uwmcscott wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:39 pm
Stay warm! It was -20F raw and windchill of -45 when I left for my trip this AM. You can literally hear it when it's that cold as the snow squeaks under your feet. Today's high is projected to be -2F, but later in the week it's supposed to get up to the 20's which will be nice.
But what everyone wants to know is:
Did you get the second Covid-19 vaccine?
Indeed I did - and so far nothing out of the ordinary. I meant to report it back over in the thread regarding that but will go ahead and lay it out here. I couple of my co-workers that had their round 2 shots last week did report some chills/aches that were enough to keep them home from work for a day. Interestingly enough both of them said they felt fine all day and got the chills in the middle of the night.
Pfizer would be able to transport theirs in open air up here this AM! I believe theirs requires -10F or lower for long term storage/transport.
mickey wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:00 pm
Just a sore arm all day.....
I woke in the middle of the night feeling like death warmed over.
I am hoping that doesn't happen, but even if it does one night feeling crappy is better than the potential alternative.
I am also thinking I may need to get one of those snap-on or velcro-on grille covers for my truck. Driving 75 miles an hour when it's -20 doesn't add up to much coolant temp.
fatjack wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:17 pm
I just had a sore arm for 24 30 hours. Looks like this weather has a possible tornado headed in @mickey direction at just after 3 east coast.
I noticed that!
As of 2:30 local, the weather has passed on thru here.
Whatever happens now will happen east of here.
fatjack wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:17 pm
I just had a sore arm for 24 30 hours. Looks like this weather has a possible tornado headed in @mickey direction at just after 3 east coast.
We appear to have had a tornado come thru the western end of Panama City Beach today with several businesses damaged and several people injured.
Power came back about 12:30 AM here, after being down for 23 hours. Still wondering about burst pipes - I didn't shut off the water because I have heat tapes on the main, was dripping pipes, and thought we could weather the anticipated 45 minute brownouts. When power went off I thought about going out to shut off the water, but we had just finished having a huge hail storm.
Had several power stations unexpectedly go off the grid. Accusations are starting to circulate about why.
That's good news! I know with the outdoor cats I have had, they always seem to have some place they hunker down when the weather's bad. No idea where, but they always show up seemingly no worse for the wear...
peskypesky wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:32 pm
the feral cat was alive and well this morning. sitting and waiting for her breakfast like it was a nice, sunny day.
bleys21 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:53 pm
That's good news! I know with the outdoor cats I have had, they always seem to have some place they hunker down when the weather's bad. No idea where, but they always show up seemingly no worse for the wear...
I was sure the cold had gotten her. I didn't see her all day yesterday. Not for her morning feeding or her early evening feeding. And no tracks anywhere. Nothing. I walked around the are looking for any place she could be holed up and found nothing. Really don't know where she shelters.
It's freezing rain right now, so she can't be too happy...but I can rest assured she's ok.
peskypesky wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:32 pm
the feral cat was alive and well this morning. sitting and waiting for her breakfast like it was a nice, sunny day.
I am glad to hear that. She crossed my mind several times yesterday.
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I am about halfwAY between Houston and Galveston. It sucks ass here. Very third world. A total failure in leadership from top to bottom. The arrogant leadership in Texas did not want to be a part of the national energy grid. They did not want the fed oversight. They wanted to go it alone with their own grid and show the country how independent they are. So....here we have it. Brilliant.
I have not had power at my place in three days and it is 47 degrees inside. I was able to make it out by Tuesday morning and get to my sisters 11 miles away. They have electricity. but no water now. There are a bunch of displaced relatives here too. We are starting to see massive gasoline shortages and food shortages.
This is ridiculous. Those in charge should be embarrassed. It should have never gotten to this point.
Gergo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:56 pm
I am about halfwAY between Houston and Galveston. It sucks ass here. Very third world. A total failure in leadership from top to bottom. The arrogant leadership in Texas did not want to be a part of the national energy grid. They did not want the fed oversight. They wanted to go it alone with their own grid and show the country how independent they are. So....here we have it. Brilliant.
I have not had power at my place in three days and it is 47 degrees inside. I was able to make it out by Tuesday morning and get to my sisters 11 miles away. They have electricity. but no water now. There are a bunch of displaced relatives here too. We are starting to see massive gasoline shortages and food shortages.
This is ridiculous. Those in charge should be embarrassed. It should have never gotten to this point.
Multiple days without power is such a regular occurrence around here, everyone expects it and everyone is prepared to live through it. Week plus outages can happen once every 10-15 years give or take and most people are prepared for this as well. That’s life ON the federally regulated grid with higher costs than in Texas.
