Man, really hate to tempt fate, but so far, we haven't been affected by the power outages. It got bloody cold for this area, dropping into the teens and there are burst pipes all over the place (not city pipes but individual residential ones). The fellow who owns the property where I do lots of my nature photography had multiple breaks. His well froze (actually the line from the well to the pressure tank), but no damage there from what we could tell. That shut down the water to pretty much the whole place, so he couldn't keep the water running to prevent pipes freezing, so I have spent the last couple of days chasing down breaks in the line so that the cattle can get water. Been a bit of an adventure. Lowes plumbing dept. has been a madhouse. The plumbers are really making hay while the sun doesn't shine. I'm going to lose a lot of plants in the yard, hibiscus, banana plants, jacaranda tree, etc. Pretty annoying. We are still looking at two or three nights of below freezing, but we actually got up to about 41 this afternoon.
