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49 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

Power out 78759, Spicewood/183. We were lucky... until now. 

Near you, but out since 2am.

Most infuriating thing?  Driving by empty office buildings with power north side of 183 at Oak Knoll/Riata WITH LIGHTS ON IN EMPTY OFFICES.

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2 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Where is she?

Decatur

2 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

We got 20 mins of power.  Gone now.

Annnnnnd I'm out too. Lasted about 30 mins. At least got my interior temp up to 70, got something warm to eat, and got my phone charge off of death row.

Hunkering down for the night. Stay warm erebody!

Been alright all day. Just had a few flickers on the lights in Addison close to galleria mall

 

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Near you, but out since 2am.
Most infuriating thing?  Driving by empty office buildings with power north side of 183 at Oak Knoll/Riata WITH LIGHTS ON IN EMPTY OFFICES.

Yep, we’re near you. Lights on just on the other side of Spicewood. Like, a few blocks. Power out here for 17 hrs now.
39 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Still lucky. 7 mins until 16 hrs no power in 78759

Also 78759 crossing my fingers, maybe the Lubys is considered an essential grid

Just now, Red Five said:

I've had zero outages in 78749. 

17 hours down for my 78749 hood

30 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


I look forward to snow blowing... just so long as the wind isn’t whipping it back to my face/down my back for those very reasons. It’s pleasurable like lawn mowing if it’s above 20 with no wind

Wife:  you want me to help shovel?

me:  no, no. I’ll get it all. 

Those of you who bailed for hotel or family... did yall turn water off at street? I am terrified of a burst pipe that floods while I am asleep or away 

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Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.

I've had zero outages in 78749. 

We lost it for about 2 hours around noon
Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.

Yourself. THAT’S who you should fuck.
2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.

Swisher rolled tight?

Seriously, fuck this.

Was giving my kids a bath and the power went out at my parents. 10 minutes later my older brother loses power. Only one left that has power is my younger brother, but 14 of us can’t fit in his house.

I’m over this.

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Yourself. THAT’S who you should fuck.

That would be selfish of me.

9 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I've had zero outages in 78749. 

Negged.

Just now, South Austin said:

Girlfriend . . . managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive.

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Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.
Hopefully the dude with the 4WD vehicle didn't wear her out
36 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


I look forward to snow blowing... just so long as the wind isn’t whipping it back to my face/down my back for those very reasons. It’s pleasurable like lawn mowing if it’s above 20 with no wind

Finished a structure in the backyard a couple of months ago topped with sunbrella fabric. Did not have clearing snow before it melts and turns to a block of ice on the radar as something I’d need to do as part normal maintenance.

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7 minutes ago, South Austin said:
Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.

Hopefully the dude with the 4WD vehicle didn't wear her out

It was actually her ex-husband’s wife. Weird backstory, but she got here.

I see that the Dallas professional ice hockey game was postponed due to wintery weather.  Will give the northern hockey fans something to snicker about. 

3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

It was actually her ex-husband’s wife. Weird backstory, but she got here.

Well, nobody has anything better to do. 
 

the gentleman from south Austin has the floor. 

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Well I am happy to report that after fixing the issue with my water heater cutoff, the washer is now spewing vigorously into the tub again. 

I also biased more of our dripping faucets to hot to keep that circulating. 

Longterm forecast continues to improve

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Those 70's will feel like 90

On the power situation, North Texas has more facilities than Central and South Texas, although the capacity is fairly comparable. 

The peaker plants I am guessing are really unused capacity at coal plants as they are being gradually shuttered. 

I suspect that the plan was to bring that capacity on, and they probably even rehearsed doing it.  In 70 degree weather. 

 

I might also guess that the temperature affected the steady state operation of those plants in unanticipated ways, requiring that they be taken offline which may explain why things didn't take a dump until 1AM.

 

They have spent the day fixing those things so hopefully the situation improves. 

Those without power are in my thoughts. 

