Everything posted by PvilleStang
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Johnny (football?) Manziel
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.
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Post a pic that makes you lol
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...
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Hold on while I throw it up on my MySpace page...
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Lake Travis 2024: Countdown To Zero
Might have to dust off the old dive gear and check out the cliffs!
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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...
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Man, I remember my HS days when I discovered lotion, too...
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Meh, the last 10% has so much red tape, it takes the rest of the 14 months to get it completed.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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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Shit's Borked
Clearly the Windows Updates did you in, Immamac.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
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
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Finebaum doing his best to make Elko horngry?
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
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.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
Quoting since it's behind the paywall
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
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?
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Post a pic that makes you lol
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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Post a pic that makes you say "Holy shit."
I don't know, I've never seen a Ferrari outrun a shark underwater. Says a lot about the speed of a shark.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
Dad called kids while floating away and left voicemails. Son was able to log in and see all his text messages, and the alerts for the RV park flooding didn't come in until he was already gone. https://www.fox7austin.com/news/i-think-is-it-dad-leaves-goodbye-voicemail-kids-before-being-swept-away-texas-flood
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
If this is proven to be true, seems like that would shift the liability to the inspecting party/parties rather than the camp itself. I'm quite interested to see if they publish their plan in the wake of all this.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
How the hell is Travis or Hays still in D0?!
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
So buddy had a Blackhawk sweeping behind his house on Sandy Creek arm again yesterday, followed by a slow troll of a police boat through a drift of debris across from Jones Brothers' Park. He didn't see them pull anything yet, but wouldn't surprise me if we see some victims recovered from there. And in regards to the Marble Falls Fire Chief, they've dug out his jeep...
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Shart 2025: The Shitshow We Deserve
Well, it's 2025, so...
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Why can't they get the surface area right? Is the 1M acres the lake surface size while full?