It's interesting watching the response of an area that isn't used to such cold temps. There's so much talk of making sure pipes don't freeze because they aren't insulated for this. They have to worry about having antifreeze in their cars right now, too. And they just don't like this cold! I guess it's something that I really just took for granted with living with it. Never really considered what it would truly be like to live someplace without it. What an experience! It's just as much a form of culture shock for me as this cold is for them.
A new concept for me is "rolling power outages". Because their pipes aren't built for this cold, they have to keep water running to keep pipes and pools from freezing. This really ups the electricity demand, and they use these controlled outages to manage it. The electricity went out this morning at our house, and it went off 3 or 4 times at school today (which the kids thought was so cool -- whew, much better than screaming!). This is supposed to continue for the next few days.
We have snow/freezing rain in the forecast for Thursday night or Friday morning, and that will definitely mean a snow day. Who would've thought I could be facing a possible snow day while here in Texas? "Not I," said the student teacher!
Stay warm and safe, folks!
~"Weather forecast for tonight: dark." [-George Carlin]~
p.s. -- Since the time I made this original post, we got a call from the EC Director. Guess what? We have a half day of school tomorrow and no school Friday. Guess I got that "snow" day after all. Now let's wait and see what Texas snow is all about. Perhaps not EVERYthing is bigger in Texas, eh? ;)
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