So you lost power, your water lines froze and you're hungery!

One alternative is storm windows, way cheaper than a total replacement, tho' nowhere near as convenient. When we were in the trailer, taped visqueen over the insides of the bad leakers, helped a LOT.

 

My Infrared Thermometer is a ES EST-35

Does the trick for me and my needs.

Laser is for aiming and can be sent in to be calibrated.

Been using it for several years.

Electronic Specialties Inc. Professional hand held automotive test equipment. MODEL EST-35 Infrared Thermometer

Wife uses it for candy making.

Bargain @ 50$

 

One of the first things I did with my FLIR Thermal Scope was to examine my house for hot or cold spots where there shouldn't be any. That helped to justify the $2000 price tag. That FLIR unit is now in a Faraday cage with the rest of my electronic preps.

 

If YOU think that it is cold, then it must be!

 

My house was built 300+ years ago..... trying to sort all the drafts/cold spots etc.....?

 

Texas was "seconds and minutes" away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts, officials say

Hay, shutting off your power because we wee clueless saved the day!

ERCOT be heros now - just ask them....

 

By golly, They sure are, Give them another 1 million dollar raise to the head honcho

 

If you read the fine print, some of which is now gone (list of board members and homes)ERCOT has foreign members who could care less about anything in Texas except control and Taxes.

So get the feds and the foreign out of ERCOT Texas.

 

They had time and notice --

They had the time and the facts, just to lazy to take notice and were dependent on ERCOT.

Another Fabbed Emergency to no good.

 

We are on a co-op here, If the electricity bill hits 200 bucks in the summer time then that's a rare thing

 

Biden just over wrote a Prez Trump EO that eliminated ANY foreign interference in the US utilities >>> opened the door wide open to China

 

Quality control is a huge problem in the electrical industry. Quality peeps are in short quantity too. I’m not too familiar with Texas in this regard other than rumors but I’d bet a paycheck these are a factor.

 

Folks can spend their Stimulus Checks on basic survival gear or.....Snort/smoke something. Beer isn’t a bad investment either, until the next morning. Yuck!

 

Life is all about choices. If people make a choice not to prepare for hard times it is all on them.

 

So after this is over, will they have learned to prepare?

 

No

 

What do yall think about these new ford trucks with the built in generator?
I had heard about a request sent out in Texas to loan these out?
2021 Ford F-150 revealed with hybrid power, built-in generators and sleeper seats