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They may all go to hell.
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Oh, Greg. It's not you, it's 2020.
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From Groves around 6 pm. They lost power around this point but it could be wayyyyy worse. (Knock on all the wood.)
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6 hours ago, wild_turkey said:
I’ve posted about Shelby a lot over the past year. We said goodbye to her a month ago but we did get her a DNA test before she was gone. We rescued her as a puppy so never knew her true background, but we considered her a chocolate lab that likely had a little bit of something else. She was a little small for a lab with a slender face and a very soft coat.
Anyways, we got the DNA results back and I thought it was pretty interesting and glad we did it for our own knowledge.
There’s also a page for nearest relatives that shows their pictures and locations (if those users provided them). And you can get health information for an extra cost, which we skipped since she was already gone.
The company is Embark and it’s a mouth swab that you mail in. I paid $130 which includes shipping but I have a referral code that will save $30. If anyone is interested, send me a PM. Might make a good Christmas gift for a dog lover.It's really interesting for sure. We did this with Rocket and were shocked that the test showed he doesn't have lab in him, at least in any significant amount. I shared them back in the day and someone here goes "So that's what labs are made of. " This is Rocket and below are his results.
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Goddamn, 2020. I mean...goddamn.
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I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it. I think Jordan Peele does interesting work and has interesting ideas, but in execution they don't always play out as smoothly as I'd like. Perhaps some of my hesitation is because I thought the premise of the show was going to be the main characters road tripping around the US and running into weirdness as they search for Tic's dad, but that storyline was done in the second episode. I'm not sure how the supernatural stuff is going to play out if everything happens in Chicago - for example, WTF is going to happen with this Ruby/Hillary story now? Will Ruby never see the boss around town or in the store she loves?
I do think the Christina/William thing is one of the more interesting plotlines and I want to see how it plays out. Are they trying to make us feel some sympathy for Christina and get Ruby to empathize with her? Although Christina obviously has the upper hand, being a white girl who's also a sorceress, she has probably faced discrimination associated with just being a woman in the 50s. Being able to walk around as a white guy probably gets her into places she couldn't go before and gets her information she couldn't get as a woman. Plus, is she queer? Is one of the reasons she likes being William so she can be with women openly?
Anyway, I'll finish out the season. I'm hoping they can smooth some of the rough edges. The show could be great if it's done right.
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On 9/11/2020 at 5:03 PM, HoustonFrog said:
Anything by Erik Larson is a good read. Best in the businessYeah, not to derail, but y'all all need to read The Devil in the White City.
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We call this look "pizza face."
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It's a bizarre, trippy new Charlie Kaufman movie on Netflix starring Jessie Buckley (Lyudmilla in Chernobyl) and Jesse Plemons. Do yourself a favor and try not to read anything about it before seeing it, but if you're a Kaufman fan you should enjoy it. I'll put some spoilery stuff in spoiler tags.
SpoilerThe ending didn't quite land for me - I had to poke around the internet after to confirm what I thought had happened. The movie is based on a book that apparently makes the connection between the janitor and the other characters very clear at the end. I want to do a rewatch now to see everything again through the lens of knowing the whole story.
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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:
Any reports on lake Charles flooding ?
The pics I've seen have shown lots of wind damage but not much flooding. In other news, the Isle of Capri casino did get loose and is now wedged under the I-10 bridge.
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14 hours ago, austingirl said:Husband's grandma and three aunts are still in Lake Charles. Mawmaw is in her 90s and in very ill health and they really don't think she could handle an evacuation. It is a shitty rock and a shitty hard place. I don't expect to get much sleep tonight.
Everyone's alive and the house is still standing. Storm surge didn't get to them but there's tons of wind damage - front porch destroyed, huge trees down everywhere, fence down, etc. Basically what you'd expect from Cat 4 winds and tornados, but all in all it could've been much worse.
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31 minutes ago, Stros121 said:
This Hurricane is so fucking crazy. Lake Charles could be in 100+ mph for over 6 hours. Jeff is in a parking garage in Lake Charles.
That tracks.
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Just now, dcbc said:
Hang in there. Sorry for the snake picture earlier. All the best to Mawmaw and the aunts. I've sat up all night and waited for storm news. No fun at all.
Thanks - we appreciate it. You know I was just messing with you about the snake pic, right?
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Husband's grandma and three aunts are still in Lake Charles. Mawmaw is in her 90s and in very ill health and they really don't think she could handle an evacuation. It is a shitty rock and a shitty hard place. I don't expect to get much sleep tonight.
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What are the chances she could become a 5?
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Ugh this thing reminds me too much of Rita. At least it's not already a 5, I guess. This notice from the City of Port Arthur got me thinking about the pre-Katrina warning that went out just before it hit. Not as dire, of course, but it's still a punch in the gut after all these years.
Seriously, y'all, be safe.
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2 minutes ago, pearlandhorn said:
I agree with you on this. If my son wasn't already with his grandparents, I would be heading west. Since he's up there, we need to go get him.
I totally get it. Best of luck to you all, and stay safe.
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54 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:
anyone with golden triangle / swamp people thinking of heading west...
10, 90 and 105 are all trending to screwed. 96 north to jasper is the bomb, then re-assess.
lufkin and nac would be my first targets for hotels.
40 minutes ago, twosheds said:keep trying. Tyler or Longview will be full in short order. why people would go north is beyond me. we don't have the infrastructure necessary to support sudden influxes of people in east Texas.
