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HouTex

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  1. HouTex

    Getting old sucks

    Those help with tennis elbow as well.
  2. There’s some exaggeration in your post. Many of those lots are very large, as you said, so there’s plenty of room in most back yards for trees that won’t fall on power lines. Front yards are wide open for large trees in most neighbourhoods because the lines usually come in from the back. I’d be fine paying extra money each month to bury the lines and make the transformers flood-proof. But many people can’t afford it.
  3. Yep. That happened to me during the derecho in May. A tree took down a line across the street that served about 20 of us. We were among the last to have power restored.
  4. They are fucking themselves by not taking care of their vegetation. I’ve been throughout the Villages since the storm and there are countless lines down because of fallen trees and very tall bushes. Many still without power. CP has done a shitty job of trimming/chopping down trees/bushes. Still, if it was my home or property I’d remove any tree or tall bush that could possibly take out a power line. And I know several people in the Villages that, for whatever reason, don’t have a generator and they either are staying with friends, got a hotel or left town. We are all empty nesters so it’s easier to leave.
  5. My daughter and SIL are near you. They are on Fisher east of Alba. They are still without power.
  6. So Monday morning with winds still around 45+ mph I headed west on I-10 to find a portable generator. Someone on 740 AM said there were generators at the Lowe’s in Rosenberg. So I stopped at the first Lowe’s I came to on I-10 and they had portable generators and window units. I bought a 6.7 kW Firman and a 10,000 btu window unit. The generator was powered up a few hours later and we could sleep in comfort and save our food in our garage fridge. I borrowed a friend’s window unit and I was able to cool another bedroom for my daughter and son-in-law. Everything worked perfectly for two days until my power came back on. The next thing is to get a transfer switch, assuming it’s up to code, so I can just connect it to my electrical panel and run the selected circuits I need. It is a pain to keep feeding the generator gasoline and you have to change the oil quite often. Still, best $1,400 I’ve spent in a while.
  7. Not defending anyone. Just get your facts straight. To be clear, CP has been horribly negligent in maintaining their transmission lines. They should have been chopping down trees all around Houston and much of this would have been avoided.
  8. Never let truth get in the way of a good story.
  9. Some parts were a swamp. But most of it was a prairie.
  10. I was fortunate to get my power back yesterday around 2:30 pm. A ton of homes around me still have no power. Tanglewood is hit or miss and the Memorial Villages are mostly a disaster. When you drive around it’s really not hard to see the problem. There are tall and massive trees growing mere feet from power lines. It’s like that all around Houston. Either bury the lines (costly) or CP should do a massive tree trimming/chopping down effort. Many homeowners will bitch and moan but screw them. Many of the problematic trees should never have been planted—and most were planted—Houston was a prairie. The coordination effort likely sucks too, but let’s fix the underlying problem.
  11. Hope not and the genius forecasters are saying it will continue its current forward motion. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 700 PM CDT (0000 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Beryl was located near latitude 27.1 North, longitude 95.6 West. Beryl is moving toward the north-northwest near 12 mph (19 km/h). This general motion is expected to continue through tonight, with a turn toward the north forecast on Monday. On the forecast track, the center of Beryl is expected to make landfall on the middle Texas coast early Monday. Beryl is forecast to turn northeastward and move farther inland over eastern Texas and Arkansas late Monday and Tuesday
  12. This. Everyone, obviously, should take it seriously and be prepared, but so far this thing seems to be a fast moving TS or cat 1 hurricane when it gets to Uptown. We had a 100+ mph severe thunderstorm several weeks ago that fucked up the power grid but we didn’t have any structural damages nor did anyone near me. Some folks in the Heights did have serious structural damage from the wind in that storm. I expect to lose power for some time period, but I’ll be surprised if there is widespread damage to property in most areas of Houston.
  13. HouTex

    Getting old sucks

    Yep. For most of my arm bruises lately, I have no idea how they got there. If it hurts enough for me to remember it, it ends up looking like someone took a hammer to my arm.
  14. I hope people aren’t panicking about stores being out of bottled water. I guess people forget about filling their bathtubs up with water before a storm?
  15. HouTex

    Getting old sucks

    In the last 6 months or so I’ve noticed that I’m getting old man skin on my arms. I bruise very easily. I’m almost 62.
  16. As far as South Texas goes, depending on where you are, they’ve had a ton of rain. I know guys with leases reporting that they have stock tanks that haven’t had water in a decade are now full.
  17. Archie Bunker and then everyone else.
  18. Love this movie. From my UT days. “Only two things from Oklahoma. . .”
  19. Cremation all the way. Burial is becoming a thing of the past. It was a big deal for my father, who died in 2021 and my mother, now 87. She loves visiting his grave. I haven’t been back to the grave-site since the funeral.
  20. Big hill to climb but ATM isn’t quite done.
  21. I had putting yips a few years ago and I went to a right hand claw grip. Game changer for me. I misread my share of putts and distance control is sometimes a problem, but I usually get it started on the intended line.
  22. I like my MEATER+. I’ve had it a few years. I used it last month and it would not connect to my phone or the base unit. The batteries were dead Be sure to replace them every year or so and then check them before doing a long roast or smoke. I replaced them but it takes a while to recharge the battery in the probe.
  23. I’m a huge Casablanca fan too. On the Shawshank Redemption, I’ve seen it, but it didn’t do much for me. Didn’t hate it, but it was nothing special. Probably an unpopular opinion.
  24. I agree. I’m not a huge Brandel fan, but I thought he did ok. He must have been told to lay off the LIV thing because that’s about all he talks about during his Golf Channel commentary.
  25. Not an approved form of birth control, but I think being considered a sin is a little much. Like most Catholics, I don’t agree with the Church’s views on birth control. I got a vasectomy after my two daughters were born. I hope I’m not going to hell.
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