More people in Texas have power and water tonight than last night. Our power and water are still on and the boil-water alert has expired. It’s above freezing here during the days. Two more cold nights and we should be out of this. We see forecast lows in the 50s and 60s later in the forecast!
Here in the Valley, conditions have been a lot like the big cities up north you see on the news, except without the frozen roads. Road conditions in San Antonio as I write.
There doesn’t seem to be any way through, north to south or east to west.
I was out doing a couple errands yesterday. The power was out to about every other stoplight with almost everyone properly treating them as four-way stops, but that was slow-going getting through each intersection. The blocks-long lines at gas stations were reminiscent of the gas crisis in the 70s, where I would go to work in one car while Judy waited in a gas line with the other car. The next day we would switch cars and repeat. But as I was driving yesterday, I realized the scope of the problem here, stopped what I was doing, and drove straight home so I wouldn’t be contributing to the height of the crisis.
We have a mixed situation here at Sandpipers. Power has been out to about half the park since maybe Sunday. Today the big shuffle happened. People without power at their sites started up their RVs and moved them to sites with. Didn’t get everybody, but some relief for some.
One more note. Some of the pansies at our house are happy.
Well, maybe not thrilled, but not outside frozen either.
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