from the land that never ices over.
Never say never! This thread has been incredible. But it has me thinking.
Like some of our Texas brothers and sisters, before these last few weeks I never gave a thought to being prepared for both sustained single-digit temps
and rolling blackouts. I've never seen snow here. I don't think we've been below 20°F for more than an hour or two, certainly not all day. And I might get a brief power outage every other year or so. What would I do under the conditions Texas just endured? What would I be
able to do? How would my pool or its plumbing fare? And what can I do now,
before it happens here, to get prepared?
I'm looking into generators. That's all I've come up with so far. Maybe I should collect and then print out a pool winterizing plan. So with minimal notice, maybe
after the power goes out (when there would be no way to look things up on the 'net or contact any TFP saviors), I'll have a hard copy set of instructions of how to winterize my pool. And then along with that a stock of whatever tools or materials I need to get it done.
I don't think it's farfetched. CA already has had rolling blackouts because our grid is not up to snuff. So we're already halfway there.
OK, I'm putting the winterizing checklist project on my to do list now...