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tokamak

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  1. This is unwatchable. Every 2 minutes is a different Argentinian rolling around like he’s been shot.
  2. They got my whole neighborhood back up and running…. Except my street. I kept getting a bunch of celebratory texts all day. I guess we’re a dreaded nested outage. Back of the queue we go.
  3. Kelshaun Johnson on Tuesday I think
  4. I’m starting to think these Centerpoint guys might be full of shit.
  5. Wiping your ass while sweaty has got to be one of life’s worst feelings.
  6. Just watched Cruella with my kids. It’s much better than a Disney villain spinoff cash grab has any right to be.
  7. My brothers in Christ, it’s fucking 89 degrees inside my house and I’ve got at least another 48 hours of this to go. Could you kindly shut the fuck up about your churches?
  8. At this point I don't give a fuck if it's Landon Donovan or Billy Donovan or Tate Donovan. Change is good.
  9. Crowd sourced outage map, since Centerpoint is useless: https://digital-client.com/?mibextid=UyTHkb
  10. Last official update from Centerpoint is 80% of everyone restored by end of day Sunday. They promised that most people would have concrete estimates by today, but haven't updated their map since last night and it's all sorts of wrong anyway. I assume the rain yesterday and today is fucking things up.
  11. I’ve been thinking about this. I’m sure all the linemen know what they’re doing, but I also assume the focus right now is on getting people back online quickly. Temporary solutions have a tendency to become permanent fixes though. After every outage, there’s a mad rush to get the grid back up, but does Centerpoint have the resources or even the willingness to go back over everything and “do it right” after all of the out of town resources have left? I wonder how much that cycle contributes to the fragility of the grid.
  12. That’s insane to me. So much shareholder value just being left on the table like that.
  13. Are you in the business of selling useless tracking websites?
  14. Yeah it's odd. Drove around quite a bit today and only saw 2 trucks. Absolutely nothing going on in my neighborhood.
  15. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/195bcf03ae0c491f9f14bf77f2c43420 No point in clicking though. It's both inaccurate and not updated.
  16. The numbers they are publishing aren't budging either. Maybe they're on PTO today.
  17. Centerpoint just sent my wife an email that our power was back on. Narrator: their power was not in fact back on
  18. I think my neighbor's Generac died. I can see it out my window. He's got the hood open and it has a red light on the side. Welcome to the 99%, you fucker (just kidding he's a nice guy).
  19. CenterPoint's map is wrong as shit in my neighborhood. I checked it last night not long after they published it and it's still wrong as of right now. Tons of people on Reddit reporting the same thing. What is even the point of putting out a map that everyone knows is bullshit?
  20. Better electricity infrastructure probably
  21. Not strictly “worth it”, IMO. It’s a luxury item. 98% of the time it’s sitting there doing nothing. Get a portable unit that can run your fridge and fans for one tenth of the price.
  22. Fuck me, 48 hours from now we have a 50/50 chance? Serious question, can portable generators run indefinitely? I’ve got a Tri-fuel Firman plugged into my breaker box powering my fridge and fans. Never tried to run it anywhere near 3 days straight. I change the oil and shit.
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