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PvilleStang

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  1. Joke works better if they were magazines, not clips...
  2. Great, there goes a few hours...
  3. Take it to the CR. JFC...
  4. Yet outside of Surly, I've reference E. King Gil 0.0 times.
  5. And those memories would be long gone 2 minutes after the body reaches room temp.
  6. Man, just saw Travis Chestnut is transferring back to TAMU, anyone see the details on TxAgs. Did his momma really step up in Forest Gump fashion?
  7. I'm kind of with you on this. The big reason the NWS alerts don't work is because we've become fatigued by all the Amber Alerts, storm watches and whatnot that buzz our phones throughout the day and night. There needs to be some discretion as to how these are issued, and I would hope the sirens would be exercised with extreme caution. They ABSOLUTELY should be developed and configured with input from the camps, RV parks and condos along the river. Give a XX minute alarm when upstream thresholds are met (rising waters, X feet above normal pool, etc), and have an understood evacuation protocol in place. Each camp, for instance, should have a procedure in place verified by the county for when the alarms go off, each RV camp and River Inn have their own protocols (evacuate, drive downstream to Rendezvous point X), etc. And again, they need to ensure they guard the sirens to where they don't become the next overused NWS alerts that get ignored.
  8. So many bumps, I figured there'd be an Obituary link by now... And I'm talking THREAD bumps, not the JM key bumps we're used to talking about in here.
  9. Kids have a pile of Mardi Gras beads they were given a while back. You want to talk about fun, try separating a ball of 20 of those. It's not as bad as this, which the OCD in me can't leave it be...
  10. Hold on while I throw it up on my MySpace page...
  11. Might have to dust off the old dive gear and check out the cliffs!
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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...
  15. Man, I remember my HS days when I discovered lotion, too...
  16. Meh, the last 10% has so much red tape, it takes the rest of the 14 months to get it completed.
  17. 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.
  18. Clearly the Windows Updates did you in, Immamac.
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  21. Finebaum doing his best to make Elko horngry?
  22. 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.
  23. Quoting since it's behind the paywall
  24. 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?
  25. 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.
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