Good Luck, Texas || Jan. 24, 2026
A major cold front is sweeping across America, and I'd like to point out that our neighbors to the North are the ones who sent it down. But some areas are going to feel this more than others.
Texas is exposed due to its isolated power grid. Cold weather strains the system and essentially shuts everything down. This is a shorter storm cycle than the 2021 freeze, and thankfully, Texas has winterized since then, so the fallout shouldn't be as devastating.
Outages are still possible, but statewide blackouts are less likely than last time.
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And of course, Ted Cruz haul buns for California!
This man genuinely hates Canada, who hurt you Peter, who hurt you :-D
Your predictions were pretty much spot-on for this storm.
Peter, your talents are endless!
Lets talk about uncontrolled federal agents killing us citizens
Here I was thinking Greenland figured out to weaponize their weather. First strike
Why don’t you cover ICE murders, Peter?
Has ICE murdered someone?
Sorry from Canada eh! I’ll send down some parkas and toques for ya.
Y'all can come visit us in California. We're not on fire, at this exact moment: That's scheduled for August, just before the quake. (Offer valid only if you take Ted Cruz back.)
Good morning, live from Texas. I’m praying for the proverbial flood to purge my home state of evil. Have a mickey mouse day.
🤣 Good one. But I would argue that we on the East Coast need a cleansing flood more than Texas does. Having a Micky Mouse day is very apropos, since Goofy and the gang are running the White House.
The thing I dislike most about this weather as you get those lunatics out there saying “I thought we were going to have global warming” Not recognizing that the massive fluctuations we see in the jet stream is a result of us not having as much sea ice which acts as a thermal stabilizer, keeping the jetstream predominantly going west to east as opposed to massive polar vortex, breaking into the south and torturing the Texas
Those aren't lunatics, their ears are just too close to each other.
On the plus side, we will get rid of Ted Cruz for a few days while he hides out in Cancun.
Bryan J. Would you do us Californians a solid, and get the Tedster trebucheted to Cancun? He skedaddled to Laguna Beach, sadly.
I listen to this as I head to the hardware store
Plywood and woodscrews or shovels and rock Salt? When I lived in NY State, it was generators and snow blowers.
Texas needs residential behind-the-meter home salt batteries ( no aggregation), Utility AI software that provides dispatchable power credit per home (from Contingency Reserve Fund) when isolated and residential battery purchase and installation bonds backup and incentives by Texas Energy Fund in all areas served by ERCOT.
Which will probably happen in roughly 10 major disasters from now
At least all the local power plants are up and running and not being down for service this time!
Drove through Texas a while back. To my surprise I saw a lot of wind turbines.
If this geopolitics thing doesn't work out you could apply at the Weather Channel
Ooh Goodie ... Texas is Saved ... Yeeah! ... 🥳 ... Blessed is this weekend ... 😐 🐈
Peter, wrong again. This storm originates in New Mexico and is moving north east towards NY. Yes it’ll dump major snow in Toronto as well as everywhere behind it. Saying it originated in Alberta is not true and is not important but honestly, you’re starting to sound like Trump. “Let’s blame it on Canada because Carney embarrassed Trump several times this week”. You’re better than that, Peter.
Midwestern cold snaps come from air masses that generally settle over Canada natively, namely the Continental Arctic and Continental Polar. “Blaming Canada” is a common joke amongst meteorologists. (“Canada’s #1 Export” was the preferred amongst my mates at University.)
.... yep
What are the odds on Kalshi that Ted Cruz will bolt for Mexico????
Already spotted in the wild. https://bsky.app/profile/sheajordansmith.bsky.social/post/3mcvuof3yfk2r
I will happily default to the experts, but you are telling me that not a single person in the hydrocarbon industry or those who operate electrical plants around the world that use natural gas as a fuel source have been able to figure out how to remove excess water vapor from supply lines so they don't freeze? I suspect that someone figured out how to do this back in the 60's or 70s, and the real issue here in Texas is that those in charge of the Texas government didn't want to force the private companies to pay for that cost. Doesn't sound like sound energy policy at the state level, but I'm just a voter.
Again, it will cut into profits.
My definition of a black out event is when I try to drink enough hard liquor to forget that people keep denying the long term effects of green house gas emissions by pointing at snow balls and saying: “But it’s cold!” The warming part really matters most where it goes from really cold, to not that cold, like the bourbon in my glass as I sip it during a black out event. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/climate/ice-sheets-sea-level-rise
I recall a PZ interview recently where he speculated most countries probably haven't taken mitigation efforts seriously because they've calculated a few degrees warmer in a lot of populations climates unlocks a lot of economic gain for people to buy better Bourbons than someone in Zamibia 😬
Damn that GLOBAL WARMING! Oh, and it's 75F here in Sydney AU. (From St Louis, Mo I am)
It is both warmer than it was 100 years ago and still cold outside. Isn't that crazy how both things can be true?