I'm not quite ready to say we're home free - out of the woods - yet, but we're getting close. Thanks to our generator, we have been warm, and have kept our water on during the unprecedented weather Texas has experienced, but we were cutting it pretty close.
Yesterday morning, the lights went out again and the level in our propane tank was dropping below 20%. Honey finally reached a live person at Entergy yesterday afternoon and apparently our outage was due to a line failure that nobody had reported because they assumed it was one of the "rolling blackouts" the power companies had been using to try the keep lights on as much as possible. He assured her that they would get the problem fixed in the next few hours.
We had been checking our propane level every couple hours, and sometime between 3 and 5 p.m. we got a delivery. The driver did not do the fill-up I had requested (I guess they are rationing) but he did give us 100 gallons which took us back up to around 60%. Like Santa at Christmas, we didn't see or hear him, but he left us a marvelous gift.
When I brought the delivery ticket into the kitchen, Honey literally danced for joy.
It was almost an anticlimax, but the lights did come back on about 8 p.m.
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