Well some good new alas, and hopefully I'm not the only one who is in this position. Unless the power was cut at some point in the night while I was asleep, we've not had an electrical outage since late afternoon yesterday. Water came back on in the middle of the night but went back off for some reason. We were still a bit concerned this morning but it slowly came back up to full volume. YAY!! Water heater is still working fine, which is a blessing, possibly due to it being a propane unit versus electric. With electric water heaters if they run dry and are turned on, it will burn out the heating element. Reading some of the news blurbs I don't think we are totally in the clear but for now at least things are looking up, and I got to take a shower earlier. i'll tell y'all this, never again will I take a hot shower for granted!! It felt wonderful 
The water was not as hot as it should be but that's because the heater is still trying to catch up with the cold water that was introduced into the tank when the water came back on. No problem there. I just unplugged the circulating pump to give the heater a chance to catch up. Not taking any chances on losing water again, Tracy has laundry going and the dishwasher is running. We'll at least have some clean dishes to eat off of and clean clothes to wear for a couple of days. We are under a mandatory order to boil the water before drinking or making coffee, but that's easy stuff. At least we don't have to melt the white stuff before boiling it...for now anyway It's still colder than heck though. Temps in the low 20's with wind chills around zero I'd guess. We had a few minutes yesterday that things started to melt but immediately froze back up when the sun set so still iced in with no way out. That should eb changing tomorrow though.
Oh well, hope this does not sound like a gloat and prayers to all that are still going through it. I read yesterday that areas around the state are now running out of water and things are shutting down for them, even in Austin which is only a few miles away. They are just starting what just ended for us...well hopefully ended. Thanks everybody for enduring all of my whine sessions yesterday but life has been a bit weird recently. All of this mess started exactly one week ago with the big ice storm and has just continued to get worse. Lots of great life lessons learned though, I'll say that.
Warm, clean, and happy,
Robert
The water was not as hot as it should be but that's because the heater is still trying to catch up with the cold water that was introduced into the tank when the water came back on. No problem there. I just unplugged the circulating pump to give the heater a chance to catch up. Not taking any chances on losing water again, Tracy has laundry going and the dishwasher is running. We'll at least have some clean dishes to eat off of and clean clothes to wear for a couple of days. We are under a mandatory order to boil the water before drinking or making coffee, but that's easy stuff. At least we don't have to melt the white stuff before boiling it...for now anyway It's still colder than heck though. Temps in the low 20's with wind chills around zero I'd guess. We had a few minutes yesterday that things started to melt but immediately froze back up when the sun set so still iced in with no way out. That should eb changing tomorrow though.Oh well, hope this does not sound like a gloat and prayers to all that are still going through it. I read yesterday that areas around the state are now running out of water and things are shutting down for them, even in Austin which is only a few miles away. They are just starting what just ended for us...well hopefully ended. Thanks everybody for enduring all of my whine sessions yesterday but life has been a bit weird recently. All of this mess started exactly one week ago with the big ice storm and has just continued to get worse. Lots of great life lessons learned though, I'll say that.
Warm, clean, and happy,
Robert
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