The elephant in the the room.

On the home stretch I hope in getting a whole home standby generator installed. The unit finally arrived and got installed, the electrical connections installed, the plumbing for Natural Gas installed and pressurized. Waiting for the City inspection and sign off and for Texas Natural Gas to lay in the line from my curb to a meter.The hope is that by next spring I'll be able to get through any more major outages with AC.

Strange ripple effects.As I think I've mentioned I've been trying to get a whole house standby generator installed for almost a year now. It took forever for the unit to even get shipped. But it's been installed and the electricians have done their part to set it up with the house and the plumber has installed, pressurized and tested to piping for natural gas and the city has inspected and approved the installation but the Natural Gas folk say it will likely be first of the year before they can install their piping and meter.The problem is said to be staffing. It seems many of the crews have been sent to the areas affected by hurricanes to the east of me and to areas affected by fires to the north and west of me and some that remained are in quarantine for Covid-19 and so new service like elective surgery has been moved to the far end of the line.But surprisingly, I find that really comforting. Yep; get them what are without power back online first and as long as I get up and running before the next major storm season all is well.