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Storm the Field

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  1. In my experience, that's just how dogs are. We've been feeding our 2 the exact same kibble for a decade. Previous attempts to try other diets or even other brands have ended in diarrhea. Hell, one of my dogs has his stomach gurgle non-stop and loses his appetite for the evening after going to the kennel b/c the treats they have aren't the same as the ones they get at home.
  2. Now that almost everyone has power back, I notice that Houston is still dealing with Beryl hangover. Traffic has been worse than ever the last few days and I'm not talking about highways. I think it's a combination of several lights still being out and shipping delays. Seen more 18-wheelers on city streets than ever before. I was heading back towards my house yesterday morning and the line of traffic waiting at the light at Yale and 610 was backed up all the way north the railroad tracks at 34th. Over 50% or more were freight vehicles. You would have had to sit through 6-7 light cycles to get through.
  3. Facebook has become totally overrun with foreign click-bait accounts that post AI-generated garbage. Stuff depicting American-ish soldiers, often with prosthetic limbs, seems to be de rigueur. Typically there will be one or more grotesque baby-like abominations in the image as well. There will be thousands of replies from a mix of bots and credulous boomers, all saying "God bless" and/or "Thank you for your service."
  4. Bingo. It's because they are used to communicating through implication/suggestion and bait questions (i. e. asking you about your day b/c they want you in turn to ask about their day so they can tell you about some drama) You can ask a yes or no question that literally has no "wrong" answer. Something like, "Hey babe, how are we looking on dog food? Do I need to pick up another bag on the way home?" It becomes a multiple choice question of "what did he REALLY mean by that?" "Is he being passive-aggressive to imply that I should have already picked some up?"
  5. This was a fun one earlier. Backstory: We had to completely empty our fridge and freezer following Beryl power outage. Wife just got back in town from a work trip earlier this afternoon. I was planning to hit up the grocery store on way home from work this evening to grab a few essentials. Quick call to my wife before I leave the office and stop at HEB. Me: "Hey, did you happen to go to the store when you got back today?" Her: "No, I thought you were going. I didn't know I was supposed to." Me: "You weren't supposed to, I'm just making sure you didn't so we don't end up double buying anything." Her: "I'm sorry." Me: "You don't need to apologize. You weren't supposed to go." Her: "I can go if you don't want to stop on the way home." Me: "Jesus Christ."
  6. Damn, that's brutal. Only 45K outages left per latest update. You're in the final 1.5%. What neighborhood?
  7. My pool is a lovely shade of green after not having the pumps running for 8 days. Pool guy has his work cut out for him tomorrow.
  8. Oh well, ain't my building.
  9. All of our first floor window offices had water come in through the floor to ceiling windows, but apparently not bad enough to rip out carpet. Building had those damn dehumidifier fans running 24 hours a day from Tuesday morning through Friday night. The noise made it impossible to get anything done. Fortunately we had some extra space on a different floor so i was able to temporarily relocate and moved back in to my normal office yesterday morning.
  10. Posting tonight from my home computer for the first time in 8.5 days. Power came back on sometime between when I left my office and pulled into my driveway around 6:30. All I was planning to do was pop in and pack a bag while sweating buckets and then head over to my brother's house for the night. Immediately hauled ass to go pick up my dogs from the kennel before the cutoff between daycare and overnight boarding. Never been so happy to see a front porch light on in my life. Just started a load of laundry with a shit-eating grin on my face. Still uncomfortably warm in the house, but it has already dropped from 85 to 80. We ended up being in the final 3% of addresses without power before getting restored. I stayed optimistic and held up pretty well for the most part, but yesterday when we started getting the "maybe not until Friday" texts, it finally broke me. Spent the evening alternating between pissed and depressed. It is my fervent hope that I was the last Surly poster still in the dark.
