Stuck in the Yuck - Snow and Ice PPA thingie

[HotHolly]

So, who else hung around for the stuff on Tuesday and got stuck in San Antonio? Apparently they closed the 2 roads *Mike* needs to get back. It seemed like some of you reappeared on here on Monday night - I assumed you made it out.

I've been alone with 2 kids and no car since last Friday!!! Ahhhh!!!!! Its been so stinking cold (and our house feels like a Florida room with a nice breeze) that I burned all the firewood 2 days ago. Im thinking the bunny hutch will burn pretty good?

And to top it off...we were having these nutty power surges. They got so bad I bought extra junk to keep my computer from frying. Then the last 2 days my light bulbs were burning as bright as the sun. Ohhh pretty... ...so I call the elect co.

They come out and leave. Basically told me I was nuts. Then that night (it was 18 outside in my freakin breezy house) and the elec totally goes out. I used all my matches lighting the fireplace, the kids burned out their flash lights playing the day before, and so I sat in the cold, in the dark, all alone...with 2 crazy kids.

Turns out the guy that said it looked like nothing was wrong spent the rest of the day/ night hacking a tree that had grown into the elec box on the pole. All I heard was a chainsaw - I thought my nutty neightbor was chopping stuff up again. I was thinking about bringing over the bunny hutch...

Why do houses here have no insulation!?!?!? Its not like it doesnt help in the heat too.

Bitter, bored NYer - out.

Im going to go have a To the Death Monkey Ball match with my kids. Im thinking that'll make me a little bit cheerier. Wahoo!!!!

[Debbi]

What was it John posted a couple of weeks ago about G.R.I.T. (girls raised in Texas) - bless your heart! Wow - what a weekend. Don't you know when the sig. other is gone, EVERYTHING goes wrong? Hope it gets better - and warmer - for you soon!

[johnastovall]

20 March 1884, Coleman’s Rural World, pg. 94:
As a farming country, with the exception of small bodies of land along the streams, it is simply a failure. Good water is a rarity; and the climate, well, it can better be described to quote the exact language of an old lady when expressing her disgust of Texas: She said it was “the coldest, the warmest, the wettest, and the dryest country on earth, and terrible on women and oxen--but glory to men and dogs.”

[HotHolly]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

20 March 1884, Coleman’s Rural World, pg. 94:
As a farming country, with the exception of small bodies of land along the streams, it is simply a failure. Good water is a rarity; and the climate, well, it can better be described to quote the exact language of an old lady when expressing her disgust of Texas: She said it was “the coldest, the warmest, the wettest, and the dryest country on earth, and terrible on women and oxen--but glory to men and dogs.”

You always have something interesting to say...women and oxen huh?

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

You always have something interesting to say...women and oxen huh?

Some say horses.

[HotHolly]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

Some say horses.

Equally flattering...

Alls I have to say is...

Where's the insulation!?!? Wall sockets are supposed to supply electricity, not be confused for a blow dryer with a broken heating element. I guess I'll have to morph into a sort-a-texan and build my own house to escape the FL room of a house I currently live in. Maybe they used insulation on the other side of town...

Still havent played monkey ball...my kids stopped listening about an hour ago. No daddy for this long is a 1st. I think we've all gone nuts! <--- that would be me.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

You always have something interesting to say...women and oxen huh?

Really, you have it good compared to some who came where.

Former Republic of Texas Secretary of War, Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston was given the command and the officers were allowed to select their own sergeants and requisition mounts from the thoroughbred stables in Kentucky. Each troop had its own color of horse.

In December of 1855, Colonel Johnston, accompanied by his wife, led seven hundred fifty men south from Missouri. They reached the Red River during a ferocious norther. A hunger-crazed cougar repeatedly attacked the horses on picket during the night. When they arrived at Fort Belknap, the Brazos was frozen six inches deep. There wasn't sufficient housing for all the arriving officers and their wives, therefore all the newcomers including the Johnstons, resided in tents."

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

Equally flattering...

Alls I have to say is...

Where's the insulation!?!? Wall sockets are supposed to supply electricity, not be confused for a blow dryer with a broken heating element. I guess I'll have to morph into a sort-a-texan and build my own house to escape the FL room of a house I currently live in. Maybe they used insulation on the other side of town...

Still havent played monkey ball...my kids stopped listening about an hour ago. No daddy for this long is a 1st. I think we've all gone nuts! <--- that would be me.

What's insulation asks our house built in 1884.

[HotHolly]

Originally Posted by johnastovall

What's insulation asks our house built in 1884.

By the by - the woman of which you spoke still had her man - and a bunch of others. Mines still stuck elsewhere. With no horse, car, or anything else...except 2 large wild bunnies.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

By the by - the woman of which you spoke still had her man - and a bunch of others. Mines still stuck elsewhere. With no horse, car, or anything else...except 2 large wild bunnies.

Then things get hard you can bake the bunnies with their hutch.

[Glen_A]

Read a book called Savage Sam by Fred Gipson (Sam was the son of Old Yeller) and one of the characters in the book said "We don't have climate in Texas, we have WEATHER. No one but a damn fool or a yankee would try to predict it."
I always remember that.

[HotHolly]

Originally Posted by Glen_A

Read a book called Savage Sam by Fred Gipson (Sam was the son of Old Yeller) and one of the characters in the book said "We don't have climate in Texas, we have WEATHER. No one but a damn fool or a yankee would try to predict it."
I always remember that.

OMG - are you all making fun of me? I asked if anyone else got stuck in San Antonio and I get the pride of Texan weather...

I take it everyone else left?

[Glen_A]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

OMG - are you all making fun of me? I asked if anyone else got stuck in San Antonio and I get the pride of Texan weather...

I take it everyone else left?

Naw, the yankee reference was just from the book. It was really more in responce to John's quote about Texas Weather. I spent last night in Port Lavaca and drove back to Houston this afternoon. I saw some trees with ice on them around Richmond/Rosenburg but I was able to drive 70+ all the way. The roads were dry and clear and traffic was moving great. I feel for ya freezing though. It is no fun and gets old really fast. Make a big bowl of Texas Chili and bundle up!

[Debbi]

Not me, Holly! I just got in trouble for letting the fire burn out in the fireplace. I can't be everywhere and I don't do fires! I'm feeling your pain and it sucks! Hopefully *Mike* will be back soon and relieve you of the misery.

[LoungeLizard]

Insulation? that's something I don't think exists here. I miss my NY house with R41 in the attic and R37 in the walls!