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The NWS warning for New Orleans before Katrina was something else: AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK. POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS. THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_bulletin_for_Hurricane_Katrina

If this gets to north Austin you can thank me for washing my car on Friday, when there was supposed to be a zero chance of rain for the next week.

It's incredible how many different products Chrysler was able to squeeze out of the K-car platform. Budget family sedan? Reliant K. Slap some chrome and leather on it and you have the "luxury" New Yorker. A sports car? Dodge Daytona. Even the fucking minivan. And who could forget the Chrysler TC by Maserati...

A shaft of rain is thrusting up towards Austin from the south [im

Very sudden and concentrated dump of rain in 78753

I'm going to miss full-service branch banking. When I have a small discrepancy with a check or some other unusual situation, I've usually been able to work that out with the human employees at my local bank. If it comes down to purely electronic/web/phone-based customer service, it will be a nightmare. It already pisses me off so much when I go into my local branch, see a long line, and they only have one or two tellers at the counter (where there are positions and terminals for 6 or 8 tellers). Same with airline ticket/check-in counters. For some things, i want a human to fix my shit.

That's some brush with greatness; his only credit looks like fuckin' Oscar material: Best of the Best: "A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?"

Jeez, what do y'all want to happen exactly to these people? Just make them 'disappear'?

Holy shit levels of darkness, wind and rain just N of I-35 & Braker

With so much negative pressure from incidents like this, the bottom is going to drop out of the pool industry.

UH-Victoria only 15% "Admission Yield"? Maybe people apply there as a safety school, but end up going almost any other place they get in? (I'm from there, and I was eager to get out of town myself...)

So many lost Seouls.

I've used SuperShuttle a few times without any issues** ...but not recently (several years). ** I don't know if their practice has changed, but SuperShuttle sets your rate based on the zip code where you are being picked up, and it has very little to do with rational metrics like the travel time or distance. They don't like my zip code, so even though its <15 minutes from the airport, they charge me almost double the rate that they would charge for Round Rock, Pflugerville, or Cedar Park--all of which are farther away from the airport than where I live. A cynical person might suspect that they were "redlining" or "profiling" areas with certain demographics. Edit: I'm sure they would come up with some explanation about how their service patterns don't show much demand in my area so they have to charge more because the van won't be as fully utilized, yadda yadda yadda. It's still bullshit if I have to go to a friends house who lives FARTHER AWAY from the airport to get picked up so my rate will be $20 instead of $40.

I procrastinate like a sonofabitch, but for $25MM even I would put a note on my calendar or a post-it on my fridge about sending that shit in.

Horrible: Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. I see someone already nominated Enterprise above.

They should convert all planes to ethanol fuel and just give each passenger a tube so we can suck it right from the tanks.

These cars are boring. When I was in HS I woulda killed for something like this:

From 1958 to 1988, qualifying speeds went from 145 mph to 219. From 1989 until now (also roughly 30 years) qualifying speed has basically just bounced around from 220-230 depending on year-to-year rule changes. In 1990, if you had asked me how fast the cars would be lapping in 2020, I would have said at least 250. Why does it seem like technological progress on the cars has stopped?

This article on KHOU's website has a video of one determined-ass lightning strike: Video: 12-second lightning strike hits same spot over and over in Fort Bend County https://tinyurl.com/yxgbzphq

I enjoyed "Occupied", a Norwegian geopolitical thriller about a near-future-scenario where Russia basically takes over Norway at the behest of the EU, when Norway shuts down gas and oil production that the EU needs. Currently watching Hap and Leonard, which starts out like a buddy comedy with a dark edge but turns into a full blown, bloody, actioner. It has an underlying theme of the idealism of the '60s colliding with the nihilism and greed of the '80s.

Part of the challenge is that people want different things. I'd just like to get off this "status quo" of cookie-cutter, virtually identical cars, running at basically the same performance levels for the last 20-25 years. Break open the rulebook and let there be innovation and competing designs. Stop nerfing the cars so they aren't slower than they were 30 years ago. Yes, that increases risk, but if there's no risk I'm not really that interested. Alternatively, go in the opposite direction--back to "STOCK" cars which are closely based on production cars, so that there's actually some commonality between the cars being raced on the track and what you can go buy in a showroom. Then again, the traditional car market is collapsing and even within the car market there are few race-capable RWD chassis options. There are many reasons why neither of these directions will happen, but that's what would get me interested in the sport again.

If for some reason that site doesn't work out, here is another option. Their website seems to be agonizingly slow though... https://www.windowdoorparts.com/hardware/door-parts/door-hardware/door-kick-plates/

Buy window units and 3 of these? https://www.staples.com/optimus-infrared-quartz-radiant-heater-white-h-5510/product_24272294?

From a quick search I see that there was a bill filed earlier this year to legalize sports betting in Texas, but it's basically DOA. https://www.legalsportsreport.com/28560/texas-sports-betting-2019-bill/

Dark as shit in the 78753. No lightning or thunder tho.