Apologies.

I apologize for the radio silence the past couple of days.

The power at our house went out shortly before 7 AM (CT) on Wednesday and is still not restored at the time of this writing.

I was thinking it’d be back on sometime on Wednesday. Then I was thinking sometime on Thursday.

I’ve gone into the office this morning to get work done and things charged. I managed to keep the cell phones charged up by tapping the battery on my laptop, but I ran that down to 2% before I got into the office. I have a UPS protecting the network equipment at the house (cable modem/router/issued work from home gear) but it feels like the same event that took out the power also took out Spectrum internet in our area, so I couldn’t get an Internet connection anyway. And by now, the UPS is fully discharged (though it will run for about five hours with all that crap connected to it).

AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Energy says there is no timeline for system-wide power restorations, after saying on Wednesday it could be restored by Friday evening.

To be clear about this, the issue is not an ERCOT/power grid problem, like it was a while back. This is just simply ice accumulation on power lines bringing them down, and ice accumulation on trees causing limbs to fall and take out power lines.

Edited to add: power restored at our house at about 1 PM CT today. So that’s about 54 hours without electricity, by my reckoning.

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3 Responses to “Apologies.”

  1. pigpen51 says:
    February 3, 2023 at 12:18 pm

    Here in Michigan, on the edge of Lake Michigan, we were 4 degrees last night, and they are saying -2 degrees tonight. But without much snow or ice, we are in good shape. And the next 3-4 weeks 35-45 degrees, we expect to see an end of the snow on our ground.
    This year was closer to the norm as far as our typical winter than the past 4-5 years, when there was little to no snow and moderate temps. In the late 60’s and the 70’s, we had cold temps and a LOT of snow, that allowed me to ride snowmobiles nearly the entire season. Now it would be hard to justify the purchase of a 5-7 thousand dollar snowmobile that you might ride 2-3 weeks, without trailering it north.
    Wishing you a quick restoration of power, and safe days and nights ahead.

  2. Joe+D says:
    February 4, 2023 at 11:27 am

    We were without power for 36 hours. Still no internet (Spectrum).

    I am abusing the hell out of the unlimited data on my cellphone hotspot.

  3. Lawrence+Person says:
    February 4, 2023 at 1:12 pm

    About 60 hours for mine. And it’s been bouncing up and down.