The more things change...

[missroserose]

It's 28 degrees outside right now. In southern Arizona.

How much bloody sense does that make?

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[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine moved to San Antonio after growing up in Michigan and then attending grad school in Boston. She's very confused right now, because she's cold, and she thought she'd left all that shit behind when she moved to SA. (It's 21F there, or was, earlier today.)

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

Thirty degrees here in Houston, and we're looking at snow and ice tomorrow. There have been rolling power outages throughout Texas all day to cope with the extra drain on the power grid.

Scary stuff.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I take it most folks in Texas have electric heat?

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

I believe so. However, even if they have gas heat, it seems like there is an electrical aspect as well -- possibly the blowers? As a homeowner, I should know this!

There are "warming stations" being set up downtown for the homeless, as well as to make up for those folks who are losing their electricity.

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

A chance for you to feel homesick. Just need snow and ice and month long days now. :) Garden hose might work to make the snow and ice.

Heating here is most often by on-grid gas-fired hot water circulating systems. Natural gas, that is. Power demand peaks come in the evenings during ad breaks in popular TV shows when people turn on lots of 3kW jug kettles to make tea or coffee. No air conditioning peaks. :)

[onionhead.livejournal.com]

45 and raining sideways here :)

[tygenco-x.livejournal.com]

It's 25F right now, with the windchill. Clear as frakking bell too. Good thing I've still got my polar fleece. >>;
My hands are aching like mad but I get to laugh at the people I work with who've never lived in snow and think the pictures from St Louis and Chicago are photoshopped. They really have no idea...

Stay warm out there, alright?