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4 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Buchanan and Travis both up 2 ft respectively.  Should go up over the next couple of days if i understand how gravity works. 

 

4 hours ago, Orange&White said:

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

What a perfect Austin photo.  A fallen tree....on a Tesla shitbox....in the parking lot of a much-beloved fake taco place.  Captures the essence of Austin in 2025 right there.

and I think that's a hackberry tree so a shit tree too, protected by the city.

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3 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

We lost this old girl in the neighborhood this week… likely one of the longest tenured trees in the area. emoji22.png

The good news is that the property owner can now build a McMansion with that pesky protected tree out of the picture.

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3 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

We lost this old girl in the neighborhood this week… likely one of the longest tenured trees in the area. emoji22.png

Godspeed, tree.

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27 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The good news is that the property owner can now build a McMansion with that pesky protected tree out of the picture.

and all the fat middle aged dudes in the neighborhood will have smoker fuel for a while

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2 hours ago, troph said:

and I think that's a hackberry tree so a shit tree too, protected by the city.

I'm still slightly bitter about how much $$$ I had to pay to have one removed at my old home, because it developed a crack and I was trying to do the right thing and not have it fall on my neighbors.

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16 minutes ago, YChang said:

I'm still slightly bitter about how much $$$ I had to pay to have one removed at my old home, because it developed a crack and I was trying to do the right thing and not have it fall on my neighbors.

How much did you have to pay?  I had a 60 foot Arizona Ash removed down to a stump for $1000 which I thought wasn't too bad.

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2 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

How much did you have to pay?  I had a 60 foot Arizona Ash removed down to a stump for $1000 which I thought wasn't too bad.

It's been a few year now but I think it was around 1,300 to 1,500. So your quote seems really reasonable!

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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Power just came back on. Just in time to throw all the groceries we bought yesterday.

Must be nice.  Still no power here and our HEB is closed indefinitely.  

The last few frozen margs are on ice in the Yeti but I doubt they make until morning. 

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1 hour ago, Chet Steadman said:

Must be nice.  Still no power here and our HEB is closed indefinitely.  

The last few frozen margs are on ice in the Yeti but I doubt they make until morning. 

Only one thing to be done, then.

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Posted
10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Friends in Hyde Park just go their power back after two days.  Gonna have to restock the Grey Poupon.

I have friends in Pemberton Heights.

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27 minutes ago, 40acredropout said:

Weird flex 

I know. Bragging about having friends. Show off 

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I have power, but my neighbors not far away are going into day 3 with no power and the linemen told them it's going to be Monday at the earliest before it's restored, and maybe longer. 

 

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and all the fat middle aged dudes in the neighborhood will have smoker fuel for a while

Ah shit, didn’t even think of that… I’ll go offer my chainsaw services
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On 5/30/2025 at 10:18 AM, royiv said:

Agree, but unfortunately it’s just not that easy. My FIL is a retired ag economist who has spent his retirement years working tirelessly on hunger issues. He is primarily responsible, although he would never take credit, for the success of the food bank in his community. One of the things he works on is getting food to food banks that would otherwise wasted. We’ve had long conversations about this exact type of scenario and how frustrating it is to see food get wasted. The logistics of getting this food out of the grocery store, into temperature controlled transportation and into storage at a food bank all during what is an irregular operations situation is highly difficult. Not that it can’t be done, but there’s still inevitably going to be waste and it’s not as simple as calling up the food bank and saying “come and get it!”

Fair, but counterpoint, it’s HEB. They’re kinda notorious for disaster planning. If anybody could have this shit figured out, it should be them. I’d imagine they do, and they just got caught flat footed with this one. Sad to see, but I bet that’s a pretty rare occurrence for them. 

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I live in the 78757. I was out of town and the neighborhood was skull fucked into oblivion. I looked like a bomb went off. Trees broken everywhere, leaves everywhere and lots of spots that had water damage. This video is from my neighbor who is like 5 houses down.

