February 2, 20232 yr It is really eerie hearing all of the neighbors trees snap and fall tonite…same for ours…damn…beautiful trees.
February 2, 20232 yr My complex parking areas and anything that isn't a building are utterly destroyed. I've been out with everyone else trying to clear fallen limbs but then shit starts to just fall out of the sky. Inside with the pup and a litre of jamie now. I've advised all top floor neighbors to watch for leaks caused by b-52 oak drops.
February 2, 20232 yr We just lost power in 78756 again. And I was just thinking about heating up the house.
February 2, 20232 yr I'm looking at the outage map and it appears to be extremely accurate right now - looking at timestamps of my area, I can see a definite group of 200+ people who have reported an outage all within 5-10 minutes of me doing it. And we were all able to report by phone and have it show up - I have talked to a bunch of neighbors now, and they all called it in and I can see their houses and complexes on the map showing no power. Edited February 2, 20232 yr by atomheartbevo
February 2, 20232 yr First time I’ve even had cell phone internet in more than 12 hours in Hyde park (AT&T). No power since 6am yesterday. Super fucking fun. I have no clue what’s going on. Power has tried to come back on like 5-6 times, but never makes it more than a couple of minutes. Making 2021 look like a cake walk. I have my fire on, so not in danger by any means, but what the fuck.
February 2, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: First time I’ve even had cell phone internet in more than 12 hours in Hyde park (AT&T). No power since 6am yesterday. Super fucking fun. I have no clue what’s going on. Power has tried to come back on like 5-6 times, but never makes it more than a couple of minutes. Making 2021 look like a cake walk. I have my fire on, so not in danger by any means, but what the fuck. Yeah, my cell phone has been spotty (directly west of you towards Shoal Creek/Mopac area) and on Verizon. I have a UPS for some stuff I do, and I have my Grande fiber/router plugged into it, so as long as Grande is sending signals we've got internet for 12 or so hours. Grande was good to us in the past during outages.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said: I'm looking at the outage map and it appears to be extremely accurate right now - looking at timestamps of my area, I can see a definite group of 200+ people who have reported an outage all within 5-10 minutes of me doing it. Interesting that they still rely on reporting. Here in the Houston area, Centerpoint seems to know right away how many are down. We lose electricity, go to their website 5 minutes later, zoom in, and get a pretty accurate count of how many customers are without power in your area. Used to call, but could never get through. Then discovered their outage map and realized that they already knew.
February 2, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, Victor Lazlo said: Interesting that they still rely on reporting. Here in the Houston area, Centerpoint seems to know right away how many are down. We lose electricity, go to their website 5 minutes later, zoom in, and get a pretty accurate count of how many customers are without power in your area. Used to call, but could never get through. Then discovered their outage map and realized that they already knew. I've counted over 600+ people affected by the outage I'm affected by, and surely not all of them are nite owls, so I'm thinking that they have to have some kind of sensors. I know they have some better gear around the hospital areas, because I've talked to a couple of their workers in the past who were working in the neighborhood, and they mentioned they could automatically route electricity in from different directions to the hospitals, and they acted like it could be done in other areas away from priority/hospital districts. We've got meters that can be read from a distance as well, but I don't know what the range is on those.
February 2, 20232 yr No idea if the shit falling outside is just ice or branches. Just waiting for something to come crashing through my living room window. This shit has to end.
February 2, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, Victor Lazlo said: Cheers to you and hope they get y’all energized soon. this, had no idea this many people were without power.
February 2, 20232 yr Popular Post A tree is down and into the house and chimney. Power has been out for 18 hours now. This is 78704. The city says “what? Huh?”
February 2, 20232 yr 5 minutes ago, Fastbreak said: A tree is down and into the house and chimney. Power has been out for 18 hours now. This is 78704. The city says “what? Huh?” FUCK. Sorry man. Stay warm if you can.
February 2, 20232 yr They've got something going on where they at least know when a group of outages is related - they folded about a thousand of us into one outage, which, everybody I've talked to around our area all heard the transformer blow at the same time. Bunch of us nerds are looking at the map and trying to pinpoint it.