The fact that this is such a big deal and no one was prepared tells me Texas must have been doing a MUCH better job with power reliability until this event. Be careful what you wish for, and more importantly, be prepared to rely on your self for a couple of weeks.
I'm originally from Houston and all my family is there. We own a few rental properties there in the north/northwest areas. Two of them got hit with broken pipes.
We will likely move back there from California after we've cashed our career chips in. I'll do like my family and install a backup generator, some solar for backup batteries and pipe/repipe the house with pex and/or thorough insulation. And wood burning fireplace! If we build from the ground up it's a lot easier.
Gergo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:56 pm
I am about halfwAY between Houston and Galveston. It sucks ass here. Very third world. A total failure in leadership from top to bottom. The arrogant leadership in Texas did not want to be a part of the national energy grid. They did not want the fed oversight. They wanted to go it alone with their own grid and show the country how independent they are. So....here we have it. Brilliant.
I have not had power at my place in three days and it is 47 degrees inside. I was able to make it out by Tuesday morning and get to my sisters 11 miles away. They have electricity. but no water now. There are a bunch of displaced relatives here too. We are starting to see massive gasoline shortages and food shortages.
This is ridiculous. Those in charge should be embarrassed. It should have never gotten to this point.
Multiple days without power is such a regular occurrence around here, everyone expects it and everyone is prepared to live through it. Week plus outages can happen once every 10-15 years give or take and most people are prepared for this as well. That’s life ON the federally regulated grid with higher costs than in Texas.
The fact that this is such a big deal and no one was prepared tells me Texas must have been doing a MUCH better job with power reliability until this event. Be careful what you wish for, and more importantly, be prepared to rely on your self for a couple of weeks.
Dude, I just moved from Nevada, and Utah before that. While not stellar, the energy reliability was much better out there. The power goes out on a regular basis here both at my place and at my sisters. That tells me that the grid here sucks-ass. My power here is MORE expensive than it was in Nevada as well. Not less. A power outage for a week+ is inexcusable anywhere and would be unheard of in a place like Sweden (where I lived for 10 years)where their govt has actually used tax dollars to keep their infrastructure as updated as they can. Same goes for many other first world countries. The infrastructure in this country is outdated and as a result almost third world level, and so far Texas has proven to be the worst place I have lived in this country.
Chocol8 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:04 am
Multiple days without power is such a regular occurrence around here, everyone expects it and everyone is prepared to live through it.
Where exactly do you live? I have lived and been to a lot of different places in the US and I cannot think of one where multiple day power outages are expected and accepted. I have lived in some very rural areas of Wisconsin were power outages were common, but not multi-day events.
What is happening in Texas right now is unfortunate, but it was a perfect storm ( literally ) of events happening at once that led to it, and once again the blame game/spin cycle has begun - and that part of it should have been 100% predictable.
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bleys21 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:53 pm
That's good news! I know with the outdoor cats I have had, they always seem to have some place they hunker down when the weather's bad. No idea where, but they always show up seemingly no worse for the wear...
I was sure the cold had gotten her. I didn't see her all day yesterday. Not for her morning feeding or her early evening feeding. And no tracks anywhere. Nothing. I walked around the are looking for any place she could be holed up and found nothing. Really don't know where she shelters.
It's freezing rain right now, so she can't be too happy...but I can rest assured she's ok.
You may just be this cats side hustle. At the least maybe a neighboors garage next to a water heater and the owner doesn't even know it.
uwmcscott wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:58 pm
Where exactly do you live? I have lived and been to a lot of different places in the US and I cannot think of one where multiple day power outages are expected and accepted.
WNY. Between ice storms and wind storms, you can expect a major outage every few years. The last time we had a major outage where people were out for a week was a windstorm about 5 years ago that snapped power poles across the county. In the last 30 years there were two ice storms where people were without power for up to two weeks or more. Lesser storms where people are only down for 1-3 days are more common. My parents were down for three days just two years ago. My power was only out for a day from that one. Shit happens, and the cost of burying all the power lines is more than people will want to absorb on their electric bills, so we deal with it.
Not to give any anybody's state, or local government a free pass on accountability, but weather events can take anybody out, even if you live in an area that expects and plans for harsh weather. When I lived in Massachusetts, back a few years ago, we got hit with a brutal ice storm. New Hampshire got the worst of it, and there were parts that were without power for 2-3 weeks... And this was New Hampshire. I don't think there's any way Texas could have anticipated, or prepared for a snow storm of that magnitude.
But @Gergo is right... our grid system is a run-down disgrace, without anything close to an adequate back-up system in place. If we get hit with an EMP, or another Carrington-level solar storm, we'll be living in the 19th century again, and we'll be waiting decades rather than days for the power to come back on.
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