Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds

On 7/17/2024 5:56 PM, Chris Buckley wrote:

On 2024-07-17, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
<quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
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Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
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Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
frosty SF and fantasy novels!
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/

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I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
effective response to global warming...
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if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
"fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.

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One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
died again (if that actually happened;

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According to news stories I have seen, some parts of Texas are not
scheduled to regain power until July 19.
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When I lived in College Station, TX, I experienced more power outages
per unit time than I have anywhere else (the situation here is
deteriorating, though) but it was never gone for more than a few hours.

 The press stories out of Houston seem eerily familiar to me. We (even
with buried power lines) lost power for 4 days in the 2012 derecho in
our area (DC), but others were well over a week without power in near
100 degree heat.  As I recall, Pepco won an award for the most hated
company in the US that year!
 The derecho weakened trees for years afterwards; Pepco had to go on a very
massive tree cutting/pruning spree for the next 5 years before they really
got a handle on everything.  I wonder if that's a major cause of the
extensive damage in Houston this storm (an earlier derecho this year I think?)
 Chris

The derecho in May 2024 in Houston was localized to the Northeast side and central area of Houston.  It did incredible damage.  The local T&D (transmission and distribution) called in several thousand linemen for a month afterwards to fix things.
The damage from Hurricane Beryl is all over the entire metropolitan area (9 counties, 8 million people) of Houston.  My neighborhood in the southwest side of Houston has the trees severely damaged.  Probably 1 in 10 trees are down.  And these are 40 foot to 75 foot tall trees.  I did not lose any trees (I only have three on my 1.2 acres) but I have a branch pile 50 feet long in my front yard at the street.
It is obvious that the T&D (Centerpoint) is going to have to get very aggressive about cutting back trees in Houston.  Houston is probably the largest city with number of trees in USA.
Lynn