More electric, no water

[bill_schubert]

We're now about half the day/night with electric. No warning of course when it goes down but at least it is on long enough to bake pizza. I no longer turn on my PC. I'm too afraid of damaging it with the drops. But the phone is good. So far our natural gas is still on so we have heat when the electric comes on and the outside temp is rising.

Everything is dripping but ice is all over the place so it's dangerous to walk around. I slipped yesterday but no damage. There are people driving and my guess is that they want to more than have to. We are not driving. We're low on milk and eggs but aren't going to starve.

The only bad spot is they turned off the water once the util lost power and bacteria control. Really crappy infrastructure here. Investigations to follow. And price hikes, I'm sure. I'm melting snow for the toilet and Dana filled a bunch of pots to boil so we have tea and such. No washing for a couple of more days.

All in all, a pretty bad performance from a state that is so critical of how poorly everyone else does it. Turns out to be a thin veneer of solidity.

But tomorrow, Scarlett, is another day.

Comments

[maju01.livejournal.com]

Glad you're pretty much ok. The news from Texas has been dire.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing dangerous. Just annoyance.

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Doubtless Hawaii is even less well equipped to deal with a snow-and-ice assault. *shoves tongue through cheek* Texas can feel all smug and superior in comparison to her.

Glad you're all right, if not dancing in tall cotton.

Continue safe and well.

[anais-pf.livejournal.com]

The no water thing was shocking to me when I read it in the news. In more than two decades of living somewhere where the electricity goes out every few months, I have NEVER had the water get cut off, and I can only remember one time when they told us to boil our water before drinking it. You definitely have some crappy infrastructure there.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I've been reading on Reddit today about the political background behind this whole thing. Wow. What a mess. Sorry you and all the other Texans are at the rough end of this.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I hope it improves there ASAP

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I hope with the rising temps, things will be getting back to a more-normal state soon. And hopefully some infrastructure changes to prevent something like this from happening again, if I want to dream.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

We're slowly getting back and now we begin the investigations.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Same here. I can't remember ever being without water and it is really a shock to the organization. Such a habit to rinse something or automatically flush. We've been dipping water out of pots my wife was smart enough to fill before the shut it down, water we had boiled and cooled. I've been collecting snow to melt for the toilet. A shock to the system and we've been lucky. I have a friend not so far from me who lost electricity and water early on and has been warming by fireplace and somehow getting enough water for his family of four for 3 days.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

We're on the up side now. We had electricity all night and the water is slowly coming back although we'll be boiling for a week I suspect.