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  1. 7 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

    They ever just open the gates for a split second to make they still work?

    6 years since last open seems like a long time.

    “Uh, boss, we got a problem. Valve rusted off.”

    well, try the next one.

    “Yeah, same problem with that one… and the other 31 of them.”

     I'm pretty sure these are new gates they've recently installed during the modernization of Buchanan Dam.  This was their initial test.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    We got a new AC last week ($14K, fuck) with a Nest thermostat. I told my wife that the app can only be on one phone. So far that seems to be working.

    The Honeywell app is convoluted enough to prevent mine from wanting it on her phone.  Also found out she never got MyQ installed.  She always wondered how I knew when she was leaving (ALERT: Garage Door opened: 1:43 PM).

    Neighbor gave us a soccer goal this week, and the wife and kids are having a blast playing with it RIGHT in front of the Nest camera.  So I guess she's getting her revenge.

  3. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    I also remember the enormous backlash from bass fisherman about Lake Austin. Lake Austin was a well known lake for producing big bass. After the carp release, the vegetation disappered and so did the bass fishing.

    They started building fenced-in habitats across from Commons Ford park.  I haven't been on the lake in a while, but I remember those were supposed to be researching habitats to replenish the bass population, IIRC.  Guessing that went nowhere. 

  4. Lazy fucking GenZ employees that lunch-badge so they can claim they're getting 3 days / week in the office.  Showing up at 11am, ordering lunch, then out of the office by 2-3pm.  You're being paid QUITE well to have your ass in the office 3 days a week, show up like everyone else.  I almost prefer you don't show your face around the office rather than show up, spend 2 of your 4 hours socializing, then disappear.

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  5. Just now, PGFrog said:

    You underestimate the desire of the Ags to keep a hero alive in their minds.

    Shit, Gil didn't play a down and his memory is immortalized for ever, just imagine if he won a game at Alabama in a season that resulted in not even a SEC West DIVISION championship.  

    Yet outside of Surly, I've reference E. King Gil 0.0 times.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

    I, for one, am in favor of Manziel living for a long time, because that probably means he'll keep doing stuff to keep us entertained between games. He dies and  then we've got nothing but memories to rehash.

    And those memories would be long gone 2 minutes after the body reaches room temp.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Texas Fight said:

    I understand the concept. You hear a siren, and you immediately get up and know exactly what to do and where to go and are clear on time to act. Think tornado or nuclear bomb.

    Id like for someone to show it practically for a flood. I think you all know Hwy 39 (if not, look at it in Google map). Consider the stretch from River Inn to Ingram Dam. That’s where all of the people are. There are probably 7-8 low water or river crossings that certainly flood the majority of the time in these scenarios. 

    - When would a siren have gone off in this instance or any of the previous floods? At what water level, at what location, giving what amount of time for public to take action?  

    - What are the instructions? Get in your car and take the 1 road from River Inn to Ingram? Or towards hwy 83? Or leave your RV and walk to higher ground in the storm? Does one or both cause more risk than just staying indoors? Not necessarily for THIS flood, but for the 40-50 floods before this one.

    - At what point does the siren go off, and only go off, in a scenario where staying indoors is no longer the safest option leaving your dwelling IMMEDIATELY, in car or on foot, is the safest and only option. I.e if a siren goes off, the instructions and timing are clear. Do “this”, immediately.

    Again, I get the concept. I’d like to see it from concept to reality. Can it be done simply and effectively?

    How do you see it working? 

    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. 

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  8. 19 hours ago, BonzoMontreaux said:

    Wife's necklaces and bracelets get tangled up on occasion.  Talking about 10-12 items at least.  I will happily spend hours untangling that ball of mess.

    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...

    Really trivial, silly question | Off Topic | unofficial empeg BBS

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  9. 15 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    In 2026 the PUA is going to be handed back a decent chunk of water from a few MUDs. Enough for them to once again oversell water. Good thing is that there isn't much more development possible in their CCN. Between conservation land and wastewater unavailability, coupled with high land cost and acreage lots becoming a thing of the past, they might just make it. It is over 2k LUEs they will get off the books.

    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.

    9 hours ago, Horns99 said:

    Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

    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.

  10. Just now, 1978horn said:

    It is not the individual water districts.  It is the LCRA then the WTCPUA and Austin that set the tone for Austin and west of Austin.  Once they go to stage 1 then the water districts will follow suit.  If the districts go first then the LCRA and the PUA can fine the districts themselves.  

    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

  11. 1 hour ago, Vertuzzi said:

    Pump lotion bottles fucking drive me up the wall. The straw of the fucking pump never reaches the bottom of the bottle, which leaves like a quarter of the lotion unreachable without having to screw off the pump and smacking that shit on the palm of my hand. Just an overall inferior product design. 

    Man, I remember my HS days when I discovered lotion, too...

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  12. 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.

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