Post by anirbas on Feb 25, 2021 20:09:42 GMT -6
Happy to report the family and I survived the Texas Snowpocalypse of last week. Albeit, not without moderate to severe discomfort.
We endured over thirty hours without electricity, in an all electric house with single digit temps, outside. Sent the granddaughter and her parental units, haha, to another home that at that time had maintained electricity. The baby needed heat and light. David and I stayed with the four cats and one dog. I read books by the window during the day. Listened to audio books when dark fell. The kids, or should I say, twenty-somethings, left us with three super electronic device chargers all charged up, that kept our two cellphones and David's tablet going.
Didn't get much sleep. Because the idiot next door ran his generator, night and day. And guess where the generator sat? Right outside our bedroom window, practically. I could only sleep when it ran out of gas in the middle of the night.
When power was finally restored to our domicile and I could read the temperature on the all electric thermostat, it was 45 degrees in the house. For the next thirty hours, we experienced rolling blackouts. Once we got the house warmed back up to 68 degrees, and it was warm enough for Nanny's Lydia to come home, she and her parental units, returned. Started with thirty minutes of power, thirty off, working up to one hour on, one hour off.
One of our toilets froze and both bathtub faucets, even though we dripped water through every pipe and opened the cabinet doors. Once we had power, however rolling it was, I thawed them out with space heaters.
We did have to boil our water for about a 48 hour period or drink bottled water. I hate the taste of bottled water. Nasty.
I work for Walmart. When the weather closes Hellmart, something wicked this way has come. We couldn't get trucks. Our shelves were bare. But, not just ours. All of the grocers were experiencing the same issues.
I did not drive on the ice. We rarely get just snow. We always get freaking ice first and then snow. I did not go to work from Sunday through Friday. I was one of a multitude that did not. As one co-worker put it, "I risked my life working through the pandemic. I am not risking my life because of the weather." Spot on.
Sadly, many in Texas are still without water, due to last week's Snowmageddon.
What a mess that didn't have to turn out this way. That's pretty much all I have to say. Oh, and fuck ERCOT.
We endured over thirty hours without electricity, in an all electric house with single digit temps, outside. Sent the granddaughter and her parental units, haha, to another home that at that time had maintained electricity. The baby needed heat and light. David and I stayed with the four cats and one dog. I read books by the window during the day. Listened to audio books when dark fell. The kids, or should I say, twenty-somethings, left us with three super electronic device chargers all charged up, that kept our two cellphones and David's tablet going.
Didn't get much sleep. Because the idiot next door ran his generator, night and day. And guess where the generator sat? Right outside our bedroom window, practically. I could only sleep when it ran out of gas in the middle of the night.
When power was finally restored to our domicile and I could read the temperature on the all electric thermostat, it was 45 degrees in the house. For the next thirty hours, we experienced rolling blackouts. Once we got the house warmed back up to 68 degrees, and it was warm enough for Nanny's Lydia to come home, she and her parental units, returned. Started with thirty minutes of power, thirty off, working up to one hour on, one hour off.
One of our toilets froze and both bathtub faucets, even though we dripped water through every pipe and opened the cabinet doors. Once we had power, however rolling it was, I thawed them out with space heaters.
We did have to boil our water for about a 48 hour period or drink bottled water. I hate the taste of bottled water. Nasty.
I work for Walmart. When the weather closes Hellmart, something wicked this way has come. We couldn't get trucks. Our shelves were bare. But, not just ours. All of the grocers were experiencing the same issues.
I did not drive on the ice. We rarely get just snow. We always get freaking ice first and then snow. I did not go to work from Sunday through Friday. I was one of a multitude that did not. As one co-worker put it, "I risked my life working through the pandemic. I am not risking my life because of the weather." Spot on.
Sadly, many in Texas are still without water, due to last week's Snowmageddon.
What a mess that didn't have to turn out this way. That's pretty much all I have to say. Oh, and fuck ERCOT.
