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by rootusrootus 1258 days ago
> Gas lines are not foolproof either, just look at what happened in Texas.

That was above-ground equipment at natural gas power plants. It takes a hell of a freeze to affect below-grand natural gas pipes. We've had a couple really hard freezes here and the only thing that worked fine was natural gas, while we were out of electricity & internet for the better part of a week.