Everything posted by Mighty fine
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2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on
Fonda. Just looked at the map and realized not quite as far north as I was remembering. Was there for a family reunion with my wife family.
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2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on
The days around July 4, 2017 in northwest Iowa were possibly the most prefect in terms of weather that I can remember experiencing
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Rehoming my wife's Dog/Animal Aggression assistance
Regarding JoJo, this is spot on (especially for dogs with shepherd in them). In my experience, obedience training won't get rid of this instinct; you have to get more into the attack/guard dog training, and this comes with some other trade offs. She just said enough of this shit and laid down the law to Henry; you are correct in your assessment that Henry's got to go.
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2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on
Just got back to 78729 from 78749. North side of town has definitely had it heavier than south of about 2222.
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Dr. Dre has brain aneurysm
Article said he's stable and lucid. Will likely need a bit of rehab, but it's amazing how far medical advances have come on this. Not the death sentence it once was if you can get to hospital fairly quickly
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brain eating ameobas in Lake Jackson municipal water
Following a couple of deaths from the bug at our local lake growing up, we all got in the habit of plugging our nose before skiing/tubing and jumping off boat houses for that very reason
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brain eating ameobas in Lake Jackson municipal water
Hmm, interesting. Not uncommon in surface water supply (stagnant water areas). That the city uses groundwater is a bit of a head scratcher. Could be an 'old water' issue from water in dead end mains, but I'd wager its a contaminated ground storage tank at the bwa/ city connection (top of the head, non informed assumption). Good news, easily rectified (pending they can quickly id the source).
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2020 Hurricane Season w/ special guest Covid-19
When's the last time you were able to go grab a few beers with your buddies? Be sure to make sure she's aware of that.
- Justin Townes Earle dead at 38
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Markets still falling like whoa
The pause and site redirect when clicking the link originally posted made the picture all the more funnier.
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5 HPD Officers Shot
https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/crime/six-former-hpd-officers-indicted-for-17-felonies-after-investigation-into-narcotics-division/285-ff7b5af3-53dd-4fd6-910f-981874701765
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Tesla
I believe that's correct , or at least the general location
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Lots of headscratchers for me here. The biggest one being that this was in Mabank. Edit: I watched the video before reading the flyer. That makes a bit more sense.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Yes. Still have a bunch of family and friends there; don't get back as often as I'd like to. Curious, which restaurant was tied to the spread?
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Have you heard any numbers/stats on how things are doing around the lake? Just learned that a former teacher of mine who lived over around Malakoff passed away due to complications from the virus
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
Yep. And the population projections are not only critical for estimating water needs, but also making sure utilities don't develop supplies too quickly and find yourself at the short end of the stick with either debt service or take- or-pay contract obligations. The latter topic has become a growing concern more recently with the proliferation of utility partnerships
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
That's a separate issue. With subsidence, the consolidation is happening in the dewatered formation, so generally the elevation drop is constant across a local area.
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
One distinction on this: El Paso is brackish groundwater desalination. With brackish desal, your going on the order of 5000 mg/l to less than 1000 mg/l of total dissolved solids typically using membrane filtration, freshwater blending, or a combination of both. With seawater desal, your looking at going from 35,000 mg/l to less than 1000 mg/l tds with your treatment system. That additional level of treatment compounds both your capital and operations cost. Corpus is looking at seawater desal, but it's some expensive water.
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
Austin has untapped options (eg, go east and tap the Carrizo Wilcox aquifer system similar to San Antonio). This coupled with the growth of reuse and alternative technologies such as Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) will set them up well into the future. With regards to private investment, PPPs are increasing in popularity (see SAWS Vista Ridge wellfield and pipeline). I think the economics on water supply projects are prohibitive to private investment/ development unless (a) you have and can stand to sit on a shit ton of capital/assets for a 20 year horizon without making, or (b) you own a shit ton of land sitting on top of a prolific aquifer (see Temple Inland/Forestar)
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
This is a common practice. Pretty sure a tiered rate structure is also a requirement for utilities mandated to have a Water Conservation Plan.
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
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.
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Lovely: The price of water in the U.S. (especially Austin) is skyrocketing
For those interested, the draft regional water plans for most of the state regional water planning groups were published recently. These are fairly interesting in how they identify future projects and provide estimates for developing each.
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Put in the big hole and gouge on it (truck driver check in)
Not to be confused with the equally impressive, albeit slightly outdated model 220.
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Put in the big hole and gouge on it (truck driver check in)
God damnit you sorry son of a bitch. One thread where I don't have to read a bunch of pussy ass bitching, and here you come. Others can correct me if I'm wrong, but that pic is likely from his cab camera setup.
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2020 Rain Thread
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.