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    Not sure if the video will load from here, so also posting an action pic of the Crawfish Bread. Not sure if you can get this anywhere but the festival (I’ve never found it outside the race track at JazzFest). 

     

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  2. 20 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    Necrobump because good news, it's going to get worse!  [No shit! emoji]. Our grandchildren are going to piss on their grand and great-grandparent's graves.

     

    https://www.kvue.com/article/tech/science/climate-science/texas-hotter-wildfires-climatology-report/269-483d3038-e623-406b-b0e3-b322c0766d35

    Hotter temperatures, more wildfires


    The report states that the average annual surface temperature in Texas in 2036 is expected to be 3 degrees warmer than the 1950-1999 average and 1.8 degrees warmer than the 1991-2020 average. This would make a typical year around 2036 warmer than all but the warmest year experienced in Texas from 1895-2020.

    In that same vein, the number of 100-degree days is expected to quadruple by 2036 compared to the 1970s and 1980s, with more 100-degree days expected in cities. The report found that extreme monthly summertime temperature trends imply an increase of about 2 degrees over the past 50 years. 

    The coolest days of the summer are also expected to continue getting warmer.

    What do these trends indicate for future wildfire seasons? Nothing good. The report said overall, the area of the state commonly impacted by wildfires may expand eastward. At the same time, higher temperatures will likely allow very dry conditions to develop earlier in the year, extending both the spring and summer wildfire seasons.

     

    Anticipated increasing temperatures also apply to the winter. Researchers found that extreme monthly wintertime temperatures are expected to continue to warm at an even faster rate. That means typical wintertime extremes by 2036 are expected to be milder than most of the winter extremes in the state's historic record.

    I'm fucking out, man. Tell Colorado they're getting another Texpat. 

  3. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    He's better than Don Zimmerman.  Have no idea who the other guy is, to be fair.  

    If the "other guy" is Jett Hanna, he's legit. He was a higher up with Texas Legal Insurance Exchange (maybe still is), which is a non-profit insurance entity for professional liability insurance that seems really well run (I am a member for the last 15 years, get dividends each year). I trust him with numbers, and to not try to impose some sort of agenda. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    If you're leasing your car, you probably have bigger financial black flags than some corporate rebate / discount.

    Not necessarily with EVs. It's a loophole to get the full $7500 EV tax credit for TVs over $80K.

    Of course, I doubt many of the Tesla employees are leasing a Model S or Cybertruck, so you may be right with these folks. 

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