Four days and no electricity
It's cold in Texas, but it's cold in a lot of places.
A lot of the snow had melted by the time I ventured outside to take this picture.
What makes it rough in Texas is that a large part of the state doesn't have any electricity.
A lot of BS going around
I'm in Galveston, right across the road from the beach. It's a little warmer here than inland in Houston, but not much. Last Sunday, the power went off. They said it was going to be rolling blackouts.
That was BS statement #1. The power didn't come back on until Thursday night. Power was out for four days. That's not a rolling blackout.
BS statement #2 was when they said the power outage was caused by the windmills being frozen over, and windmills supply 20% of Texas's electricity. It warmed up to above freezing, and the power didn't come back on.
BS statement #3 was when they said the power outage was caused by the high demand caused by the cold temperatures. It got back up into the 40s, and the power didn't come back on. So that was another BS statement.
RVers had it better than people living in houses
RVers had it better than the houses in the area. We had water, propane, and many RVs had generators. Of course, these sources of joy didn't last forever. Since there was no electricity on the island, the gas stations were closed, and no one could buy gasoline for their generators.
With no electricity, the places that had propane tanks could not pump propane. I was at one place where they were filling tanks by gravity feed. It took over 15 minutes to fill a little propane tank, and there were over 30 people in line to get a tank filled. It was miserably cold and windy, but I had to have propane to run my heater. As you might imagine, they soon ran out of propane.
People were told to boil their water, but how could they do that?
Because of broken water lines, the water was shut off. When it came back on, people were told to boil their drinking water. People who didn't live in an RV and didn't have Internet or electricity for TV, how were they supposed to get the message to boil their water? If they didn't have electricity or natural gas for their kitchen stoves, how could they boil their water if they did get the message? Maybe they could find some sticks in the backyard and build a fire and boil their water.
I can understand people not being able to get propane, but I don't know why natural gas was turned off for homes, but it was.
Bottom line: As you can see, it's been a rough week in South Texas, even if you lived in an RV. To make things worse, the day before the snow, ice, and cold weather hit, someone made a left turn on a red light and plowed into the side of my car. It looks like it's totaled, but I haven't been able to get in touch with an adjuster to look at my car. Life has to get better. The electricity is back on, so it is getting better. I'll stop complaining.