Texas freeze – Part 1
Snow, ice and disappearing mercury gripped our home in Texas last Monday morning. Our neighborhood in suburban Fort Worth lost power and the temperature outside fell way below freezing. The wind blew through every crack bringing the chill indoors. Pulling the generator out into six inches of snow was nearly impossible, but I managed. Too bad my husband, Troy, was on the East Coast with his son from an earlier marriage. The generator wasn’t set up to power the whole house, but he had rigged a way to plug in the gas furnace’s blower to the generator. Power failures are common here. The generator worked until the power came back on. But the second time that the power went off, I couldn’t start it. Our next-door neighbor, Vicente, a.k.a. Vic, is some kind of mechanical …