42 degrees outside right now at 2:00 pm Friday. Predicted 29 degrees overnight tonight so will have one more freeze. We lost electricity at 7:45 am last Monday and just got it turned on again at 11 am this morning. Found that one space heater won't quite heat the space we have in our mobile home.
In the late 1990's we went on a train trip with our kids to Salt Lake City from Iowa. As we went west there was some flooding right behind us and we found out later we were the last passenger train that got out of Iowa. About a week later we were coming back and because of the rail not being operable in western Iowa we were taken off the train, with a lot of others heading east, and put on busses to go to our stations. We rode the bus from Omaha to Osceola, IA and when we were getting off the bus at our station a young gal (teenager or early 20's) was on the phone telling her grandma "Its been a trip from hell" and I thought of that remark this last week here without heat or lights. Not really that bad, but it has been an experience with no lights, heat or cooking facilities. Several of our neighbors here have found motels to stay in this last week. I took the generator out of the pickup, that have carried around for years, and set up a cord through window into the Texas Room and again through kitchen window. Laid bath towels above and below the electric cord and was able to close the windows enough to keep out cold.
This was temperatures, inside and outside last week, with the windows in the house open.
Ice in the bird waterer --
and Ice cycles off the roof of our house.
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| 10:37 pm Monday evening |
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| 7:16 am Tuesday morning |
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| 3:36 am Tuesday morning |
Spent a lot of time, driving to Santa Rosa and then east 6 miles to the interstate to get gas for the generator. First morning no waiting, but 2nd and 3rd days waited almost an hour in lines at gas stations. Many cars at smaller stations and as we came back one day we were on the interstate and drove by Sam's Club in Harlingen. They had more than 50 cars lined up on every street waiting to get gas. Much of Harlingen was without electricity as was La Feria and Mercedes.
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| Picture of me in the house after cold front came in and no electricity. I was wearing t-shirt, long sleeved shirt, sweater, rain coat and winter coat. This is in the house -- at night I took off the winter coat and the hat for sleeping in bed. After got a space heater (from my neighbor's place) set up I did take off the winter coat part of the time. This is one of those times that a smaller house would be better (to heat), though I like the more space 99.99% of the time.
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Weather man is just giving prediction of 29 degrees overnight, so another freeze here. Hopefully won't loose electricity. Will have faucets dripping to avoid pipe freezes --- lots of pipes did freeze and maintenance man repaired many the other afternoon.
Later, Lynn
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