Day 2 of being without power.
I was recharging my iPhone on different laptops, but that stopped working. I have been able to recharge it using my car charger, so I drove around the neighborhood looking at the damage. Almost every house has a limb or tree down.
ETA is still 6 PM tonight, but I don’t think anyone believes that. A good number of my friends are still without power as well.
The cold was trivial compared to the last ice storm, but the king freezing rain this time made the tree damage absolutely devastating.
Whatever lessons Austin Energy learned after the last I’ve storm, “Stay on top of tree branch trimming near power lines” doesn’t appear to be among them…
Dang! According to A E’s outage map almost 20% are still without power. Welp, hopefully you have you power back by now?
Here next door in RR, Oncor had a tree trimming crew come through a summer or two ago which I guess help us a lot since my neighborhood’s power stayed on throughout it all?
But otherwise, much tree damage in these parts as well. Anyway, good luck to you, and again hope your power is back by now?
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Nope. 48 hours and counting.
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Looks like my recommendation to get a portable generator is just as applicable in central Texas as it is here in Florida–something I keep putting off myself (to my chagrin) but will do before the summer hurricane season starts.
Oncor swept through DFW butchering trees after SNOVID, which was Round 2, and it seems they got it right this time. But we didn’t have your freezing rain. My friend in Salado tells me ERCOT acknowledged they stopped butchering trees to save money. Seriously?