What a week it's been! We just survived two days of SINGLE DIGIT mornings. It was so cold the high school closed today. Half the population in town has no gas heat because the gas pipeline is lacking pressure. Apparently the origin of the gas is Texas and people there are also suffering from a cold snap that is draining the gas available.
This lack of heat for a population of residents who live in upscale, spacious homes is quite a surprise. I had always envied gas heat, but now I wonder. This man-made disaster does not look favorably at the town's infrastructure. We are only lucky that these cold snaps never last long in southern Arizona. There are people in the Chicago and Boston area who are suffering much more with cold and snow and ice than we ever will. My friends in Boston are saying that towns there have so much snow, they don't know where to put the plowed stuff now. (I guess dumping mounds of snow into the ocean wouldn't work?)
Kevin and I were lucky this time around. Our only discomfort was lacking water pressure during the early hours. Our electric house kept us warm.
But sadly I read that several people had died from this cold in Tucson. How many more are truly suffering may not be known for sure, as many of the people lacking gas heat may not get their gas turned back on until later tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow will return to normal and hit the 60s again, great weather for a nice hike down to the border which I plan on leading with the hiking club.
This has proven to be one very harsh winter for most of the country. The Southeast is expecting another whomp this weekend, just in time for the SuperBore.
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