Schools still out in the Memphis area, I figure we'll be out all week. It's not going to get above freezing and we don't have the resources to deal with this as well as areas that are used to it. We had sleet, then snow and then freezing rain on top. I tried to move my car and it's now stuck
We're just east of Memphis in the burbs, yesterday it was decided that the schools would remain closed the rest of the week. My kids are fine with it. I work in higher ed, so I continue to work remote. Eagerly anticipating the afternoon announcement that campus will remain closed to non-essential employees.
Agreed. Out here in my part of Virginia… snow doesn’t get to levels like up north that often. Thus, we don’t have quite a good setup for snow.We're just east of Memphis in the burbs, yesterday it was decided that the schools would remain closed the rest of the week. My kids are fine with it. I work in higher ed, so I continue to work remote. Eagerly anticipating the afternoon announcement that campus will remain closed to non-essential employees.
While HWY 40 is mainly clear, the neighborhoods are not. Many of the side arteries might be passable, but with any thaw turn to mush that is not being plowed. So I've watched cars get stuck, spinning their wheels. To open campus for tomorrow would be irresponsible. Especially as I can bet that faculty will not come in, but they would expect that hourly and salaried staff would. Especially for any testing purposes.
When I lived i areas that received winter snow we had infrastructure in place to deal with it all winter. Where life might be interrupted briefly, but would resume. Here, infrastructure already lacks in everyday life, and is only amplified in bad weather.
My alma mater used the "if the buses can't get up the hill (due to ice)" then classes are cancelled. If they can it doesn't matter the conditions. I swear we like never had classes canceled even when finals occurred and there was a sheet of ice on campus that almost canceled finals they still had them go. It figures that after I graduate they became a bit loosened on the canceling of classes.
to be fair basketball is a very very big thing there.
Totally agree about faculty not coming in, but as staff, I would definitely be expected to come in. At least they have been making the call early, I remember when it would be made at 5:00 in the morning. I live in a rural area, and we are still iced in, I'm not even sure about school next week. My news GOAT Ron Childers said he expects travel impacts through next week. This is the wildest winter weather I have seen in a while.We're just east of Memphis in the burbs, yesterday it was decided that the schools would remain closed the rest of the week. My kids are fine with it. I work in higher ed, so I continue to work remote. Eagerly anticipating the afternoon announcement that campus will remain closed to non-essential employees.
While HWY 40 is mainly clear, the neighborhoods are not. Many of the side arteries might be passable, but with any thaw turn to mush that is not being plowed. So I've watched cars get stuck, spinning their wheels. To open campus for tomorrow would be irresponsible. Especially as I can bet that faculty will not come in, but they would expect that hourly and salaried staff would. Especially for any testing purposes.
When I lived i areas that received winter snow we had infrastructure in place to deal with it all winter. Where life might be interrupted briefly, but would resume. Here, infrastructure already lacks in everyday life, and is only amplified in bad weather.
In the past it seems like Texas electricity rates surge whenever it gets extremely cold.
Probably. And it's their right as the electric owner. It's just tough to swallow when I see the actual bill.
Can't wait to receive my natural gas bill. I have gas logs and have run them around the clock for the last ten days. Should be fun!!
Why on earth would you be in trouble??? I mean, if you needed to drip your faucets the alternative would have potentially been a lot more expensive! And I'm sure it's not as if you had your heat up to 80....at some point your comfort has to come into play. Sure we can all turn it down a degree or two or three or whatever - put on a extra sweater, socks. Add a extra blanket. But turn off the heat entirely when it's cold enough to need to drip the faucets? That's a bit extreme to be mad at a spouse over!
Because I ran up a $600 electric bill by keeping the heat on 68-70 throughout the storm and dripping the faucets, thus constantly running the electric hot water heater. Plus, we cooked at home for 5 straight days, using even more electricity. DW just wasn't happy I ran up such a large bill when we could've just used blankets and hoodies and turned the heat off. And we haven't even seen our water bill yet. No telling what that will be since we dripped our faucets from Friday night through Wednesday morning.
Will ask DH and if he remembers why I’ll edit and post it here. (Checked and he said they said if it’s down lower and power is lost it will take longer to recover and pipes could freeze.)
Yeah...but that wasn't you being frivolous. That was you. And her. living everyday life in your house. If you had turned the heat off and hadn't dripped the faucets you could have busted a pipe if it froze. Then you'd have a much bigger bill to deal with. I mean, you didn't run up the bill. Life necessitated the use of the electricity.
