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  1. Dest was a defensive liability all game. It is the manager’s job to do something tactically to help him defensively. Letting him just get exposed all game is 100% on Greg. No adjustments is just par for the course though. 

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  2. This helps people buy their first house in Austin instead of the burbs. They’ll be small and yet still in line with typical Austin prices. It’s not for poor people. That ship has sailed in this city. 
     

    I had friends buy a townhouse just outside uptown Dallas a decade ago when they got out of school. It functioned as their starter house. This is the same thing. 

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  3. 39 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I think this is all an artifact of workers having generally less and less stability and means to achieve a middle class lifestyle over the years since deregulation and shareholder economics came into vogue. I don't think it's the driving factor, but I would argue that it's that "good airflow" that makes the "gasoline" of cell phones really go kaboom

    I was thinking all of this is also reflective of a lack of free/down time for the average person as well. Hard to have peer to peer interactions if you don’t actually see them very often due to work/kids/whatever. 

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  4. 2 hours ago, Cap33 said:

    A contractor from AE came around in May and put little yellow flags on two limbs in our backyard that they thought needed trimming because of their proximity to the power line. While they were here, I pointed at the limb in the yard behind ours resting on the power line and asked if that was a priority. Response: Oh yes, we'll be coming around in late-June or early-July to take care of it. 

    Still waiting. One strong wind gust and our whole block (or more) is fucked.

    And why don't these lovely neighbors of ours just trim it themselves? "Oh, we rent."

    if it’s on a live wire is not yours or you neighbors job to trim it. AE is like any other entity. They can’t see in your backyard and that hourly worker may have had no clue how to put that immediate request in the system. 
     

    Get the yellow tag number off the closest pole, call them and they will come out. Waiting 2 months is on you, not them.

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  5. 6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Got even worse news for you.  Want to know who to blame for the fact that AE was behind on tree trimming (only a few years in to a 10 year project)?  Look around at your neighbors.  AE had been pushing for trimming for YEARS, but the Austin NIMBY/don't touch anything crowd flat-out put the kibosh on it.  Finally, city council relented, and let AE do what they'd been pushing to do (and which all other utilities do).  Years too late.

    Lessons from the last two outages:

    2021: the ERCOT grid didn't "fail."  It functioned EXACTLY as intended and designed.

    2023: AE didn't fail to trim trees, vocal Austin citizens kept them from doing so until it was too late.

    We get the utility performance we demand.  On the one hand, by implementing a Republican's wet-dream of a grid (great for profit, occasionally kills a bunch of people, which is when it's at its most profitable), and on the other hand, by pursuing the ultimate tree-hugger hippy agenda of never cutting a tree branch.  Leaving those of us with common sense standing in the middle going "WOULD ALL OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY SO I DON'T HAVE TO FREEZE MY GODDAMNED NUTS OFF IN MY OWN DAMNED HOUSE?????"

    100% this on the trees being trimmed. I called AE about limbs on a line at a job site and they were there and trimmed within 4 hours.
     

    The limb on the lines serviced 3 residences, was clearly visible from all 5 backyards that formed the corner, was about 10” in diameter, and had been down long enough that the tree wound had gone grey with UV exposure. How no one had thought this was a fucking problem for months is beyond me. 

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