Treat your vehicle(s) like your fall-out shelter. :up: Even if the roads are all ice and snow drifts, as long as the grill is clean and tail pipe is uncovered and the car is outside vs in the garage, you have a source of heat, light, and radio. :yep: With comfortable seats as well. :D

You don't have to think Survival, you just have to think Smart. :yep:

It could be worse. You could end up laying shockfrosted under a Texan glacier, in 100 thousand years it thaws, somebody mistakes your meat with a mammoth steak and you end up getting BBQed over a green-glowing plasma fire, marinaded in smoking Aucturus sauce with Nebula dill and Martian chilli flakes.

Have you ever been bitten before? A grey-skinned testbiter, maybe?

As long as it is no e-car...

:rotfl2::rotfl2: lmao
Post of the year material :up:

Still it is the power grid that failed, i don't think Greta has much to do with it ...
https://apnews.com/article/houston-s...11cc6645b40a04
... yet!

Hope the weather will turn for the better as you wrote, it looked bad from here on monday.

Re surviving in a car, depending on engine and fuel consumption you can maybe survive 6-10 hours with engine idling, but what do you do then?
A generator is the better solution, and i am well aware of what all has to be done to install it.. as said before a wood oven, attached stirling engine for energy..
Living near a small stream can get you enough energy, but you have to install and maintain it all.
Don't make it too complicated, things can and will fail.

An oven with lots of wood, a well with a manual pump, some dried food and such should be enough for a few days. Maybe some solar panels for loading low energy devices like mobile phones, the car battery and such.

:haha:
I heard a burning Tesla gives you quite a lot of heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Qhr_LLoJ0

External combustion engine :D

My car is a last resort. I have 10 days fuel with my generator to sustain me before I have to go to my car.

https://youtu.be/XUCMQ0Y7EzE

I've heard that a large part of the failure is due to wind turbines freezing up, and solar panels snowed over. Texas is one of the largest wind power producers. Certainly didn't help in this situation.

We need your GPS co-ords to come rob.....
Umm. Rescue you!
:D

The key is NOT to run the car for 6-10 hours in one lump. Do what you need to get done then shut it off. :yep: A normal car should stay warm for at least a half hour to 45 minutes (not counting body heat) as long as you keep the doors and windows closed. We're not talking about a long weekend in Cancun, we're talking about Getting By.

This also applies to generators unless we're talking about pimped out Gucci generators with diesel engines and underground fuel tanks.
Look up what I meant by Duty Cycle. :yeah:

You really must hate squirrels, man, I mean your flat is a single giant squirrel death trap. :doh:

Ummm............
That couch at 1:00 looks like the one in PearLand back in 2005!
:o

What? How? I feed my squirrels.

He's talking about the wimpy German Squirrels. :har:

The many electric cables. ;) Rodents. Electric cables. Not good.

Sky; North American squirrels can (and often do) steal hub caps off cars.
Plus, Neal is (CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP) deep in the heart of Texas and you don't want to know what those beasts are capable of. :o
I hear they like to swim in the Gulf of Mexico to hunt sharks.

Galveston, TX beach this morning 26*

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...aa&oe=605089AB

:har: Der war gut!

I don't think so.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewals...h=76a51f7e21b3

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1803135.html

https://time.com/5939749/texas-storm...wind-turbines/

I read wind energy supply can be around 25 to 60 percent in summer and less than 10 in winter, in Texas. Wind turbines may shut down in storms and feather the blades, but have an own heating system and seldom freeze.
Looks more like grid problems (wasn't that Texas grid and maintenance deregulated in Texas?), and general gas production and distribution hampered by the cold.

Oh lord. The electric cords aren't there all year long.

Besides, as a low-level survivalist, I use the cords as bait to shoot squirrels and trade their meat for water and firewood.

Yeah, a lot of the problem is people wanting energy cheap, so the industry saves a buck or two every where they can. Still, if the wind farms cannot function, that's part of the problem.

https://www.star-telegram.com/opinio...249285685.html

Meanwhile on a hill far away :o

https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a2&oe=6051F221