Yesterday, after lunch out, we stopped at the grocery store... the place was packed! Full of winter Texans who were "stocking up" for this "winter event."
We were up early this morning, when the alarm went off. Alarm? We have no schedule, why is an alarm going off? It was the back-up battery for the desktop computer... the power is out! It's 39ยบ, the wind is gusting above 30 mph, and we have no heat. No idea how long the power will be out, but we do have a generator, and the boat is just a few steps away, with the Wallas heater on there (that can run off the boat's batteries). Goodness, this is like the olden days when we lived in Boulder Canyon in the Black Hills, and the power would go out when we'd have a blizzard... well, except it isn't below ZERO here and there's no blizzard. Oh, and we don't have a wood burning stove here, either.
But, I digress... I looked out the windows, it will be light soon, but there are no lights on anywhere around us, so we know it isn't just us. Joan turned on our small battery TV and caught the last few seconds of a news story talking about the power outage in the area. Well, the laptop battery is good for about 8 hours, the Mifi card can go about 4 hours... and then society as we know it will begin to break down. ;-)
The big story on the national news: the winter weather that is affecting most of the country. Yep.
On edit: Rolling black outs around the state. Power lines are down in the northern part of the state and energy use is WAY up.
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