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Grimas

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  1. I have guys working remotely that only have their work laptop with them and the only way they can get support is via Teams or email. Kinda tough if you are getting BSOD and don’t have admin privileges…. Gonna be a lot of big hotel bar bills…
  2. My setup was the reverse - I had the upstairs unit (3 ton) set to 60 deg. and kept the downstairs on fan only since heat rises. Setting to 60 kept the compressor from cycling and taking the power spike (even though I have "soft start" switches installed on both units). Only thing I kept off in the fuse panel was the oven, dryer and pool pump as those have large impacts on power draw (and to ensure wife didn't actually try to use them and trip the fuses...)
  3. Propane is great for those short outages and I had 5 tanks here as reserve. But instead of 4-6 hours each that I was thinking, they only lasted 2 hours each under load. Luckily, I was able to run and fill 15 gallons before the gas lines formed that kept me running for the duration. I had bought a NG conversion kit earlier but it’s still sitting in the box and hadn’t been installed (yet)…
  4. We're leaning towards west coast of Spain south of Barcelona. Can get a 2500-3000 sq ft house with pool close to the beach for 4-500K. Helps that I got my EU passport - thanks to grandfather being displace during WW2 - so I can get on national healthcare system and then supplement with top private for 3K a year. It's our plan B if I get laid off for some reason before medicare kicks in... (COBRA would cost me 3k a month if I had to go on it right now...) Would be looking at moving there right now if the kids would have decided to go to school in Europe...
  5. Yea. I knew that one...
  6. I had to Google it when I saw the comment as I hadn't heard of any faults in the Woodlands even though I've lived here 11 years and have never noticed the faulting on the roads here like you get down in Spring Branch. (And I'm a geologist...) As a side note, my structural geology professor at UT - who later became the head of the Geology Department - and her geologist husband bought a house in Austin that they didn't know was on a major fault line that caused a bunch of damage to it...
  7. It's a pretty minor set of faults that are most likely due to sucking down the water table that shouldn't affect the wiring/cables. But you also wouldn't want your house or pool built on it... (Ha Ha Gordy Bunch! https://www.jw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Woodlands-Fault-Line-Lawsuit-Dismissed.pdf)
  8. Does it look like glass (It looks like it reflects like it and has conical fractures in the photo)? If so it's probably obsidian.
  9. I was watching during the evening as it all started to finally turn green progressing from the north and spreading towards 45. I’m also in CC and mine came on between 1 and 4am.
  10. Finally some progress - green in Oak Ridge and the most southern art of the Woodlands…
  11. Throw them on the Traeger! Er, never mind….
  12. I saw somewhere that they lost something like 11 main transmission lines. Trim the damn trees…
  13. Entergy just said they hope to get 50% of their customers online by end of day tomorrow…
  14. YouTube videos… and I do have a 3000 watt inverter that I just had to dust off and just ran extension cables to the wifi and fridges no issue until it gets to 90 today and the wife starts really bitching…
  15. My Westinghouse 12500 just crapped out…. Genny still running but not generating power…. Probably a $2.99 capacitor I can get on Amazon - next week.
  16. Not a single house restored yet in the Woodlands… and this is where all the power lines are underground…
  17. Got a house nearby that recently sold and new owner is having a big remodel done so no one living there yet. 3 surrounding neighbors don’t have home generators so have run extension cables to the empty house since the generator is running and no one home/no one living on in the empty house yet the gen is running….
  18. Entergy just put out a statement it will be several days until they fully restore power.
  19. And the same with most of the internet providers switching boxes (or whatever they are called) while my fiber provider (Tachus) has Generacs on each of their neighborhood boxes…
  20. I think that most cell towers have a battery backup that is only good for so many hours…
  21. Had some new plants in the planters around the pool that were wilting since the sprinkler didn't hit them.. Wife said she was going to water them with the hose that was on the side of the house and asked "is it connected". Said yes and said just turn it on. "It's not plugged in". Huh? While the hose was connected to the water tap, the grounded electrical socket a few feet away didn't have anything plugged into it...
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