Another way to keep warm is to get inside a sleeping bag. If you have those warmers put 1-2 inside and be nice and warm.
THIS is Texas? 6º F
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You should see the Ca drivers in snow. Heck even a small sprinkle ruins a morning commute! Here in the desert we have plows that the cities use to scrape the sand off the streets. Those work for snow too! Problem is the ice here. All the small bridges get icy then the wrecks close the streets at the bridges.
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Yeah … been to many countries in the winter and there will always be a few “bulletproof “ knuckleheads messing things up for others …
There is a lot of stuff going on right now. ( I still have lots of friends in Texas, so I am interested. ) The Federal State of Emergency was approved, I understand. ABC pointed out its the coldest February in Houston in 122 years. Also, it won’t get above freezing today in Houston. Governor Abbott is asking for folks to conserve energy as the power system is near maximum capacity. Incredible.
So do Texas homes only have electric heat since it'll only come on in an emergency?
Make sure your drains don't ice over, either. Hate to leave a faucet dribbling overnight and flood out your house.
Don't do something stupid with a ventless heater that leaves you dead with CO poisoning, either.
Make sure your drains don't ice over, either. Hate to leave a faucet dribbling overnight and flood out your house.
Don't do something stupid with a ventless heater that leaves you dead with CO poisoning, either.
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Demand crossed capacity.
They started rotating outages to bring demand below capacity. Wind output is at 4,000MW of 30,000MW or ~13%.
Wow. Let us know how it looks at noon!
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The only “snow plows” here are made by Case or CAT …
Depends where you live in Texas. Gas furnaces are more common in South Texas North Texas it’s a bit mixed, more electric for sure.
Rural areas are mostly electric due to natural gas pipeline mapping.
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Some places wound up all electric because spec house contractors wanted to build them that way.
Our electric utility up here is recommending you get rid of your gas stove and go electric. Sheesh.
We are near San Antonio, have had rolling blackouts since 2am every hour or so for 15 minutes.
Had some frozen pipes but managed to keep everything dripping so now its flowing freely.
We have 5 inches of snow on the ground here and its 7 degrees.
Nobody is going anywhere.
We have a gas furnace and gas range we will be fine.
Furnace still has electric blower so the heat goes off when they cut the power but I can keep my house over 60 degrees so we are good.
Had some frozen pipes but managed to keep everything dripping so now its flowing freely.
We have 5 inches of snow on the ground here and its 7 degrees.
Nobody is going anywhere.
We have a gas furnace and gas range we will be fine.
Furnace still has electric blower so the heat goes off when they cut the power but I can keep my house over 60 degrees so we are good.
I have gas appliances in my house. I was quite happy when we had an extended power outage and I was still able to cook and take a hot shower! I also boiled a few pots of water to get some heat and moisture into the air to warm the house up a bit. Worked out pretty well.
Mine is a gas furnace but it requires electricity to fire off and operate the blower. No help at all without power.
At least you could wire in a generator if you thought it is going to reoccur in the future.
That's the new green narritive. Great in theory.
I might put in an auxiliary coal furnace for backup heat. I've got room for tons of coal in my crawl space.
I was mostly wondering about its impact on the electric grid, resistive heating takes a lot.
First time for this in 30+ years so I'll pass on the generator. Our normal temps for this time of year are around 60º F (15C). Come August when it's 102º F (39C) I'll look back at these pictures in disbelief
.Two Sundays ago it was 69º F !!!
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