Texas has seen no help from fema or red cross. Not one fucking ounce of help. We are Freezing, We have No Water, No Power, No Internet. Grocery Stores are empty, cant find anything.
Now This Story Comes Out On Our Local Fake News.... https://abc13.com/weather/fema-sending-60-generators-to-texas-amid-power-outages-/10349070/... But if you read story it seems like they are more worried about vaccine spots. This is now going on 5 days and they are talking of sending food and water and supplies and Generators... Wtf where the hell has all this shit been... Still Have Not Seen Anything.
Heat tape and a genset is a lot cheaper than redoing doing all the plumbing, and it sounds like you're gonna have to do some reno work anyways.
Heat tape only exists to keep the temp above freezing so it's pretty low watt and you can run quite a bit off a small 1.5kW genset.
I'll keep that in mind, thank you for the recommendation. I'm still evaluating options
No prob, fairly common solution here in Colorado for pipes running thru poorly-insulated spaces.