Damn, so it's worse than the media is letting on. I haven't read a single source saying some people had no water.
I haven't had water all day. We have reserves so we're ok, but nothing is coming out of the pipes. I'm semirural pineywoods
hope your situation gets better soon.
The entire city of Abilene is without water. Whole swaths of areas of Houston and Burbs in Austin have no water. I got out and about yesterday just to see what I could see. Grocery stores operating under reduced hours and denuded stocks with lines of folks wrapped around the building like a Bulgarian Bread Line circa '72. The thin veneer of civilization has frozen and cracked like an uninsulated water main. More frozen storms headed in tonight and tomorrow.
Wow, that really, really sucks.
It's a big ol' Texas Sized Frozen Turdcicle.
This has really given me some experience to draw on to be prepared better in the future. I don't know how bad this will get. There's no indication it won't last another week, or weeks.
Dad has a friend in Austin and they didn't/don't have water either.
Texas doesn't entirely have it's own grid either. I'm from ND and they're taking towns off line here so Texas can have power. It's only -6 here so I can see why Texas needs it more thou.
Damn are you serious? If i had my power off for a Texan, I'd be pissed.
we had scheduled rolling blackouts here too... total bullshit, but at least we still have water, and the power came on after a couple hours
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