Rolling Blackouts Will Engulf Our Region!

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has ordered rolling blackouts during the arctic blast, according to Click2Houston.com.  So if you're not warm enough yet, you're not about to get any warmer.  The agency states that this is all due to a generation shortage.  So while I'm keeping warm @ MD Anderson Cancer Center, because hospitals and nursing homes are excluded from the blackouts, my love Ryan and our puppies may be freezing their buns off for 45 minutes at most.

The agency states they have no idea how long the blackouts will be needed, but the forecast for the next few days doesn't look too good. I'm so glad Friday is my day off.  For those that work on Friday, don't lose hope. Seeing that things look more grim as the weekend approaches, there's a possibility for closures.

Freezing Temperatures ... Ugh! Save the Plants!

It doesn't seem like it's going to let up, until possibly the beginning of next week. Different websites are reporting that we will be getting snow on Friday and people at work are already talking about it.  I'm off on Fridays, so I'll be home resting nice and cozy in my bed.  But for you folks, who are traveling or taking long commutes to work, take extra precaution, because rain and snow will start around 1 AM; if that's the case, you will encounter icy roads.

Freezing temperatures also mean, dead plants. Sad story, but it's true; cover up your plants if you wish to save them!  Ryan and I don't have any plants to cover; the ones we had froze last year, and we are not bound to replant tropical trees that are not meant to be planted in these areas anyway.  We had some palms, orchid trees and other shrubs a couple years back and when we replanted, the next year's freeze destroyed them.  We have some plants in pots that we will bring inside.