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Texas-Era, brace for the cold snap.
- Thread starter Ottaro
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They aren't even answering the phone. I left a message, but I'm probably not going to hear from them until later in the week.
I went out there in my usual shorts cuz they didn't say anything about long pants and I was freezing my ass off, smh
You probably have a lawsuit on your hands. They'll owe damages.
I'm only afraid of power loss at this point. My area's power is underground and it's mostly snow from here on so I'm hopeful. Still may have rolling power outages overnight, don't look forward to potentially going out and checking the pool pumps auto restarting but it could be worse. All my piping is in the slab foundation and inner walls.
Gonna check the pool soon. Thursday it was 49, Friday 45, late yesterday 43. Keep in mind the ground below it varies little over the year. Caves 80 feet down in central texas are nearly 76 all year round.
Gonna check the pool soon. Thursday it was 49, Friday 45, late yesterday 43. Keep in mind the ground below it varies little over the year. Caves 80 feet down in central texas are nearly 76 all year round.
I've got an electric oven and a fire place with about 7 blocks of firewood. Right now, it's not so bad, but I know that temps will lower significantly tonight and tomorrow. I'm sure we'll be fine.
They have a phone line for "maintenance emergencies" that I've been calling to no avail. The problem is that it's not a standard complex. It's a set of what they call "condos" with a central office where I pay rent and stuff. I'm not quite sure what to do about it, legally. It's not really their fault that it broke on a Sunday, right?
Nope it absolutely is. Read your laws. They are there for a reason. From what I can see if they don't fix within 24 hours they may be liable for 500 dollar in addition to 1 months rent.
Yeah, power's the only thing I'm really worried at all about. I can curl up in some blankets for a couple hours, but anything beyond that and I'll be looking to go somewhere, a friend's house or whatever. Which is dangerous in itself because of all the ice that's already on the road. I can't even walk on my driveway and the precipitation hasn't really started yet.
dang, why is it on so long? It's like -10 here and mine is on maybe 9 hours.
Wasn't able to get much good food from the grocery store (wanted to get a brisket and a pork belly to smoke), only secured some mac and cheese fixings. Ordering hella chinese food today that should be enough food for the next 4 or so days, then battening down the hatches until shit ain't frozen anymore
In Houston. Done wrapping my pipes. It's barely misting out now. Ready to get this started. Snow day, let's go Houston!
Got groceries yesterday and it was a madhouse in there. Hoping we can all just stay in the next 2 days and there are no serious power outages
The GFS model is showing around 8 inches of snow in my area (Cypress, NW-Houston Metro Area). If that actually happens, I'll be pretty happy. I've lived in area off and on since my family moved here from Iowa in '99, but luck would have it that I've never actually seen snow here. The few times it's happened I've either been away for college, in Iowa visiting family for Christmas, or living abroad.
The Euromodel is showing around 1-2, which seems a lot more likely.
Snow all over here in Ft Worth. Thankfully a lot of the roads near me are grooved out so driving isn't completely hectic. Had a harder time getting out of my parking space at home
Yeah. That sounds about right, but who knows? It's gonna be cold that's for damn sure.
So now I'm seeing warnings in the Houston area to NOT drip our faucets etc. unless the pipes are along outside facing walls, because if everyone drips all their water lines it will cause the city-wide water pressure to drop too much.
I'm guessing that would be a concern for fire fighting etc.
Any truth to this?
I'm guessing that would be a concern for fire fighting etc.
Any truth to this?
This guy is one of the 2 guys who runs Space City Weather, a website that's known pretty well around Houston for not hyping things up like a lot of meteorologists on TV tend to do.
Yep, just took my dog out for a walk before it really starts to come down.
Pflugerville burbs, thin layer of ice everywhere that I can see on the street. Watched a couple timmidly walk down the path to the mailbox + every other step looked like a potential slip. No thanks. Bunked up, lots of food, only really worried about the two external taps. They're covered + wrapped, and I put "fresh" rags on 'em just now. Not more I can do but keep the house warm + keep myself warm.
Wind seems to be picking up ahead of the big front moving in....
Wind seems to be picking up ahead of the big front moving in....
I had to break up all the ice. The pump has been running the entire time.
It's 24 right now here in San Antonio. It feels cold for sure, but my heater is going most of the day and I've got a towel under 2 of the exterior doors (I need to replace the weather stripping on them some time anyway).
I'm kind of glad I've spent time in San Angelo for college and lived in Chicago and Langley for a bit when I was younger, or this might be awful. The few benefits of being a military brat, I suppose.
I'm kind of glad I've spent time in San Angelo for college and lived in Chicago and Langley for a bit when I was younger, or this might be awful. The few benefits of being a military brat, I suppose.
Not moving ;) Just found it interesting they're trying to offload customers ahead of perceived/expected outages + Customer Service requests - everything will get routed through Oncor obviously, but they'll be the people getting called. Just interesting.