Frickin’ Baytown got power back before dark yesterday - lucky dogs. Baytown, I didn’t expect much damage except in the usual low-lying neighborhoods that go under water at every rainstorm. Baytown is just to my east and north.
San Leon is directly on the bay, south of me by about 20 or less miles maybe. Anything right on the water surely got hit bad as would be obvious.
Yes, they banned my ghost. Discrimination I tell ya! Ghostaphobes!
We only had about 2 people leave our block for the storm. My neighbors across the street were already out of town so they just stayed gone. We found out they have a hard wired generator to natural gas that kicked on as soon as the power went off. We are going to price one of those :-) as the main gripe around here was no a/c and possible loss of food. We have over 200# of deer meat in the big freezer. I also have about 30# of jumbo gulf shrimp in the freezer that was going to get cooked in the propane cooker today if the power didn’t come back on.
I don’t know about weathering any storm but this one was not too bad other than the winds.
I’ve heard good things about those gas generators. I’ve priced them, but with flood risk (coastal dweller) here have not made the investment. We have solar hot water, and solar PV panels on the roof with battery bank and multiple outlets to run small appliances.
Sounds to me that you don’t need to get a generator like your neighbors... just a heavy, looooong extension cord.
Yeah...we don’t have storms that often but we do loose electricity at least once a month. Replacing everything in my deep freeze would pay almost half of a smaller one.