Christian Constitutional Conservative Patriot who leans libertarian. Husband, son, dad, grampa. US Navy vet E5 Nukey bubblehead. Not giving up on MAGA!
Over 30 years labelled as a conspiracy theorist, but most of those "theories" are proving to be FACT playing out daily...
Piss poor planning results in problems.
Could be the understatement of the year? decade? century?
There really is no excuse for piss poor planning.
Heads up in case you have decided to heed @HealthRanger's warnings to get out of Blue cities and states. Look for a city that still has its own power generation. That's becoming harder and harder to find...
I'm a Navy trained Nuclear Reactor Operator, civilian trained Journeyman Lineman, and city power generator operator. Previous employment includes Utility Superintendent and City Administrator.
No one listened when I said it was piss poor planning as town after town shut down their power-generating capabilities. They said it's too expensive.
Natural gas systems are strained because parts of the nationwide system are literally freezing. Our cities natural gas supply is operating at about 1/3 normal parameters...
So, it may be true that even if you had natural gas power generation, the gas supply wouldn't be enough. The last city's power plant I worked for had Deisel generators backing up the natural gas generators.
The city I was Utility Superintendent for was the first city with wind generators connected directly to their city system. After a few years, we did a study and they generated exactly the opposite of what was needed. They produced more at night than during the day when there was higher demand. They produced more in spring and fall which is seasonally the lowest demand months.