Houston's Beryl Experience & Tools You Need to Survive Outages

On the day of the Tropical Storm Beryl, Center Point Energy reported over 2 Million Houston residents were without power.  And you can believe with 100-degree temperatures it was almost unbearable heat and very dark without lights in the entire city.

There was no way to cool off with ceiling fans or air conditioning nor was there any way to preserve food in the refrig and freezer because we could not find any ice at local gas stations.  thankfully we had filled our tank with gas before the storm because there were long lines around the gas stations all over the city. Our source of light was the sun and at night candlelight.
In fact, the whole region was in the dark, and boy was it hot.  We tried to sleep for 2 nights without A/C, which was nearly impossible.  However, we persevered by praying and hoping that our lights and power would return sometime during the night.

However, that did not happen so we found a local motel about 10 minutes from home and we were relieved they had 1 non-smoking room vacancy.  When we entered the room the A/C was at full blast. And the room felt like ice. We were ecstatic, to say the least.  One-hundred-degree temps wear you down quickly in Texas. The sun and heat are unrelenting.

Lessons: What you need to survive Houston's power outages floods, tropical storms and hurricanes. 

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