of booths. A couple of months ago, one glass display case looked a lot like dozens of others full of knickknacks. But something inside the well-lit case made 15-year-old Lily Gallentine do a double take.
“Am I seeing that right?” she remembers thinking. Then, she says, her heart began to race.
“There were a bunch of different Nazi pins. There was a poster in the background, saying ‘coon’ and ‘monkey.’ There was a Black doll in the background, which I thought was weird,” Lily says.
The Nazi pins were coin size and had swastikas on them.
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At the Farmers Co-op Antiques Mall in Redmond, the symbols of white supremacy seemed to blend in with all the other merchandise.
“Well, yeah. That’s memorabilia that people buy,” store owner Ike Abbas said when first reached about the display. “I’ve been doing it for 37 years, and people enjoy it. Blacks even buy it. We got one gal in there that is Black and she sells a lot of stuff.”
When pressed about the juxtaposition of swastikas with Black Americana and racist caricatures, he defended the vendor’s option to sell whatever they want in a space rented from Abbas for $55 per month.
Vendors can sell what they please, the antiques dealer said, as long as it’s legal, “and we don’t sell guns just because people break in to get guns.”
But after reporting from Oregon Public Broadcasting, the store faced a public backlash. The anti-Semitic objects and some of the other racist items were removed.
No one will be safe until history is a blank slate.
National Propaganda Radio; dr
OPB is both a PBS and NPR affiliate. Their news department has become a haven for Antifa apologists and leftist agitators, which is sadly a dramatic slide from what it was 20-25 years ago.
Sadly, while you are appalled at how NPR reports this, there is at least one person equal and opposite to you that is thankful that NPR is exposing this dreadful commerce.
Collecting totalitarian communist memorabilia, on the other hand, is totes A-OK.
Of all things commie, one can’t argue they didn’t make a great field rifle.
I have two K-98s.
“See, I have these because my great uncle stabbed one nazi with his trench knife and shot another. They are war trophies, dumbass”
I especially like the part where her heart starts racing. Are these people real? I have my doubts.
Oh no — I’ve met 15-year-old girls who were just that overreactive and hyperventilating. Drama addicts, and everyone needs to know it.
^^ emotionally stunted adults. We have an overabundance of those types
Now do Che T-shirts which are ubiquitous in many T-shirt shops.
“The only audience that is going to be into racist Black Americana, as well as Nazi memorabilia, would presumably be a racist audience,” says historian Mark Pitcavage, who monitors extremism for the Anti-Defamation League. The nonprofit’s mission is to expose anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.
Pitcavage says there are nuances to why people collect some offensive items: Context is key — such as whether an object is in a museum or for sale. The motivations of the collector are important to consider.
“You have to treat these items very carefully,” Pitcavage says.
One person who has spent a career learning to be careful with racist artifacts is sociologist David Pilgrim. He remembers being about 12 when he got his first example at a flea market. He thinks it was a “mammy” saltshaker, which he bought and destroyed in front of the vendor “as an act of defiance.”
“Growing up a multiracial Black-identified kid in the Deep South in the last days of Jim Crow, I thought about race a lot,” Pilgrim says.
Would you like a trophy?
Give the man credit, he is immersed in racist material. The irony.
Perfect.
I am thinking…that never happened and the histrionics in the first quoted paragraph are nothing more than a calculated performance.
Why did he think salt shaker vendor would give a shit. He got his money, w hat does he care?
“Here guy another one” *puts a box of 47 more on the table*
*buy another one*
Wastin’ away again in Progaritaville
Smashing up a Nazi shaker of salt
Some people claim that there’s a Marxist to blame
But I know it’s whitey’s fault
*Opera applause*
*nominates for a glibbie*
What these idiots can’t grasp is that those “racist” artifacts are part of the history and heritage of black and white Americans.
Those guys are professional race baiters and marxists. Divisiveness is their goal. The American cultural revolution rolls on.
I don’t think any NHL game had a better background than the one being played right now at Lake Tahoe.
LOL. The NHL fucked up. The ice is melting. They cannot start the second period. The talk now is about continuing in the evening or perhaps even tomorrow morning. Boston and Philly are scheduled to play tomorrow, 11AM local time.
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I might watch that one tomorrow. Couldn’t care less about Vegas or Colorado. (Sorry, western.)
there is at least one person equal and opposite to you that is thankful that NPR is exposing this dreadful commerce.
More like dozens, if not hundreds (thousands!).
I especially like the part where her heart starts racing. Are these people real? I have my doubts.
You get more of what you reward, and the payoff for melodramatic hysteria are pretty generous.
Happiness is warm nuts.
Got my fresh roasted cashews. So fresh that they are still warm.
Yummy.
I got some Beef stew in the crockpot, and a few Dragons milk stouts left, and a hell of a project I just started,
Tall Cans!
Bless you.
I think leftism is much like the UFO crowd. There is a fixed narrative and its adherents invent stories of ‘it happened to me’ to reinforce that narrative. Every one of the stories in this thread are transparent lies. Of all the poop swastika stories we have heard of for the last ten years every one of them were false flags. Every one of them.
These people are disgusting, demoralized idiots.
There’s a cultural need to feel relevant, and I don’t think it’s unique to the left. However, leftism mixes with the relevancy complex in particularly a absurd and noxious ways. Painting in overbroad brushes, the liberty oriented folks are trying to find relevancy by tightening their circles and becoming relevant in those circles. The authoritarians are trying to find relevancy in a command and control technocracy.
