Hello neighbor. We live off South Lamar and are sadly in the same boat. An East Austin ERA user got power back some time ago..most jealous I've been of someone in a long time. I hope it stuck for his sake and wasn't just a temporary recovery.
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Texas-Era, brace for the cold snap.
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Yeah im super nervous. We havent lost power yet but im just sitting here bracing myself for it.
The power situation is disastrous, and it likely won’t be fixed tonight
Millions of customers in the greater Houston region continue to experience some of our coldest weather in decades without the benefit of electricity to heat their homes. (Full disclosure, I am one …
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Another update from earlier today, with some detail on what happened last night that lead to the current situation.
So no power for most of us tonight. Hopefully no one else loses power.
I'm thankful for the intermittent power that the rolling blackouts give us, but they really need to just fix this shit. In the hour or so that the power is out the house drops 5 degrees and it's not even the coldest it will get yet. And that is if the power comes back. We have gone without power for hours at times today.
The way Texas handles it's power grid is fucking insane.
The way Texas handles it's power grid is fucking insane.
My son is in pajamas and asleep, my wife is freaking out that it's too cold. It's 60 in the house, he's fine right?
Yup, our place was often 65 at night growing up, fine with blankets.
As long as they're in warm pajamas, they should be good. Too young for a blanket, but you would be surprised how warm a thicker onesie will keep them
Yah we cannot do a blanket so it's just concerning. We don't have his baby monitor either, I doubt will sleep tonight.
Tried to go for a walk a few hours ago. Fell on my ass and stepped into an icey mud pool.
Shit's more dangerous than the time I went hiking in Canada last year lol
Shit's more dangerous than the time I went hiking in Canada last year lol
posting from my car to charge my phone.
debating draining my well, i was using heat tape to keep the pipes warm. and we covered the pipes for the pool that aree above ground but we might be fucked.
this was prophetic, we lost power about 5 minutes after is post. was hopin it was temporary, but its still out.
debating draining my well, i was using heat tape to keep the pipes warm. and we covered the pipes for the pool that aree above ground but we might be fucked.
my parents lost power in conroe in the middle of the night last night, they went to a hotel that apparently only just got power back before they got there
We turn our thermostat down to 61 every night (two kids under 7). 60 is nothing to be concerned about.
don't know if this was Texas but it got a laugh out of me:
stay safe Texas/Midwest Era!
That is funny.
Not as funny as my boss responding to my co-worker about his situation....
This happened at 1pm and we are all working from home
Co-Worker: I've had no power since 3am
Boss: The office has power, internet and heat
Boss: If it is possible, you can come by to the office.
Co-Worker: Sure, its right around the corner....
(Btw, boss was serious - not sarcasm. Dude literally drove to the office cause he loves to work in the office. He's a republican who complains about Biden all the time and recently saying that Biden's gonna take all our jobs away from us.)
When all the roads are closed and there's been so many damn accidents throughout the day, while its snowing and while the mayor and judge told everyone to stay home.
Also my co-worker lives 20 miles away from the office lol - fucked up.
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Still no power since 2am. While apartment complex is dark. I live near the NRG stadium in Houston. Rolling blackouts are supposed to roll not become permanent lol.
Have some friends who love near by about 4 miles away with power.
Showered with a bucket of ice cold water I saved and a cup when I came home from work (Texas Medical Center).
What a time to be alivehope power comes back soon here and for everyone else too, in sure many have it worse than I.
Have some friends who love near by about 4 miles away with power.
Showered with a bucket of ice cold water I saved and a cup when I came home from work (Texas Medical Center).
What a time to be alivehope power comes back soon here and for everyone else too, in sure many have it worse than I.
Reading through this thread has reminded me how places outside of where I live (Fucking Cold, Canada) either really struggle with cold weather or aren't equipped for it.
We just got off a week or two of -40 to -50 Celcius of weather and it was business as usual.
We just got off a week or two of -40 to -50 Celcius of weather and it was business as usual.
I don't even know what to say. Honestly feels like there was a massive failure here.
The mind plays crazy tricks with weather. 60 in the spring is open the windows and sleep in shorts with no covers weather. In the winter it is pile on 3 blankets weather. Same temperature, different mental state.
It's so great to have the power turn on twice in the past hour only to last for a span of 5 minutes.
San Antonio by the way.
San Antonio by the way.
According to poweroutage.us, 96% of Brazoria Country is without power. That's staggering.
(I live in Pearland)
(I live in Pearland)
We had power in east Plano for about 20 mins. Was enough to get my phone 1/3 charger and a few other things topped off. Hoping by EOD tomorrow capacity is a bit better but with another round of storms coming who knows.
Yea, it's not freezing cold in the Toronto area anymore, and it certainly didn't get -40 in the past week like some parts of Canada but we are getting 25+ CM of snow tonight and it's no big deal really.
I'm always amazed how some places can get completely wrecked by near freezing temps if they don't have systems set up to handle it....
Stay safe Texas
Just got power back after 20 hours without. We were still okay - it was only 50 inside the house according to the thermostat but I was really worried about tonight. I'm assuming rolling blackouts will pick back up soon.
If you're in Houston and haven't done this already, follow Center Point energy on Twitter for prompt updates and use their outage trackers
Went to a friends house that was like a 5 minute drive away because he has power. Seeing my neighborhood and the neighborhood across the street completely dark while the high school football stadium across the street is lit up like a god damn Christmas tree pissed me off. People are dealing with black ours for hours, but at least this stadium can have a really well lit empty parking lot! Fucking clown shit
Anyone's house/roof making tons of popping noises? Crazy. Guess it's thermal expansion but man, it's a lot.
There's no massive failing in planning. There was just cold the system was never built for. The all time demand record on ERCOT's books was broken because 2/3rds of Texans use electric heat. Normally this wouldn't be a problem on its own, you know, because ERCOT has seen those demands in August before, right? Except the 1/3 left using natural gas were drawing such ridiculous amounts to try and keep warm there wasn't enough left for natural gas power plants which further meant less electricity for 2/3 of the state.
It's not like someone thought "oh shit I think I'm going to turn off the state today". There literally wasn't enough energy in the state's system to be able to heat everything adequately. There also wasn't much anyone could do on the short notice that everyone had that negative degree literal arctic air was going to come flooding down from the north pole. Texas is wired for a safety margin on the hottest, most demanding day of the year. Being 50 degrees below normal in most of the state just fucking broke things.
My parents live through two weeks of no power during Sandy and flooding. I think everyone should have a bug out bag for natural disasters.
I hope everyone is staying safe and warm tonight. Hopefully tomorrow will bring us better luck regarding power outages!
Oh, and I made a quick little video/edit of the snow in my neighborhood :)
Oh, and I made a quick little video/edit of the snow in my neighborhood :)
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Sorry to hear that! Hope you got to the doctor alright!
I slipped and fell right in front of my apartment a few days ago and thought I was going to break something.