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Homercles

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Any forecast updates from Surly weather wizards?
  10. 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
  11. How do you get this view? Their website (at least on mobile) is like a Rundberg HEB
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Gotta admit those MiG 28’s looked better in Soviet colors in that 1986 documentary Top Gun
  15. Next up, hand to hand combat training
  16. Basically expected this
  17. I’ve been ritually burning the dead from last icepocalypse in my Solo Stove as a warning to the others to keep their shit wired tight.
  18. I would just like to reiterate, for the record as a member of the left behinds, that Slorch does not represent us
  19. Man I remember 12+ years ago when I first joined the Shag, I lurked for a good six months and waded into the waters very gently when I finally felt I had something clever to contribute. I knew I wanted to be a part of this community but had seen the sheer mercilessness inherent in a ‘room’ full of drunken longhorn lawyers. I’ll never understand ‘people’ who go through the trouble to sign up, and instantly either join a contentious thread or burst in with regarded hot takes given it usually ends up poorly
  20. Saw my first Cyber Truck yesterday, on brushy creek road of all places. Holy hell is it ugly, looked like what a constipated ED-209 finally crapped out after eating a T-1000.
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