Las Cruces Sun-News - LAS CRUCES - After a day of record-cold weather, a layer of snowfall that has since turned slushy and a series of rolling power outages attributed to a demand overload, you're probably wondering what's next. Do your kids have school today? Can you expect city offices to be open for business? Are road closures planned? El Paso Electric Co. officials appealed Wednesday afternoon to schools and local governments, asking them to remain closed today to help relieve an expected electricity shortage, thanks to cold weather that was likely to continue. Following the appeal, several entities announced decisions to extend their closures through today.
Others said they won't make that determination until this morning, possibly as early as 5 a.m. Here's a look at what to expect. El Paso Electric Co. The electric company is anticipating rolling outages to continue today as it works to bring two power plants back online, said Teresa Souza, El Paso Electric Co. spokeswoman. "We're encouraging customers to continue curtailing their usage," she said. The company's Rio Grande and Newman power-generation plants were down Wednesday evening. There was not an estimate about when they'd be restored, but the company is seeking electricity from outside sources, she said. "When our demand exceeds our generation capacity, that's when we have to shut certain parts of our system down to prevent the system from shutting down altogether," Souza said. Read full story here:
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This morning my temperature gauge read -3 degrees. The next fruitcake environmentalist that tries to tell me I should pay more for energy and risk losing my job because my carbon footprint is causing global warming is going to get it right in the kisser. Where's your global warming now? I can only believe these nut jobs will attempt to give us some convoluted twisted explanation for -3 degrees in Dona Ana County.
Extreme weather is not the same as climate change. - fruitcake
The previous author's comments are profoundly comical. When you hear the left-wing attempt to explain climate change the main theme IS "extreme" warming changes. To quote an old Wendy's commercial, "where's the beef?" There is no climate change except in that we have constantly changing weather...it's called...WINTER...SPRING...SUMMER...(and yes, you guessed it, fruitcakes)...FALL. And so because we have constant CHANGES IN CLIMATE, the left needs money to fund it's social justice projects. The planet isn't in trouble. However, the weak science and flawed weather models, advocating alleged global warming, is rapidly becoming exposed for what it is...a RUSE. I characterize this ruse as the "chicken little" theory. I gather the next thing we'll hear is that the sky is falling. Naturally this will necessitate a need to cap & tax the use of compressed air or something else equally fraudulent.
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