I would not be heading north at this point, especially not to Lufkin, which is still pretty close to Beaumont. This bitch is going to hit land and head northeast, going in around the same place Rita did, and if Laura also comes in strong a bunch of people up the TX/LA border are going to lose power and get stuck there. All those felled pine trees are going to block the roads and it'll be a mess. I'm sure traffic is awful but heading west and inland is the best bet at this point.
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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Good question. Wait.
Remember Rita? I remember folks that evacuated Beaumont and drove north....took them 20 hours to get to Tyler. I was trying desperately to reach them via phone and text to tall them to turn west and head to Houston, the track had turned and Houston would be a good place to shelter.
Of course, they were olds, who had their cell phones turned off because 1) "we only use them in case of emergency" and 2) evacuating from a Cat 5 storm with a 90 yr old woman doesn't qualify as an "emergency."
You can dodge a storm sideways just as effectively as running north. Shit, evacuate down 59 to Corpus, it would be easier than a drive north with all the other lemmings.
Rita was a clusterfuck of nightmare proportions. Everyone was on edge already because of Katrina and then they told a million people to evacuate at the same time. And, if I remember correctly, in a lot of places they hadn't marked the contraflow lanes so people didn't know they were an option. Took my parents 21 hours to get from Groves to Austin - it was them, my grandma, a pug, and a cat in a carrier in a Toyota Avalon. Ever since they've tended to get out early even when there's still uncertainty about the track, and they're retired so they have more flexibility than in the past.They usually leave their RV in Crystal Beach all summer but they brought it up here yesterday - there's a decent KOA in Leander, and they didn't want to get caught in all the traffic when the evac orders hit.
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Saw this in a Dave Barry column back in the day. Someone needs to make a 2020 version.
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On 8/21/2020 at 7:10 AM, Bevo Num1 said:
The Gulf Coast is about to get DP'ed.
Two 'canes, one Gulf.
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I am having a hell of a time today - constantly watering eyes, stuffiness, sneezing. KVUE says mold is high which is just a bitch since we haven't even gotten the benefit of rain lately.
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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
TL; DR. I and girlfriend probably should have died.
17 years old. Driving my truck with girl friend. We had just left a convenience store, bought slurpees. Two lane highway, with shoulders, flat ground. Around noon, August, no rain. Truck has no seatbelts.
I'm following a semi towing a grain trailer. I pull out to pass. As I get to the front of the semi, there's a pickup in front of the semi, maybe 25-30 yards ahead. Driving pretty slow. I'm doing 60 or so, and figure I'll just pass this truck as well.
We come up on an intersection, not marked. Dashed line in middle of highway, still a passing zone. No oncoming traffic.
Just as I'm about to pass the pickup, he turns left for the intersection. No turn lights (or brake lights that I recall). I swerve onto the shoulder, but his left front contacts my passenger door of my truck. Truck goes sideways....towards a ravine, maybe 6-8 feet deep.
I don't know how many times my truck rolled. All I do remember after the contact and truck turning sideways was ground coming up towards the windshield.
Truck comes to a stop upright and I'm blacked out. I start to come to, and all I can feel is the seat is wet. My initial thoughts were blood. The cab of the truck is pushed down close to my head, and I look to the right, and the cab is torn off. The girl with me (Holly) I can't find. I immediately panic.
I feel something on my feet...it's Holly. Somehow, she was thrown into the floor of the truck, her torso on the transmission tunnel, and her head over the brake pedal. She's moving around.
Maybe 20-30 seconds pass, and she's asking if we are ok. I smell gas. Driver's door will not open, but the back glass is gone. Holly is struggling to get out of floor, and she's bleeding from her head. I climb out of seat, then crawl through where the back glass was. I get into the bed of the truck, and it starts to hit me exactly how bad the crash was.
Gas smell strong, and I'm scared truck is going to blow up or something. I tell Holly she needs to get out, and she struggles to get up into seat. I help her out.
Cars are stopping by now to check on us. We are just shocked.
Time passes. Highway Patrol comes by, the other truck in the accident is there (he could drive his truck, that's how little the damage was to him). It didn't seem like much time, but it probably was around an hour or more, taking the reports, getting a wrecker, that sort of thing. Ambulance has shown up as well, and are looking at the two of us. Other than the scrapes we both had (I'm wearing shorts, and the tops of my thighs have burns on them from the steering wheel) we both are fine. Holly had a concussion; I probably did as well.
Wrecker driver shows up. I know him and he asks if he should take the truck to my dad's business. I tell him sure, and we go off in the ambulance to the hospital.
My parent's or Holly's still have not been contacted by this point; the first my dad knew of the truck was seeing it towed in front of his shop. He ran out, and the wrecker driver assured him we were both fine and probably at the hospital by now.
Oh, and the wet seat that caused me to think there was blood? Slurpees, poured out everywhere.
I got the ticket. Passing at an intersection. That was marked as a passing zone.
Damn, that could've ended really badly.
Had a similar incident with the spilled drinks - my car got clipped turning left at an intersection, and we spun around a couple of times before landing in the median. My brother and his friend were with me and the friend blacked out for a few seconds. He'd been drinking a root beer and between that and him being unconscious we thought he was dead. (We all walked away with minor injuries.)
Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
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My friend and her husband adopted a special-needs baby at birth - his mom was on drugs and he has a seizure disorder caused by schizencephaly. Two years ago they were able to raise enough money to get on a list for a service dog for him, and today he and the other kids placed with dogs from this training group got to meet their dogs! The agency recorded all the kids and their families as they met their pups so if you want to tear up and/or forget about election stuff for a while, here's the video: https://fb.watch/1w0lvKLgHq/
These dogs have been training with the service dog agency since they were puppies and it takes about 2 years for them to be ready. This is Al: