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I do agree with how you have planned for your retirement; same. We've made numerous upgrades to our home in other areas and as necessary as a generator has become in Texas, the construction and issues that would come with it would be too disruptive. I'm glad you have the RV generators to help when you lose power. I can't even believe I'm having this type of conversation, but since February of 2021, we haven't been able to count on keeping the "lights on" if we should have any severe weather and that's sad. The only time I can recall we lost power for several days was back in the early 1970's when Texas got hit with a bad ice storm. We were without power for days and my dad, very cleverly got us through it with a warm burning fire, using camping gear to cook food and camping gear for lighting etc. We've always laughed at my mom's comment that she at least had her electric blanket when the power went out lol. Since that storm, I've not recalled any major power outage issues since, however, my area is a bit out in pseudo-country and we do tend to have issues with bad electrical storms, however, it usually is a short outage if we have one at all.
Severe winter storms in the forecast have a new meaning though to us.
 

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I'm in one of the milder areas and yet today when walking towards my front door from the car, I nearly got blown over by a few gusts. I couldn't put the key in the lock fast enough! That was actually a bit scary.
 

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Storm Eowyn, looked like a really severe storm on so many levels. Everything okay now?

We have potentially severe weather coming in on Wednesday. I think we will just have a lot of rain, but maybe a thunderstorm of some kind?
 

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Yesterday, it was over 80F, today, it's freezing cold. Tomorrow, back to being warm. :eek: OMG, everyone I know and everyone else on the planet has been getting this mystery flu. I'm just getting over it. The weather doesn't help.:rolleyes:
 

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Hope you're feeling better, Tiffs.

In the meantime, the local colding of the UK continues. I just went out to get some petrol (gas in American :) ) and froze my ass off in 3C temperatures. Looks like it's gonna get even colder, -7C in some parts, although very cold weather is not so unusual for this time of year as February tends to be the real winter over here, not December.

 

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Here I am February having to already mow because of red clover and dandelions sprouting and crickets and mosquitoes being out and about. I hope we get a really hard 3-7 day freeze in the next few weeks.
 

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Same... we've had some green patches throughout the winter. I haven't seen the mosquitoes yet. I'm expecting the geckos to show up any day hanging on our doors as it's been so warm. I'm looking forward to the cold weather coming in this week too and hope we have a few good nights below 32F.
 

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In TX it can be all 4 in 1 day + rain sideways
Lol, very true. We've been exceptionally warm and sunny this week and now a cold front is coming in this afternoon and changing the whole warm vibe we've had. Some rain coming in also. I don't know if it will be going sideways, but I'm sure we will have side ways rain when spring really kicks in and we have those volatile spring storms. 🌩️
 

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We had a hail/thunderstorm last night. Funny, I always look at the weather forecast in the morning and night. Last night I took a look and the forecast still showed "just rain" however, the day before the forecast said storms. Well... they were wrong again (joking) but something happened last night and both my dh and I woke up and my husband said to me, "what's up weather girl, how did you miss this?" So in the middle of the night while hail is beating on our windows we are talking about the weather and calming two dogs. Needless to say, I've been tired all day. Now it's freaking cold.🥶

How's everyone's weather this week?
 
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