🌨️🥶❄️🌡️ Been reading a lot of purely ignorant responses to TX tweets on power outages, etc.

1. Homes ARE insulated.

2. We DO drip & even small stream the water pipes. We do cover outdoor faucets w/ insulated covers.

Can't drip or small stream the water pipes when the water is shut off because equipment @ treatment plants freezes or due to numerous water main breaks.

3. When one loses whole house heat & temp is below 20 degrees w/wind chill is 0 to -20 degrees ... EVERYTHING...

EVERYTHING FREEZES... pipes, hot water tanks, stored water & food

People DO shut off water supply to homes. Unfortunately by the time problem is known, even that is often not done soon enough. Chit happens!

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Cara TXZEAL

@Cara_TXZEAL

16 Feb

poweroutage.us
3,655,598 without power in TX of 12,494,274 tracked.
We have population is 29 Million.

poweroutage.us/area/state/tex…

We've hit our high of 19 degrees today. Now 17 at my house. That green isn't rain ... it's freezing rain.

First round of wintry mix & snow for today and tomorrow is almost here.

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Cara TXZEAL

@Cara_TXZEAL

12 Feb

NWS Fort Worth - N and Central TX

Winter Storm Watch 3" - 8" of snow is currently forecast with blowing and lake effect snow plus wintry mix.

NOTE: anticipating ANOTHER Winter Storm midweek and no reprieve from cold temps until late next week.

Roads - icy for a week!

Current forecast discussion - subject to change of course.
Icy roads are here to stay well into next week.

After the snow/wintry mix this weekend including "lake effect" snow, anticipating ANOTHER Winter Storm midweek.

forecast.weather.gov/product.php?si…

Highlights. Read more in link.

Windchill temps will fall well below 0 and well into the negative temp zone.

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Cara TXZEAL

@Cara_TXZEAL

11 Feb

CDC guidelines update COVID & Vaccines.

1. Why do vaxxed people need to wait 4 weeks to get tested for TB?

2. Vaxes do not prevent Covid but MAY mitigate severity if contracted. Yet, vaxed no longer need to quarantine >2 wks after vax.

cdc.gov/vaccines/covid…

Pregnant women were not part of trials yet they aren't told to avoid the vaccines. Why?

Who is studying miscarriages, still births, birth abnormalities, birth defects of children born after Covid vax, and childhood progression?