Hurricane Beryl left quite a path of destruction and power outages. I think she was mad because they kept referring to her as a “he” when Beryl is obviously a woman! 😆

We are fine now, but we did lose power for 7 hours on Monday. Thankfully we are equipped to keep my daughter’s ventilator and other devices running. Before it got hot I used a 300w battery pack that I bought after the great Texas freeze .

The day before the storm hit my husband got the diesel generator ready to go just in case. He came home from work a little early Monday when the power was out to get it turned on and connected to the refrigerator .

After John turned on the generator I realized the internet would work again if we plugged it in , so then we were able to use our phones and watch TV again. I think the cellular towers were overloaded with so many people at home because of the storm. I couldn’t get any apps to work on my cell signal after the storm started. Our power went out about 10:00 after flickering several times.

By 1:00 the storm was mostly over and it was warming up in the house so we moved Grace into my office and plugged in the window unit air conditioner. My mom and sister came over to cool down because they had no power either . But around 6:00 the lights came back on and we all breathed a sigh of relief!

Houston had 2 million without power and many are still waiting for it to be restored. Lots of angry people blaming the power company for not doing better at preparing. We get our power from a rural electric cooperative and they worked hard to get back on.

Today the weather was beautiful , but hot . I’m very thankful for the nice cool air blowing out of my air conditioning vents!

I expect more storms and power outages this year. Next time we’ll try connecting the central air to the generator. Not sure about that. I wish we could afford to buy one of those whole house models . Our house is all electric , no gas. I think everyone should have a generator. The electric grid is old and unreliable and no one wants to pay to update it. Don’t wait for an emergency. Start preparing now . At the very least get a 300w battery pack and some small fans. Those 10000 mAh battery packs for phones are pretty good, too.

Stay cool !