Tag: dark winter

  • Millions of daily COVID cases possible in the United States

    Millions of daily COVID cases possible in the United States

    Francis Collins, retiring from the NIH, warns of his COVID fears in the coming weeks..

    As the omicron variant threatens record-breaking rates of infections in the U.S., Collins departs with a fear. If Americans don’t take COVID-19 seriously, the country could see 1 million daily infections, he said.

    “We cannot afford to let down our guard,” Collins told NPR’s Scott Detrow in an interview with Weekend Edition.

    “I know people are tired of this,” he said, acknowledging Americans’ fatigue of having weathered almost three pandemic-stunted years. “I’m tired of it too, believe me. But the virus is not tired of us. It’s having a great old time changing its shape every couple of months, coming up with new variants and figuring out ways to be even more contagious.”

    While his number may sound dramatic, there are others in medical circles who actually believe the REAL daily infection number will be between 3 and 8 million by some point in the next several weeks.

    South Africa hopes it is peaking now.. Europe is two weeks behind.. and the United States will be mid-January for the peak.

    There are now talks in various governmental circles as to how to respond: Flatten the curve 2.0 and extend the lifetime of omicron longer? Or … let it be?

    Humanity faces an uncertain dark winter..

  • Rolling blackouts: Millions in Texas experiencing power outages,

    Rolling blackouts: Millions in Texas experiencing power outages,

    The Southwest Power Pool, a group of utilities across 14 states, called for rolling blackouts and power outages because the supply of reserve energy had been exhausted.
    — Read on 6abc.com/10342320/

    More..

    In Houston, where county leaders had warned that the freeze could create problems on the scale of massive hurricanes that slam the Gulf Coast, one electric provider said power may not be restored to some homes until Tuesday. More than 500 people were hunkering down at one shelter, but Mayor Sylvester Turner said other warming centers had to be shut down because those locations, too, lost power.

    State officials said soaring demand and cold weather knocking some power stations offline had pushed Texas’ system beyond the limits.

    “This weather event, it’s really unprecedented. We all living here know that,” said Dan Woodfin, senior director of system operations at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. He defended preparations made by grid operators and described the demand on the system as record-setting.

  • WILD TEXAS WEATHER: ROLLING BLACKOUTS AND SINGLE DIGITS DALLAS!

    WILD TEXAS WEATHER: ROLLING BLACKOUTS AND SINGLE DIGITS DALLAS!

    The entire nation is facing a massive, complex, and historic winter storm this week. When leaders told us months ago that we had the prospects of a dark winter, only HAARP could expect it being this dark. This week perhaps it the darkest of them all..

    Temperatures on one side of the Gulf Coast were a balmy 73 in Tampa. But Texas was shivering .. Just 27 in Austin. 18 in Houston.. And 5 single digits in Dallas!

    Along with that, millions are without power nationwide and at least 11 are dead as a result of the large winter storm sweeping the entire United States!

    Nearly 170 million people are under winter weather advisories Monday, with icy roads, power outages, and dangerously low temperatures threatening to snarl traffic and paralyze cities from coast to coast! At least 11 people have died in weather-related vehicle accidents since cold temperatures took hold of the country. Nine died in three separate incidents in Texas Thursday, one person was killed in Kentucky, and another died in a wreck in Oklahoma Sunday…

    Snowing in Texas.

    10 degrees and snowing in Little Rock Arkansas..

    Thundersnow in Galveston Texas.

    2 million without power in the lone star state.

    Winter weather warnings.

    Wind chills.

    Half of the nation’s map is deeply frozen..

    The state of Texas is now performing rolling blackouts as a way to save the grid!

    But some are Twitter are saying their power has been out for 8 hours plus, and their homes are quickly dipping into the 40s and the 30s…

    DEVELOPING..