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PvilleStang

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  1. Might have to dust off the old dive gear and check out the cliffs!
  2. WTCPUA is a disaster at the moment. Overdevelopment on HPR has caused some headaches for sure. A number of stage 3 declarations / boil water notices due to over-watering in the HPR area and draining water towers overnight in the last year. They need to focus on limiting development or expanding their water treatment volumes. Frankly, they probably need to split the district, as they're servicing Bee Cave down to Dripping Springs. WCID 18 is pretty much just the Cuernavaca area last I recall. Buddy's place is near Jonestown park, and said those floods basically took the 1 ton cement dock anchors and dragged them downstream like they were 5 lb mushroom anchors behind a cruise ship. Time for the 55 gallon drum + T-posts + cement homemade anchors.
  3. WTCPUA has no verbiage for the 4 month hold like Austin does. I've got a smart sprinkler system, and haven't actively watered the lawn in 3-4 weeks now. But having only one water day / week, I currently water morning and night (if the system hasn't detected rain or saturation amounts causing the schedule to bypass), but if I had 2 water days per week, I would water both just once a day, and actually use less water in the long run. https://www.wtcpua.org/wp-content/uploads/DCP-WTCPUA-241118.pdf
  4. I'm indifferent about the lawns, but not being able to wash your cars, or use a pressure washer, or fill a kiddie pool because of big brother...
  5. Man, I remember my HS days when I discovered lotion, too...
  6. Meh, the last 10% has so much red tape, it takes the rest of the 14 months to get it completed.
  7. I'm a bit perturbed how the local water districts and Austin Water won't remove Stage 2 restrictions until the DCP exit conditions are met for 4 months continuously. I.e. the two variable level lakes must have a combined storage over 1.2MM acre-feet for 4 months continuously before they will lift the restrictions from Stage 2 to Stage 1, then to no restrictions. Nevermind we just crossed the 1.7MM a-f storage mark, and would take a few years worth of usage and evaporation to back down to the 1.2MM a-f mark. I guess the water districts need a way to fine the hell out of the customers and make some good side cash.
  8. Clearly the Windows Updates did you in, Immamac.
  9. Last couple go-rounds, they had the gates open around 690-695, IIRC. I think it was July 5th, 2007, we saw a huge flood, pushed it up to 701, they had 4 flood gates opened. I do recall hearing a story from an old buddy about how the dam can only handle 4 FGs at a time since traffic was shifted off the top of the dam. The natural frequency at that time was offset by vehicle traffic on the dam itself, but without it, opening more than 4 gates risked permanent damage and or failure in the structure. This was taken from the SCUBA park at Mansfield back then.
  10. They went to hell after they were sold off. They're mostly Asia made now. And the warranties are crap. Had to take a 3/8" socket wrench in for repair. Back in the Sears day, they'd pull out a packet with all new internals and rebuild it while you watched. Now, you swap your broken "Made in the USA" for a Chinese or Taiwanese made equivalent that's half the quality. Only benefit to Craftsman now is they're carried at a bunch of different places that are more convenient to get to. /rant
  11. Finebaum doing his best to make Elko horngry?
  12. https://www.raspberrypi.com/ Basically a palm-sized computer that runs linux or android that sells for dirt cheap. Like $25 for a pretty robust computer. Fun for a cheap project here and there for sure.
  13. Quoting since it's behind the paywall
  14. So there's a security office at the entrance, and an office listed near the rec hall. I'm curious if the security officer was stationed at the gate (off to the left of this map) or at the office itself. If he was at the gate, by the time he saw anything, the cabins were maybe 15-30 seconds from being hit by the water. If he was in the office labeled in the pic below, he would have been at higher elevation than the campers and futher offset from them, and again, even less heads up for the impending wall of water. Unless he was listening actively to the weather radio, they were fucked. Again, that area is a major cell deadzone, so radio or TV would probably be the best bet for receiving any alerts. And curious, did the security guard survive, or did he get swept away?
  15. Man, go watch an outages compilation from P&R. Chris Pratt might be one of the few guys to get Nick Offerman to break character.
  16. I don't know, I've never seen a Ferrari outrun a shark underwater. Says a lot about the speed of a shark.
  17. Dad called kids while floating away and left voicemails. Son was able to log in and see all his text messages, and the alerts for the RV park flooding didn't come in until he was already gone. https://www.fox7austin.com/news/i-think-is-it-dad-leaves-goodbye-voicemail-kids-before-being-swept-away-texas-flood
  18. If this is proven to be true, seems like that would shift the liability to the inspecting party/parties rather than the camp itself. I'm quite interested to see if they publish their plan in the wake of all this.
  19. How the hell is Travis or Hays still in D0?!
  20. So buddy had a Blackhawk sweeping behind his house on Sandy Creek arm again yesterday, followed by a slow troll of a police boat through a drift of debris across from Jones Brothers' Park. He didn't see them pull anything yet, but wouldn't surprise me if we see some victims recovered from there. And in regards to the Marble Falls Fire Chief, they've dug out his jeep...
  21. Well, it's 2025, so...
  22. Why can't they get the surface area right? Is the 1M acres the lake surface size while full?
  23. I'm not defending the Mayor at all. Guy slept through the entire thing. The fact that the Tribune is posting the headline to make it sound like the Mayor was competent and the Governor was lying, while at the same time there is evidence there were first responders stationed in the area (including a first response vehicle that was swept away) should tell you all you need to know. I'm fucking burnt out listening to everyone Monday morning QBing the shit of all that's gone on. Frankly, I want to read about factual recovery efforts or factual post-mortem on the entire response efforts, but the media scum telling half-truths and publishing articles 48 hours before they're ready is getting old fast. Journalistic ambulance chasers trying to put blame on whomever isn't bringing back the victims, and right now, that's exactly what the families of the victims need.
  24. Sears, back when Craftsman was made in the USA. Radio Shack when they stocked components. Hell, Fry's electronics.
  25. Bluesky + Texas Tribune... Bias much? Kerrville Mayor is in a world of shit right now, I'm sure he'll say anything to get the heat off him...
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