Snow was fun till power quit

[rgwilliams]

I don't know why Texas didn't use this proven method in some of their cities🤣.
https://gizmodo.com/that-time-a-canadian-town-derailed-a-diesel-train-and-d-1846307148

[richard5933]

I don't know why Texas didn't use this proven method in some of their cities🤣.
https://gizmodo.com/that-time-a-canadian-town-derailed-a-diesel-train-and-d-1846307148

I've wondered the same thing for years - why aren't locomotives included in the emergency plans? Seems to me like with a little planning, railroad sidings could be located near essential power customers like hospitals and emergency services so things could be connected in rapid fashion.

[Nova Eona]

Modern America seems to have a thing against any kind of railroad growth or advancement these days unfortunately, however sensible they may be in any number of applications.

[muldoonman]

Idiots in the Outhouse with their Fossil Fuel Bans and the Tree Huggers are gonna kill us all. 

[richard5933]

Idiots in the Outhouse with their Fossil Fuel Bans and the Tree Huggers are gonna kill us all. 

Please explain

[chessie4905]

Seriously Richard? Maybe you don't agree with him, but you know exactly what he means.

[richard5933]

Seriously Richard? Maybe you don't agree with him, but you know exactly what he means.

Not sure agreeing or disagreeing is the point.

[chessie4905]

Sure.

[David Anderson]

We moved back into the house on Friday.  Staying in the coach during the outage made us one of the very fortunate families in our community.  It was great to have it

My business, however took a lot of damage.  We got most everything running again by Saturday.  Now I read that the Center Point Energy may hit us with a huge gas cost adjustment.  I poked around on the web and only found a small article about what might come.

https://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/134764/in-gas-price-spike-centerpoint-conserves-as-jerry-jones-profits

If they hit me with times 150 on my February bill my little corporation will be bankrupt.  They roll the gas cost adjustment into the entire monthly usage.  They don't break it out by the day.
I was closed all week during the gas spike, but my billing period ends  Feb 28 so they have plenty of cubic feet used to roll in the adjusment.  I'm going to call them tomorrow to find out what to expect.  I am hoping for some good news.

David

[freds]

I hear you about Diesel Locomotives. However if you dig deep enough there was nucellar sub tied up to the dock that was also a temporary power source in an emergency.

Snow is rare in Seattle, but I do remember multiple instances of running extension cords to neighbors so they could power their natural gas furnace's and TV plus game station.

Hey I also turned on every light in the house and driveway because I could LOL!!! (Wife didn't think it was funny, hey one reason she is an ex.)...

[David Anderson]

After 30 minutes on the phone with a service rep, I was assured that any price increase would have merited a notice on their web portal.  The bill should be normal this month unless I'm notified otherwise.

[Brassman]

Well, speaking of locomotives used as an ad-hoc electrical power source,  a few decades ago a WWII era T-2 oil tanker broke in half and the stern half of boilers, turbines and engine fuel tanks steamed to Eureka California, and being turbo-electric it was used as an electrical power plant for a while. 

Later, a new forebody with stainless steel tanks was attached and she became the S/S Angelo Petri, a wine tanker transporting wine to the east coast.  It was not drinking wine, though the ship's crew drank it by the bucket.

[luvrbus]

Trains are DC current that would take a big inverter

[richard5933]

Trains are DC current that would take a big inverter

That's what I thought at first too, but apparently at one point they switched to using AC alternators on the larger locomotives after silicon rectifiers come on board during the 1960s.

[luvrbus]

BNSF here at the repair shop must not have got the message