We haven't had any, but there are various blackouts throughout the city, probably from overloading the grid as the last I heard there are no planned rolling blackouts here. I've been following the various @oncor and #oncor tags on Twitter, and as always musing on how little it takes, in this modern world, for people to start screaming when their modern conveniences vanish.

Nobody screaming quite seems to understand that the power grid isn't built to cover extremes that rarely happen--the occasional ice storm isn't much compared to the daily high temps we get in summer.

Someone was complaining that they lived in Minnesota for ten years and never had an outage due to cold. Well, DUH.

Also, if you have someone in your household whose health will be negatively impacted by an extended outage, maaaaaybe you should own a generator instead of complaining about it on Twitter. Just sayin'.

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