[Carbeaux]

Apparently a couple of power generating stations went down last night, which forced them to kick in an emergency plan to include rolling outages throughout the entire state.

We just had an outage here, lasted for about half an hour.

 

[Carbeaux]

It was "only" about 13° out when I woke up this morning at 5:15. Not anything close to your temps, but that's cold for Austin.

If they keep the outages to half an hour or less, it's not really an issue except for traffic. Temps in Austin aren't expected to break the freezing mark, so I'm anticipating these rolling outages will continue for a while.

 

[Carbeaux]

Austin is dry, but wind chills early this morning were at about 0°. Don't know what they're at here right now, but I just had to go throw some salt on the ice the sprinklers created at the office. 15 minutes out there and I was done.

 

[Carbeaux]

They'd been turned off during the last really cold spell but someone pranked us, I guess. The ground will stay warm enough to keep the sprinkler lines from freezing. Shouldn't be a worry.

I've turned them off again since the whole week looks bleak and cold.

 

[Carbeaux]

Power has been off twice at my house today already. About half an hour at a time. They're gently trying to let the public know that the rolling outages may continue for a few days.

 

[Carbeaux]

I haven't had one at my office....yet. There have been 3 at my home though.

 

[Carbeaux]

The rolling outages stopped this evening, but we're being told they will resume tomorrow. :dunno:

 

[Carbeaux]

I'm not sure I have either. Born (a long time ago) and raised here in Austin. Been here all my life. Very odd to see it unfold like it has.