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  1. crimsonlonghorn
    I sure hope it's real. This one seems more reliable than the other ones, but there are a lot of disappointments in early September in Texas weather. I've been planning this week to start preparations for my pecan harvest. I sure hope there is a cool down when the work starts in earnest later in September.
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    The models have been hinting at a cold front into Texas sometime next week. It's still there this morning and the mets are starting to have more confidence that it will be for real. Although the primary benefit will be to drop temps and dewpoints and signal a start to fall weather, another benefit will be that it will be the first brick in the fall "forcefield" that protects Texas from tropical cyclones. It's not 100% foolproof, but the odds go way down in Texas after the first front, so be cheering for that. Also, 40* dewpoints all the way to the coast. Gottdam bring it on.
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    I watched some of it. Football is football. I'm gonna go nuts in two weeks at my son's first 8th grade game. So glad we are playing football.
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    Plants definitely have to be big enough. If they are just seedlings or sprouts the birds will for sure wreck the garden, too.
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    Not sure about scorpions since we don't have very many (if any) in Fort Bend County, but they do clear out the other crawly bugs. My wife lets ours free range in her vegetable garden in the spring and they go to town on the pests.
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    Local Houston news this morning is roasting Entergy for the brownouts, but I'm not really sure what they expect Entergy to do. That part of the grid is yoked to Louisiana and isn't a part of ERCOT. It's not like they can just plug into the Houston power plants instead.
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    In Jeff's defense, the storm surge in Lake Charles was expected to be 12 feet or more, so staying on the ground might not have been a wise move. I thought the parking garage made sense. But yes, getting walked through all the screens in his car and watching the windshield wipers go back and forth is kind of tedious.
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    Good thing the storm mostly missed Beaumont because she would have easily blown over like that TV tower in Lake Charles. All top heavy and stuff.
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    Took a screenshot for posterity and.... damn, that's something else.
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    You're not familiar with Louisiana, are you?
  11. crimsonlonghorn
    On the Houston news this morning they were showing downed trees and some damaged roofs, but honestly, the Port A and Beaumont area dodged the bullet in a major way.
  12. crimsonlonghorn
    The unsaid part of this is that the bridge is still there.
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    https://goo.gl/maps/LWzYtUxdRWvUu9n48 Pretty sure that's his location.
  15. crimsonlonghorn
    Jeff's about to get hit by a tornado sounds like.
  16. crimsonlonghorn
    "Jeff, does your insurance company know what you do?"
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    I guess he's just going to camp out on top of that garage until it passes. Godspeed Jeff.
  18. crimsonlonghorn
    What's the deal with the hearts?
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    He does't even have a script. It's all extemporaneous and never a pause and no "uh's" and "um's". Pretty damn impressive, to be honest, even if it's mostly empty talk while waiting for the car wash to disintegrate.
  20. crimsonlonghorn
    Jeff keeps dropping "blue shed" into his talk. He has a catch phrase now.
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    I quit driving over that bridge a couple of years ago because it's so damn scary and so damn shitty. It's much more pleasant to drive over the one on the loop that goes by the casinos and doesn't really add much more time to the trip through town.
  22. crimsonlonghorn
    Jeff needs to switch to decaf meth.
  23. crimsonlonghorn
    Those of us in Houston are so goddam lucky right now.
  24. crimsonlonghorn
    Wind's picking up at my house in Greatwood. We tried to order takeout for dinner and everything is closed.
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    Nobody told anyone but the immediate coastal counties to evacuate. People in Katy and Cypress and Memorial had just seen the Katrina shitshow on sensational network news ("people are eating each other in the Superdome!") and were (unreasonably) terrified of that happening here. So decided on their own to leave, often in two cars, sometimes pulling boats and RV's, and got in the way of the people coming north from the coast and it all just clogged the shit out of the roads. Mrs CL and I were going to ride it out and both our parents kept calling every 15 minutes pleading with us to get out, and recruited other family members to call us too, so we finally did leave on Friday afternoon just to shut them up and thus began the exodus to Austin that lasted 12+ hours. By the time we got to Giddings it was clear that Rita was going to miss Houston but we had already committed and kept going. It was an enormous clusterfuck.

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