Yikes! Hope you have adequate supplies to stay safe, warm, and fed until it's restored!

The power just came back for the first time in legitimately 23 hours. We had no time to prepare for power outage so we had next to nothing that was just easy to snack on. I am pissed off at the power company and, because they power the water treatment plant, we are now facing potential water shortage.

Well, good that it's back on, but it's bad that there was no warning! I sure hope they had generators for the water-treatment plant, there's no excuse not to when it's a necessary service like that!

They did not, that I am aware of. Most of the time, this whole thing would be fine. A lot of our power comes from solar and wind turbines. It has been cloudy as hell and the single digit weather froze the wind turbines, dropped us by a good 50% of our electric generation.

It has been once-in-a-century levels of cold in Texas, so people were trying to heat their homes. Caused a lot of pull on the grid. They tried to ease the stress on the grid by implementing rolling blackouts, but when they went to turn on the sections, they blew a shitton of transformers.

Oh ouch, that'd do it!

Dang, that'll really delay getting power back on! Methinks they didn't consider (or understand? Scary thought...) how the stress would *spike* when those sections were turned back on. 0.o

I dunno man but I am cold and being a people is hard right now. Food and warmth time

Good plan, go have some time to relax, warm up, and de-stress after all that! <3

It isn't over just yet- power went out again but we need sleep. So, good night, and thank you for chatting with me.

Aw crap, but not terribly surprising. G'night, rest well I hope, and it was my pleasure! ^-^