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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

I did.  Lighting fried the board in the unit, as well as the wire from the unit to the house (which needed replacing anyway).  A bit over $1200 each item to fix.  Had it topped $7k or so, I'd have turned in an insurance claim.

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Posted
7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

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Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years.
2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs).
2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience.
2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers.
2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage.
Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.
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Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, Sbbruin said:


It was 85 today here. And about the same tomorrow

Yeah, it's 63 here at my work in Denver this morning. Our average low for today should be about 30. This is bullshit.

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39 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Yeah, it's 63 here at my work in Denver this morning. Our average low for today should be about 30. This is bullshit.

LOL it was in the upper 20s the last 2 mornings and today? Mid-40s, will hit 70 again

Significant snowfall in the forecast for November? Nope. 

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Low of 39 in Amarillo this morning.  That Denver temp is odd.

Canadian heat wave barreling down the Rockies to the Great Plains wasn't on my November bingo card.

Posted (edited)
10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years.
2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs).
2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience.
2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers.
2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage.
Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.

Has your insurance company started giving you the stink eye yet?  Once upon a Time Louisiana would allow an insurer to cancel you if you made three claims in five years.

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25 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Has your insurance company started giving you the stink eye yet?  Once upon a Time Louisiana would allow an insurer to cancel you if you made three claims in five years.

Oh, the super fun part is that these have been expensive enough to suck, but not so pricey that they were worth making a claim (below our deductible amount, or right close to it).  So...yay.

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Ouch.

in my karmic evolution from dung beetle to lawyer, I must’ve been decent in my last life, because a month before the last major hurricane state farm allowed me to obtain a 2% deductible instead of the usual 6% deductible if I switched to their auto insurance in addition to homeowners.

That saved me 45K.  Granted, I had to sue the bastards in federal court, and it took two years to get my money. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Js1 said:

LOL it was in the upper 20s the last 2 mornings and today? Mid-40s, will hit 70 again

Significant snowfall in the forecast for November? Nope. 

There's been the cold day here and there,  but overall we've been way above our normal highs and lows this fall. Fire season next spring/summer is gonna be lit.

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