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Posts posted by Paper_jam
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Is there any Austin radio station with live news & information on this emergency? It seems like there ought to be as radio is the most reliable way to get info out to everyone when power is out. Tried 590 Klbj but worthless.
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I see a number of posts in the other thread (Texas deep freeze carnage) that they've lost water to certain rooms in their house (sometimes hot, sometimes cold). Don't forget about dripping the hot water too. Shit is starting to get real.
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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 systemIt'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.
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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...
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Sleet is starting to accumulate (NE Austin). I had a grocery delivery from Walmart that was scheduled for 2:00 and it's still not here. At this point I don't think it's possible.
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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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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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Big difference in those models--for Austin, 2 inches vs. 6.
There's a penis joke in there somewhere.
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Thousands of bodies in the icy, snow-covered trees
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Argh, I just found out that one of my outdoor spigots is leaking...maybe 1 drop every two-three seconds. I had wrapped it in a towel and put a foam cover on it, but the leak just soaked the towel and the foam cover forced the leaking water back against the brick, where it trickles down and freezes on the brick exterior below. I'm not sure if I should just take the cover off to keep the leaking water from backing up into the brick, or if its tolerable as it is. I guess it won't hurt the brick to get wet/icy, to a point...
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Sometime in the '95-97 timeframe I was driving to work on I35, at about 8 AM when the roads changed over from wet to icy pretty suddenly. Everything seemed fine until I got to the overpass over Highway 290 and saw cars in front of me sliding around. It was more luck than skill that got me through that. I tried gently braking but the tires would just instantly lock. this was in a Camaro Z28 with no traction control and summer performance tires. After I got to work, they told us to go back home, now on roads that were completely fucking iced.
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In NE Austin, trees getting iced up. Branches from one of my oaks are now dragging on my neighbor's roof. A few days ago hired a tree company to cut those limbs but I guess I was too late.
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4 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:
Gas up the boat, find your long johns and dip nets boys. It's fixin' to be fishing time in the bays. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Heading down to the bay house Friday to drain all the water lines.
Back in the '80s my dad took me to the "Army hole" off Port O'Connor a couple times, during cold snaps. I wonder if that's still a thing.
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This Brady guy sounds like a bossy Type A personality who is obsessed with antiquated, patriarchal concepts of "winning" and "success."
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Turns out they're real serious about that DO NOT REMOVE mattress tag thing.
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While I'm at it I'd also like to bitch about how, especially in Texas, lots of back roads and secondary roads are "finished" with a shitty, rough chipseal surface that might as well be fucking gravel. The constant roaring noise and vibration on these roads is miserable on a long drive. If a road is worth paving, it's worth putting down some smooth asphalt or concrete.
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I haven't been driving much so I haven't been keeping close track of gas prices, but today I stopped at a Valero to fill up and their 93 octane grade was $3.05/gallon. (My car actually does need premium.) Their 87 octane was $1.95. So the premium was $1.10 more a gallon than regular. That's insane. I needed gas so I put a few gallons in, but I didn't fill up like I planned.
I've noticed this disturbing trend over time, of the premium grades everywhere being priced higher (relative to regular) but I've never seen a difference anywhere near a dollar a gallon. When I was a young man, it was a consistent rule of thumb that there would be a $0.10 difference between each grade--so if 87 was $1.29, 89 would be $1.39 and 93 would be $1.49. Why is there such a monster price difference between grades now?
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29 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
I’d guess either jackasses driving into power poles, or tree limbs weighted down messing up the lines.
Even with this small amount of snow, the branches on my oak trees are drooping considerably.
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This video from an aviation expert has some interesting discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_nUdQQqxI
Based on this video, the flight begins turning left, away from it's assigned heading, just before the dive. You can see this on the flight track, as it curves to the north and northwest (was supposed to be on a steady ENE course).
Everyone says not to speculate about aviation accidents (but I love to speculate!)
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15 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:
If that's from Flightaware, I'm not sure what the source of the data they have is. Does it come from the aircraft transponder or are those readings from a ground station?
And, I don't know the precision or resolution of that data, but it seems to show that the altitude starts to plummet ever so slightly *before* the change in speed. Which would seem to not suggest a traditional "pitch up" kind of stall. Also, I think that the speed data shown is probably groundspeed instead of airspeed. In a steep dive or spin, the groundspeed would drop just because most of the speed is now in the vertical plane. The airspeed would be crazy high after a dive like that.
I gotta think it was something rapid and catastrophic, like a bomb, structural failure, or suicidal pilot. Or a really terrible flight control malfunction (rudder reversal, thrust reverser opening, etc.)
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Good amount building up in 78754. Lost my satellite TV signal, too much snow on my dish.
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Hypothetically, if a person of prominence incites a riot that foreseeably results in the death of one or more persons, can't that be charged as felony murder? Normally I hate "law of parties" type stuff but if we're going to apply it to joe average who drives a buddy to a liquor store robbery, can't it apply here?
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On 1/5/2021 at 2:37 AM, RPM said:
15 year old Kenmore w/d still chugging away.
Same here (actually, 18 years old) Kenmore washer & dryer, as basic as you could get at the time. Like $700 for the pair at Sears even with tax.
Actually I did have to replace the lid switch on the washer about 3 years ago, but it was worth it. It kills me that most of the new washers are so automated and computerized they don't even let you control water level.
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A fitting end
2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on
in Daily Texan
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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?