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30 degrees, sunny, no wind. It's t-shirt weather today. 

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2 hours ago, Fuck Tim Beck said:

ERCOT: wait, so the power actually comes back on after 10 minutes? 

ERCOT of the Mid South:  TVA

Team Drip doing well, so far. 
 

On the gas conversation, there is some truth that there are a bunch of stripper wells out there that are barely profitable that don’t support modern winterization from a financial standpoint. But the take that gas companies aren’t financially incentivized to weatherize after Feb 2021 is silly. Companies that got all their gas to market in Feb made an absolute killing. Companies absolutely winterized after, just not in the way the government was trying to mandate. 
 

This event isn’t an apples to apples comparison with Feb, but getting gas to market in a high pricing environment is a pretty good incentive to fix what went wrong last time and the lack of flow disruption, so far, is good evidence of that. 

One of our neighbors left her sprinklers on. Oops.2a8e0c2c41673637b2ef82e28d4ebcda.jpg

27 minutes ago, dcbc said:

One of our neighbors left her sprinklers on. Oops.2a8e0c2c41673637b2ef82e28d4ebcda.jpg

I could dunk on that rim.

Fuck was she watering the lawn in December anyway?
My neighbor waters twice a day every day of the year. Insanity. But hey, his grass is green so worth it.
21 hours ago, Okie State said:
21 hours ago, HenryJames said:
Fuck was she watering the lawn in December anyway?

My neighbor waters twice a day every day of the year. Insanity. But hey, his grass is green so worth it.

But that's just it, it's not worth it.  Not remotely worth it.  Between waste-water averaging and the system damage, it's a huge loss actually.  Nevermind the fact somebody is gonna die on that curb this week.  I've posted this before, I'm good at carpentry and electrical.  But I suck at plumbing.  But I know how to do three things-clean a J-trap, fix a fill valve/assembly on a toilet, and shut the fucking sprinkler line off come first freeze.  How the fuck do Texans not do this?  It's one thing to have plumbing go sideways because we don't insulate our shit here, but everybody with a sprinkler system?  Shut that shit off especially if you're going outta town.  Looking at you, my nextdoor neighbor to the South who went to Los Angeles for two weeks and I'm stuck shutting your shit off, dripping your pipes, wrapping your exterior faucets, and flushing your furnace.  

On 12/24/2022 at 10:57 AM, Deej said:

30 degrees, sunny, no wind. It's t-shirt weather today. 

I can see you are a real Texan and get laid often.  Stud.

Just got back to my house from my in-laws, turned my water back on and holy hell my pipes had some sediment in them!20221225_220313.thumb.jpg.9d5744a7cbce5a32625d624a7c9dd44a.jpg

No leaky pipes though so hooray! I had to run all the faucets for a couple minutes to clear the lines, but all back to normal now

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Just got back to my house from my in-laws, turned my water back on and holy hell my pipes had some sediment in them!20221225_220313.thumb.jpg.9d5744a7cbce5a32625d624a7c9dd44a.jpg

No leaky pipes though so hooray! I had to run all the faucets for a couple minutes to clear the lines, but all back to normal now

Do you live in Folsom Prison?  

14 hours ago, Enemy07 said:

I can see you are a real Texan and get laid often.  Stud.

My ancestors are Scandanavian. My blood is thick. 

Was this weather enough to get all you philistines to stop wearing cargo shorts?  :)

1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Do y'all drip your faucets during a freeze? I didn't this storm, and sure enough Day 4 without running water is upon me. 

Cover the in-wall spigot on the south side of the house, drip and create a wind break for the spigot on the north side that has an exposed pipe. I also try to insulate the exposed pipe as best I can, but the geniuses that owned the house before me appear to have installed this north spigot after construction, which is why it is exposed, and I can't get the screws out to properly insulate it, so it is a yearly thing until what I have done falls off. I have to more than drip that one, though, and let it run a very, very small stream. If I drip, I'm out there with a hair dryer every morning.

