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Storm the Field

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  1. Noticed that Centerpoint has changed their outage counter to now just reflect "Customers restored since Beryl". Interestingly, it keep slowly ticking up straight towards their estimate of "1M restored by Wednesday Night." Currently at 985K restored. Will be a real coincidence when it tops 1M right in time for the 8 pm press release.
  2. DJIA up 435 on the day. Approaching the warning track of 40K again. S&P breaches 5600. New ATH of 5633. Nasdaq breaches both 18500 and 18600. New ATH of 18647.
  3. Somebody in the comments pointed out the brilliant PR work of publishing this video with 2 trucks slowly putting by a sea of idle vehicles.
  4. I think it's actually pretty clear that CP needs to hire significantly more permanent office support and non-emergency personnel. They drastically need more customer/tech support and logistics people. I'm hearing all kinds of stories of people being unable to get through on the hotline to report downed lines. Then, when they do, the report doesn't get logged into the system. Neighbor said she reported a downed line 3 times now. On the 3rd call, they had no record of the previous 2 reports anywhere in their system. A buddy at work said he spent a chunk of his evening trying to report a dangerous tree branch with a power line wrapped around it leaning on his neighbor's fence and CP basically told him to call 311. 311 was like "WTF, downed power lines are absolutely an issue for CP! City ain't touching that shit!" It's like if you called 911 to report a building currently on fire and they told you to call the Fire Marshall instead to schedule an inspection the next day. All these line crews are in town and ready to roll, but reading that they end up spending a bunch of time staging and waiting for CP to actually give them marching orders, They also have to figure out a better system for giving people at least some idea of when restortation work will occur in their area. There's no heads up that a crew has been dispatched or any kind of ETA for anything. Pretty much the only way to find out if there is a crew in your neighborhood is to see someone post about it on social media. People literally have no idea if they'll be out for 1 day or 10, so it makes it real hard to determine whether you should pack your shit and leave for an extended trip or tough it out. Finally, they need dedicated crews that spend the entire year doing nothing but trimming limbs around lines and inspecting and flagging for replacement power poles that are likely to crap out in inclement weather.
  5. Drew the real short end of the stick last night. Good chunk of my neighborhood got power around 8:00. Unfortunately a house behind me and a few over had a downed power line they'd reported that hadn't been fixed yet. Power came back on and fried the pole in their backyard, and apparently damn near electrocuted a kid in the yard south of them (2 down from my house). Long story short, south side of my street has power, north side of the street north of me has power. 22 houses in between, including me, are still boned. Centerpoint is aware of the problem and put in a work ticket last night, but god knows when they'll come back out since they've already re-powered our neighborhood's circuit. FML. "Slept" on a couch in my living room with a battery-powered fan keeping me at a temp just slightly below unlivable. 81 degrees downstairs, 85 upstairs. Hoping like hell a friend nearby or my brother gets power back today, or we can finally find a hotel. Can't do a 3rd straight restless night in a hot house.
  6. Also, after the last several years, there's this growing feeling of dread that this is just how life in Houston works now. At least once or twice a year there will be a hurricane, freak storm, or bitter cold that will fuck everyone's life up for a solid week.
  7. I think right now a lot of the frustration with CP is their almost complete lack of communication. They post a message once every 4 hours or so and it's mainly just generic bullshit like "Houston was hit hard by Hurricane Beryl. We are assessing damage and dispatching crews to begin restoration. Please check on your neighbors and don't use generators inside". They no longer provide any kind of outage map and are not really providing anyone with timeframes. People literally have no idea if they'll get power back later today or 2 weeks from now. Add on that a lot of us just went through this exact shit less than 2 months ago. Shit, we even lost power for half a day a week or so after the derecho, just due to a regular old summer thunderstorm.
  8. Welp, finally made it up to my office and have an internet connection for first time in 30 hours or so. Fortunately this building never seems to lose power. Briefly thought I was one of the lucky ones when I woke up yesterday morning and still had power and wifi working. That lasted about 20 minutes. Not a flicker since. Have literally no clue as to when we might get power restored. We were out for 6 days following the derecho. Immediately got the ball rolling on getting a generac installed, and were praying we'd get it in before another storm. No such luck. Really enjoyed getting to do yet another full refrigerator purge less than 60 days after the last one. Wife is driving over to meet my parents halfway and hand off our dogs for the next few days. We realized during the last outage how much harder it makes it to find a place to stay if you're lugging around 2 dogs with you.
  9. 1 pm update with a slight tack to the SW. Still basically the same ultimate path, but landfall moves a little down the coast.
  10. Really no change in the last 4 updates from NHC between 1 am and 10 am.
  11. Altuve all smiles during post-game interview. Says hand is already starting to feel better. I highly doubt he'll be back in action immediately, but I'm not currently expecting a prolonged absence.
  12. Tuve contusion on left hand. X-rays negative. No fracture.
  13. Couple of buddies made the road trip for this one after talking about doing so for years. Little bit of regret at not tagging along. Not gonna get above 80 in the Twin Cities this weekend. Meanwhile, sitting around here hoping not to catch too much of a hurricane.
  14. Thank God for that Bregman insurance HR to put us up by 8!
  15. Having to bring your closer with 2 outs in an inning that started 13-5. SMDH.
  16. Bregman just passed Springer for 6th most HR in an Astros uniform. That was #175. Altuve has 222 for 5th, one shy of Jimmy Wynn.
  17. Bregman says "should have HBP me!"
  18. Getting real fucking tired of the HBP.
  19. Not great news for Seadrift/Port Lavaca on the 10 pm update.
  20. No further eastward shift in the 7 PM Friday update from NWS.
  21. 4 pm update from NHC nudges a little further east than the morning tracks, but still aiming at Corpus.
  22. Unless I'm reading this wrong, the latest intensity forecast has this thing mostly staying below Hurricane strength.
  23. No further shift in the 1 pm update. The updates tomorrow afternoon will really start helping to narrow down where this thing is heading.
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