Outside my window the staff at Romeos Italian Restaurant are having a snowball fight on the outdoor patio. In the median on Barton Springs lies the light pole taken out by a driver overnight. As the sun which has finally come out struggles to raise the temperature above freezing for the first time since early Tuesday morning I am thankful I have no need to travel further than the washroom and my birdfeeder.
All this began Tuesday when we experienced an overnight low of 42 and an afternoon high of 27. By Wednesday morning it had dropped to 17 with gusting winds making it feel even colder and yes that’s Fahrenheit degrees. Strange to relate that Monday afternoon I sat outside and read in the sun. That intense cold prompted Texas Hydro to mandate rolling blackouts. At 6:05 my coffeemaker that had been programmed to start at 6 stopped working and from then until noon we had the benefit of modern civilization in our section of town for only brief 10 minutes periods each hour making a mockery of the radio announcements of 15 minute outages in some areas.
Outside the campground’s water tap is frozen as are some of the lines inside my RV. I can only hope that when things thaw out after the temperature tops 60 on Saturday that there is no permanent damage. Unfortunately we have one more night of intense cold to endure before things warm up. It is strange to look at North American Weather and realize there are sections of Alaska that have been warmer than Central Texas this week.
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