The Chronicle continues coverage of the winter weather, with temperatures in the upper 30s and wind chill values struggling to climb above freezing today.
The Fort Bend County city of Weston Lakes on Friday night became the latest city to issue a boil water notice because of the cold.
One way to avoid frozen pipes is to turn the water to your home off and flush the pipes by running faucets until they're dry and flushing toilets until they're out of water, according to Joe Bany, director of field operations and responsible master plumber at John Moore Services . The point is to not leave water sitting idle in your pipes — that's when it's more likely to freeze, then pipes can rupture and when they thaw, cause water damage to your home.
Your help is needed due to the low temperatures expected throughout Texas. Please help reduce your usage by limiting the use of large appliances. VisitMost of the messages asked people to conserve power between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. “Our natural gas system is operating well under these extreme circumstances," said Tal Centers, CenterPoint Energy’s vice president, Texas Gas in a statement."As everyone is trying to keep warm, we are experiencing record usage of natural gas and in order to prevent service interruptions, we ask our customers to conserve energy at this time."
That is nearly 4,000 megawatts more than ERCOT officials predicted, and at times late Thursday and early Friday, ERCOT's demand forecasts were off by more than 10,000 megawatts, or enough power for about 2 million homes.
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