Hey Rocky and Qship , y'all need to come down here and get your weather, it's drunk and creating issues. 
To say it has been cold would be an understatement, well at least by our standards it would be. -11.6C is only about 50C less than we are use to. Okay, that's not completely correct, this time of year we would normally be at 14 to 21C with a few days/nights down near 0C but not many of them. So when can I expect y'all to recall your weather?
Well it did get up to right at 14C today so maybe the drunk has backed off a little.
We all made it through with no issues here at my place. My oldest son and D-I-L came up with their dogs due to them losing their electrical power, dang light company and ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas). I live and worked one of the areas that is not within the ERCOT region and we never loss power. I did notice yesterday that they did lose one of the units at the plant but were in start-up on it. The company also had just finished a new (second) plant on some of the property with the old one in the last quarter of 2020 and it was up and running. The new plant puts out twice what we were able to produce. There was a few areas without power but it was due to transmission issues not from supply issues.
Now that things have been warming up some of the neighbors have been finding issues over the past three days. Three houses near mine did have a water problems, i had the main feed freeze near the meter at the street, one had a valve on the yard sprinkler system freeze and crack, and one house lost the ceiling in their laundry room.
I was on the radio talking with a plumber about the issues. The biggest issue is suppliers are out of fittings, pipe and faucets. The plumber said he usually hits the suppliers on Monday mornings for jobs he has schedule through the week plus replenish any supplies used for emergency work over the weekend. He said he got home Friday night ( Feb 12th), had supper and was relaxing knowing the calls would start coming in Saturday morning. His phone started ringing shortly after he sat down following supper and as of yesterday morning he has been going almost non-stop. When he was finally able to make it to the supply house Monday, it was wiped out of everything. He then went to the "Big Box" stores and they were sold out too. He ended up going to two auto parts stores and buying all the heater hose and clamps they had so he could bypass some of the breaks to get water to his customers.
We've been hearing folks not from around here asking where the National Guard and FEMA are and why aren't they in Texas. We are saying stay the hell away, we know what it's like when they get involved and we can have this taken care of without them getting in the way. It was Texans and the Cajun Navy that got things done during Hurricane Harvey and then the government came in afterwards and screwed things up with all their red tape.
Kim has lived here her whole life (our home is about 6, maybe 7 miles from the house she grew up in) and can not remember seeing snow like we just experienced. I've seen it before but it was probably 47 years ago and then on a business trip experienced one day of it driving back home. I've got a few photos I'll try to get off my camera that while not spectacular as compared to the northern reaches but for around here they are. Until then here's my drive Monday to run over toward my Mom's place but she called and said don't come over, she was fine and for me not to get out on the roads. I didn't tell her I was half a block away.
Cell phone videos from my truck
Oh, I'm also marking Alaska off my bucket list.
To say it has been cold would be an understatement, well at least by our standards it would be. -11.6C is only about 50C less than we are use to. Okay, that's not completely correct, this time of year we would normally be at 14 to 21C with a few days/nights down near 0C but not many of them. So when can I expect y'all to recall your weather?
Well it did get up to right at 14C today so maybe the drunk has backed off a little.We all made it through with no issues here at my place. My oldest son and D-I-L came up with their dogs due to them losing their electrical power, dang light company and ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas). I live and worked one of the areas that is not within the ERCOT region and we never loss power. I did notice yesterday that they did lose one of the units at the plant but were in start-up on it. The company also had just finished a new (second) plant on some of the property with the old one in the last quarter of 2020 and it was up and running. The new plant puts out twice what we were able to produce. There was a few areas without power but it was due to transmission issues not from supply issues.
Now that things have been warming up some of the neighbors have been finding issues over the past three days. Three houses near mine did have a water problems, i had the main feed freeze near the meter at the street, one had a valve on the yard sprinkler system freeze and crack, and one house lost the ceiling in their laundry room.
I was on the radio talking with a plumber about the issues. The biggest issue is suppliers are out of fittings, pipe and faucets. The plumber said he usually hits the suppliers on Monday mornings for jobs he has schedule through the week plus replenish any supplies used for emergency work over the weekend. He said he got home Friday night ( Feb 12th), had supper and was relaxing knowing the calls would start coming in Saturday morning. His phone started ringing shortly after he sat down following supper and as of yesterday morning he has been going almost non-stop. When he was finally able to make it to the supply house Monday, it was wiped out of everything. He then went to the "Big Box" stores and they were sold out too. He ended up going to two auto parts stores and buying all the heater hose and clamps they had so he could bypass some of the breaks to get water to his customers.
We've been hearing folks not from around here asking where the National Guard and FEMA are and why aren't they in Texas. We are saying stay the hell away, we know what it's like when they get involved and we can have this taken care of without them getting in the way. It was Texans and the Cajun Navy that got things done during Hurricane Harvey and then the government came in afterwards and screwed things up with all their red tape.
Kim has lived here her whole life (our home is about 6, maybe 7 miles from the house she grew up in) and can not remember seeing snow like we just experienced. I've seen it before but it was probably 47 years ago and then on a business trip experienced one day of it driving back home. I've got a few photos I'll try to get off my camera that while not spectacular as compared to the northern reaches but for around here they are. Until then here's my drive Monday to run over toward my Mom's place but she called and said don't come over, she was fine and for me not to get out on the roads. I didn't tell her I was half a block away.
Cell phone videos from my truck
Oh, I'm also marking Alaska off my bucket list.
happens , no one was drafted and send to some 