 

 

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Posted
11 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Old man’s house, near Mesa and spicewood, still without power.

I think there are still pockets that are down near Burney & Mesa.

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Buchanan went up about a foot. Thought it might get more based on where the rain was falling. It is doing better than Travis at 57% full.

Canyon lake didn’t go up at all. Sitting at 45% full. 

We are still in desperate need of rain in the right places. It’s June now, so maybe next year.

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10 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Buchanan went up about a foot. Thought it might get more based on where the rain was falling. It is doing better than Travis at 57% full.

Canyon lake didn’t go up at all. Sitting at 45% full. 

We are still in desperate need of rain in the right places. It’s June now, so maybe next year.

Need one or two pacific hurricanes to track NE out of Mexico

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30 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Buchanan went up about a foot. Thought it might get more based on where the rain was falling. It is doing better than Travis at 57% full.

Canyon lake didn’t go up at all. Sitting at 45% full. 

We are still in desperate need of rain in the right places. It’s June now, so maybe next year.

June is on average almost as wet as May.  

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20 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Need one or two pacific hurricanes to track NE out of Mexico

yeah I like the pacific track easterly across the Chihuahuan Desert more than up the ass on the Texas coast. those always kill people and destroy property and never make it here.

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Austin Energy outage map shows about 560 people without power, and expects to restore all of those today. I'm sure its miserable if you are one of the few still without power, but 4 days to recover from an event of that magnitude is better than I would have guessed. 

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5 hours ago, troph said:

June is on average almost as wet as May.  

Ward was always hard on the Beaver 

leave it to beaver june GIF

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Just 272 households still without power.

Old man's casa is one of them.  Fucking hell, his freezers are gonna STINK.  We're going to let the stuff re-freeze, toss it all on trash day, then give them a good cleaning.  At least everything is packaged up pretty good, shouldn't have any significant leaks of crap.

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Posted
27 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


We’re old school. Buried those in a shallow grave.

Power came on last night, about 30 mins shy of being out for a full 100 hours.

Burritos still frozen?

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41 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Burritos still frozen?

Suspect they're re-frozen.  I'm sure the coupla days at room temp didn't hurt em at all.  You're welcome to come by and take whatever you want.

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Suspect they're re-frozen.  I'm sure the coupla days at room temp didn't hurt em at all.  You're welcome to come by and take whatever you want.

Why thank you Sir. I will be right over. Can I grab that cream cheese as well?

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13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Just 272 households still without power.

Old man's casa is one of them.  Fucking hell, his freezers are gonna STINK.  We're going to let the stuff re-freeze, toss it all on trash day, then give them a good cleaning.  At least everything is packaged up pretty good, shouldn't have any significant leaks of crap.

Wasn't his one of the few that kept power during the freeze? 

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1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Wasn't his one of the few that kept power during the freeze? 

Yep.  Bottom line, one of our two family homes, a mile apart from each other, has been among the last 1% (or even fewer) to get power back in 1) the big freeze, 2) the ice storm (our home was without power 4-5 days in each one of those), and now 3) the mini-hurricane at my old man's house.

Before these, the longest we'd ever been out of power was in Houston during Alicia in 1983, and my folks after Ike in 2008 -- in both cases, well into day 3, then the power came back on.  Never for 4-5 days.  Now?  We've been without power for 4-5 days three times in five years.

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19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yep.  Bottom line, one of our two family homes, a mile apart from each other, has been among the last 1% (or even fewer) to get power back in 1) the big freeze, 2) the ice storm (our home was without power 4-5 days in each one of those), and now 3) the mini-hurricane at my old man's house.

Before these, the longest we'd ever been out of power was in Houston during Alicia in 1983, and my folks after Ike in 2008 -- in both cases, well into day 3, then the power came back on.  Never for 4-5 days.  Now?  We've been without power for 4-5 days three times in five years.

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