You lost it a few hours after me, been on generator ever since. Longest outage I've ever experienced! Honestly this whole situation has completely 100% cemented my existing view that you just NEED a standby generator if you live somewhere near the gulf. I would have been MISERABLE without power this whole timeI lost power at 7:35am on Monday. Still no power. Went to the storage yard on Monday hoping they had opened the gate before losing power. Nope. But they had it opened early Tuesday. Brought the motorhome to the house and ran an extension cord to the refrigerator and the freezer in the house. Running off the generator in the motorhome. Got both down to proper temps in a few hours. Been monitoring the temps of the cords and so far no issues.
Spent the night in the motorhome since it has AC and TV. And we are now hanging out in there since it is cool.
No real damage otherwise. But there is real damage in the areas around us.
Seriously considering a whole house gas generator. Should have gotten one last year when there were no storms in the area.
T-Mobile in this area seems like a total loser. Verizon seems to be working good so far, so thats good. I'm still running on my Verizon 5G Home Internet, and its working alright. Big props to that at just $25/mo. But I am thinking of getting Starlink insteadPS. We had no cell service until last night. Had to drive a few miles north to get emails and text messages.
Something was different for sure. I keep checking to see if NOAA might upgrade it after the fact. Massive damage. Largest power outage in Houston History. But CenterPoints incompetence didn't help either, I have some stories I'll share soonMan sorry to hear that. I'm surprised at the damage, flooding I'm seeing reported. I mean its not like it was the first Cat 1 to come through Houston. Seriously we dont even do any extra stocking up for Cat1's.
Musta had a lot of smaller vortices/'naders in the bands?
Both! Power is a mess here. Can't wait to see the pics!Texas (Houston) must have some shitty power delivery or just a non-hardened power network in general. Here in PCB FL we laugh at Cat1s. All our wooden power poles have been replaced with concrete poles. It’s been ongoing for the last 5-6 years since Hurricane Michael. Maybe the power would be out in sporadic areas but not city wide here for this many days for such a small hurricane.
Saying that, I just threw down $11k for a Generac 24kW I may never use! Pics tomorrow!