The powerful winter storm that battered a large swath of the eastern half of the US has left behind an Arctic chill Saturday morning. A regional power grid with 65 million customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia has declared a rare emergency, over a million people have no power, air travel remains disrupted, and reports of highway accidents are some of the most trending topics this morning.
Let’s begin with PJM Interconnection, a regional power grid that stretches from Illinois to New Jersey, which declared a Stage 2 emergency late Friday and asked customers to conserve electricity due to the rising risk of grid instability.
“PJM is asking consumers to reduce their use of electricity, if health permits, between the hours of 4 a.m. on December 24, 2022, and 10 a.m. on December 25, 2022,” PJM wrote in a press release.
PJM’s request for customers to reduce power comes as the grid manager is trying to prevent a Stage 3 emergency, which would result in rolling blackouts across the 13 states and the District of Columbia.
“Demand soared more than 9 gigawatts above forecasts Friday evening — much faster and higher than anticipated. That’s the equivalent of about 9 million homes just popping up on the grid on a typical day,” Bloomberg said.
PJM spokeswoman Susan Buehler told Bloomberg that Stage 2 emergency would “certainly be enough” to avert blackouts across the regional grid because the Arctic blast is only temporary.
In the Carolinas, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, like several other utilities, have asked customers to conserve power due to energy shortfalls.
Duke wrote in a statement Saturday morning it has “implemented load shedding steps that include interruptions in service.” This means power is being curtailed for some customers to protect the grid from collapse.
With power grids in an emergency across the eastern half of the US, there are also a million customers without power — most outages are in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Maine.
Bloomberg said 200 million Americans — around 60% of the country — are under winter weather alerts this morning.
The Ambient Weather network of weather stations across the US shows much of the country is below freezing this morning.
And for the third day, travel remains disrupted. FlightAware showed over 1,600 flights within, into, or out of the US were canceled. Another 1,700 were delayed. Most of the disruptions were at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, O’Hare International Airport, and John F. Kennedy International Airport.
And it wasn’t just air travel that experienced troubles. As millions of Americans hit the highways to see loved ones, there were numerous reports of massive pileup crashes. One of the most spoken about this morning is the 46-car pileup on the Ohio Turnpike.
🚨#BREAKING: Mass Casualty Incident’ declared following pileup on Interstate 75 in Ohio
Multiple emergency crews are responding too a very serious accident is occurring on I-75N. With Mass Casualty Incident declared reports of over 100+ vehicles are piled up pic.twitter.com/TgfCm852Si
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 23, 2022
The good news is the unbearable cold blast will begin to dissipate next week. Average temperatures across the Lower 48 will jump from 24 degrees Fahrenheit to over 50 degrees by January 1.
Hoping for a White Christmas?
There’s not one peep from climate alarmists about the cold blast after they spewed nonsense this past summer about the world imminently burning. ‘Trust the science,’ they say…
Plenty of record lows on this Christmas Eve pic.twitter.com/xaa4LJxDnu
— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT (@MikeZaccardi) December 24, 2022
Guess what’s trending on Twitter this morning.
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Chilly, breezy with occasional flurries.
I’m off to sand the neighbor’s driveway, wish me luck.
Good luck and Merry Christmas to you and all your family.
PS: Merry Christmas to all TBPers everywhere
GeorgeS- What is up in France this holiday season?
Merry Christmas to you also!
Same old shit, really tired of this shithole but on the other end, except in Russia, it’s the same crap everywhere.
Remember the good old days when we made fun of Russia? Not so funny anymore in third world America.
Thorium salt nuke power plants, bitchez
Thorium salt nuke power plants, bitchez
Thorium salt nuke power plants, bitchez
Thorium salt nuke power plants, bitchez
Zehctib, stnalp rewop ekun tlas muiroht.
Finally. Some sense in the thread. Thanks, Red.
Ignorance is nothing to be proud of.
Thorium salt nuke power plants, bitchez
More homework thorium salt reactors are not ready for prime time . Like wind and solar it works as a minimal backup as cool gadgetry but not as a single sustainable reliable power supply !
Not Yet ??
Only because MIC & big oil & .gov & petrodollar bankster mafia & big science haven’t gone there. What a moronic argument. Everything needs R&D. Thorium salt is the immediate and long-term answer while we R&D other things.
What do EV owners do when the grid is down and the extreme cold robs half of the charge left on their EV.
Answer- Not much.
They keep warm by protesting ICE vehicle owners. Screaming and marching protests about “Emissions”, keeps a body warm. Embrace that shivering! It is -14c here, my car still has a full gas tank. Doesn’t just lose stored energy like those inefficient electric energy bleeding EVs.
Set up their portable wind mill lol.
Iggy – They sit in front of the window and watch the people with gas powered cars whizzing by on their way unimpeded.
