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The Gene Krupa story must have run on a loop when he was a kid.

Do you boys have your CDC cards?

Good article from DC Report and links to others on how we got here and the fallout. https://www.dcreport.org/2021/03/09/texans-why-the-deep-freeze-power-debacle-will-cost-billions/

All My customers are general contractors.

Tin Tin says hi.

Next door neighbors have it mother (82) and daughter (60). Daughter has it pretty bad but not hospital bad. Mother is high risk as a lifelong smoker and old. Symptoms for both arrived Sunday. We believe the culprit was their plumber who was doing winter storm stuff on Tuesday of last week. Plumber is a friend of their family and was just helping out, but I guess they got sloppy. My wife and I went to their house on Saturday to pick up an inversion table and spent about 15 minutes inside and out while masked. Daughter was masked but not mother. I think we are OK, but monitoring for symptoms in the next day or two and being extra careful.

Did you consult South Austin's mom?

...and lots of jewelry for the ladies.

Back in the late 80's during the late summer, I had made a trip down to South Padre for some beach time and a few trips into Matamoros for some cheap beer and souvenirs. The Feds singled out my '86 Charcoal Grey Mazda B2000 for a search on the way back through the border stop. Say what you will about the Feds, but those guys are thorough. They tore that truck apart. They had three drug dogs on it. And here is the thing about a single cab standard B2000, there is no place to hide anything once you get past the obvious open places like the truck bed and under the hood (which is so empty you could fit a couple of pony kegs in there). I was there for two hours and of course they didn't find anything except for my long lost Cornell Green trading card under the seat, which they had completely removed from the cab. Back in '97 I sold the truck to one of my employees and it made its way down to Durango, Mex where it got a new coat of light blue paint and of course, a much better radio. He ended up selling it to another guy and that guy ended up immigrating to the US and now also works for me. The truck is still alive and well down in Durango and I even got to see a recent photo and the truck looked great as they had fixed the some damage to the right fender that I never got repaired after the lead singer of the Butthole Surfers ran into me back in 1989. Man if that truck could talk. Sorry about your encounter Pancho. Just try to be less black next time.

2004 CWS v. Fullerton. Close calls, uncharacteristically bad defense, bad luck. Guess we made up for it in 2005, was not expecting that. Also mentioned CWS LSU 2010, also basically a strike away from winning game one with Taylor Jungman on deck for game 2.

I guess the road had been "Tiger Proofed"

What is your age? I am now 54. I did IF summer before last and it was part of a weight loss "program" for me that had me go down from 190 to 180 over the summer, but that was also with a whole lot of exercise ( light cross fit and ton of rock climbing). The not eating part was easy, but the result seemed a little slow given the caloric output. A kick ass "12 pack" weight for me is about 175 so I might have been bumping up against those hard to lose lbs. My weight gain back to 200 has resulted in some rock climbing injuries that have left me without many exercise options so i am looking to my diet more, which is not my style at all. I prefer a moderate low carb diet with high activity which allows for more alcohol consumption. BTW, I hate rowers, treadmills, stationary bikes, and ellipticals except for 5 minutes of warm ups. Although with my injuries a rower would probably be a good option.

No leaks, just lots of trees to deal with over the next few weeks.

Water back on in 78736 about 8PM last night. Lied and told everyone it was still out. I just like the way a crisis brings my family together and don't want it to end. Of course, if I find broken pipes in the morning it won't end.

Damage unknown at this point as water is still off since Wednesday. We did the foam cover/towel/bag wrap and dripped inside. Our bibs are close enough to the ground that we were able to surround them with 5 gal buckets of mulch and top off with about 6" of mulch cover that goes all the way to the ground. Wall pipe gets protected this way as well. However, completely forgot about protecting the hose bib on the roof garden. It was flowing right before the water went off with no signs of leaks, so fingers crossed.

Ice also broke clown meter.

You should open it, get a fire going, and shut it, that should help open it up.

I gotta say, after all this, I have come away with a whole different perspective on Ohio State fans.

Water out in 78736. Area is in included in the maps, so it's ok.

No. We have lots of room and reliable accommodations out here in the country. We also have 3 goats, 2 cats, and 2 dogs and don't need any pet hassles. Goats are weirded out because we moved them to the garage for warmth.

Complete bullshit. There is no way you can run out of sand.

Not really. We had cold events in 1985 and 1989. But we are always having some kind of event whether flooding, drought, infrastructure failure or whatever. There is no excuse for not attempting to prepare or be informed. If you do these things you will not only help yourself, but give yourself the bandwidth to really help others.