February 2, 20232 yr Bummer @Fastbreak Hope it’s not too bad and stay warm. Really hoping these temps start rising as predicted and these trees get relief by noonish…I’m waiting to hear another crash here at any moment.
February 2, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: No idea if the shit falling outside is just ice or branches. Just waiting for something to come crashing through my living room window. This shit has to end. I keep hearing what sounds like sheets of ice falling out of trees, which is probably loaded branches/leaves full of ice. Meanwhile, Camp Mabry has been showing 32-31 for the last few days. It's likely we won't get above freezing until daybreak.
February 2, 20232 yr If anyone needs a chainsaw from Houston. Let’s figure it out, and get it to you. I’m a fan of the battery and electric models.
February 2, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, MissingInAction said: My complex parking areas and anything that isn't a building are utterly destroyed. I've been out with everyone else trying to clear fallen limbs but then shit starts to just fall out of the sky. Inside with the pup and a litre of jamie now. I've advised all top floor neighbors to watch for leaks caused by b-52 oak drops. this is why you date the big girls -extra warmth ! Had a date with a thing and small woman, zero warmth. glad she didn’t spend the night ! Edited February 2, 20232 yr by tx 3 putt
February 2, 20232 yr Where is the "tech" futures Forbes guy who wanted them to update twitter every 30 minutes with the status of all 50+ zipcodes in Austin? I just noticed when you clicked on "Summary" under the Total number of customers without power on the left side (click on the four little squares if it's not dropped down) it gives you "View by Zipcode" updated every 10 fucking minutes. https://outagemap.austinenergy.com/reports/7e91b271-8db9-4931-a14c-67845dfcd496 Sure, it's not on fucking twitter, but 50+ fucking tweets every half hour would be the most inefficient way to get that information out there. Or even trying to cram it all into some infographic bullshit image, it would still be inefficient compared to what they have. Edited February 2, 20232 yr by atomheartbevo
February 2, 20232 yr FUCK. Sorry man. Stay warm if you can. This is my moms house. I am safe and very warm in Singapore. Just trying to figure out for her. Note - I have a house 1/4 a mile that has power.
February 2, 20232 yr And now it’s thundering and raining (freezing rain at that). Just fucking great.
February 2, 20232 yr Sounds like a turd floater in rrock 78665. Hope its warming a bit to start melting shit. Its fucking dangerouse to just walk around outside with all the rress crashing. My neighbors huge shitty hackberry already split in half with it falling in his yard. Next half will prolly hit our house and pool equipment.Stop fucking raining!!!Warm up please
February 2, 20232 yr Been absolutely unloading freezing rain on us in Hewitt for the last hour or so. Absolute downpour and we’ve been below 30 degrees since about 6:00 Sunday evening. The trees are sagging terribly and I know I’m going to be woke up at any moment to the explosions.
February 2, 20232 yr Fucking thundering & pouring in 78633, and still below freezing. Fuck this shit.
February 2, 20232 yr Power out (PEC) in 78737 since midnight. And of course, the connected smoke detectors decided it was time to freak out at 3am. I have 10-12' ceilings, so that was fun in the dark. I found the culprit and they're silent now, but my Pippa girl has been in full-on panic/panting mode for the last hour. I'm trying to calm her down and cool her off, as she's overheating. Fun!
February 2, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, Armybrat said: It was damned uncomfortable since we always sleep in the raw.
February 2, 20232 yr 21 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said: Woke to crazy thunder and intense downpour. Cool. Same
February 2, 20232 yr Just constant branches falling from my oaks the last couple of hours. They’re getting obliterated. Fucking heartbreaking.
February 2, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, Armybrat said: It was damned uncomfortable since we always sleep in the raw.
