heyyyy i just spent a week with power off, water out, in a boil notice, in the coldest temperatures i've ever been in

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@astra Glad you're ""One of the Strong Ones""

From a New Englander: you did good.

@Motodrachen what does this even mean, like heck there's people that have died because of the state's unpreparedness and they didn't deserve that, regardless of being strong or not

i'm definitely ready to get out the guillotines, actually

@Motodrachen oh hey that's okay, my sense of humor is totally nonexistent rn and yeah. sleep's been nonexistent this week

winter hell 

@Motodrachen oh this is completely true. most of us have experienced a night or 2 when it was in the 20s. but it was single digits, then we had an ice storm, then a snow storm, and another ice storm. power lines and branches came down, everyone was stuck. including natural gas deliveries for electricity

people kept asking me if the streets were gonna get plowed and i'm like haha you think texas has plows??? we got rid of sanding trucks apparently. and we saw this storm coming

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now i know though. the nights where it was in the single digits are something else. none of our houses are made for this, and the infrastructure isn't either. i heated my lil room with a tea lights/clay pot thing, which was nice. i had lighting because i have USB fairy lights. i had a shirt, a sweater, and a baja jacket on for days straight.

winter hell 

@Motodrachen anyway haha the tiredness has hit me so hard

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