  11. Still in a nested outage, but heard some scuttlebutt among neighbors about a half hour ago that there is finally some activity on the street north of me, which appears to be the source of the problem. Not 100% getting my hopes up just yet, but best news I've heard in a while. Also lost power for several days and had pool pumps freeze and crack during Uri. After losing power for 6 days following the derecho, we decided "never again" and bit the bullet on a whole-home generator. Unfortunately, we didn't account for their being another massive outage less than 2 months later, before installation could be completed. Next freak storm though!!!!!!!!!!
  12. Apparently it's monsoon season in Houston the rest of July starting this weekend. Forecast 50-60% rain chances and highs below 90 every day from 7/19-29.
  13. Forgot to mention my favorite part of today's update. Stopped by my house to grab some clothes this morning. Centerpoint contractors in my backyard finally installing the 2nd gas meter for the generac we ordered roughly 6 weeks ago!
  14. We always stay at Marriot properties. Previously when we've needed long-term lodging (waiting for our house to be finished, derecho...etc.), we've stayed at the Residence Inn over in the Galleria. It's a nice area, but kind of old, not updated hotel. Shitty old TV's. Spent the last 2 night at the Townplace Suites off Rice and Fournace. Sketchier area, but more updated, nicer place. Checked out this morning and went ahead and boarded the dogs. Gonna crash with my brother and SIL tonight and see what tomorrow brings. May just keep boarding dogs and staying with friends/family as it's cheaper than getting a room somewhere that takes pets. Confirmed last night that we're in a nested outage (~22 houses affected) and have zero priority for restoration. Could be anywhere from today to Friday.
  15. Congrats man. Still waiting for the good news. Was hoping for today, but tomorrow is getting more and more likely. Glad we kept our hotel room booked for another evening. Down to 196K outages. At this point, no less than 92% of people whose power went out will get restored before me.
  16. Latest CP update a few minutes ago is that there are still 222K households affected out of 2.258M total that were affected by Beryl. Looks like I made the final 10%. What a dubious distinction.
  17. 7:25 this morning made it 7 full days for me. After spending the weekend at my folks' house, wife and I checked into an extended stay hotel with our dogs last night, and we're currently booked for tonight as well. Fortunately our kennel is back open so was able to drop the dogs off at daycare today. I've stayed pretty optimistic this whole time and have held up pretty well, but it's gonna get ugly if we're not back in the house at some point tomorrow.
  18. Same here. North side of 38th and south side of 39th are still out. South side of 38th has had power since Tuesday. The map says the rest of GOOF should be up and running by end of day tomorrow. There was actually some action in the neighborhood yesterday. A handful of small pockets got power back. I'm talking like one side of one block in certain areas. There's a small armada of bucket trucks working in Sec. 1 this morning. Hopefully they can wrap up over there and move over across Shepherd later today or tomorrow.
  19. Still no power. Fortunately, some friends of ours a few minutes away in the Heights got power back Wednesday, so we've been able to stay in their upstairs guest room the last 2 nights. And my office has had power the whole time, so I pretty much camp out there all day. Running out of clean clothes though, and getting tired of showering and changing at the gym and hauling bags and coolers all over town. Wife finally was able to snag a hotel room for tonight and it worked out super convenient. I'm going to a suite at Astros game tonight with my firm and then I can just walk over to our room at the Marquis, so actually looking forward to having an enjoyable evening. Hoping to have power back Sunday or Monday. Think we're gonna book it out town for the rest of the weekend to head to my parents' where they've been keeping our dogs since Tuesday.
  20. Oh joy, some afternoon thunderstorms. Just the thing to really help speed up restoration work.
  21. CP needs to spend a lot more money on tree trimming in their easements and cease installing fragile wooden poles and only use sturdier composite ones going forward.
  22. Another feather in the cap for CP"s customer outreach efforts. 8 am press release this morning said "CenterPoint Energy will begin providing estimated restoration times on its restoration status tracker before noon today." Welp, they finally updated the map at 12:45, and all they did was add a message to each neighborhood that says "we will continue to provide estimated restoration times once they become available." I clicked on probably 50 different neighborhoods and found only a single one that actually had an ETA.
  23. Huzzah, 1.005M at 5 pm.
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