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  1. 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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  2. 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. 

  3. 3 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    I think the point is that this type of crap is not what Austin needs help with. I’d much rather them be at least busting up all the graffiti than hassling people for traffic violations.  

    I mean, this along with protecting the capital is pretty much all DPS does, right?

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    last season early on the stats said we shouldn’t have scored nearly as many goals as we did. Whether it was luck or over performance, as the season went on we had more and more trouble scoring at the rate we did at the beginning of the season. 
     

    I’m saying the dudes we have just aren’t good enough going forward. They over performed last year. We’ve given up more goals than anyone would like but our injuries and departures on the back line don’t make that surprising. We’ve scored 6 goals in 7 games. Thats the more concerning issue. 

  5. 10 hours ago, ballrific said:

    Makes sense why most of the contractor estimates we've seen last few years are "cost plus", less responsibility for the GC.

    I'm doing a small kitchen remodel right now and looking at a few different estimates, is there anything specific I should look for in the contractors contract to protect my ass? There's some wording here and there I don't like but it looks fairly standard.

    Just FYI, smaller jobs tend to be fixed fee because margin needs to be higher. When you get to bigger projects cost plus makes more sense for both parties. Could be you see more cost plus because of scope or costs. 

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