Bad day in Texas

Incogneeto · February 15, 2021, 01:14 PM

Quote from: pmartin post_id=6790 time=1613400376 user_id=85
Quote from: Del. post_id=6779 time=1613338828 user_id=113FUCK TEXAS!

Personally I couldn't wait to get out of Texas. It had nothing to do with the politics or the people. I just couldn't stand the weather. It was back to Vermont for me the moment that I got out of the Army.

If I had married a Texan and had to stay I would have chosen Austin.

I'm sure He would have Chosen you too.

Incogneeto · February 15, 2021, 01:24 PM

Quote from: huskermcdoogle post_id=6791 time=1613400425 user_id=117This is what I woke up to this morning. 9 degrees. Far colder than it should get here. Our infrastructure isn't meant to handle this.
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4 of 4 outside spickets were frozen last night, got three of them thawed out and reinsulated. The one of those is going to freeze and split. But hopefully the other three will survive. Left one that comes up from the incoming line running, it's out there happily making ice. The ones coming through the wall, I just have to roll the dice and hope for the best.....

I'll be glad to be back north where our houses are designed to handle this type of thing. The family house I'm moving into can be winterized in 5 minutes. We've got about a 95% success rate with coming back to find no broken or frozen pipes. That said the other 5% of the time... Well needless to say I learned at a young age how to solder water pipes. Thankfully most of the plumbing in the house is mostly accessible. Now, with sharkbite connectors and other quick connect type plumbing options, repairs are a bit easier, just cut out the split, or section where you can get a cutter in there, and then piece it back together in a few minutes with the push to connect connectors, bob's your uncle.

Prolly the hardest concept is The Houses in Texas were Built without Insulation or True Heating systems. Mostly heated By Little Brick
Gas Heaters.(Forget the Name)

And it's a running Joke But Lots of Trailers Built up off the ground with exposed water lines.

When I lived in Athens we had an Ice storm in Oklahoma so they sent all the work crews up there to Help.

Well it dipped and smacked us. We went 7 days without electricity because a stick fell on the line leading to our subdivision.

No Crews and No Service.

pmartin · February 16, 2021, 05:20 AM

If I had married a Texan and had to stay I would have chosen Austin.
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I'm sure He would have Chosen you too.

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Reminds me of an old joke. Not politically correct.

A Texas Ranger stops to help out a woman who waves him down. She is disheveled but laughing

What's the problem Ma'am?

Officer a Texan just tried to rape me!

How do you know that he was a Texan?

He had a great big belt buckle but a teeny weeny weiner.

Jim at Gentex · February 17, 2021, 07:41 AM

LOL

That reminds me of another classic Texas joke...

Texas State Trooper pulls over a little old lady for speeding.

She says to him, "Officer, before we start talking I just wanted to inform you that I have a loaded .380 in my purse, a loaded 9mm in my console, and a loaded .357 magnum in my glove compartment."

"Wow... 3 loaded guns..." says the Trooper. "What are you so afraid of?"

"Not a f'kin thing!" she replies.

pmartin · February 17, 2021, 08:16 AM

[quote="Jim at Gentex" post_id=6936 time=1613576505 user_id=83]
LOL

That reminds me of another classic Texas joke...

Texas State Trooper pulls over a little old lady for speeding.

She says to him, "Officer, before we start talking I just wanted to inform you that I have a loaded .380 in my purse, a loaded 9mm in my console, and a loaded .357 magnum in my glove compartment."

"Wow... 3 loaded guns..." says the Trooper. "What are you so afraid of?"

"Not a f'kin thing!" she replies.
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I would have thought that it would go more like.

Texas State Trooper pulls over a little old lady for speeding.

She says to him, "Officer, before we start talking I just wanted to inform you that I have a loaded .380 in my purse, a loaded 9mm in my console, and a loaded .357 magnum in my glove compartment."

"Wow... 3 loaded guns..." says the Trooper. "What are you, a pacifist?"

Jim at Gentex · February 17, 2021, 09:00 AM

LOL
Good alternative punchline!!

Jeff · February 17, 2021, 09:26 AM

QuoteOcasio-Cortez Slams Texas: That's What Happens 'When You Don't Pursue A Green New Deal'

It's amazing how fucking stupid she is.

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gcode · February 17, 2021, 10:46 AM

Looks like the northwest is getting hit pretty hard too

https://www.kgw.com/article/weather/severe-weather/pge-worst-case-scenario-some-could-be-without-power-for-10-days/283-bf53d3f5-0e4c-40c2-861b-196fe27026dd">//https://www.kgw.com/article/weather/severe-weather/pge-worst-case-scenario-some-could-be-without-power-for-10-days/283-bf53d3f5-0e4c-40c2-861b-196fe27026dd

ghuns · February 17, 2021, 10:52 AM

My kid's power was out in KC all day yesterday. They are having rolling blackouts like Kalifornia in the summer.