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  1. The flood was 9 ft higher than the 1987 flood. I can see how a failure of imagination would mean not prepared for that level of insanity
  2. reposting in this thread:
  3. this is how you interview:
  4. I'm up at the hole, so up 183 from Austin. No issues, cept maybe the rubbermeckijg at each swole river (South and Norrh forks of SG) and all them creeks. Mesquite creek near Lampasas county... damn!
  5. not sure it was mentioned above, but 1431 at Cow Creek appears to be gone. https://x.com/vileTexan/status/1941558771156910483
  6. Cow Creek is showing 14.32" since midnight. And it is still raining.
  7. I had not seen hydromet show Cow Creek and Big Sandy Creek so high. I wonder what the records are.
  8. I was in charge of 20 boy scouts mid June when a 80mph thunderstorm collapsed 3 tents. It was pretty bananas. But nothing like flood waters coming up. PK a release did mean kayak class was moved off the Brazos. Island camp was briefly... an island.
  9. https://hydromet.lcra.org/Charts/?siteNumber=1563&siteType=flow&agency=LCRA
  10. small update. New bit v old bit: It did dig a little better. frame cover: Didnt dig much. Had to do some ranch tasks. Built a box for the tank cutoff and cleaned up cabin loft. Kids want to make it a backup sleeping area, and now.we have a bigger shed we can move junk out.
  11. it all hangs from the top, like a reverse skyscraper. If I added another set, the next set would probably need to be anchored into the sides. I think I could hollow out niches and cement in some bolts if I had to. But my plan is to try and make it to 20 ft, and then try to concrete it up in lifts (removing sets as I rise up). Once I'm at 20, I might try and go deeper straight down, but more likely I'd start going horizontal. If I didn't concrete up, I would wedge in some supports from the bottom. I think I could source some 48x30 baker scaffolding, and that might work. https://www.idahogeology.org/pub/Bulletins/B-21.pdf
  12. just a gnarly blister across my palm. I was being dramatic. The depth is still around 18 ft or so.
  13. May and June have been moist. A couple of times I was up and pretty much did nothing but pull out buckets of water and mud. Finally scout camp is over, kodd sports are on hiatus, and weather drying out. Hope to come up weekly the next 6 weeks or so. Fan set up, new ryobi spotlight (old crap ebay bulb fell and broke): Blowing air. A mouse had died and turned into a puddle of mouse. I scraped it into a bucket with a piece of leftover 2x4. I assume that's sufficient decontamination and I won't die of hanta virus maybe. The layer I'm at is very f'ing hard. I'm committed to knocking this down level across the whole hole. But 3 more feet of this is daunting. I did the jackhammer without gloves, and degloved some of my hand. Annoying. Rubbed some mouse puddle remains in it for good luck. Big red jackhammer got stuck, so I had to get out the small red jackhammer. Annoying. But I noticed the little jackhammer chipped the rock better. I think I need to sharpen or replace the point of the big jackhammer. About to check Amazon on what a replacement costs. Got out about 4.5 buckets in 2 hours of labor. Not great. A good day is 16 buckets. A great day is 24-30. My mask keeps fogging up, too. Might look into prescription sports goggles.
  14. is this the best twitter day since the 2015 DeAndre Jordan saga?
  15. Somewhere in Nigeria Gabe Mouneke is watching and calling SGA a punk ass bitch.
  16. moneymetals.com I'm sure their are plenty of similar providers. I picked them because they had options for low dollar baller cheapskates like me. I do silver buffaloes.
  17. Anyone else hoping to downsize significantly in retirement? I have the ranch/hole, so I can still live my rural junkyard dreams. But a tidy 2/2 condo we can lock and leave sounds delightful. All I want is a washer/dryer, 2 parking spaces, and not hear the neighbors through the wall too much (well, prjmary on main to age in place). The kids can stay in a hotel or VRBO when they visit. Or if they have kids, we will stay in a hotel while they have the place. We can do yearly vacation rentals over the summers. I'll gladly given the kids the equity amd well enjoy the cheaper insurance, taxes, and upkeep.
  18. My $100/mo silver buillof plan delivered the 100th buffalo. I bumped it to $125/mo, given current elevated prices. I bought a nice little plastic container that holds 5 tubes. If the silver:gold ratio gets back down to ~80 I'll swap some out.
  19. My (teacher) wife may get a huge bonus, and it may put us over the Roth cap. A nice problem to have, I guess. But still annoying. For now we are ramping up 403b/457 savings to adjust MAGI lower. Next year we may just skip Roth IRAs altogether and stuff the 457 Roth option, but I hate it's not in Vanguard. I dislike Empower (employers vendor) a great deal. Normally at our income pre-tax savings is the way to go, but we will have pensions so there might not be a super low post retirement income. We hope we can never touch our Roth savings, and thay would be what we plan to pass down or help kods out of.
  20. gonna go get Pope Bobby to sign my copy
  21. I'd actually be interested is something like this. My ranch has electric, but no well. I do rainwater collection (1550 gal tank) off about 1000 sq ft of roof. I have a rural electric coop with a minimum monthly charge. Even with a fridge constantly running, my bill often does exceeds the minimum. I think I'd prioritize (1) low low maintenance; (2) cost efficiency. Basically I'd leave it running at the ranch cabin when I'm not there, and capture the drainage like my existing rainwater system. I don't need filtering or UV. I can spike with bleach. I think anything below 1kwh per day is basically free for me. Another thought is a pure 12v system than can run direct on whatever cheap panels I can scrounge up. Even 2 gallons a day would be pretty cool, if the price was right. A little 100 or 200 gallon tank would be easy to set up, and I could find a use for it.
  22. Did I want to fuck around with a wet hole? A dirty, wet hole. That was the question. I did. Scooped about 10 gallons of water and muck out. Got out the big boy tool, and started jackhammering away at that dirty dirty wet hole. Penetration was hard, but I was able to get about 8 inches deep. Hopefully such that if more rain somehow migrates down it will gather in one wet sport, rather than across the whole hole. Once I get down a bu5 in one spot, it's easier to widen. I moved some spare plywood amd metal panels around. Hopefully that will help channel water away. Maybe one day I'll sort of French drain or trench around to better divert surface runoff. I really want to concrete all the way from the bottom up, and pour a good sloped pad. Really manage the water better. Might be fun to make it a little storage hut, with a trap door.
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