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Posts posted by texhorn
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Switched back from team drip to team wrap. City lost water overnight and not even a drop this morning. I’m just praying all my exterior lines, which were on drip, emptied first.
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The ercot graph looks horrible for today with forecast demand way exceeding supply. But their demand forecasting has been way off for about 12-18 hours.
One morbid aspect is that ice related power failures are going to reduce demand.
Yeah stop watching the forecast lines. They’re meaningless. Capacity will be horizontal and demand will be kept below that.-
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And here comes the pouring freezing rain in 78633.
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ERCOT capacity dropping again, guessing lost solar? As far as I can tell, no significant gains in production today. Insane. Going to be another long night folks.
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What is the verdict on vehicles - I've got a 2013 F150 sitting in the street and i'm curious if i should fire it up and run around the block, or wait for it to warm up on friday. Anything to look out for?
Dead battery is probably the biggest concern if it’s old... otherwise cars can handle the cold.-
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Looks like from the ercot graph something just came online.
Not seeing it on the ERCOT app, my capacity line basically looks horizontal since midnight -
That's good right? Unless I'm getting my supply and demand colors reversed.
The forecast lines don’t mean shit, they are for typical days. The supply isn’t going up until more plants go online. The demand line is being capped below capacity due to the blackouts. -
Zero degrees here last night in 78633. Unreal.
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Grid capacity continues to drop. No bueno.
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Latest (preliminary) medal count on Team Stream, Team Drip, Team Wrap?
I'm still riding fine with first option, water bill be damned.
Need to clear the finish line this evening at 5 above and should be good.
Switched from team wrap to team drip tonight. Hopefully don’t wake up with all frozen hose bibs and an inoperable bathroom sink again. -
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It’s been down since 0500 this morning -
ERCOT map not looking good. Capacity continues to drop. Going to be a rough night folks
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Tonight’s going to be terrible with no cloud cover. Buckle up.
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Same here. After cutting the breakers I also opened up the lids to the pumps and cracked the relief valve on the filter. Not sure what else to do.
I’d be trying to drain the equipment above ground. At least, get as much water out of the pumps and filters as possible so there’s room for expansion when whatever is left freezes. -
So, can we all expect like $10k electric bills this month? Serious question.
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Went out to check my hose bibs around dark and 3 out of 4 were frozen. Quick hit with the blow dryer and 2/3 were operational again in no time. Wrapped the fuck out of them and built shelters around them. Been dropping my faucets inside like a mother since Friday night.
The one that wouldn’t unfreeze is supplied by a line that runs in the attic above the garage (which is uninsulated) into my spray foam sealed attic above the rest of the house. Hit it with the laser thermometer in the attic above the garage and the pipe wrap was showing 16. I guess I’m just hoping the pex can handle it at this point. Fuck. -
Has anyone heard about rolling blackouts with PEC? My sister said that she saw it on her neighborhood facebook.
The power grid is getting slammed... ERCOT forecast has demand exceeding supply tonight at 9. Urging customers to conserve electricity to prevent rolling blackouts. Unplug/turn off shit you’re not using. -
If you were on mopac at any point today for non-emergency reasons you're a moron.
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Don’t drip outside.
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This is probably a series of stupid questions, but should I be doing anything with the beverage fridge on my outdoor kitchen? Should I unplug it once the temperature drops into the 20's/teens? If it's well below freezing for 24+ hours, will the drinks inside freeze?
Drinks aren’t already frozen? Otherwise, you should be drinking them now so they don’t go to waste when they inevitably freeze and explode. -
You aren’t going to wrap any of those pipes and put a tarp cover on the whole thing?
As long as you can keep the equipment running, not needed-
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10 minutes ago, Lobo said:
If we're talking about cutting some Oaks because they might drop branches and/or topple over, that's perfectly fine. I may have to do it myself this weekend. Routine pruning of Oaks should be completed by Groundhog Day, but mid-February isn't that ridiculous despite what City of Austin says.
However, the risk to routine and widespread pruning of Oaks during this cold front is significant. Yes pruning in extreme heat or extreme cold is perfectly fine. But what could very much invite Oak Wilt with a passion is what we're gonna see in the next week...in one calendar week...we're gonna go from single digit temps to 70 degrees and sunny in 7 days. That is a VIP invitation to Oak Wilt, those kinds of extreme temp swings in compressed timeframe. Again, cut if you have to...but don't make this weekend "yardwork day" just for the heck of it. I did 3 days of heavy, heavy pruning over MLK weekend and that's it for me until July or August. The cold is fine for it (of course the moisture is gonna be a factor), but the temp swing we'll see back up by next weekend is not great for Oak Wilt prevention. My two cents...
Regardless, seal the damn wounds if you cut your oak trees.
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Would shutting of the main line to the house not work? Would you also need to drain the lines throughout the house and outdoor faucets? I may just fill a bathtub with water to use to flush the toilet and go without water service for 48 hours. What am I missing?
Be sure to turn off your water heater if you plan to drain the lines.-
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2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on
in Daily Texan
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You guys have sun?? Nothing but grey, gloomy and 25 here in Georgetown.