{"id":66632,"date":"2023-06-20T18:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=66632"},"modified":"2023-06-21T02:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:25:22","slug":"texas-power-grid-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/texas-power-grid-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Power Grid Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66633 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TX-Flag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Well folks down here in my area of Texas (Eastern) we are having some power grid issues.<\/h2>\n<h2>Yesterday our power went off for two and a half hours beginning at 4:30 p.m. pretty much in the heat of the day. Instead of switching to the genny&#8217;s me and the wife loaded up the fur babies and went for a drive in the truck to get a sno-cone in town. By the time we got back it was back on.<\/h2>\n<h2>Today starting around 3 p.m. we started having intermittent power failures and then a Power Use Warning from ERCOT to &#8220;Conserve Power&#8221; as much as possible until 8 p.m.<\/h2>\n<h2>In the big scheme of things, the fact that we actually have power is a blessing.<\/h2>\n<h2>In several neighboring counties to our north there are still <a href=\"https:\/\/poweroutage.us\/area\/state\/texas\">thousands without power<\/a> due to storms that moved through this past weekend.<\/h2>\n<h2>This is not my first rodeo with power outages (I lived through three hurricanes and the blizzard of 2021) so I already have my Generators primed and ready and everything staged for me and the wife unit and the fur babies to stay cool.<\/h2>\n<h2>I have a feeling this Summer is going to be an ass kicker on Power Grid&#8217;s all over the U.S., so Prepare Accordingly.<\/h2>\n<h2>Just remember folks: Nobody is Coming to Save You, You are on Your Own!<\/h2>\n<h2>Tactical Hermit Live from the Hermit Cave Signing Off.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66634 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Prepper101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Prepper101.jpg 636w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Prepper101-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks down here in my area of Texas (Eastern) we are having some power grid issues. Yesterday our power went off for two and a half hours beginning at 4:30 p.m. pretty much in the heat of the day. Instead of switching to the genny&#8217;s me and the wife loaded up the fur babies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3727],"tags":[16038,7085],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66652,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66632\/revisions\/66652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}