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Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

7 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Silver lining - You may have gotten off easy at 2500 bucks 

I did.  Lighting fried the board in the unit, as well as the wire from the unit to the house (which needed replacing anyway).  A bit over $1200 each item to fix.  Had it topped $7k or so, I'd have turned in an insurance claim.

7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, I mean...we finally got our AC fixed after it getting taken out by lightning 2+ weeks ago.  So...just in time for us not to need it for a few months.  Nice $2500 pre-Xmas gift to myself.

Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

Been there. A lightening strike took out my compressor in June. 

Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years.
2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs).
2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience.
2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers.
2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage.
Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.
I will wake up tomorrow in New Orleans and it will be 38°

It was 85 today here. And about the same tomorrow
8 hours ago, Sbbruin said:


It was 85 today here. And about the same tomorrow

Yeah, it's 63 here at my work in Denver this morning. Our average low for today should be about 30. This is bullshit.

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Hmm... sounds like some of us are experiencing an arctic blast.... while some still have sweaty ass. 

39 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Yeah, it's 63 here at my work in Denver this morning. Our average low for today should be about 30. This is bullshit.

LOL it was in the upper 20s the last 2 mornings and today? Mid-40s, will hit 70 again

Significant snowfall in the forecast for November? Nope. 

Low of 39 in Amarillo this morning.  That Denver temp is odd.

Canadian heat wave barreling down the Rockies to the Great Plains wasn't on my November bingo card.

Gonna be a rather short-lived cold front for us Texans. Back to the mid 80's starting tomorrow through next Wednesday.

10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Yeah…was just doing the math with my wife. This is our fourth material weather calamity in the family, in our two homes a mile apart, in the past 4 years.
2021: big freeze left us without power for 6 days. Major plumbing damage (around $6k in repairs).
2023: ice storm took out our power. We were in literally the last 200 houses in town to get power back, again almost 6 days. Lucky in that we had no real damage, and we had a portable generator (bought it after 2021 storm), so no cost, just real inconvenience.
2025 spring microburst: hit my dad’s house dead on. Busted a skylight that we still need to fix. Power was out 5 days, lost several hundred bucks of food in the freezers.
2025 two weeks ago: lightning strike, $2500 in damage.
Fucking hell. Four real weather hits in 4 years. That’s quite enough, thank you.

Has your insurance company started giving you the stink eye yet?  Once upon a Time Louisiana would allow an insurer to cancel you if you made three claims in five years.

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25 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Has your insurance company started giving you the stink eye yet?  Once upon a Time Louisiana would allow an insurer to cancel you if you made three claims in five years.

Oh, the super fun part is that these have been expensive enough to suck, but not so pricey that they were worth making a claim (below our deductible amount, or right close to it).  So...yay.

Ouch.

in my karmic evolution from dung beetle to lawyer, I must’ve been decent in my last life, because a month before the last major hurricane state farm allowed me to obtain a 2% deductible instead of the usual 6% deductible if I switched to their auto insurance in addition to homeowners.

That saved me 45K.  Granted, I had to sue the bastards in federal court, and it took two years to get my money. 

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56 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

in my karmic evolution from dung beetle to lawyer,

I mean really, how many degrees of separation is that?

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

LOL it was in the upper 20s the last 2 mornings and today? Mid-40s, will hit 70 again

Significant snowfall in the forecast for November? Nope. 

There's been the cold day here and there,  but overall we've been way above our normal highs and lows this fall. Fire season next spring/summer is gonna be lit.

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

I mean really, how many degrees of separation is that?

We lawyers generally have a better collection of fashionable neckties.

10 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

There's been the cold day here and there,  but overall we've been way above our normal highs and lows this fall. Fire season next spring/summer is gonna be lit.

19th through the 25th has snow in the forecast in Montana so probably Colorado as well. 

11 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

We lawyers generally have a better collection of fashionable neckties.

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Well my weather app shows 86 with 80 percent humidity on Sunday. The two days of cool weather were nice I guess.

On 11/11/2025 at 8:44 AM, Storm the Field said:

Gonna be a rather short-lived cold front for us Texans. Back to the mid 80's starting tomorrow through next Wednesday.

Swamp ass and arctic blast in the same day! 

I'm about to bump the blast furnace thread. What in the absolute fuck is going on. How is 85 in dallas 2 weeks before Thanksgiving even remotely normal. 

Arctic blast for Thanksgiving?

Bought tix for A&M a week or so ago. But don’t love the location and trying to decide if is should dump them for close to what I bought and snag some better ones if the market falls out because of weather 

Thankfully 4th summer isn't as bad as July / August summer, but near 90 with 80% humidity in mid-November is bullshit.

On 11/15/2025 at 4:54 PM, UTexasFight said:

Arctic blast for Thanksgiving?

Bought tix for A&M a week or so ago. But don’t love the location and trying to decide if is should dump them for close to what I bought and snag some better ones if the market falls out because of weather 

I'm not sure demand would really drop that much with the roller coaster at record heights

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Sooooooo, what them long range forecast saying about Christmas time here in Central Texas? 

Humid and low 80s I presume?

12 minutes ago, Chet Steadman said:

Sooooooo, what them long range forecast saying about Christmas time here in Central Texas? 

Humid and low 80s I presume?

Dec 25, 
Bergstrom Hi/Low 57/76
Camp Mabry Hi/Low 58/75
on the humid side
 

Just now, swraith said:

Dec 25, 
Bergstrom Hi/Low 57/76
Camp Mabry Hi/Low 58/75
on the humid side
 

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

- At 4:30 AM PST Thursday the stage was 23.1 feet. - Flood stage is 15.0 feet. 
 

so that’s nice. 

What part of Seattle are you in again?

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

What part of Seattle are you in again?

I’m out in sultan. That measurement was in gold bar, a few miles upstream of us. Skykomish river. 

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On 12/11/2025 at 3:58 PM, Biff Tannen said:

What part of Seattle are you in again?

Wet part?

3 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Going to be 80 next Monday.

Normal Christmas week temperatures…….recently anyway.

There was a Goosebumps book I read when I was a kid where the main characters were wearing shorts and playing outside on Christmas Day because they lived in SoCal.

So whenever I think of Christmas weather like that, I just remember, we're living in a horror story. 

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Should I name the 2026 thread just "Sweaty Ass" ? 

50 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

We hitting 80 on Christmas Day or what?

65 on Christmas Day

IN DENVER

Winter heat dome? 

1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

We hitting 80 on Christmas Day or what?

pretty much

56 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

So I traded ERCOT for Xcel Energy, is that correct?

Wellllllllll I dunno, I feel very safe that just because it's cold or ices, my power is staying on.  

Losing power (from planned outages) because of 90 mph wind gusts to prevent fires, since we have had very little moisture, is way different.

A day or so without power >>>>>> the emotional, financial and physical stress and trauma of losing your home in a fire (poor Marshall) 

We hitting 80 on Christmas Day or what?
I am resigned to the fact that I will be mowing/pulling weeds next week. Fuck that noise.
On 12/18/2025 at 1:35 PM, UTGrad98 said:

I hate La nina with with every fiber of my being. 


Avery Tamsco's social media is brilliant. This is genuinely funny.

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

No driving means no driving. So what are they doing driving up there?

The sheriff's Fire Management people?

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