Posted on 02/18/2021 9:45:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Things are really real down in Texas rn.
Here's just a sample. Too many to post see link for many more:
A buddy of mine in Woodburn had a tree come down on the powerlines 4 days ago, still no juice. The ice storm hit the Willamette valley pretty hard.
do you have wood heat?
Lol. Was so amazed at my boss this am. A Texan. Oh. The roads are fine. Get in to work
I have WiFi and can do everything from home.
I imagine so many people I the same boat. Bosses thinking they can control the weather.
“Sows pouring down”
See. Pigs can’t fly.
I know pigs can’t fly
Snow is pouring down.
Snow
A relative lives in San Antonio. First it was no power, and it continues that way in their neighborhood.
And now they have no running water. I read some news reports that said the water department said no one was without water, just low pressure, but all the homes in their neighborhood have been without water since yesterday. I also glanced upon a notice of “boil your water” on the San Antonio site reporting the water issues.
Evidently the San Antonio water system has some inherent problems. It’s snowing again now, and they had expected a light snowfall, but evidently it’s really coming down and now they’re estimating much higher levels of snowfall.
Snow = water........................
“Texas rn?” I just love spur-of-the-moment acronyms. They make reading such a pleasure. I propose that we write with nothing but acronyms for now on. And why not in lower case? It’s all the rage.
siof ne klamod oadf lkadmeo adsm.
LOL...I mentioned that. They have enough stored up, as they filled up buckets before it started. But you’d have to melt a lot of snow to flush toilets.
During a hurricane, we never worry about storing drinking water. We keep 19,000 gallons of water in our backyard if the water is shut off :)
A bathtub with frozen water was shown on one of the Austin, TX evening news a couple days ago.
It’d be awful after walking 4 miles through the ice only to find empty shelves at the grocery store. Guessing they had working phones or internet. We didn’t.
Maybe the wind is blowing it.
Or some poor wind turbine has fostered an illegitimate fan.
More meat in the freezer.
I have a Subie Outback with Altimax Arctic 12 tires. IF that sleet layer is not solid enough to walk on or has been crunched through by much larger traffic, the Outback would go up a moderate incline. That assumes no 12” or deeper drifts. Steeper would need the studs these tires can take. Steeper yet, well, then chains would be needed.
If that sleet layer is solid enough to walk on top of, and nothing with real brute force comes along to break it up, the Outback waits for a melt. ;-)
We got ice a few days before the snow. After the roads were mostly cleared, we made a run to town. I found a large empty parking lot still iced over — the surface was not glass smooth, but walking in “hikers” type shoes required care. Ditto for driving: It was easy to deliberately do low speed “donuts” and slides, but with cautious low speed driving, slippage was manageable. I’d guess any incline over 5 deg. would be “impossible” without studs or chains.
Many of those wind turbines are China owned.
We were not prepared for this. Monday night it was 8 above here. No power or heat for about 24 hours. Last time we got this cold for so long was 1989 and since then a lot of transplants have moved here.
The picture of I-35 in Austin is unbelievable.
Looks like Kansas.
pictures
Wood heat and a standby generator has gotten us through the worst here. We also re-did all of our plumbing in PEX. Cost us about $3K, but it was worth it. We get cold enough here to have to bury our water lines 4 feet deep to be comfortably under the frost line.
The sun is breaking through and we are starting to see some melting. But tonight will be down to 13 so more black ice.
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