I also drip the inside faucets that have any exposure to outside walls and open cabinet doors.

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Do y'all drip your faucets during a freeze? I didn't this storm, and sure enough Day 4 without running water is upon me. 

If it drops below 20 or so, I’ll drip a faucet in the far end of the house. This weather I dripped several. I also wrap and cover outside spigots and rotate hand warmers in them. It’s always worked fine, but this cold spell got one of the outside spigots so I spent an hour or so Christmas Eve under the house fixing it. Luckily it popped before Home Depot closed. I am going to stock up on some different size caps now because it would have sucked if it went an hour later after everything had closed.

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Any City of Houston folks on here without water? 

I just got off the phone COH and they finally admitted that water distribution pipes are frozen. Nothing on the news. No statement from the mayor. Nice folks. They spent the last 3 days trying to convince my wife are our home's pipes were frozen. 

4 hours ago, Eastwood said:

Cover the in-wall spigot on the south side of the house, drip and create a wind break for the spigot on the north side that has an exposed pipe. I also try to insulate the exposed pipe as best I can, but the geniuses that owned the house before me appear to have installed this north spigot after construction, which is why it is exposed, and I can't get the screws out to properly insulate it, so it is a yearly thing until what I have done falls off. I have to more than drip that one, though, and let it run a very, very small stream. If I drip, I'm out there with a hair dryer every morning.

I also drip the inside faucets that have any exposure to outside walls and open cabinet doors.

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Oh, ye of little faith….

11 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

Someone at SXSW HQ downtown did not cover their plants.

Or somebody hated those plants.

those plants are clearly not Penske material.  

Jackets and sweaters going back into storage for the foreseeable future. Not seeing many temps below 50 on the extended forecast. Gonna be downright balmy the next 5-6 days.

On 12/26/2022 at 10:41 AM, YGIFS said:

Do you live in Folsom Prison?  

it just ran off luther's boots

On 12/30/2022 at 9:23 AM, Chet Steadman said:

I want the cold back 

Nope. 

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Today is a perfect winter day in Texas!! No worries about pipes bursting. No threat of grid failure. I’m wearing shorts!! Perfect!

22 minutes ago, Hate said:

Today is a perfect winter day in Texas!! No worries about pipes bursting. No threat of grid failure. I’m wearing shorts!! Perfect!

And the yoga pants are back out in full force. 

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

And the yoga pants are back out in full force. 

They never went away here.   Just didn’t get to see any RATs because they were covered up with faux fur lined puff jackets.  

56 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Running the AC on NYD lol. 

Heater on overnight, air on in the afternoon.    Winter in Texas.  

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

77 tomorrow.   Yay January. 

Yup.  It's one of the many reasons I choose to live here, rather than some undesirable place that actually has long, cold winters.

 

HVAC person: Make sure you run your AC in the winter to keep it from seizing up from non-use

Me: Can do

9 hours ago, hornian said:

There are days, lots of them, to hate Texas weather. 

Today is not one of them. 

Took my kids to the park this afternoon.  Would have loved to have a hammock handy.

8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Took my kids to the park this afternoon.  Would have loved to have a hammock handy.

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I keep one of these in my truck and one on my motorcycle; compact and awesome.

20 hours ago, hornian said:

There are days, lots of them, to hate Texas weather. 

 

Today is not one of them. 

55 degrees, light winds, low humidity and not a cloud in the sky when I walked my dogs earlier. As nice a morning as you can hope for in Houston. 

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Took my kids to the park this afternoon.  Would have loved to have a hammock handy.

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4 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Would have loved to have a hammock handy.

Last time I tried that we fell out.  

49 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

Last time I tried that we fell out.  

Should have stayed on the side of the mountain outside the Sun Bowl

40 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Are we talking about hammocks or handies?

Hammock handies. Try to keep up. 

 

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