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7. Sacred Coal and Holy Methane also failed in the Big TX Freeze

Reply to duncang (Reply #6)

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 10:12 AM

Jan 2025

It was so cold that the piles of coal froze solid and couldn't be moved to the plants, and so cold that valves and pipes for moving gas at the plants froze up.

But TX Republicans don't talk about that much.

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