Only checking email a couple times per day. Using Android extreme battery saver so use 4154251601 if you really need to contact me.
According to the whole system has collapsed with cascading failures. Auction rate for electricity is k/MWh instead of avg 8. Bonkers... Water pumps offline or frozen. Gasoline refineries offline so Gas supplies dipping. Not enough power to even do the promised rolling blackouts. At least the bridges to the island I'm on reopened..
Also another wrinkle in my situation. Staying at friends place down south Texas, but the electronic lock jammed in the cold, so had to pack up to a temp place, which also has no power (and no food). So no access to my laptop until power comes back so I can enter using the garage code (or a rock through a window)
It sounds worse in the place I was staying in Dallas which we fled from. Power out there too and much much colder with lots of snow.
I wonder if fairness in power supply cuts is an area worth investigating. Needs analysis could be interesting overlaid with circuit layout..
Will have a lot more to say when I'm online again....