That’s why 78% of EV owners also own an ICE car, while only 1% of ICE car owners bother with an EV. EVs are a niche use vehicle.
Walk?
How many people do you think are charging their EV car right now with a generator using the electricity in it to try and stay warm? I bet more EVs show up at the gas station today last minute filling Jerry Cans and buying generators. $100 says they plug the car to the Geny rather than the house….
How many carjackings will soon be to siphon, not ride?
Be wary of your Virtue Signaling next door Karen. Neighbourhood Watch is scoping your supplies.
17º last night in Charleston w/ 10-15 mph winds, wind chill 7º when we toof the dogs out at 6AM. Normal low is 40-42º. The 1st three winters here, we had only 3 days below freezing, with 29º being the lowest.
F The Deep State.
On another sick note, Apple+ bought Charlie Brown’s Xmas. You have to subscribe to see it anymore.
I feel a quick search would allow you to stream for free,enjoy the show!
Warm there huh? -10 with snow and 20 mph winds, but not all that unusual in winter where I live.
Huh. Looks like we – upper Ohio Valley – are included in that area. Note the article didn’t say “due to storm damage/downed lines, etc.”. Just a grid capacity issue.
One of our local coal fired plants is scheduled to be shuttered next year. That’s 2.2GW less next winter. First Energy also closed it’s nearby Penn Power coal plant a few years ago. Roughly the same output.
But they did put in a giant solar farm in down the road! Since we have about 160 days/year, sunny/partly sunny, that should more than make up for it, right?
It takes 2.5acres of solar to make 1MW so 4GW would require 10,000acres or 15.625 sq/miles. The solar farm isn’t quite that big.
How many ways are there to kill as many of us as possible?
I guess that’s what they REALLY mean by “diversity”.
Just enjoy the global warming.
When the CIA blows up the gas pipeline, you are immediately screwed. The coal plants could store up months of coal; TPTB don’t usually shutter them, they bulldoze them.
Lights on in Atlanta.
But the wind chill has been around -8F, so that makes for a brisk walk.
Remember, darlings; there is no bad weather only bad fashion choices.
“Let the Murkins freeze” is the battle cry of the Bidet admin with the Congress enthusiastically endorsing it. Your tax dollars – all 100 billion – will be sent to Country 404 (with some pols and other assorted parasites picking up some of the crumbs along the way) while your infrastructure devolves into 3rd world shithole status.
Sick jokes abound in a very sick world, comrades.
‘ … no bad weather only bad fashion choices.’
B I N G O …
Merry Christmas, Auntie …
And a blessed Christmas to you and yours, Anthony.
No problems here in Cuenca, Ecuador. The wind chill factor today is in the mid 70’s.
For Toronto on Jan.1st.2023 They are forecasting 48 f. I checked out your forecast, do you guys always have Thunderstorms, like everyday?
Of course not. The last thunder storm was probably two weeks ago.
Let eat cake ! Pelosi Antoinette.
Buffalo airport is closed until at least 11am Monday.
The USA/CANADA border crossing is closed for a second day. You guys stay there we’ll stay here. Sorry bout them Quebecors.
#itswintergetoverit
I’m old enough to remember when ponds froze over every winter. We called it winter then too.
A weather channel meteorologist made a surprising (for them!) statement this morning while broadcasting live from Atlanta, commenting ” this is the coldest it’s ever been, except for ten years ago…”
Collectively, “we” have terribly short memories.
Yes/ We got 1 inch of snow and had some below zero for a couple days. A little early. Usually doesn’t do that until late January around here. I can’t complain when I see things like this.
We are experiencing rolling black outs in western NC. Bet they don’t cut power to the three crypto mining farms near me!
Surprise a late December freeze during a grand solar minimum of activity from the sun .
What think tank green energy climate change fully vaxxed and boosted brain clotted group of assholes missed this prediction that has been accurate since 1755 ???
Even wild animals prepare better than Government and corporate gold diggers !
How those EV’s doing in the Northeast?
I worked in power generation. Not easy on days like these. Air lines for contols freeze, cooling water freezes. Cooling towers ice over. You spend a lot of time outside and climbing equipment in freezing temps, high winds and icy snow covered steps and ladders. Working 24/7.
A big thanks to the guys keeping the electric, water and natural gas running in this weather. While we sit warm and dry indoors and complain!
This weather in the deep South is causing some real hardship for some farmers. Nothing here is ‘designed’ for it.
Now is the time for that shooter to engage transformers.
Just one? Does he or she have Santa super powers?
Saw a report, sheriff reporting 1000’s without power after 3 substations targeted in Washington. Hmm,
Shut up feed
Amazing, America has winter. Wow, everybody can’t be a brain dead democrat. I know that Buffalo gets serious winter snow and they usually cope as they have since the place was built.