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tokamak

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  1. Didn't see a thread. Opening ceremony live at 12:30 central on July 26. Rebroadcast that night at 6:30. FYI, NBC is raising the price of Peacock by a couple bucks a month as of tomorrow. If you sign up today, one month at the old price will get you through the entire games.
  2. “Hi” is better than a string of random numbers lol my friends
  3. Finally got power around 7:00 tonight. Seven and a half days almost on the dot. I got an automated call from Centerpoint saying they’d get to me by Friday. Good job, good effort Ms. Robovoice. My poor neighbor’s A/C won’t kick on. The gift that keeps on giving.
  4. Why would Centerpoint care about PR? Are you going to cancel your account with them?
  5. Supposedly the top of our TE board was Townsend, Armstrong, Winston. The staff loves Townsend.
  6. Rich people all have Generacs. It's business as usual for them.
  7. Same exact situation here. Literally my block has nothing, and we're staring at people with power in all four directions. Around 30ish homes. We got power for a few seconds yesterday at 5:45 pm, immediately heard a loud boom, and lost it again. I'm sure we're back down at the bottom of the queue again.
  8. This is unwatchable. Every 2 minutes is a different Argentinian rolling around like he’s been shot.
  9. They got my whole neighborhood back up and running…. Except my street. I kept getting a bunch of celebratory texts all day. I guess we’re a dreaded nested outage. Back of the queue we go.
  10. Kelshaun Johnson on Tuesday I think
  11. I’m starting to think these Centerpoint guys might be full of shit.
  12. Wiping your ass while sweaty has got to be one of life’s worst feelings.
  13. Just watched Cruella with my kids. It’s much better than a Disney villain spinoff cash grab has any right to be.
  14. My brothers in Christ, it’s fucking 89 degrees inside my house and I’ve got at least another 48 hours of this to go. Could you kindly shut the fuck up about your churches?
  15. At this point I don't give a fuck if it's Landon Donovan or Billy Donovan or Tate Donovan. Change is good.
  16. Crowd sourced outage map, since Centerpoint is useless: https://digital-client.com/?mibextid=UyTHkb
  17. Last official update from Centerpoint is 80% of everyone restored by end of day Sunday. They promised that most people would have concrete estimates by today, but haven't updated their map since last night and it's all sorts of wrong anyway. I assume the rain yesterday and today is fucking things up.
  18. I’ve been thinking about this. I’m sure all the linemen know what they’re doing, but I also assume the focus right now is on getting people back online quickly. Temporary solutions have a tendency to become permanent fixes though. After every outage, there’s a mad rush to get the grid back up, but does Centerpoint have the resources or even the willingness to go back over everything and “do it right” after all of the out of town resources have left? I wonder how much that cycle contributes to the fragility of the grid.
  19. That’s insane to me. So much shareholder value just being left on the table like that.
  20. Are you in the business of selling useless tracking websites?
  21. Yeah it's odd. Drove around quite a bit today and only saw 2 trucks. Absolutely nothing going on in my neighborhood.
  22. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/195bcf03ae0c491f9f14bf77f2c43420 No point in clicking though. It's both inaccurate and not updated.
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