Sunday - night
Guess I forgot to post a couple entries. It's currently snowing outside, very light snow, the street is covered with it, it's melting on the grass for some reason - current actual temp is 21, feels like 11. This isn't he cold night, btw, that's coming tomorrow night and Tuesday.
I did get the generator up and running with a couple shots of ether. Fired up, shut down, gave it a couple more shots, fired up and ran it for about 30 minutes to ensure it was going to stay running. We haven't even had any flickers yet signaling any power outages, I just wanted to be prepared. EPCOT is asking for voluntary reduction in use of electricity - if possible.
Our furnace runs off of natural gas, the electricity used to run the fan is minimal. Our water heater is also gas. I have space heaters in my room - because it gets cold in here. Even after they installed a new furnace/AC and put in new ducting, this room still gets either hot or cold depending on the time of year. This is an add on, it was a carport. I assume they didn't put in too much insulation in the walls.
Realistically, in cold like this, who in their right mind is going to say, yeah, we'll cut back on heat! I imagine most houses around here are running natural gas furnaces anyway, but it's likely there's a lot of space heaters going on as well.
The space heater in my park laundry room is running non stop now. It's not keeping it particularly warm in there but it's enough to keep the pipes from freezing. If it's in the mid 30's or higher, it keeps it warm in there, these temps and weather are an anomaly, won't last forever and just going to hope there aren't going to be any blown lines anywhere either here or at the park.
As of late afternoon today, I had heard nothing from work. I was going to text them but i thought, maybe they updated the tablet. Sure enough, they canceled my Monday and Tuesday load and moved it to Wednesday. We've had freezing rain and sleet today besides the snow and more freezing rain coming, I'm not particularly interested in driving to the grocery store much less all the way down to Nacogdoches and Lufkin in this kind of road conditions. I'm not glad I can't work, I am glad I don't have to try to deal with it.
We did go to church today, it was so cold going outside. It was real feel 19 degrees, I'm just not into that anymore. I'm thinking that if a water lines does blow with it being this cold, I won't be able to fix the it, the glue will never set. Or who knows, I'll be looking that up online how they do glue repairs in freezing cold weather. Hopefully won't have to fix anything, I want to be prepared.
A large number of people in the park are gone. They have gone to family/friends houses to keep warm. I don't blame them. I'll be over there tomorrow if I can make it to check on everything, especially the shed. I have another heater in there, if I have to fire it up to warm it up in there, I will do so. In fact, I really should have turned it on today when I was over there. It will be turned on tomorrow, but I won't drive over ther if the roads are too icy.
I've got 2 more days off. I can do some paperwork at least during those days stuck in the house.
I'm just resolved at this point to waiting this thing out. Send it off to wherever it's going and bid it a permanent goodbye.
It's getting late.
