{"id":49846,"date":"2021-12-10T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49846"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:07:14","slug":"lights-will-stay-on-they-had-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49846","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lights will stay on&#8217;? They had better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49773\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-300x201.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-300x201.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-1024x686.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39-768x515.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ATX-Winter-Storm-SF-TT-39.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Good news has arrived \u2014 maybe \u2014 for Texans who shivered earlier this year during the killer freeze that paralyzed the state in February.<\/p>\n<p>The lights \u201cwill stay on\u201d this winter, says the head of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the guy who runs the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the outfit that manages the state\u2019s electrical grid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man. They had better be right.<\/p>\n<p>PUC chairman Peter Lake and ERCOT interim CEO Brad Jones have given assurances that the power grid won\u2019t overload and break down as it did in mid-February, sending millions of Texans into the deep freeze, some of them for several weeks. What\u2019s more, the grid failure resulted in the loss of water delivery for many thousands of Texans; that crisis lasted for weeks in many communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature convened a special session to fix the problem and Gov. Greg Abbott assures us that it\u2019s fixed. And we believe this politician, right? Not necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>One of the pols who wants to defeat him, Democratic candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke, says the natural gas lines haven\u2019t yet been fully winterized, that they need more attention. I\u2019m not going to buy into O\u2019Rourke\u2019s criticism fully, either.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with winter just a few days away from when the calendar tells us it\u2019s here, I am going to follow the time-honored advice handed down by my parents: hope for the best and prepare for the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Which is my way of saying I don\u2019t trust the folks who are supposed to deliver the goods on the product\u00a0<em>for which I pay good money!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news has arrived \u2014 maybe \u2014 for Texans who shivered earlier this year during the killer freeze that paralyzed the state in February. 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