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Mighty fine

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  1. Yep, I've been saying this for a while. I wouldn't make them illegal, but I would jack up the price of water for heavy users. Something like the first x number of gallons a family or business uses per month would be cheap (or hell even free for the minimum number of gallons needed to live). Then have a tier pricing plan. The next y number of gallons is a little more expensive, then on and on. If you want to water your grass every day, it's going to cost you.
    This is a common practice. Pretty sure a tiered rate structure is also a requirement for utilities mandated to have a Water Conservation Plan.
  2. If I remember correctly, we were gonna use our emergency fund to work on our water infrastructure back after the 2011 drought.
    The state passed legislation in 2013 on this, then it was set up as the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) and is administered by the Texas Water Development Board. Basically a portion of the rainy day money was set aside and allocated for low interest loans /grant funding for water supply projects.
  3. I remember going up that following Wednesday to volunteer / clean.    The sight of those gargantuan cypress trees uprooted will always be embedded in my mind.   You'd stand next to the root balls and feel like a very tiny person.
    That was my exact thought as well. It was almost like a fleet of dozers came through and pushed up hundreds of tree/brush piles along the banks and sand bars.
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  4. Ajax, I'm 32. My vision at 30 was about the same as yours is currently. Now, I'm at a -2.0 in both eyes without trying. I've had a noticeable natural improvement; eye doctor said this is not uncommon.

    I'm almost to the point where I don't feel that need corrective lenses (except at dusk... driving not lit roads at dusk fucking sucks now even with lenses)

  5. I'm tracking with you on that. And yeah, the development density is critical recycle operations to be feasible economically. Regulatory headwinds still pose a challenge to recycle in some areas; funny enough, I don't believe University Lands allowed large scale produced water recycle/ reuse on their leases until 2017 or 2018.

  6. Almost every major player is reusing produced water for fracs either 100% produced or blended with some fresh water. It’s a green/green solution 
    But at what percentage within their operation?

    Upstream E&P life cycle water management has really grown in the last decade; the produced water managment subsection has really taken off since 2013-2014 or so. The stuff that PXD, DVN, SWN, etc, have been doing on the water side is pretty damn cool and innovative. But let's not pretend that every major player isn't poking new water wells to support growing ops, either.
  7. Everyone has their strengths and deficits.   I never let military or law enforcement or engineers sit on a jury if I can prevent it.  They cannot get it through their heads the concept of you can win a trial with 51% proof.  Their brains do not work that way.  They are hard wired to accept only proof, and tend to automatically disregard the order of the Court to follow the Preponderance of the Evidence  jury charge.  They will not follow it.    They will say after, "I had some doubts...you did not prove it fully..."   No kidding.   That would be a different standard - not the one the Court gave you.   It is useless to educate them, and they will argue that they are right when you tell them that it was more likely than not true.
    Which is all to say, if you have a decision that takes nuance and possibilities with a relatively soft percentage of proof - like under 80 percent, that type of mind will resist  an option that is not a sure thing.   And sometimes you have to make a BIG decision based upon a 'more likely than not'.     That type of mind tends to freeze when making a decision with less than certainty.   Studies show that the type of black-white thinker that is military or LE or engineering tend to be conservative/GOP.   Liberals tend to be folks who see more gray.  We like nurses and social workers and teachers on juries.   They do fine with a 55% proof in a case.  
    So I think that Red State leaders may be slower to act not out of evil intent, but due to  a lack of 100% certainty proof about the Covid-19 response "right decision".  
    If this is too political I will delete it - or a Mod can. 
     
     
     
    Never set on a jury, but how the fuck do you quantify 51% proof? How do you know it's not actually 49% proof?


  8. Child care for most people is not a la carte or daily rate where it just turns off when they’re closed. Most of us are on the hook regardless. Which blows, but I guess that means the workers still get paid. 


    Yep. Seems like a pretty good group of caretakers at my son's daycare, and I'd like for him to continue going there (or maybe not have to go through the pain of finding a new place) and hope they can manage to come out the other side alright.
  9. In the documentary I saw about him, he has a successful (relative) launch and touchdown. That steam rocket is basically a water heater. They crank the heat up the night before, then by launch time it's built up enough pressure. As you pointed out, it's only powered on whatever energy of steam is stored at takeoff. He knew that thing would never get as high as he claimed.

    I don't think this guy cared two shits about the flat earth movement. He just used it as a vehicle for self promotion and funding his hobby.

  10. From what I just read, the distinction between the two has to do with how the act. In low populations, locust act the same and are generally indistinguishable from grasshoppers. However, in higher populations, their behavior changes dramatically, and this is often accompanied with a change in physical characteristics.

     

    Eta: the locust is a specific grasshopper species that has undergone metamorphosis , as described in Doc's link

  11. Also I would think Bastrop and the other towns all the way to Matagorda would take a beating.  

    Just based on my observations of the water level at bastrop back when the most recent flood hit travis (October '18?), Bastrop flooding would be severe at a minimum; there's a bit of storage in the floodplain between Austin and there, so the peak wouldn't be as bad (relatively speaking). There's significant storage in the floodplain between bastrop and wharton/bay city. Not sure how bad flooding would be down near the coast, but the river would certainly be flowing full in its main banks

     

  12. I had to correct my quoted post. Depending on the downstream foodways it could conceivably rise that high under a sunny day scenario. The only difference sunny vs pmp make in this case is how long the rate of water level drop.

    You could argue that pmp would be more likely to lead to total dam failure compared to terrorist activity (ie, no dam vs a whole in the spillway), and that's a valid challenge (and thinking about it more, probably more correct). I'm assuming a complete uncontrolled release in my 'analysis' which is picking a little from pile a and a little from pile b; mix em together and its worth about a pile of shit.

  13. And it presumably differs depending on whether we're talking about the probable maximum flood or the sunny-day scenario.  But since we're talking about a terrorist attack or something of that nature, we should probably stick with the sunny-day scenario.

     

    Well had to rethink what I wrote here. I agree with this in the sense that the mode of failure would dictate severity of the event. However, I think the discharge due to complete dam failure would be an order of magnitude more than the upstream inflow.... but I may be way off on this

     

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