We are in northwest Austin and had 5.5" of snow and down to 7 degrees this morning. We have kept our power so far. Worried the pool pipes will freeze up if we lose power as I don't think it is going to come back on any time soon. We don't have a generator. But many people have critical needs for power. The rolling brownouts would make this all more manageable. They started talking about the weather models over two weeks ago about the low single digit temperature possibilities, but no one, including me, believed the models. It was over 30 years ago that this happened last time and with the explosive growth of population in Central Texas since then, they had some time to plan. Easy for hindsight to be 2020. I guess they have a new standard for extreme power load situations now. Schools were closed today for President's day so everyone is at home and no where to go due to the roads. ERCOT said wind turbines out in western Texas froze up so capacity was decreased also from that. "ETA: natural gas and coal production significantly reduced also due to transportation delivery issues". The communications of the rolling brownouts is conflicting...was suppose to be 10-45 minute outages every 2-3 hours. But since this am, they are saying Austin Energy cannot do the rolling outages. They started implementing the brownouts last night around 1-2 am. You could see the outages pop up on the Austin Energy Power Outage Map. Basically most people that don't have power aren't getting it back until more conservation happens or the weather starts moderating late tomorrow.