Yup
You tracking this KK? https://twitter.com/DempMcgee/status/1363230869192925191
Dayum! I hadn’t heard that!
They must have never squawked 7700, because I would have gotten an alert.
Looks like it happened to another aircraft in Holland too if you look down the thread.
Video https://twitter.com/thinkdefence/status/1363246557802463236?s=19
Poopsie doodles. It’s blackjack chucking his wrenches in after getting stiffed hard on that transfer.
That’s a pretty dang old bird – 1994 (the year I graduated from college, which means I’m a dang old bird too!)
Wife has Fox News on and the breathless continuous coverage is completely out of proportion. Must be really slow.
Pieces falling
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1363249686665187329
I hope none of it went into the cabin!
” It made an emergency landing and everyone is ok.”
Whew! Thank God. I was feeling a bit sick to my stomach for a minute.
ATC https://youtu.be/LGLAun2mlB8
Holy crap! https://youtu.be/T6wgXNSwCDA
They called Mayday but never squawked AFAIK (possible I got the alert & ignored it, but I usually check them)
I suspect VASAviation will have something in the next day or so
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuedf_fJVrOppky5gl3U6QQ
Poor kid https://youtu.be/jk53jNLSdTw
In my time, the KTA was the biggest thing over the road. Versions of it went delivered 1150HP (very much in line with the 750HP in the article) from 19L. The typical OTR engine today is 430HP from 12.7L; there are a couple of 16L that crank out 600HP.
I’m not current on all this, but basically the US exhaust limits and their valve-timing solution really wrecked Cat, so they left the OTR business; Navistar’s proprietary designs had similar trouble, so they had to up outsource a lot of their engine needs. Daimler already had working solutions from meeting European limits, which is also weird and funny because the they bought their way into the business, buying Detroit Diesel (which was a JV with the old GM engine business managed by birthday boy Roger Penske). Volvo also had a going solution.
There are tons (pardon the pun) of uses for big diesel including the gen-set in this article. Off-road had less restrictive emissions limits in my day, so old engine designs would continue in production even after the same designs are illegal for US/EU OTR. Similarly, such engines can go to the third world for OTR, even in otherwise new trucks.
First thing I did was go look see if it’d fit in a half ton.
Never mind.
It won’t fit in a semi, either. The Peterbilt 359, king of the cowboy trucks, had to be severely modified to accept it.
Hahaha, a half ton couldn’t even tow it!
Fun to imagine but you have to be careful with that sort of thing. I have seen a man put 9000 lb wench on his Polaris Ranger and was then shocked when the frame of his expensive toy was bent to hell. Oooops.
We have a diesel generator that supplies emergency power to our Arc Furnace cooling water system. 1500hp mitsubishi V12 turbo diesel runs the Baldor generator. Pretty neat, and pretty important if we need it.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Razorbacks after having worked for a company where I was in the Little Rock branch.(So long as they’re not playing a college I attended)
So I hope they win. Having said that, They’re starting baseball in February?
College ball always starts near the end of february. They are playing at Rangers Stadium this weekend. They probably planned on arlington being a little warmer than it it currently is.
The big giant cow shed?
WTF? That was supposed to be a reply to comment 37.
As of 9 o’clock this morning, we finally got our full supply of natural gas back. We got to start a few things yesterday but at being limited to 1500mcf for the day, we were only able start getting things heated up. At 9, we lit everything else off and turned everything up. We have been rolling hot bar for about an hour now.
My god has it been a hell of a day. Busted valves and piping, pneumatic systems that won’t move, hydraulic fluid and lubricating oil so cold it it keeps tripping out pumps, valves frozen open or shut, along with all the other problems associated with shutting down a plant designed to run hot for a week in the coldest week in decades.
We have her back running now though. She is a bit leaky at the moment, but we will fix those as we can. It has been one hell of a day.
When you get home shower, pour yourself a highball, put your feet up in front of a fire until you can barely hold your eyes open then hit the bed.
That happens to be exactly what I am up to now. Yes, I go to bed with the chickens.
As a matter of fact we only got water back today late morning. I ran the hot water (cold) until the tank was topped off and turned the breaker back on. I just checked it and it is fully hot. Mrs. Suthenboy, poor thing hasn’t had a bath or shower in ten days, just disappeared into the bathroom with her highball in hand. I dont expect to see her for an hour.
She thought I was going overboard with the 80 gallon tank purchase less than a year ago. I bet she doesnt think that now.
And baseball season starts tonight. Pigs are playing TTU. They better not fucking cancel this season like they did last years.
What the heck happened to Rockwell Jawhorses or knockoffs? Used to be at all of the home improvement or wood working stores. Go to pick one up today and nothing. Out of stock or online only.
In these trying times I have learned to call the store first….in these trying times.
This was discussed above, but natgas electric plants don’t really have the capacity to store for extra capacity. Coal plants can have large yards with a month or more supply, but natgas typically only has a day or two. The “just-in-time” model, obviously, makes predicting demand a big deal in the industry.
JIT happens.
a certain sort of Glib with certain scares laughed at that
me, for example
“but natgas electric plants don’t really have the capacity to store for extra capacity”
They used to.
These were a common sight in the Bay Area as I was a lad.
http://www.esreality.com/post/1624218/old-natural-gas-storage-tank/
When I was younger every house in rural Louisiana had one of these
https://achowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tanks.jpg
For industrial purposes just make them longer (not greater diameter) and have multiple ones.