RE: Digging Out
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There was an email from him this morning. He has had electricity until yesterday when they started doing rolling blackouts. The town's water pipes froze up so they were without water for a couple days. His stepdaughter works at the local truck stop and the lot is jammed with semi trucks because they can't pump fuel when they don't have electricity and all of the diesel is gelled up. They can't let people in to use the restrooms because without electricity there sanitation system does not work , so many truckers have been using the woods out behind the truck stop. Many people have been sleeping in their cars to stay warm and then they go to the gas station when they run their cars low on gas and realize that the pumps don't work without electricity.
I told him he needs to write this up in a post, but I doubt if he will. It is supposed to begin warming up there in a few days.
Wow I hope it warms up before more people freeze to death. They are in no way prepared for this kind of weather.
Thanks for letting me know how @janton is doing in this situation. You had a good suggestion for him to write up the happenings surrounding this unprecedented cold and power outages.
Prayers and blessings to him and Texas.🙏
I worry about all the livestock that is going without water.
And our trucking industry and diesel fuel suppliers have completely failed. What a mess.
Melinda, the news from Texas is terrible - The animals and birds are freezing.
“After rolling power outages plunged much of the state into darkness early this week, animals at the San Antonio Primarily Primates sanctuary froze to death in the winter weather. Among the casualties were a chimpanzee, many monkeys, some lemurs and countless birds.”
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And the Texas congressman took his family to sit on the beach in Mexico because it was cold in their house.
Hard to believe he would think about himself when his people are freezing and boiling water.
I heard he said trip was a mistake. His daughters were going there on Cancun vacation to escape the cold and he went too.