Bye Bye freezing cold/weather dont let the door hit you in the butt on the way out!!!!! We are so over you!!!

Media-induced frenzy.

I would not call this a Media induced frenzy, it was real life, for us.. I dont think the media has any thing to do with this.. We were not expecting this crazy weather at all.. No trucks could get in to restock.. Now its great that the weather is going to get back to normal..We can all breath a sign of relief now for our animals,live stock and us.. 

I just don't get these empty stores... am I really so old-fashioned that I always have food in the house?
Growing up my mom always had enough canned and dry stuff in the pantry to keep us going for a week or 2 at least. if something got moved from the pantry to the kitchen and got used it was replenished the next trip to the store. And that is what I still do to this day.

Yes we might be out of milk, fruit and fresh vegetables. But with the water, canned and dry stuff on top of a full freezer we can make it a month easily between the 2 of us. 
And I understand things being expensive. But a can or 2 of soup and veggies extra every time you go to the store isn't so bad. 
May need to get storebrand stuff instead of the big brands but it will keep you going when need be.... 

Edited because I can't spell apparently...

In regards to a media induced frenzy, that would be Labor Day 2017 when Houston got TOTALLY FLOODED, and in the DFW area fuel became unobtainable for real!

I lived that nightmare!

I agree. YEARS ago, living in Western Kansas for 2+ years taught me the lesson but I have always had a good supply of groceries and frozen food. I usually only shop about 1 or 2 times a month. I do realize that some people have so much debt that they live paycheck to paycheck and don't think that they can buy more than needed for a couple of days. 

Thankfully, the weather seems to be turning around down south ......  

Same here Cranky and NJJ, when we shop for grocery's we always buy extra of most things, so we are petty stocked up on alot, and we have a freezer full of vegies and meat so if we had to we could live off of what we already have for months.. but there is so many that do live from paycheck to paycheck... 

But I did run out of my Rootbeer and Cream Soda and could not get to town to buy more and that really sucked, lol..

I hope I can get some today I really love my Rootbeer and cream soda!!!!

We had power overnight and it was awesome! It's out again now though.... ugh.... but yeah... on the food deal... we typically always have our pantry and freezers extremely well stocked. We could easily survive on it for 3-4 weeks with a family of 5. I'm not going anywhere near a grocery store until late next week.  We did ride to town to get more horse feed and fuel ... God, I hope we don't have to get back in that trailer tonight... 

i just read in texas  you all have variable power otions?  that people  are seeing that normal pay 660.00  now have a power bill pf 10000.00  yes 10k

how is that possable  they were several  was thousands  ?

  i keep dried milk on hand to use  soup ice cream  gravy  no to drink that stuff is grooss

All the photos of the HEB in Bastrop, Tx is reminiscent of The Cold War in Soviet Russia! Or in current times, it would be Venezula!

Still no power here.  It's not as cold as it was but it's still cold. You can't get an answer from Oncor about anything. I stayed in the house last night and it's 47 in here now. Thankful the sun is out again today. I've called, texted,  messaged, used the app and I get nowhere. They say less than 18k people in this area are still without power ... lucky me huh..  the roads were good yesterday. My ex husband,  will not come get the kids ... he's had power and water this entire time.. I listened to my daughter call him twice since this started over a week ago... he always has some lame excuse as to why he can't come get her and Jacob. She was basically begging him last night and I overheard him telling her she needed to give him more notice he can't just drop everything and come to our little town to pick them up. I'd say it's unbelievable what he's done, but it s not unbelievable.... he's an ex for a reason.  He's a grade A "you know what" hole...  He also made a comment to her about that's how living in a double wide treats ya... yes we live in a trailer house but you know what, it's ours, we make it a home and we have lots of good memories here with lots of love ... she was crying when she hung up.the phone last night.  Truth is, the kids are better off with us... we are resourceful, we know what to do to stay warm and fix problems .... my kids have been warm, and no one is hungry. He infuriates me... I wouldn't go stay at his house no matter what! I just really hope they get our power up today. The grocery stores are empty still... fast food places are few and far between and if they are open it's typically 20-30 cars deep.... if so many still have power and they bought up all the groceries why are so many in line for food at this point???? It makes no sense to me. 

I was prepared. 

Never went to the grocery store or feed store thru the whole event. 

Frenzy buying and hoarding is medie induced. 

well media and dumbassedness 

In reality your POS Ex just burned a bridge with his children! They (especially Your Daughter) will never forget this episode!

I dropped the ball and turned to NBC this morning where they promised coverage of the crisis in Texas and how we could help.    #1 priority..... bashing Ted Cruz for taking his kids to Mexico.  I gave up.

that's the easy way to take the focus away from Coumo and define a narrative 

Newsmax is going to talk about the winter storms impacts on Texas if you are still interested in about 5 min and its 8:56 now.. 

Oncor finally got back to me with, what I hope was a real person this time... they sent a message via Facebook messenger saying they are aware of our outage, there are now approximately 130 people in our immediate area without power and they are working on it, best case scenario will be Sunday. Sigh.... ok.. Sunday it is.... I need to pull up my boots and go on, like we have been ... I will take the kids to town and try to find them a hot meal or some donuts or something.. most everything should be open by now in the city .. 

Going there.  

I have stated throughout this weather event:

"Fire every gosh****ed politican and bureacrat anywhere near remotely involved with this mess!"

And then there are words applicable to this situation.............."FAILED LEADERSHIP".

My husband use to be a high voltage lineman, he's pretty schooled on power lines and what they are supposed to look like and good at spotting the issue. He's been driving around checking stuff out and knows which lines feed us around here. He told me he hasn't seen a single issue as to what would be causing us to be without power still. He did see one problem earlier but he said they had actually repaired that one last night. That doesn't mean there definitely isn't one somewhere where he can't easily see without going deep into those pastures but from the looks of it all, we should be running. So I don't know what is going on! I'm starting to worry we won't get any power this evening again. It gives me anxiety. The later it gets the less likely we will get it back. We have lotscof great people in our community that have offered their homes to us... I greatly appreciate that but we just can't leave with all our animals here depending on us. So thankful the sun is shining bright and everything has pretty much melted off