“Texas Takes Care of Texas”
When I read the title I was wishing for the story to be about the hanging of the energy czars and the EPA cronies involved.
Me too. I had visions of ERCOT members being hauled off in handcuffs...
I took some of the thawed meat in my freezer to a friend, she can make use of it. A neighbor let me get a couple of jugs of water, saved me a 15 mile drive to an artesian well, when all I need is something to flush the toilet. I can get that from the lake if I have to. Drinking/cooking water is covered.
On my way to try and find pvc fittings later this morning, one I need was not in stock yesterday. That means another 50 mile round trip. For a part that costs about $1.59. Already spent over 20 bucks on parts and glue.
Heard about someone here helping people, two guys in a pickup truck, but don’t know any details, just that they are not taking people to the cleaners and gouging them for parts prices. Most of the neighbors here will help out any time.
While it was still frozen over a friend’s daughter came to check on me, I’ve known her since she was about 7 or 8. Mid 30’s now and 2 kids. She found out I was using the car to keep tbd cell phone charged, and was down to quarter tank of gas, gave me a full 2 1/2 gallon gas can. I refilled it a couple of days later and returned it. I didn’t ask, she just grabbed it out of the truck and said take it.
There are people who go out of their way to help in an emergency. We’ve had a half dozen tornadoes here, I can relate “good samaritan” stories from every time. People just throw the chainsaw and some gas in the truck and come out to cut everything out of the roads, nobody ever has to ask. One guy went back home and brought his tractor 3/4 mile back here to drag a tree trunk out of the road, while 2 other neighbors cut it up with chainsaws. I heard the 1st saw crank up when I walked out front to see what was blocking the road...4 vehicles stopped out front, that’s extremely unusual. I had been checking out back, more trees out there but none down. Glanced over the house, both trees in front still standing, never thought about a big oak from across the street...lightning hit it, split it a dozen feet down tbe middle, it broke off about 3 feet up and fell across the road. Over 2 feet in diameter. Nobody asked the guy to get a tractor, we were going to cut it into chunks we could handle. I was dragging limbs while they cut, here comes a tractor...HUH???
I know I heard the lightning, it was 100 feet from my front door. One of the ones where you hear and see it at the same time and it shakes the house...yep, that was close...freakin loud too. And of course, I was listening to that “train in the room” sound, so I knew a tornado was way too close...
I don’t like that sound...
Unfortunately the carpetbaggers on the ERCOT board all resigned, grabbed their Texas stash, and returned to Yankee-land. Hopefully that action will not protect them from prosecution and/or lawsuits. The Lord only knows how much payola went into the pockets of that board to get them to push wind/solar so much. It was criminal.