Daily Archives: February 15, 2021
Blog Called on Account Of . . .
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Ice, and it’s cold as Hell!
The temperature went down to 21° last night, but we stayed warm and toasty.
Until the power went off at 2am. And stayed off.
And as of 10pm tonight, it’s still off.
But we held out as long as we could.
Finally about 1pm when it was 25 outside the rig, and 41 inside the rig, we gave it up.
We knew that they were going to be doing short (30-60 minutes) rolling blackouts, but we had been off almost 12 hours. And then our daughter Brandi called from up in Katy saying she had heard on TV that if you didn’t have power now, you probably wouldn’t get it back for a couple of days.
So I was on the phone to the La Quinta over on I-45 in Texas City, booked us a room, and we were on our way over there about 45 minutes.
We were so cold that turning the heater in the Jeep was almost painful. And even more painfully was the fact that that when we got to the hotel they couldn’t check us in since their power had just gone off and the computers were off.
And though a real comedy of errors, we didn’t finally get into our room until about 8:30pm.
But more about that tomorrow.
We’re warm and toasty again.
