So why do they have water? And when you say "they," do you mean she's got a husband? Why is your guy pulling all the weight?
President Biden has a fireplace in the Oval Office. He even sometimes puts a log on the fire himself!!!
It's always been that way; people and especially his family take advantage. They have water because they are on a well, so when power was restored, so was their water. My husband came home to pick up some beef stew I made to take a plate to his mother, then he will come home and eat, then go back to his sister's. He said the plumbing access is tight at their house and he is lanky; my brother-in-law is not lanky.
Texas has it's own electrical grid because back when it was first created, keeping it within the state's borders allowed them to avoid Federal regulations.
I have been wanting to get a whole-house generator since 2008, when Hurricane Ike left us without power for 2 freakin' weeks. This episode has finally convinced my husband and we are getting one installed this spring.
@Beth Gallagher Now yer talkin' along my experiences! In Missouri Ozarks, some years ago, our power was out day after day, third day I worried about the food in the fridge, it was up to over 50 degrees, put as much as possible in the freezer, which was up in the 20s. Drove in to Rolla, 56 miles, bought a 4500 watt generator from Lowe's. We needed it for fridge, freezer, and well-pump mainly. Beyond that, I had to parcel use out: water heater alone pulled 4000 watts, but I got it hot enough to take my shower. Lighting in the house amounted to almost nothing. I set the generator up in the back yard, hooked it's output into a 220 volt outdoor outlet I had installed several years before. "Back-feeding" a building in this way is tricky, and I've known only a few other guys in my lifetime who could (or would be crazy enough to do it). In this way, I was able to switch the generator output to the desired load by switching circuit breakers on and off in my main panel. The main disconnect out by the electric meter HAD to be off, otherwise the generator thought it was feeding a black hole! Distinctly remember refilling the gas tank out back in a chilling freezing rain! Power was back on the 6th. or 7th. day. Of course, while all this was happening, my wife was away enjoying a stay with her kin in Indiana! Frank P.S. For the last week here in the Mohave Desert, morning lows have been around 50 degrees, with afternoons in 70s, nice and sunny! I sit out on the patio each afternoon, getting nice and warm......
Pick one: A-Drown B-Get lanky C-Call a plumber But I had 5 siblings...3 are left. I know how it works. Only those who say "No" fit their definition of "selfish."
@Beth Gallagher Those Generacs are hardly efficient. From the web: Expect a propane powered generator to burn 2-3 gallons an hour. A 500-gallon tank will power your home continuously for a week. My propane costs $3.50/gallon. So that 500 gallons = $1,750 I was going to install one but figured I could replace a lot of food for the cost of the generator plus the cost of the fuel. Of course, there are other considerations...
We are being psychologically tortured, in Austin, no joke intended. After 38 hours without power, our power was on for five minutes, off for fifteen, on for ten, off for a half hour, on for an hour, and now...... off, for hours. I will get a portable generator/inverter for our RV, eventually. We went to HEB. No damn way! There were three hundred people lined up in two lines, one on either side of the entrance. Total, 600 people waiting to get in! We drove home. We may reach some sort of breaking point if this s#$t doesn't get back to running smoothly. I am feeling great anger towards the m%$#@#f#$%er who is the CEO of Ercot. I found his Austin home address, possibly, and plan to stop by to see if he has power.
I don't know for sure, but I believe part of the reason might be because I only use propane for my stove, so I am likely their lowest-volume customer. My last delivery was under 10 gallons. It had been 4 months since my prior delivery. I just went on Next Door (sort of a regional forum) and folks around here have posted paying between $1.99-$3.01 from the various suppliers, with a couple of back-to-back posters who buy from the same business quoting $1.99 and $2.99/gallon. I know that some have large (500 gallon) tanks, and some own their tanks while others lease them (I lease mine.) I suspect that if my supplier wasn't getting the tank lease payments from me, I'd have a hard time getting anyone to deliver such a low volume.
I gotta wonder if Ercot is the problem here. The citizens and the government decided to go all Don Quixote on your power grid, if what I read it accurate. I dunno who's driving your Chinese water torture. But that's easy for me to say, huh? One pleasant surprise I've had since moving to my remote compound is how reliable my electricity service has been. I was gonna buy a generator to have as backup, but not only would it be another gas engine to maintain, I would have to deal with having enough unspoiled gas on hand to derive any benefit. And then I'd have all that leftover [spoiled] gas to deal with. Without a routine need, it doesn't make sense.