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Originally Posted by celstu1  Do you have a basement? I know where we are, if we were in a heat wave and there was going to be rolling blackouts, we'd just go to the basement. Even on weeks that the temp has been 90s everyday, our basement stays about 75, which is wayyyy more bearable. There is no A/C down there, its just that its underground. Our pool right now is so warm it's not even refreshing to swim in... and we have a rather large inground pool, it does not typically hit 82 degrees water temp, but this summer its staying there. |
No, most of houses in Texas don't have basements so we are just dependent on our electrical services and A-C to keep us cool. Our electric company never used to have rolling blackouts before sooo many people started moving to Texas and I guess have overwhelmed the system until they can catch up! I have never known a summer before 2010 to have even a mention of rolling blackouts as a possibility and though we never actually had them where I live last summer or this one, so far, during the cold spell around the Superbowl, we did have rolling blackouts from so many people running their Central Heat. I lost electricity one day for 45, 30 and 15 minutes one day that Superbowl week. Oh, for some of that cold air now!