Oh, I'm here and doing unreasonably well. We haven't lost power in my house at all.

My mom's been without power since 2am Monday morning--her house temp fell to 49 overnight--and my stepson has been without power AND running water since 5pm Monday. The water is the thing most concerning to him, because the stress has flared his OCD and he hasn't been able to wash his hands or take a shower in too many hours.

My stepdaughter, meanwhile, has more water than she wants--a pipe above her burst and she has several leaks and a bulging ceiling. Apartment maintenance knows about it, so there's not a lot else she can do except add buckets where needed (and call and yell at me about it, of course.) Meanwhile my dad is unreachable, so I'm assuming he's without power, too--he's not tech-savvy enough to have a phone charger in his car, and it's just a flip phone with a bad battery so it's surely dead by now. Basically, we're the only ones doing fine, but the roads are impassable so no one has any ability to get here and warm up for a bit. My brother tried to go to the store and ended up having to abandon his car and walk back home.

They've sort of implied power will be back by this afternoon, but I think that's a lie. My guess is Thursday.
 

Clodfobble wrote:

Oh, I'm here and doing unreasonably well. We haven't lost power in my house at all.

My mom's been without power since 2am Monday morning--her house temp fell to 49 overnight--and my stepson has been without power AND running water since 5pm Monday. The water is the thing most concerning to him, because the stress has flared his OCD and he hasn't been able to wash his hands or take a shower in too many hours.

My stepdaughter, meanwhile, has more water than she wants--a pipe above her burst and she has several leaks and a bulging ceiling. Apartment maintenance knows about it, so there's not a lot else she can do except add buckets where needed (and call and yell at me about it, of course.) Meanwhile my dad is unreachable, so I'm assuming he's without power, too--he's not tech-savvy enough to have a phone charger in his car, and it's just a flip phone with a bad battery so it's surely dead by now. Basically, we're the only ones doing fine, but the roads are impassable so no one has any ability to get here and warm up for a bit. My brother tried to go to the store and ended up having to abandon his car and walk back home.

They've sort of implied power will be back by this afternoon, but I think that's a lie. My guess is Thursday.
 

Construction boom coming in Texas. Be safe down there.

It is wet.

Very, very wet.

I'm growing a little tired of the rain.  So much standing water in our yard.

I will say that the efforts we have made to keep the water out of our basement, with downspout extenders, has really paid off.  We have a dry basement, even with massive puddles all around our house.

Just sayin'

Speaking of the weather, or other geophysical phenonmena...

Check this out:



 

An empty front porch couch gets snuffed, but that's it.

If you want to see a good example of devastation, go to YouTube and look at any of the recent videos showing the  tornado damage in Mayfield, Kentucky (last I heard, at least 50 dead), or Dawson Springs, Kentucky.

Just, damn.
 

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The workers actually on the floor would have had no idea, because they are not allowed to bring their cellphones in to work. From what I understand, management had about 30-40 minutes warning, and from that point on it was a combination of indecision (wasting more time) and having no proper tornado shelter on site (employees who survived say they were huddled into bathrooms.)

Get emotional...

Tell Amazon to build bomb shelters in the warehouses.


 

We've had the temperature swing from 4 F to -4F in the last 24 hours. Sposed to climb today.

I remember the good old day when (during that one football game) in the second week of November, it never got above 20 degrees F.  When lakes once froze.  So deep that one could skate across those two miles for  weeks.

Somebody told me yesterday that they saw ice on the side of a creek.  Been meaning to go see it for myself.

Brooklyn Bridge was built so that the island of Manhattan was not constantly cut off by ice clogged rivers every year.  When was the last time the Hudson River froze over?

According to Weather Bug we are going to be clear and cold for the next 10 days.