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Down here most powerlines are overhead.  So when trees get icy and droop, and/or  branches break, they knock out the power.  There are branches down all over the city right now and my parents' house, my brother's house, my sister's house, and several friends' houses, went without power for most of last night.

Up here in my neat and tidy HOA-restricted neighborhood though, all power lines are buried by statute.  So we're fine.  Hopefully it stays that way.

How about fires?

No ice fishing for YOU - one year

How about fires?

We're out of fire season. It hasn't been a particularly rainy winter here, but enough.

Everyone should move to California and Florida.

Including me.  Good Lord I hate cold and ice.

Probably not a big issue for you in your palatial estate, but you may want to investigate to see figure out whether your water pipes are running in exterior walls or not. Up in the Midwest they try to bring them up in interior walls to avoid them freezing and then rupturing during frigid spells, and I think most of the more temperate parts of the country they often run along exterior walls because it's easier. 

It's probably not cold enough there for them to freeze, but especially as you're probably running your furnace to keep the inside of the house a balmy 85, but something to check nevertheless.

We're out of fire season. It hasn't been a particularly rainy winter here, but enough.
Probably not a big issue for you in your palatial estate, but you may want to investigate to see figure out whether your water pipes are running in exterior walls or not. Up in the Midwest they try to bring them up in interior walls to avoid them freezing and then rupturing during frigid spells, and I think most of the more temperate parts of the country they often run along exterior walls because it's easier.

It's probably not cold enough there for them to freeze, but especially as you're probably running your furnace to keep the inside of the house a balmy 85, but something to check nevertheless.

Thanks, definitely appreciate the heads-up and advice from those that know far better than I do.

Almost all of my water lines are on interior walls, I do have one that comes up to a second floor lavatory on an exterior wall, I'm keeping that cabinet door open and that faucet dripping for the duration.

The real problem down here is exterior spigots-- all of mine are wrapped, and none of them are on north-facing walls so the wind effects are minimized.  But at some point, staying below freezing for up to 96 hours (including overnight dips down to 9, 1, and 19 degrees) could take its toll.  If it turns out that way, that will be-- by FAR-- the hardest hard freeze in my lifetime, in Austin.

unprecedented cold streak here as well

the local weathermen haven't talked about breaking records yet, but I don't remember such an extended cold since the mid-80s.  We set a bunch of records back about 1984 or 85 in the southeast part of the state

looking at daytime highs of negative 6 Sunday and Monday with overnight lows near 25 below

25 below might set a record

Guess I won't be golfing this weekend.