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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
Hey RT, hope you guys are doing o.k. down there. My in-laws are in Houston and they have been without power, heat, and essentially without cell service for two days. They had to flee their house this morning because they ran out of things to burn (they had started burning old furniture from the basement, and a neighbor brought them some wood after cutting down a tree across the street but it was too green and frozen to burn). They were going to go to the office, but also no power or heat there, so they went to a coworker of my F-I-L, who has no power but somehow managed to get a generator and space heaters and is trying to get the inside temp of his house above 32 degrees. They would flee the city, but apparently the highways are closed and the other roads are dangerous as hell, with more snow and ice moving in. It sounds really grim.
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Just got off a conference call with two attorneys in Austin. Power is basically out unless you happen to live adjacent the Hospital district. The power isn't just downed lines but also transportation problems due to the icing. One was in the district and fine. The other was a single guy who had not thought of stocking food. He also lived outside the area with power. He told us about last night: he wandered among lots of others from restaurant to restaurant hoping to find one open. Eventually he found one, and spent three hours waiting for a sandwich. Post apocalypse sounding.
