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Homercles

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  1. Sorry know r serious thread but that pic reminded me of True Lies
  2. Officially official for RRISD. Gonna go enjoy the fireworks on the Facebook comments now that it’s fully out there.
  3. This. My wife works for someone at District who is in the know, and apparently they were all waffling the past hour…so guess they changed their mind recently to do late start. I’d be surprised if RRISD cancels while all surrounding are just a late start. Who the fuck knows.
  4. Just got unofficial word through someone who would know that RRISD is canceled Tuesday and a 2-hour delay on Wednesday. At least that’s the latest word until they announce. Expect Austin the same. Every fucking year now.
  5. Yeah I’m thinking 80% chance RRISD closed tomorrow at this rate. It’ll have nothing to do with the roads, which are fine, but the cold + wind chill. Seems like an every year thing now. What I find bemusing is the constant chorus of folks (90% women) flooding the district FB pages with calls to cancel school the next day…citing everything from safety, to lack of proper clothing to crossing guards. One is a district TA, as if they didn’t just get 3 straight weeks off + a long weekend If you feel that strongly just keep your damn kids home and take the unexcused absence. The rest of us have to work and don’t want to do it with the kiddos running around all day.
  6. I drove around RR/Cedar Park for the hell of it, few bridges, etc. From my very limited excursion, everything seemed fine…so I expect schools closed until Thursday.
  7. Yeah I lived in Oklahoma for four years and there were actual road treatments, houses with hose bibs you could drain and an electrical grid that wasn’t guided by fucking profits…strange that winter blasts were better tolerated up there
  8. It’s begun
  9. I suddenly, desperately want to procure a ref-adorned dummy that I can donate to the Surly tailgating contingent, that I may observe the drunken antics when a flag is thrown
  10. Nope. As noted up thread, Santa brought my kids tickets to Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Adventure of Cold As Fuck and the C Montgomery Burns…I mean…Ross Perot Science Museum.
  11. Was light snow from Hillsboro through Waco coming back from Dallas tonight…or maybe frozen Cowboys tears. Didn’t show up on radar but was enough to get my kids excited.
  12. Santa brought my kids tickets to the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest experience up in Dallas/Little Elm, so I’m jealous of y’all watching playoffs and carb loading. Pretty sure my balls froze to my legs for a bit.
  13. Just checked to see if the RRISD Facebook page is inundated with parents calling for schools to be closed next week…they’re out there, I know it.
  14. Any forecast updates from Surly weather wizards?
  15. Ok when you set it to 0.1” or greater, probabilities are in the 5-10% range. Default map is for 0.01”. Feel a little better
  16. How do you get this view? Their website (at least on mobile) is like a Rundberg HEB
  17. Long days, short years. I’d certainly be more enthusiastic at the prospect if we hadn’t just completed three weeks of no school during the incredibly hectic Thanksgiving thru New Years marathon. As much as I love my kids (they’re 7/10)…kinda need a few normal weeks here.
  18. I’ve kinda already resigned myself to schools being closed Tuesday…seems like an annual requirement to have my kids at home for several extra days while I try to work.
  19. Gotta admit those MiG 28’s looked better in Soviet colors in that 1986 documentary Top Gun
  20. Or license their door technology to Boeing
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