2021 problem was that not enough NG power plants were online. They were down for repairs and prepping for the next summer. SETX houses are build on slabs. Very few are built with foundations - like in North Carolina or further north. When it's super cold, pipes in the crawlspace underneath can freeze if they are not insulated enough. If they are, it's not a problem. Some older houses in SETX are on foundations instead of slabs, but I wouldn't buy one. We have no bedrock underneath - just that d*amn white and red clay.user:null wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:02 amI believe part of the debacle in Feb 2021 was that lots of new growth happened in the TX Triangle cities since those 80s affairs. So lots of infrastructure, foundations, people, etc that literally might never have seen such cold until last year's outbreak.MontgomeryCoWx wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:48 pmI was 20 months old in 1983 event. I remember 1989 vividly and it is what sold me on Extreme Winter Weather. I was doing yard work with my Dad in Longview and it was 75 and starting to thunderstorm and a few hours later it was 25 with heavy sleet and snow.
Cold w/ snow/sleet is wintry fun, but not too good for the TX grid, infrastructure, etc. The same levels of cold, but dry might be easier to handle, though more "boring". This is, unless, lessons have been learned since 2021, of course.
Pipes embedded into a slab won't burst because of cold. Be more worried if the slab dries out in a Texas summer.
