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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (599856)	2/4/2011 11:04:23 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1570917

Yes it will be warmer next week. Here's someone who really makes a fence post look like a Nobel winner:

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (599856)	2/4/2011 11:54:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1570917

The Fort Worth Star Telegram has a good article on the blackouts. One of the key problems is that the natural gas curtailment rules are outdated, and there was no differentiation between industrial users and power plants. So, when the line pressures started falling, Atmos Energy cut off natural gas supplies to both industrial plants and power plants, and after some coal fired power plants went off line because of freezing water lines, many backup gas fired plants could not come on line because of low line pressures. Ironically enough, some natural gas supplies were curtailed because of rolling blackouts impacting the Atmos system. The curtailments on Wednesday were so widespread and sudden that some hospitals lost power. Cold exposes jumble of flaws in Texas electric policies Read more: star-telegram.com. Rat shrugged again. He knew the EnronMan was staying home. No point in visiting 3rd world countries when it was this cold.