The word is out in the TX Hill Country: it was 75 today but will be 13 by the weekend. I’ve got a pickup order at an Austin HEB tomorrow; will be interesting to see what I actually end up with. Texans all still suffer flashbacks from the freeze-trauma of Feb ‘21, when the power grid imploded and for 5 days we were flushing our toilets with melted snow and burning cardboard boxes for a few moments of warmth.

UPDATE my grocery order arrived nearly intact; I guess I’m fortunate that my fellow Hill Countrians’ deep-freeze prep tastes don’t run to poncey foodie crap like smoked salmon and brussels sprouts. The saintly farm hand who picked up my stuff did report that our rural supermarket was a total mob scene, that bottled water and toilet paper were sold out, and that the whole town had apparently lost its entire damn mind. Northerners may laff, but in these parts we are scarred for life by the TX power grid failure of ‘21. #txwx

Ted "Cancun" Cruz left the state which is a reliable omen of bad weather.

@Npars01 @arclight @iBlame Curious if they actually fixed anything, or if the energy company's execs took the money they were supposed to spend on weather upgrades and paid for new yachts. 🤔 I guess we'll see.