February 2, 20232 yr This landed right outside my front door in the middle of the night. Just got in from letting PEC onto the back of my property in Blanco since I couldn't sleep and I heard their truck outside. Electricity went out about 830 last night. Luckily I have gas heaters.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, RamjetFDO said: Power out (PEC) in 78737 since midnight. And of course, the connected smoke detectors decided it was time to freak out at 3am. I have 10-12' ceilings, so that was fun in the dark. I found the culprit and they're silent now, but my Pippa girl has been in full-on panic/panting mode for the last hour. I'm trying to calm her down and cool her off, as she's overheating. Fun! Fuck. My smoker detectors are freaking out too. And now down at least one oak tree.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, RPM said: I've been stuck at work since Monday. I'm definitely driving home this morning. You should be fine. I drove Houston to Austin last night and got in at midnight. Took it slow from Bastrop on and never felt any slipping at all. Temp was right at 32 and it’s only getting warmer today.
February 2, 20232 yr Does Austin have a mayor and is he in town? This seems like a time when he should be out at least pretending to give a shit. In reality there is nothing he could do immediately, but this is a prime opportunity for more of his bullshit promises. Good ole Kurt
February 2, 20232 yr Got power back at 11:45, and lost it again an hour later. First time since 7am yesterday. Got it back again at 2:30, been back ever since. Woke up expecting to see lots of outages fixed on the map, and wow. We were a group of 5500, so maybe we got prioritized, but we were without power for pretty much the entire 21 freeze, so color me surprised.
February 2, 20232 yr One block down has power. Me? No way, no how. Just took the dogs out to poop and huge branch crushed my neighbors car. This is outside my front door.
February 2, 20232 yr 25 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said: Does Austin have a mayor and is he in town? This seems like a time when he should be out at least pretending to give a shit. In reality there is nothing he could do immediately, but this is a prime opportunity for more of his bullshit promises. Good ole Kurt Don't blame me. I voted for Fitlump.
February 2, 20232 yr Power out (PEC) in 78737 since midnight. And of course, the connected smoke detectors decided it was time to freak out at 3am. I have 10-12' ceilings, so that was fun in the dark. I found the culprit and they're silent now, but my Pippa girl has been in full-on panic/panting mode for the last hour. I'm trying to calm her down and cool her off, as she's overheating. Fun! 78737 Same issue here excerpt mine went out at 6:30. Teenagers and dogs were not happy with the fire alarms.
February 2, 20232 yr Sad to see all the trees down and I know it's frustrating to be w/o electricity. When my folks were alive, Tulsa had a really bad storm that dumped ice for three days and knocked power out for practically the entire city. I think my parents were w/o for a week but managed to get along (I have a sibling who lived nearby that moved them into his house). When I took the children to visit some time later, all of the parks grounds were filled with massive piles of mulch from the shredded trees the city had collected. It was both sad and rather stupefying at the same time to see so how large the piles were. IIRC, the city ended up burning a lot of it as there was more than could be utilized by residents and parks maintenance. My folks had many nut trees (oak, pecan, walnut, hickory) on their property but my dad had always been scrupulous about keeping them trimmed and although they lost some branches, I don't think they lost a single tree in its entirety, which considering the age and size of some of them was pretty lucky. The soil there has less clay and I think that helped, but seeing these pics of the huge live oaks toppled over and split sure does bring back memories of the photos my parents took of their neighborhood of the gigantic branches that stove in roofs and cars. Hang in there folks. Here's a pic from back then from the local news: Edited February 2, 20232 yr by Mrs Whiggins added pic
February 2, 20232 yr The lady with a bunch of make up, on kxan, keeps saying 150,000 "people" without power. I thought it was households?
February 2, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Enemy07 said: The lady with a bunch of make up, on kxan, keeps saying 150,000 "people" without power. I thought it was households? It is. She's dumb.
February 2, 20232 yr My front oaks got more pruning overnight. Am afraid to back the car out of the garage to go for my heart scan at Noon.
February 2, 20232 yr Dude. Unless you feel the elephant sitting on your chest, don't even think about making that appointment. Edited February 2, 20232 yr by SurlyGator
February 2, 20232 yr My trees were looking bad yesterday, but they got just absolutely shredded last night. And it's still just below freezing.
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