Texas

[Kiki]

Pretty exciting, if you can look outside, you'll see flashes of green light when the transformer blows!
Be careful, your on the side that gets tornados!

Poo yi!
I'm pretty sure I now know what it feels like to be inside a tornado for 5 straight hours.

That was nuts!

Of course we have no power, no fences and a rotten tree on the ground.

I'm good though.

No cell service yesterday. Today it is bad but much better. I can actually get online so I'm already feeling better.

Send us the electricity gods, please.

 

[Kiki]

I couldn't.

@Kiki you haven't checked in lately...

It's so r word around here. Cell towers must have taking a beating too. Cells did not work yesterday

 

[Kiki]

@RUNuts got ac?

 

[tripletfeb]

I couldn't.

It's so r word around here. Cell towers must have taking a beating too. Cells did not work yesterday

Figured this. Glad you are ok!

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

Send us the electricity gods, please.

In case you missed it, whataburger app apparently works well as a power outage map:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1810728129909907542

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Poo yi!
I'm pretty sure I now know what it feels like to be inside a tornado for 5 straight hours.

That was nuts!

Of course we have no power, no fences and a rotten tree on the ground.

I'm good though.

No cell service yesterday. Today it is bad but much better. I can actually get online so I'm already feeling better.

Send us the electricity gods, please.

Glad you're ok!

 

[ATXInstantFlock]

Apparently Spectrum is now down all over our area. We're not even in the path of the storm!
Their phone line hangs up on you, and their support app doesn't load because it can't load their terms of service.
Should have just went out to work on the coop before trying to fix the household internet.

 

[RUNuts]

@RUNuts got ac?

As of midnight, last night, yes. We slept cool.

While I was setting up the generator and AC, the power surged a couple times and the neighbor's transformer blew out. Ka-pow.

Of course, after I get the generator running, the power comes back.

I lost a section of fence. Post broke at ground.
Neighbor lost 2 trees. We helped clear their driveway and get their generator running. Then temporaried a dog containment, piled branches.

Neighborhood had a tree land on a new truck. Different neighbor had tree on their house. Roof is damaged. Power lines down in the back of the hood.

The poor quail! Coops blew over and I stood them up and tied them to the trees. They were still blown off their footings. Chicken coop lost a section of roll roof. Time for a rebuild. I want a chick-a-saw mobile version. Another project for this year.

 

[RUNuts]

Poo yi!
I'm pretty sure I now know what it feels like to be inside a tornado for 5 straight hours.

That was nuts!

Of course we have no power, no fences and a rotten tree on the ground.

I'm good though.

No cell service yesterday. Today it is bad but much better. I can actually get online so I'm already feeling better.

Send us the electricity gods, please.

I learned the cell towers go to backup power for calls and sms texting only. Internet surfing is not priority, so it is disabled until the power is back.

The old telephone system is independently powered, so it would work if the other power was down. The new fiber optic version of internet requires each modem, switch and whatnot powered from the grid. We like our power.

 

[007Sean]

In case you missed it, whataburger app apparently works well as a power outage map:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1810728129909907542

No wonder the power went out....all those Whataburgers are power hogs!