{"id":50386,"date":"2022-02-03T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50386"},"modified":"2022-02-03T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:03:00","slug":"well-we-got-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50386","title":{"rendered":"Well, we got through it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50387\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/HFLHSBHU45D4DEJD5XHFDOCEZM.jpg 1660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update time on our storm preparation and whether it worked for us: Yes. It did work for my wife and me. Good thing, too, because the lights went out during the night for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>North and West Texas are enduring a serious winter blast as I write this brief post. Our North Texas home went dark last night around 10:30. The lights flickered back on around midnight for about two or three minutes, then they went out again; they stayed out for about four hours.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t blame Gov. Greg Abbott for what happened. Yes, he did promise &#8220;the lights will stay on.&#8221; He was talking about power supply and indicated there would be a minimum of what he called &#8220;load shed&#8221; events with the utility grid shutting down to reduce demand on electrical power.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Abbott couldn&#8217;t prevent iced-over tree limbs from falling on power lines, which is what happened in areas around Collin County during the night. As for our neighborhood, I believe a transformer shorted out.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, no sweat. The heroes who comprise our utility crews worked hard in horrible weather to restore the power.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me when I say that all of us around here are a bit nervous given what happened to Texas a year ago when the power grid failed and put millions of us in the dark for far longer than we should have been.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know what the immediate future &#8212; meaning tonight and perhaps the next time &#8212; will hold in store. We do know that we plan to <em>stay<\/em> ready for whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update time on our storm preparation and whether it worked for us: Yes. It did work for my wife and me. Good thing, too, because the lights went out during the night for several hours. North and West Texas are enduring a serious winter blast as I write this brief post. Our North Texas home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, we got through it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1611,9863,9860],"class_list":["post-50386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ercot","tag-power-grid","tag-winter-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50388,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50386\/revisions\/50388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}