TexasCHLforum.com

We are within the Lewisville ISD area. We lost power late in the cycle for about an hour. We never got to a boil order for our water and it flowed the whole time. Our internet was out 90% of the time from Monday until Thursday and then was intermittent for several more days. We have Frontier FIOS (was Verizon). We are on CoServ for electric

What is interesting is that our son is in a development about 2.5 miles as the crow flies from us and also has CoServ. He never had solid power from Monday until late Wednesday night. His was the only "rolling" blackout story near us. Several others less than a mile to the East had a solid power outage for 3 days. A municipal building is not too far from us so perhaps we were spared outages in an effort to keep power running there on a common power feed. It would have to be at the sub-station level.

I had my generator at the ready and could have kept the furnace running as long as the natural gas flow held sufficient pressure. We lived in Colleyville for the big cold snap in 1989 and we did not have sufficient gas flow there. We had gas logs and they were useless, too. Fortunately, we had two fireplaces and I had kept one for wood. I had a good firewood supply but the house was very spread out and that fireplace couldn't keep things warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. Both the cold supply and the trap for the washing machine froze in the wall. This time, we had no problem like that.

Our biggest problem was that electric power was off to several local grocery stores. The other stores that remained open were quickly picked clean. Who knew that there would runs on things like cat litter?