Texas suffers the most severe drought in 100 years

[Old Rocks]

Ask me how hard I was laughing today???

The asshole in the picture, now he is the definition of BS.

 

[gslack]

Ask me how hard I was laughing today???

The asshole in the picture, now he is the definition of BS.

Does the asshole who posted that response know he is the forums definition of moonbat?

 

[uscitizen]

The best thing to ever come out of Texas was an empty Greyhound bus.

 

[Dot Com]

I know.

Fox in particular was completely kooky about what is happening.

I mean, people are dying, livelihoods are being ruined, and it is the red states that are suffering the most.

You would think that Fox would be sympathetic.

Oh well they are on their own, that is the Tea Party way.

How long before Rick Perry asks for federal aid?

He'll prolly wait til the governor's mansion pool is affected.

 

[Chris]

Houston's blistering August continued Sunday, as the city racked up its 32nd 100-degree day of the year, tying 1980 for the most on record.

This mark, just one more set during the hottest and driest summer ever recorded in Houston's history, will very likely fall on Monday.

The temperature ticked as high as 103 degrees Sunday at Bush Intercontinental Airport, giving the city its 21st day in a row at or above the century mark. During a normal summer, Houston has about four 100-degree days.

With little relief in sight, forecasters said there's an increasing possibility that Houston will register temperatures of 100 degrees or above every day this August.

Houston heat likely to break record - again - Houston Chronicle

 

[Wicked Jester]

Houston's blistering August continued Sunday, as the city racked up its 32nd 100-degree day of the year, tying 1980 for the most on record.

This mark, just one more set during the hottest and driest summer ever recorded in Houston's history, will very likely fall on Monday.

The temperature ticked as high as 103 degrees Sunday at Bush Intercontinental Airport, giving the city its 21st day in a row at or above the century mark. During a normal summer, Houston has about four 100-degree days.

With little relief in sight, forecasters said there's an increasing possibility that Houston will register temperatures of 100 degrees or above every day this August.

Houston heat likely to break record - again - Houston Chronicle

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism - Yahoo! News

 

[BDBoop]

But Chris, you don't understand!

Governor Perry PRAYED for rain!! Surely it rained somewhere, and cooled things off!!!

 

[rdean]

Punishment from God, obviously.

 

[waltky]

Texas drought liable to affect power supply...

More power plant woes likely if Texas drought drags into winter
August 24, 2011 - Power cutbacks as water levels fall in cooling reservoirs

A number of Texas power plants may need to cut back operations or shut down completely if the state’s severe drought continues into the fall, an official with Texas’ main transmission manager told FuelFix. At least one North Texas power plant has had to reduce how much it generates because the water level in its cooling reservoir has fallen significantly, said Kent Saathoff, vice president of system planning and operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. If the state’s drought continues for much longer and water levels continue falling at other power plant reservoirs, other units could be forced to curtail operations or shut-down completely, Saathoff said. “Right now we don’t have a significant problem with it, but it could become one,” Saathoff said in an interview. “This has been the driest 12-month stretch we’ve seen in Texas in a long time.”

ERCOT has declared power emergencies several times this summer as record demand met a large number of unplanned power plant outages. Plant operators say the long hot summer has also meant more wear-and-tear due to longer operating hours for power plants. On Aug. 4 the state came close to initiating rolling blackouts when the margin between power supply and demand grew too thin. It would have been just the fourth time in 21 years the state would have taken such extreme measures. ERCOT – which oversees the high voltages transmission system that connects 75 percent of the state, including most major cities – can call on industrial customers to cut about 1,500 megawatts of demand during emergencies.

And in a few cases there are programs where utilities are able to temporarily cut residential demand during peak hours – Austin Energy has been able to cut 35 to 45 megawatts of peak demand by cycling off air conditioners in about 90,000 homes twice per hour for 10 minutes. But with those resources close to tapped out during recent peak demand days, ERCOT asked two power plant operators – Garland Power & Light and NRG Energy – to bring two power plants each out of mothballs to have available through the end of October. Garland’s two 61 megawatt gas-fired units were online this week while the two NRG gas-fired units located on the Houston Ship Channel are expected to be ready by Sept. 1.

ERCOT may need to ask other power plant operators to bring other mothballed units back online this winter if the drought continues, Saathoff said. “There’s another 2,000 megawatts of mothballed capacity we can call on, but it will take a couple of months for them to come back,” he said. For the time being, that appears to be all ERCOT can do to deal with the drought, he said. “The bottom line is there’s not much we can do absent rain,” Saathoff said. “Cooling reservoirs just aren’t being replenished.”

Source

 

[Chris]

Weather forecasters and agriculture experts in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas say there is no relief in sight for what already is the worst drought year on record. The searing heat and dry conditions have caused devastating wildfires in the western part of the large state and led to crop losses, cattle deaths and water rationing in areas of east Texas that are normally wet at this time of year.

Driving through the countryside northwest of Houston, one sees dried up fields, dying trees and livestock ponds that are not much more than a puddles of fetid, algae-covered water. In some towns, farmers' markets have been cancelled because local growers have little to offer. Those with wells for irrigation are struggling with the high cost of fuel to run their pumps.

Texas Suffers Worst Drought Year on Record | USA | English

 

[FactFinder]

Texas suffers the most severe drought in 100 years

Geeez, just when you thought global warming was over a hundred years ago, it rears its ugly head again.

 

[Old Rocks]

Been a very interesting year. And it ain't over yet. But nothing in the last year has anything to do with global warming. That could not be, it is not according to the politics of ignorant dingbats such as Perry.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Global warming exists.

Any who deny it are either mentally feeble, woefully undereducated, or morally malignant. Or all three.

The only question is whether it's human influenced.

 

[gslack]

Been a very interesting year. And it ain't over yet. But nothing in the last year has anything to do with global warming. That could not be, it is not according to the politics of ignorant dingbats such as Perry.

Yes very true.. a least the bolded enlarged parts..

 

[gslack]

Global warming exists.

Any who deny it are either mentally feeble, woefully undereducated, or morally malignant. Or all three.

The only question is whether it's human influenced.

Why of course it is...

All hail the goracle!

 

[Wicked Jester]

Global warming exists.

Any who deny it are either mentally feeble, woefully undereducated, or morally malignant. Or all three.

The only question is whether it's human influenced.

Why of course it is...

All hail the goracle!

All hail the Algorobots!

 

[Wicked Jester]

Been a very interesting year. And it ain't over yet. But nothing in the last year has anything to do with global warming. That could not be, it is not according to the politics of ignorant dingbats such as Perry.

Yeah, Perry questions the man made GW claim, as most americans do.

Seems like only the gullible fools are riding the back of the train....How's the view from back there, btw?

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism - Yahoo! News

 

[JakeStarkey]

The only gullible gullivers are the ones who ignore critical thinking and observable phenomena.

 

[Wicked Jester]

The only gullible gullivers are the ones who ignore critical thinking and observable phenomena.

New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism - Yahoo! News

I trust honest scientists with no financial dog in the fight. I don't trust Algore, and his crony junk scientists, all of whom have a big financial dog in the fight......And it's good to see honest scientists pissing Algores fraud straight down the damn toilet.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I trust the overwhelming number of scientists who disagree with you, Jester. You are the one twisting facts your philosophy instead of twisting the philosophy to the facts.