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  1. On 3/6/2021 at 8:42 AM, Brew said:

    After dealing with the after effects of red tide fish kills, you can see a fishery recover quickly if people are responsible and reasonable. Sometimes it takes regulations to help push that along. 

     

    After the '83 freeze, didn't TPWD tighten the size/bag limits on speckled trout and redfish? Is there any indication of how this winter storm compared to that one, in terms of impact on the bays?

     

  2. 2 hours ago, XYZ said:

    I have tried to get the HEB site to work literally hundreds of times. Click on the location, almost always land in a page that says no more shots at this location. Go back, keep trying. Every once in a long while it lets you choose a date and time. Whatever time slot I choose it says “that slot is no longer available”. Every fucking time.

    Same here, I'm wearing out my F5 key. Once or twice I've gotten to the second level you describe, only to get the "no more slots available"  thing. Starting to wonder if you need a fiber connection or absurdly low ping to get anything.

    Edit: also someone please ship some of the Midland/Odessa vaccine which apparently is in plentiful supply, to somewhere near central Texas, please.

     

     

  3. I also have some big Indian Hawthornes that look like complete shit. I never even thought about protecting them because I've never had them freeze before. Actually everything else in my yard (st. augustine, my oaks) looks like shit too. 

     

  4. 5 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    I did eat there once! THOMAS SUPOR BUEFFET! Our little group of tech bros used to see that place and laugh at it and we finally decided one day to try it, almost on like a frat boy dare type thing. 

    It was everything you might have expected. I don't remember it well but I'm pretty sure they had a bin of ravioli and a bin of "fresh" shrimp right next to one another on the buffet.

    Thomas' Super Buffet had the strangest mix of food. I ate there several times. I think it was still better than the Ryan's buffet on Parmer Ln, which always made me feel sick afterwards.

     

  5. Wild guess, but I assumed that their inventory dried up because they didn't have the money to pay vendors for new product. And/or still owed vendors for previous shipments of product.

    It's been in obvious decline for at least a decade but I'm still sad to see it go. Used to be a pretty good place for PC games, DVDs, CDs, and some midgrade A/V stuff. And I don't know where I'll go if I need something like a PC power supply, case fan, a mouse, or a monitor RIGHT NOW and can't wait on shipping.

    And I liked the idea that they tried to run a cafe right in the store. Reminded me of K-Mart in the old days.

     

  6. 7 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    GOVERNMENT - The problem with people in Government thinking privatization is the solution to everything. Is that GOVERNMENT is supposed to take care of the other 10-15% of whatever unprofitable market needs support for the overall wellbeing of the citizenry. But hey, all you needed do was hear how it was all the fault of the "disaster of green energy" to know where the bread is being buttered. GOVERNMENT has to build those pesky fucking dams that allow places like Houston and New Orleans to exist, for example.  Power, water and roads are the BASICS of why we have governments that we allow to tax us.

    No private business in the fucking world is ever, ever, ever, going to base their business model on the smallest 5- 10% emergency slice. Simply because that would be fucking stupid as shit from a business perspective.  Elected Government officials thinking that a model that does not allow for an accounting entry for that 5% scenario is why we are fucked today.  THE GOOD NEWS IS WE ARE NOT GOING TO NEED TO WAIT A COUPLE WEEKS AND SEE NEIGHBORS KILL EACH OTHER OVER FOOD OR WHATEVER WHILE THE ERCOT/STATE GOVERNMENT BRAINTRUST PONDERS RESTARTING THE LARGEST EVER ELECTRICAL GRID COLLAPSE...  so there is that. And to be honest... that is fucking HUGE!!!

     

     

    Woah there buddy, that bolded part sounds a lot like socialism and we don't take kindly to that in these here parts. Can't have the government interferin' with the holy Invisible Hand, the Hand knows what is best. The purpose of government is to concentrate wealth, power, and privilege at the top, and put all the responsibility, risk, and consequences on those at the bottom.

     

     

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  7. Why was there a massive rush to buy food? Water I get, as we don't know when it's coming back. Stuff like batteries and cold-weather gear, that makes sense too. And some people undoubtedly lost a lot of refrigerated stuff to spoilage. And, finally, it's been a few days since some people were able to get to the store.  But even so, why did people buy EVERYTHING instead of their normal weekly-or-so resupply?

     

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Updawg said:


    Supposedly heat pumps are having trouble with this cold?

    Just something I heard. No idea if true. I have a gas system

    It's been decades since I lived in a place with one, so maybe newer ones are better--but back in the '80s and '90s, once temps got down into the mid or lower 20s, a heat pump was about as useful as tits on a bull. 

  9. The temperature in my unheated but attached garage is right about 39 degrees now, I've never seen it this low. I have a hose spigot on the outside wall of the garage and the warmth of the garage interior is the only thing keeping it from freezing (it's wrapped and covered, but still).  If the garage gets much colder I'm thinking of propping the house-->garage door open and blowing some warm house air in there. It would be an energy efficiency holocaust, though, to try to treat the garage as conditioned/heated space...

     

     

  10. 1 hour ago, 3adays said:

    My neighbor down the street has has his garage door open all morning. I’m no expert on this shit, but that doesn’t seem smart. 

    Oh, he's smart like a fox! It's like opening your windows before a tornado--the pipes can't freeze if the temperature is equal on both sides! Or maybe, "pre-freezing" your pipes now before the coldest snap hits is like creating a firebreak that stops further freezing!

     

     

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  11. 2 minutes ago, drt said:

    Compare the price of a frost free hose bib to a normal one. It’s stupid we all have to worry about thousands of dollars of damage, but here we are

    My house (Centex Homes early 2000s build) could have been much better and more usable with a very small increase in total cost, but tract builders are just the worst. Even if we live in the South some things should just be required by code. For one thing, I hate that my water cutoff valve is fucking buried in the yard and there's no way to cut off water from inside the house.

     

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