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Jesus. Hearing from???
Sorry. That was from the weather lady on kxan this morning. I've been in ops meetings (remotely) since before 7 trying to once again explain to HQ in Minnesota why shit is borked.
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Watching the Weather Channel.  Nice talent.

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She needs an attitude adjustment.  Her rudeness is off the charts.

Thunder and lightning while ice is falling from the sky trips me out. Shit looks crazy

My mother in law has been visiting since January 7. Her flight back to Albuquerque today was canceled yesterday, so we rescheduled for the same time on Wednesday. Which I'm sure will shortly be canceled. We'll have better luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will getting her a flight back to New Mexico by Friday.

Did PhdHorn flee to Cancun this week? 

10 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

She needs an attitude adjustment.  Her rudeness is off the charts.

So is her weight scale. 

4 minutes ago, texhorn said:

Did PhdHorn flee to Cancun this week? 

He's been MIA for a while. Since before TGiving. He has done this before, where he takes long breaks.

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13 minutes ago, leaf said:

Watching the Weather Channel.  Nice talent.

She’s no Heather Tesch.  

Austin side roads are fine, nothing new. Anyone that chooses / chose to get on a flyover is paying for it. Eastbound 71 flyover at Ben White heading into downtown is a parking lot now. Guessing that's being repeated all over the city. 

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26 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

She needs an attitude adjustment.  Her rudeness is off the charts.

I would adjust the shit out of that woman.

With the boys at home, I think I'll voluntarily go drive on Ben White by tomorrow afternoon.

1 minute ago, Constant said:

This shit sucks. Definitely stay home. 

And this is a man who knows sucks.

21 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Am I the only person who thinks everyone is overreacting to this? Forecast doesn't even have it getting below freezing. 

Guess that depends on definition of 'overreacting.'

 

9 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I would adjust the shit out of that woman.

Are you a chiropractor?

9 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I would adjust the shit out of that woman.

how do you know she's into anal?

4 minutes ago, texasdago said:

With the boys at home, I think I'll voluntarily go drive on Ben White by tomorrow afternoon.

Watch for pedestrians. There's more by the day with more and more tents everywhere along Ben White. Shit's especially bad early in the morning while it's still dark. No good. 

I drove from 360/2222 to Georgetown this morning before traffic started.

There were people spinning/sliding on every bridge I crossed. That is not an exaggeration, it was literally every bridge I crossed no matter how short/long/tall.

I just slowed down every time I approached a bridge  and avoided the huge flyover from Toll45 to NB IH 35 and had no problem keeping myself straight, but several of the idiots driving too fast over the bridges almost slid into me.

 

39 minutes ago, texhorn said:

Did PhdHorn flee to Cancun this week? 

 

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1 hour ago, Homercles said:

I figured schools would be closed Tues/Wed.  Here’s hoping that doesn’t extend into Thursday…after 2-3 days of kids cooped up they’re safer on icy roads than at home with their burned out parents 

Speak for yourself there, Chet.  /teacher

In all honesty, it's nice to be off, but I'd rather be with my class.

One of my high schoolers is in FFA and raising a lamb. Lamb has to be fed. Solid road conditions

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2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

One of my high schoolers is in FFA and raising a lamb. Lamb has to be fed. Solid road conditions

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Bring the lamb home. Chop-chop.

FFA (Fathers Feeding Animals)

56 minutes ago, ftf82 said:

My mother in law has been visiting since January 7. Her flight back to Albuquerque today was canceled yesterday, so we rescheduled for the same time on Wednesday. Which I'm sure will shortly be canceled. We'll have better luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will getting her a flight back to New Mexico by Friday.

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1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

Thunder and lightning while ice is falling from the sky trips me out. Shit looks crazy

You're just high, bruv.

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18 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

One of my high schoolers is in FFA and raising a lamb. Lamb has to be fed. Solid road conditions

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where is that?

Just went to the HEB on Burnet and the produce was pretty much picked over, but the meat section was still decently stocked and I manged to get enough for kids' lunches and dinners through Thursday. 

As expected RRISD closed tomorrow.  Wondering if the slight warm up / non-freezing rain will keep it closed Thursday too. 

LISD just announced closed for tomorrow as well.

 

 

6 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

where is that?

Hoth?

1 hour ago, UnivTex34 said:

He's been MIA for a while. Since before TGiving. He has done this before, where he takes long breaks.

You think Jim Spencer takes a break in moments like these. 

1 hour ago, UnivTex34 said:

He's been MIA for a while. Since before TGiving. He has done this before, where he takes long breaks.

why has he forsaken us in our darkest weather hours?  He spends all of the triple digits days of July and August forecasting like Roosevelt E. Roosevelt in Saigon, "What's the weather like?  You got a window?  Open it!  It's hot alright, damn hot!  Were you born on the sun?  It's damn hot.  I saw a little man in a orange robe just burst into flames."  Then comes January where it's 85 one day with a drought and the next day the invent something called freezing Thundersleet.  These are the months we need him!  