 

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alright...i've put the impending pool disaster aside for now to try and make the best of this...

we rearranged furniture so both our big cushy leather chairs are right in front of the (gas) fireplace. with all 4 stove burners going for about an hour, we got it up to about 62 degrees. this is our spot for the night - we both nap in these chairs regularly so sleeping in them won't be a problem 😄

dog is still out of sorts - she's tiny so we had to shovel a path and space for her to do her business. she's agitated, but settled down in her bed right in front of the hearth right now. 

took most of the perishables out of the fridge/freezer and just stacked them in the garage - it hasn't gotten about 32 in there all day, so should be fine overnight. all the frozen stuff is still pretty much frozen. 

as long as gas doesn't go out, we're gonna live. water is fine, abundant hot water. i can't do anything about the pool right now anyway, we just shut it off at the main power source, we'll just see what happens when things warm up. 😟

just another 'HOLY SHIT WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?' moment...feels like we've had a lifetime's worth of those in the past 12 months, eh? 🤘

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Finished a structure in the backyard a couple of months ago topped with sunbrella fabric. Did not have clearing snow before it melts and turns to a block of ice on the radar as something I’d need to do as part normal maintenance.
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Is that stuff fully water repellent? Building a covered pergola as my next project. I want to weatherproof it with some sort of roof. Been looking both at metal and fabric options
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Not enough nopes in this world or any other. Port Arthur's Rainbow Bridge this morning. 
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The thrill of victory.
The agony of de-Neches.

Fuck lost power again about an hour ago. I’m starting to have Harvey flashbacks.

Girlfriend has been without power since 2am and managed to get a ride to my place from someone with four-wheel drive. So I’m getting laid tonight, which is nice.

Probably getting sloppy seconds actually


Edit looks like I’m a day late and dollar short
1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Nearly 14 hours with no power in 77044

17 hours with no power in 78729. Right off of Pond Springs Road. 

2 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

If you shit the bed and then clean %35 of it up hours later are you really producing results?  No Cloak Room- There's plenty of blame to go around.

You're terrifying people with rain gutter shit that only happens in Alaska, and now you're putting the percent sign before numbers. I like the cut of your jib

Found out late this afternoon that our barndomonium had power and internet so we headed out to the farm for the night. No water but we have lights and space heaters. 
 

Looking at the weather data log, it appears the power never went out here. We are about 2 miles from the Parish power plant. Maybe that has something to do with it. 
 

Or maybe Booth is just higher priority than Greatwood. 😉

anyone on s lamar (in 78704) have any power? brother's apartment building hasn't had power since 3am with no ETA on when it'll be back

he said a bunch of his friends in the various buildings on s lamar haven't had power all day either


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grew up about 4 miles from that bridge. back then it was two-way, single lane, no shoulder. that same thing happened to me and my passengers in 1982 because you had to drive it to pass driver’s ed.

rip Coach Railey...

We have no water or power, also no fireplace,, but we have whiskey, 2 lil buddy heaters and a tent in our living room.  The kids are loving it. I gave up on the pipes this morning. I killed supply line and cut the pvc to drain it.  I went total fuckit, I am fixing this shit later (turns out our hood lost supply from the district sometime in the last hour anyways). We have several cases of water and 30 gallons of shitter flush water. We are livin!

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3 minutes ago, lazytexasfan said:

anyone on s lamar (in 78704) have any power? brother's apartment building hasn't had power since 3am with no ETA on when it'll be back

he said a bunch of his friends in the various buildings on s lamar haven't had power all day either

I live on S. Lamar and power has been out since about 2 AM. What’s annoying is I can see the neighborhood right behind us on Manchac all lit up. Just right there. They must be on the circuit that has St. David’s South. 

We haven't lost power at all yet here. Kinda worried about this next round. They are saying it is going to be more sleet and freezing rain than snow.

I guess when the temperature gets back to around 70, they'll turn the power back on, assholes. 

1 hour ago, CleverNickname said:

Those of you who bailed for hotel or family... did yall turn water off at street? I am terrified of a burst pipe that floods while I am asleep or away 

I don't think a burst pipe will be able to gush or drip to cause a flood. It is when it is warm enough to thaw that you have to worry about that.  Somebody with  frozen pipe knowledge make sure I'm not lying to this poster.  

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