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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
You're almost there...sending warm thoughts -as I wonder when or if our turn will come? It's not supposed to be THIS cold in the south. Like we needed half the country to fall into the deep freeze while everyone's battling COVID too, & trying to get vaccines done.
Better yet why is half the city in the dark whilst downtown looks like Christmas?
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Kam
Better yet why is half the city in the dark whilst downtown looks like Christmas?
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That stinks! Very good question- but sometimes restoring power depends on factors not obvious to those waiting. I don't know how much of an issue ice is there, but when I went thru a severe ice storm years back, restorations were faster when they didn't have to clear trees to get to lines that were down. (Big selling point for underground utilities.) This is a whole different kind of outage, & I don't know enough about the power grid to speculate what's going on there, but from what they've said so far, it doesn't make any sense.
Last edited by Bogertophis; 02-16-2021 at 01:18 AM.
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
That stinks! Very good question- but sometimes restoring power depends on factors not obvious to those waiting. I don't know how much of an issue ice is there, but when I went thru a severe ice storm years back, restorations were faster when they didn't have to clear trees to get to lines that were down. (Big selling point for underground utilities.) This is a whole different kind of outage, & I don't know enough about the power grid to speculate what's going on there, but from what they've said so far, it doesn't make any sense.
There isn’t a legit explanation to know of this. I have a friend who lives close to the airport he didn’t loose power? Why because he is on the airport grid. Which directly around the corner from me.
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Kam
There isn’t a legit explanation to know of this. I have a friend who lives close to the airport he didn’t loose power? Why because he is on the airport grid. Which directly around the corner from me.
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Has their power been on all evening? Maybe they're just restoring part to test before going all the way on & risking a crash? I dunno, just guessing. Miserable to be waiting & seeing power on elsewhere though. Is the airport open & functioning at all?
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
Has their power been on all evening? Maybe they're just restoring part to test before going all the way on & risking a crash? I dunno, just guessing. Miserable to be waiting & seeing power on elsewhere though. Is the airport open & functioning at all?
We had power for two hours. The I haven’t heard any planes since Friday. It is the same with people who live by hospitals as well. I’m finally crawling in bed. Still now power.
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So sorry...hang in there. I hate waiting for power to come back on- it's the worst.
Wish I'd thought to buy a house near the hospital...but with my luck, I'd be on the wrong side of the street anyway.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
So sorry...hang in there. I hate waiting for power to come back on- it's the worst.
Wish I'd thought to buy a house near the hospital...but with my luck, I'd be on the wrong side of the street anyway.
You and me both.
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I’m in Austin, TX. Power went out for the first time yesterday at 2 am. I got a text saying they were doing planned outages that would last an hour. Went to bed. When I woke up at 8 am, the power was out, but it wasn’t cold in my house. Power came back on around noon for 30 minutes. Decided I wouldn’t move my animals unless it didn’t come back on before I went to bed. Luckily it came on at 7 pm until it just shut off now.
Without power for about 7 hours at the worst, and the house didn’t drop below 60-65, enclosures didn’t drop below 70-75. Luckily, I have a gas stove, in case I need to boil water. But with my animals being in a segregated room that has held temp pretty well, I’m probably not going to move them unless power doesn’t come back on for 12+ hours, I’m hoping.
edit: powers back!
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Originally Posted by wnateg
I’m in Austin, TX. Power went out for the first time yesterday at 2 am. I got a text saying they were doing planned outages that would last an hour. Went to bed. When I woke up at 8 am, the power was out, but it wasn’t cold in my house. Power came back on around noon for 30 minutes. Decided I wouldn’t move my animals unless it didn’t come back on before I went to bed. Luckily it came on at 7 pm until it just shut off now.
Without power for about 7 hours at the worst, and the house didn’t drop below 60-65, enclosures didn’t drop below 70-75. Luckily, I have a gas stove, in case I need to boil water. But with my animals being in a segregated room that has held temp pretty well, I’m probably not going to move them unless power doesn’t come back on for 12+ hours, I’m hoping.
edit: powers back!
I still have no power here Dallas.
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Re: Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?
Finally we have power. Now for how long? I don’t know. However I will thaw out and check on the rest of the house.
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