35 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Watch for pedestrians. There's more by the day with more and more tents everywhere along Ben White. Shit's especially bad early in the morning while it's still dark. No good. 

This.  I feel experienced enough in elements like this to drive in, but over decades of cold weather driving...everybody's gonna hit a curb or two.  But in Austin, between the Panhandlers and homeless camps...that can mean taking out a few people even at low speeds.  I remember 2021 Snowpocallypse...going to that Randall's on Ben White and watching a guy take a left onto Manchaca and sure enough, too fast, he barreled into that encampment.  Nobody was seriously hurt.  He was accelerating from a dead stop so partially his fault but also who the fuck camps 18" from the shoulder? 

Adler's brilliant "Pedestrian Vision Zero" program from a years back was such idiocy.  I mean, I love the idea but his two biggest pillars of it were to allow roadside camping (I guess if you're sleeping on the sidewalk, you're not a pedestrian"  and the other was to turn the streetlamps over most sidewalks off to reduce light pollution.  Because walking around East Austin entertainment district with no lights on at midnight is such a good idea, Steve (noCR).  Oh my, look all the stars up there...OH SHIT!!!!!

8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Just went to the HEB on Burnet and the produce was pretty much picked over, but the meat section was still decently stocked and I manged to get enough for kids' lunches and dinners through Thursday. 

I was there at 4:30 yesterday. Produce was already gone then. 

Cashier said the local daycares closed at noon and called all the parents to pick up their kids. Said the lines starting from after noon was crazy. It was a shitshow @ 4:30pm yesterday. I can't imagine how bad it was around 1pm.

1 hour ago, ftf82 said:

My mother in law has been visiting since January 7. Her flight back to Albuquerque today was canceled yesterday, so we rescheduled for the same time on Wednesday. Which I'm sure will shortly be canceled. We'll have better luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will getting her a flight back to New Mexico by Friday.

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2 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

It's thundersleeting here in Rowlett (east of Dallas).  It was weird.  It sounds like a thunderstorm with higher-pitched rain.

Yep, right on the Rockwall/Collin Co line.  It's accumulating quite a bit, too.  Probably 1/2 inch on neighborhood streets. 

2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

why has he forsaken us in our darkest weather hours?  He spends all of the triple digits days of July and August forecasting like Roosevelt E. Roosevelt in Saigon, "What's the weather like?  You got a window?  Open it!  It's hot alright, damn hot!  Were you born on the sun?  It's damn hot.  I saw a little man in a orange robe just burst into flames."  Then comes January where it's 85 one day with a drought and the next day the invent something called freezing Thundersleet.  These are the months we need him!  

This.  I feel experienced enough in elements like this to drive in, but over decades of cold weather driving...everybody's gonna hit a curb or two.  But in Austin, between the Panhandlers and homeless camps...that can mean taking out a few people even at low speeds.  I remember 2021 Snowpocallypse...going to that Randall's on Ben White and watching a guy take a left onto Manchaca and sure enough, too fast, he barreled into that encampment.  Nobody was seriously hurt.  He was accelerating from a dead stop so partially his fault but also who the fuck camps 18" from the shoulder? 

Adler's brilliant "Pedestrian Vision Zero" program from a years back was such idiocy.  I mean, I love the idea but his two biggest pillars of it were to allow roadside camping (I guess if you're sleeping on the sidewalk, you're not a pedestrian"  and the other was to turn the streetlamps over most sidewalks off to reduce light pollution.  Because walking around East Austin entertainment district with no lights on at midnight is such a good idea, Steve (noCR).  Oh my, look all the stars up there...OH SHIT!!!!!

I want to say over the last 6 months (give or take) there's been 3 pedestrian fatalities on Ben White between 35 and the Westgate area. And that does not include the guy who jumped off the Congress bridge onto Ben White last week, setting himself on fire in doing so, and ruining the lives of people driving the westbound 3 cars that hit him. 

Another thread. Shit's a mess on Ben White, in multiple ways. Just have to be really, really careful when driving it. 

 

No icy roads north side of SA this morning on my commute from the hill country. Just a miserable day otherwise.

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1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

Watch for pedestrians. There's more by the day with more and more tents everywhere along Ben White. Shit's especially bad early in the morning while it's still dark. No good. 

Somehow I think y'all are missing the point of my desire to take a drive somewhere, anywhere... 

Lamest snow day ever here in Austin. 

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"Due to inclimate weather, Red Five's office will be closed for the next two days."

"Yeah! Snow days rule!"

".... however, since everyone is working from home now, this of course doesn't affect you in any way. Just keep working."

"son of a bitch"

4 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

They shut down 183A. Over on 130 (i think near Decker Lake?) they think two people were ejected off a flyover.

Thanks a lot. That was my greatest irrational fear. Now it my greatest rational fear. 

2 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Somehow I think y'all are missing the point of my desire to take a drive somewhere, anywhere... 

I got it. 

Just a PSA for anyone that drives Ben White at any time, regardless of the reason. Especially bad on the access roads. 

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