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crimsonlonghorn

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  1. Pulled into my farm yesterday around 7:30 PM and noticed something out of the corner of my eye over in the pasture. Thought it was a stray dog at first but realized quickly it was a lone pig just moseying along. All I had was my .45 ACP car gun under the seat. Took two shots from 40 yards and missed badly both times. I think he was laughing as he trotted to the fence and crawled under and ran back across the road. I hate those fuckers.
  2. I sure hope it's real. This one seems more reliable than the other ones, but there are a lot of disappointments in early September in Texas weather. I've been planning this week to start preparations for my pecan harvest. I sure hope there is a cool down when the work starts in earnest later in September.
  3. The models have been hinting at a cold front into Texas sometime next week. It's still there this morning and the mets are starting to have more confidence that it will be for real. Although the primary benefit will be to drop temps and dewpoints and signal a start to fall weather, another benefit will be that it will be the first brick in the fall "forcefield" that protects Texas from tropical cyclones. It's not 100% foolproof, but the odds go way down in Texas after the first front, so be cheering for that. Also, 40* dewpoints all the way to the coast. Gottdam bring it on.
  4. I watched some of it. Football is football. I'm gonna go nuts in two weeks at my son's first 8th grade game. So glad we are playing football.
  5. Plants definitely have to be big enough. If they are just seedlings or sprouts the birds will for sure wreck the garden, too.
  6. Not sure about scorpions since we don't have very many (if any) in Fort Bend County, but they do clear out the other crawly bugs. My wife lets ours free range in her vegetable garden in the spring and they go to town on the pests.
  7. Local Houston news this morning is roasting Entergy for the brownouts, but I'm not really sure what they expect Entergy to do. That part of the grid is yoked to Louisiana and isn't a part of ERCOT. It's not like they can just plug into the Houston power plants instead.
  8. In Jeff's defense, the storm surge in Lake Charles was expected to be 12 feet or more, so staying on the ground might not have been a wise move. I thought the parking garage made sense. But yes, getting walked through all the screens in his car and watching the windshield wipers go back and forth is kind of tedious.
  9. Good thing the storm mostly missed Beaumont because she would have easily blown over like that TV tower in Lake Charles. All top heavy and stuff.
  10. Took a screenshot for posterity and.... damn, that's something else.
  11. You're not familiar with Louisiana, are you?
  12. On the Houston news this morning they were showing downed trees and some damaged roofs, but honestly, the Port A and Beaumont area dodged the bullet in a major way.
  13. The unsaid part of this is that the bridge is still there.
  14. https://goo.gl/maps/LWzYtUxdRWvUu9n48 Pretty sure that's his location.
  15. Jeff's about to get hit by a tornado sounds like.
  16. "Jeff, does your insurance company know what you do?"
  17. I guess he's just going to camp out on top of that garage until it passes. Godspeed Jeff.
  18. What's the deal with the hearts?
  19. He does't even have a script. It's all extemporaneous and never a pause and no "uh's" and "um's". Pretty damn impressive, to be honest, even if it's mostly empty talk while waiting for the car wash to disintegrate.
  20. Jeff keeps dropping "blue shed" into his talk. He has a catch phrase now.
  21. I quit driving over that bridge a couple of years ago because it's so damn scary and so damn shitty. It's much more pleasant to drive over the one on the loop that goes by the casinos and doesn't really add much more time to the trip through town.
  22. Jeff needs to switch to decaf meth.
  23. Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now.
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