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Following in Austin’s footsteps?

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Just now, veritas aequitas said:

All big cities are shitholes. I would never live in a county with a town over 5k in it ever again.

 

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7 minutes ago, veritas aequitas said:

All big cities are shitholes. I would never live in a county with a town over 5k in it ever again.

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He must live in West Texas or the Panhandle. Second guess Wyoming. Third Alaska. Fourth, he is an explorer in Antarctica.

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52 counties in Texas have a population <5k.  Damn.  That's more than I thought.

In other news, in the past week Amarillo hung the new city limit signs with population over 200K.  Urbanites!!!

This also happened in February 2020. 

Houston 2 > Austin 1 

I’m sure COH will blame ERCOT/any state agency, and not accept any responsibility. 
 

Wash, rinse, repeat. You get what you vote for. 

1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Following in Austin’s footsteps?

Beat me to it

 

i like my “so a Monday in Austin?” response better. 

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44 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I’m sure COH will blame ERCOT/any state agency, and not accept any responsibility. 
 

Wash, rinse, repeat. You get what you vote for. 

Actually, the COH is in the middle of a 5-year water price increase that will almost double water bills after 5 years.  Money is going towards rebuilding the aging and deteriorating water treatment plants around the city.  Now, I'm sure this will never happen in Houston again....#sarcasm

 

 

20 psi is basically whatever pressure was left in the system, plus gravity doing it's thing. Standard psi is usually between 60-90 psi when it gets to your building,  if I remember correctly. 

 

24 minutes ago, Dewey said:

20 psi is basically whatever pressure was left in the system, plus gravity doing it's thing. Standard psi is usually between 60-90 psi when it gets to your building,  if I remember correctly. 

 

90 sounds high. I thought home pressure usually topped out at 60 but lower is acceptable.

7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

90 sounds high. I thought home pressure usually topped out at 60 but lower is acceptable.

I think in some instances it can fluctuate up to 90, which is why you are supposed to have a pressure regulator on the line leading to your house.

That's my bad, my recent experience is working on commercial building, last talk I had with our fire sprinkler guy, he said 60-90 into the building. When I worked residential, seemed like if water pressure was a problem it was a city problem, not ours. At any rate, you couldn't pay me enough to run a water plant. 

HISD canceled school with an email at 9:45 pm last night. Lots of parents scrambling today, including yours truly.

11 hours ago, texasdago said:

This also happened in February 2020. 

Houston 2 > Austin 1 

3 for Houston since Feb. 2020 if you count the 2021 debacle. 
 

Never thought I’d see a place that made me think “actually, Dallas’ city government is pretty good.”  But here we are.  

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

90 sounds high. I thought home pressure usually topped out at 60 but lower is acceptable.

90 is high.  If consistent, that pressure can fuck up fixtures and appliances like water heaters over time.

Anything over 80, a PRV is best practice.

If yours is between 60 and 70, that's OK. 

11 hours ago, texasdago said:

This also happened in February 2020. 

Houston 2 > Austin 1 

If you think Austin has only boiled water once, well please have a seat and let me tell you a story or ten.

31 minutes ago, Samson&#x27;s Wig said:

If you think Austin has only boiled water once, well please have a seat and let me tell you a story or ten.

I'm going back to 2020.  I'm sure there are other examples.  Having lived in both Houston and Austin, you'll be shocked to know that Austin, on various levels, is run more effectively than Houston.  Much more effectively.  That may scare some people from Austin so just think about how Houston must be run... 

People taking "Houston is the Detroit of the west" a little seriously.

People taking "Houston is the Detroit of the west" a little seriously.
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1 hour ago, SizzleChest said:

90 is high.  If consistent, that pressure can fuck up fixtures and appliances like water heaters over time.

Anything over 80, a PRV is best practice.

If yours is between 60 and 70, that's OK. 

yeah, I fought it at first because I like more water pressure.  But it takes a toll on appliances and tankless water heaters.  Plus we started having kids.  And the wastewater averaging bills were getting too high.  So I slapped a PRV on, we fluctuate around 65.  It takes a bit to get used to, but in the end...it's for the best. 

So they figure out why the electrical went out on this water facility yet?  I'm guessing those things use quite a bit of juice.  

41 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I'm going back to 2020.  I'm sure there are other examples.  Having lived in both Houston and Austin, you'll be shocked to know that Austin, on various levels, is run more effectively than Houston.  Much more effectively.  That may scare some people from Austin so just think about how Houston must be run... 

Austin is a much easier city to run than Houston is. I'm sure if we shipped the Austin leadership to Houston they'd fuck it up worse. 

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18 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

 

So they figure out why the electrical went out on this water facility yet?  I'm guessing those things use quite a bit of juice.  

Someone tripped on the electrical cord and the plug popped out of the wall socket....

And that someone ? You guessed it, Johnny Jacobs.  

Transformers went down. Can’t deliver power without a transformer. The site has back up power.
 

Two monitoring sites lost pressure for 30 mins, 12 more for 2 minutes. Samples pulled and they can’t be tested until 3am Tuesday. 

12 hours ago, Stella Link said:

Actually, the COH is in the middle of a 5-year water price increase that will almost double water bills after 5 years.  Money is going towards rebuilding the aging and deteriorating water treatment plants around the city.  Now, I'm sure this will never happen in Houston again....#sarcasm

 

 

That increase is going to suck ass considering what renewal rates for electricity are like right now.

15 hours ago, veritas aequitas said:

All big cities are shitholes. I would never live in a county with a town over 5k in it ever again.

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I'm amazed this hasn't devolved into Houston vs Dallas yet.  I'm sure it will get there though.

2 hours ago, Stella Link said:

Someone tripped on the electrical cord and the plug popped out of the wall socket....

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25 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I'm amazed this hasn't devolved into Houston vs Dallas yet.  I'm sure it will get there though.

You asked for it. Currently in Dallas and my water is running just fine.

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i think "dysentery" is Latin for "We believe" from the infinitive, Dysenterer 

Also, Houston’s native son, “Iron” Mike rises to ask once and for all:  does Singletary rhyme with Dysentery?  

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

You asked for it. Currently in Dallas and my water is running just fine.

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that’s not surprising.  dallas has always been far superior to that shitty coastal backwater. 

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6 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

You asked for it. Currently in Dallas and my water is running just fine.

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I can buy bottled water at HEB.  Do you have HEB or a couple of these?

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6 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I'm amazed this hasn't devolved into Houston vs Dallas yet.  I'm sure it will get there though.

I mean we haven’t had a boil water notice in > 10 years….

 

also OPs username checks out

6 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

"We believe..." 

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Ehh. I drank from the tap this morning and around noon. Don’t be a pussy. 
 

WWGD? - what would Gary do?  This is how I make most food and drinking decisions (you have to watch naked and afraid to understand)

30 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Ehh. I drank from the tap this morning and around noon. Don’t be a pussy. 
 

WWGD? - what would Gary do?  This is how I make most food and drinking decisions (you have to watch naked and afraid to understand)

Don't live inside the Houston water trough, but I wouldn't give a squirt of piss for what Sylvester Turner believes. But  Naked and Afraid definitely sounds like something a pussy would watch 

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COH is now blaming Centerpoint. Haha. Well, everybody hates Centerpoint. 
 

It’d be nice to have ice at a couple Christmas parties later this week. 

Very weird that 3 Houston water plants all lost power within 20 minutes of each other on Sunday morning. But Centerpoint said the failures were unrelated to their equipment.

13 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

 

I can buy bottled water at HEB.  Do you have HEB or a couple of these?

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