It's about 5:15 am as I'm writing this. The winter weather that's made it to southeast Texas has left many people without power, including several
relatives if mine.

Windmills in windfarms are frozen, so unable to generate power.

So far, I've been lucky in that matter. However, as it is currently 14F, we have no water. Our trailer park in on a community well, so I'm not sure where the problem is as of yet. I don't believe my pipes have problems, but if anyone along the line from the well does, or if the well itself does. We're pretty much screwed.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

This part of the US really isn't made for this weather.

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Hello Barmed!

** On Tuesday 16.02.21 - 05:24, Barmed wrote to All:

Windmills in windfarms are frozen, so unable to generate power.

THAT's interesting! I guess those units are not sealed against
moisture as well as they could be.

So far, I've been lucky in that matter. However, as it is currently 14F, we have no water. Our trailer park in on a community well, so I'm not sure where the problem is as of yet. I don't believe my pipes have problems, but if anyone along the line from the well does, or if the well itself does. We're pretty much screwed.

14F is balmy! It's 8F in my little domain in the Great White
north at this time

Water, or rather lack of supply or access to it is usually the
biggest concern.

An extra foot of snow ontop of the pre-existing foot of it
accumulated during Sunday and overnight. Not looking forward to
digging out the truck.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

It is a shame to use "good" bottled/drinking water for flushing.

This part of the US really isn't made for this weather.

Hope the emergency systems/protocols/resources will kick in and
that the important things will be restored in a few hours.

Hang in there!

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On 16 Feb 2021, Barmed said the following...

It's about 5:15 am as I'm writing this. The winter weather that's made
it to southeast Texas has left many people without power, including several relatives if mine.

Same here in the central Texas area.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

We are short on cooking water, but have been going outside to gather snow and ice to melt, and we use that to flush the toilets.

Jeff.

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On 16 Feb 2021, Jeff said the following...

it to southeast Texas has left many people without power, including several relatives if mine.

Same here in the central Texas area.

My cousinps family got power back about 2 hours ago after about 38 hours.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

We are short on cooking water, but have been going outside to gather
snow and ice to melt, and we use that to flush the toilets.

I had just bought 5 cases of bottled drinking water that was on sale, so that was lucky.

I have about 10 5 gallon water jugs I collect rain water in, usually for hurricane season. Usually this time of year they'd be empty, so I got lucky.
It turns out that the main line for the well iced up in a spot or two. It's cleared up, but the pressure when it released cracked a coupling by my house, which I just repaired, assuming the pvc glue bonds in thus weather. So in
about an hour, the valve at the well gets opened back up, and hopefullt we have water again.

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On 16 Feb 2021, Barmed said the following...

My cousinps family got power back about 2 hours ago after about 38 hours.

Wow, we have been extremely lucky and have only lost powere for a few hours a couple of days ago. We do have a gas fireplace, if it comes to that, and a hand-cranked USB charger (first-world problems, I know).

I had just bought 5 cases of bottled drinking water that was on sale, so that was lucky.

We are a little better off now. Our neighbor's brother has running water, so
he took our ice chest and filled it up for us when he went to get more for himself.

I have about 10 5 gallon water jugs I collect rain water in, usually for hurricane season. Usually this time of year they'd be empty, so I got lucky. It turns out that the main line for the well iced up in a spot or two. It's cleared up, but the pressure when it released cracked a coupling by my house, which I just repaired, assuming the pvc glue bonds in thus weather. So in about an hour, the valve at the well gets
opened back up, and hopefullt we have water again.

We have a few Home Depot buckets that we've been putting the ice and snow in, but I wouldn't drink that unless it was an emergency. For the time being,
we're drinking seltzer water (and well, alcohol, because hey). I hope you get water and stay warm!

Jeff.

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WOW! I'm in northwest Tennessee and we don't get this often, but
sometimes we do. But I bet you never get it at all!

Barmed wrote to All <=-

It's about 5:15 am as I'm writing this. The winter weather that's made
it to southeast Texas has left many people without power, including several relatives if mine.

Windmills in windfarms are frozen, so unable to generate power.

So far, I've been lucky in that matter. However, as it is currently
14F, we have no water. Our trailer park in on a community well, so I'm
not sure where the problem is as of yet. I don't believe my pipes have problems, but if anyone along the line from the well does, or if the
well itself does. We're pretty much screwed.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

This part of the US really isn't made for this weather.

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On 16 Feb 2021, Ogg said the following...

Windmills in windfarms are frozen, so unable to generate power.

THAT's interesting! I guess those units are not sealed against
moisture as well as they could be.

Likely. And I've read Solar panels are covered in ice and snow, so not
working well either. It's ridiculous.

14F is balmy! It's 8F in my little domain in the Great White
north at this time

Water, or rather lack of supply or access to it is usually the
biggest concern.

An extra foot of snow ontop of the pre-existing foot of it
accumulated during Sunday and overnight. Not looking forward to
digging out the truck.

I've lived here since I was 6. But we moved here from Kansas, and I spent a lot of time there over the years visiting family. And My time in the Army included Germany and Middke East nights. So personally, cold weather and snow I can tolerate. Going from spring/ early summer weather quickly like we did
has my sinuses rioting, but that's not new.

My wife, on the other hand, is a beautiful Southern woman. She grew up in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, along the Gulf Coast. She is not a
fan of cold. That actually was a reason that I turned down an opportunity years ago to manage a warehouse at a company I worked for, as it was near Edmonton, Alberta.

My main concer with this weather is my father. He just had surgery and biopsies for cancer.

Luckily I have plenty of bottled water, so toilets can be flushrd and cooking can be done.

It is a shame to use "good" bottled/drinking water for flushing.

the flushing bottles are reclaimed rain water. I keep those, as hurricane season does have it's share of power outages, which means the well pump
doesn't work.

I actually lost power for about 12 hours while I was writung this.

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