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  1. It kind of sucks that our neighborhood is completely buried... all lines in our community of sub-200 homes are buried... all of it... BUT the power has to get to us and its not buried.  In theory, at least they can fix the issue to the hood and then there aren't individual house issues like a branch falling on the line from the pole to the house.

  2. 19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Well, the carbon monoxide would go well with the smoke from our fireplace, which is now apparently backfeeding into the house (yes, flue is open, yes, we had a full chimney sweep workup done last year).  So, when I get home tonight, I get to:

    - get more gas for the generator, fill it up, and get it running.

    - buy a lock for the generator so it doesn't get stolen

    - try to figure out why our fireplace isn't working right (in the dark, using a headlamp, that's always fun)

    - come up with a dinner plan (no fridge, so it's either dry goods, or go out to eat...again).

    But, you know, I probably need to run all that by @Texas Jeff to make sure none of that offends him.

    Look on the bright side... with our fireplace on, temp in our house got down to 55 degrees whereas our neighbor who did not have a wood burning fireplace got down to 42.  At least its "something."

    As for Kinsolving, try SRD.  

  3. I don't know what y'all's trees looked like but with 1" of ice on some of our limbs, the devastation was so widespread in Austin that I think they're just dealing with so much to fix.  Its like Harvey... there was sooooooo much damage... it wasn't like the typical flood.  I think they're trying to keep up.  Yeah, for sure we should plan better and try to build for resilience but people don't like investing in resilience unfortunately.  Just look at Houston... Harvey decimated the city and do you think they're doing much to account for the next big flooding event?  Nope.  Austin is no different.  "Wait, I have to pay for this?  Nope" but then people will complain afterwards. 

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  4. 4 hours ago, Hate said:

    After Ike in 2008, we were without power for 15 days. The houses across the street had power back after 3 days. We had a one month old baby, so we left after 5 days to stay at the MIL’s house. It was freaking miserable. I feel for those of you still without power. I have an aunt that lives off Far West that is still without power.

    LOL dude this is so similar to us... 2 1/2 weeks without power while neighbors across from us got it back after a few days.  We had an extension cord running from their house to ours.  Ended up spending a lot of time at my parents.

  5. 50 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

    And now for the flood of chainsaw cut victims to the hospitals!

    Yeah dude... no joke... ask me how I know.  Sheesh.  

    Re: insurance policies, some apparently do cover food spoilage up to a certain amount without a deductible.

    Trees apparently you are covered if it hits the house but maybe not otherwise.  Of course, each policy is different.

  6. Aside from the tree carnage, we were without power for about 40 hours.  Cold temps allowed us to store food outside in coolers and the power came back just in time.  At least here in SW Austin, if you avoided any overpasses, roads were mostly fine and I hit up the gym on Tuesday without much of an issue.  They actually opened up yesterday at 5 PM and I quickly went there to power up and use their wifi.  City trees are going to look terrible for a while, especially parkland and greenbelts.  Sucks.  I had some solid damage on our property but looking at other houses in our neighborhood, we got off relatively easy.  We have a chainsaw and I am relatively able-bodied so aside from some really high limbs, I can handle a lot of the clean up... probably 80%.  Feel bad for people who can't.  Going to work on our property then try to find someone to get the stuff way up high.  Also going to get myself some future firewood from the trees in the parks.  I mean, I'm helping out, right?

     

     

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  7. 13 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    Trucks already going through my hood picking up limbs. Surprised since no roads are blocked. 

    Ditto here but apparently "finishing" what they didn't get done on Monday.

    WHICH is good because this causes a lot of tree damage...

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  8. 36 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

    South Austin, they are just wet. 

    Agreed in SW Austin... I want to make a run to somewhere by William Cannon/Mopac feeder and can theoretically do so without ever getting on Mopac. 

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    Escarpment HEB was nearly fully stocked at noon

  9. 1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

    Watch for pedestrians. There's more by the day with more and more tents everywhere along Ben White. Shit's especially bad early in the morning while it's still dark. No good. 

    Somehow I think y'all are missing the point of my desire to take a drive somewhere, anywhere... 

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  10. 4 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    I do live there.  And outside of Chicago seeing family for holidays, I can't remember the last time I saw a woman in a fur/mink.  I didn't even know that was still a thing, let alone in place where it rarely if ever gets below 40.  Maybe it was fake, but I think that would make it even more bizarre.  I'd like to think she packed up her $2 chuck and rosemary almonds in her steamer trunk and made off for Martinique.   

    Westlake?  Yeah... funny, I distinctly remember coming back to Houston from Austin in 1989 during the big freeze and seeing ladies in furs at Randall's?  These days... not so much in Austin unless you're at the Rollingwood Randall's maybe?  Definitely not across the street at TJ.

  11. 43 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Meh, I see what you're saying and I don't know about your schools...but August & September...all the mom's wear those side-vent athletic shorts with no hint of under-butt.  It's fine, but it's nothing to get stare at and get a kid hit by a car.  It's not until the Halloween candy goes out, the Pumpkin spice flows from the mines that the yoga pants come out in force.  Takes off Christmas to President's Day and then comes back strong to moderately strong. 

    I saw a woman in a real fur coat just now at Trader Joe's stocking up for the freeze and I just looked at her like, 'They still fucking make people like you down South?'   

    Tell me you don't live in Austin without telling me you don't live in Austin... 

    But honestly here I don't really know that the temp will really dip below 30-28 degrees.... maybe I'll go out and wrap the spigots but I'm just not super worried.

  12. 37 minutes ago, Mittens said:

    Saw her last weekend at Antone's. Found her during lockdown on social media and have been looking forward to seeing her.  Her new album all sounds the same to me - she could have stopped after the 1st 2 songs and moved on.  She's at her best when she's really jamming out and playing guitar like a boss, so the 2nd half of the show was better, imo.

    That's how I found her... she has a particular sound for sure that tends to resonate throughout many of her songs but, yeah, second half when she really let loose was for sure amazing.  

     

  13. On 1/28/2023 at 8:55 PM, Deej said:

    KUTX is great. Guy who used to work for me is a DJ there, now. 

     

     

     

     

    Big fan of KUTX... always something good to hear.  Have a Sun Radio DJ in our hood... another one.  Austin radio is excellent... lots of options.  Houston was very meh.  

  14. 7 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    I went back and listened to the whole 5150 album yesterday. Say whatever you want about Sammy sucks, keyboards suck, Van Hagar sucks etc etc etc. I get it.

    But Eddie has some serious legit guitar work on that album. Go back and check it out. It doesn’t get near the credit that it should.

    Is there a version with only Eddie's guitar playing and the rest removed?

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  15. If you were a fan of Banana Blender Surprise or The El Orbits, David Beebe will be in Austin from Marta and will be at The Hole in the Wall on February 22nd.

    Meanwhile last night at the Jackie Venson show...

     

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