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  1. Is your belly open, or closed and insulated?  If closed and insulated, the heat from the RV itself will go a long way toward keeping the plumbing warm.  My belly is open and exposed and even so, temps that dipped into the mid 20s overnight didn't cause any problems.
     
     
    Yeah its closed and heated. My only worry is the water hose coming in. I could just unhook it for the nights but I've had this stuff sitting around for a while with the intention of making one.
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  2. A couple of weeks ago we booked a campsite for next weekend in a state park at the local lake for our spring shakedown/first trip of the year. Was hoping for the best weather wise but at the moment it looks like it's going to be a little chilly. I've got some heat tape and insulation I bought a couple years ago to make a heated hose, looks like I might need to throw it together before we go 🥶

     

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  3. 54 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

    Are you NERC certified?  I'm RC and TO and as much as we believe we are off the network we are not.  Remote work has got us into a bigger jam.  My buddies at ONCOR just went with a test thinking the same thing and they got caught pants down

    Yeah I have a TO, the company I work for is fairly small (about 3000 miles of line) and designated a Transmission Owner, our BA is also technically registered as our TO. We operate under them as a regional dispatch center but I have operational control of all my devices in my control room. We own all our own fiber to our substations and all of our ICCP links are dedicated private lines, not that we have a whole lot. Yeah I can't speak about other's networks but if they are not following NERC CIP requirements then shame on them. I know we take it very seriously.

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  4. 45 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

    Yeah. I've been involved in power production since I was 21.  When I got to the commercial side I was like holy fuck.  We are ripe for disaster.  Most nukes who get out of the navy go get their engineering degrees or end up on commercial power or data centers. Our skill set translates.  We are scared shitless of a hack.  Any facility with SCADA which is all is open to a hack.  IT is a loss center so no one wants to throw money in it.  ERCOT gets this huge blame in Texas but no one actually knows what ERCOT is.  They are just the scapegoat.  

     

    Look at Texas during Harvey.  We had power.  That's why we didn't riot.  We couldn't go anywhere.  Ice storm same thing.  We lose the grid and have open roads it would be chaos beyond anything.

    Transmission level SCADA systems must be on their own private networks per NERC standards so for someone to hack into a transmission SCADA they would have to physically plug in at a substation to hack their way in or break into a control room either way at that point someone would know they are there. It would be easier at the distribution level that doesn't follow NERC standards but then it would be isolated to a smaller region and then what is the real danger if they command distribution breakers to open? Linemen dispatch, turn the controls to local, and close the breakers back in. But also there's like 3000 different distribution companies in the US so to cause a lot of trouble at that level would take a lot of coordination and breaking into a lot of systems. Yeah they could shut off a city and that would suck especially of it's really hot or any cold but it could be brought back up fairly quickly.

    At the transmission level all they could really do is trip open lines which would suck but what is the danger of physical damage occurring? Maybe some other lines would be overloaded to the point of self destruction but in order for that to happen all of the automatic relaying would have to be disabled at the same time to keep the overloaded facilities energized until they fell down and you can't do that with SCADA. So again if your SCADA is compromised you dispatch techs to switch the devices to local control and close them back in. Would take a couple days maybe to bring everything back up and it would be suck but would not be catastrophic. And again it is one transmission operator at a time unless a huge coordinated effort is underway.

    Generation plants, to gain access to controls in any ones of decent size you'd have to break in to the control room or the plant yard to gain control of the devices. The plants were tied to have their own control rooms on site.

     

    A large EMP would fuck our shit up in a hurry though. 

     

    But bang for your buck, most cost effective way to fuck up a power system would be physical sabotage. A few 30.06 rounds from a couple hundred yards into a large transformer is a bad day all around. Then if you got a couple buddies doing it too at the same time then a lot of people in that region are going to be living like @Mooseoutfront for a while. Especially right now, most companies are running on very very thin inventory. I mean normally to replace a large transformer takes a while anyway but right now nobody has any spares and replacements are years out. 

     

    Anyway, if you require electricity to live then buy a generator and keep plenty of fuel on hand.

     

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  5. 8 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    Sorry about your jailtime. 

    Friend of mine... He stayed out jail just barely but lots of probation. Summer after our senior year in HS, he had just turned 18 and his girlfriend was 15. Her dad caught them in the act one night. In the heat of the moment he threatened to shoot my friend but he wasn't going to press charges. When her mom (her mom and dad were divorced) found she called the Sheriff. That was a long, crazy night all around, I could have gone to jail for something else....

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  6. 13 hours ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

    Do you ever go into town for nice night out with your wife? If so what's the go to place in Fairbanks?

     

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    lol no. 

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  7. 21 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:


    A family friend passed away unexpectedly this week and the funeral is this afternoon.

    I’m still up in Hoth, although my understanding is that Tulsa isn’t in much better shape.

    I might head down early tomorrow but it doesn’t seem worth it to spend 18 hours on the road for a 2 hour concert

    Sorry to hear that 😕

     

     

  8. On 2/3/2022 at 9:02 AM, WBT said:

    I don't live in Austin but I'm glad to hear this.  People need to turn off their own lights at night too.  One of my neighbors has a flood light in the backyard that would make Clark Griswold proud.

     

    23 hours ago, South Austin said:

    My neighbor at my old house also had flood light.  It was motion-sensored, so it was off during most of the night, but if a squirrel or rodent happened to trigger it, it would shine right into my bedroom window for a couple minutes. 

     

     

    I thought the established reaction in this scenario was that you are to tear down your own fence to show your neighbor how mad you are?

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  9. 57 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

    But then how to you get it off that platform, or does it have wheels? This seems hard, like fuck that shit hard. 

    You leave it on the platform and pump it out from the top of the barrel. When it's empty you can pick it up and put it back in the truck...

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  10. 2 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    They weigh what, over 400 pounds when full?  Sounds like a fuel truck delivering gas in the area could make some money.

    I dunno how Moose does it - but growing up on the farm we bought our tractor gas this way too. You can by gas cheaper at the COOP or a few other places that sell off-road (no road tax) gas. It doesn't really take much effort to "walk"/slide the barrel to the back of the tailgate. We had this old metal box that was just a bit shorter than the tailgate. You could tilt the barrel a little and roll it carefully onto that platform.

     

    I mean, you kids that grew up in the city might have struggled but it wasn't much trouble...

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  11. 16 hours ago, jeevsie said:

    Sometimes I get confused when these "visitors" use the word "our" on "OUR" board.

    Surly is kind of the secrant of the big12. But with blackjack and hookers.

    This is what I'm going to miss most after the breakup. We can find out more about our teams here than on our own censored message boards.

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  12. 8 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    Did you do the entire trail? The wife and I are thinking about going down there to hike this but, being in our 70's, we aren't up for the entire trail in one shot. Looking at the map, there are plenty of places  to breakout and only do half of it. If you have done it all, which end would you start from?

    https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/kansas/elk-river-hiking-trail

     

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    The western half of the trail is fairly tame and flat (from what I've read, I skipped that end) but the eastern half is pretty technical in spots, there are a couple of places where you have to scramble a bit over rocks and one place where you have to take off your pack to climb up crack. If you start at the eastern trailhead there is a big, steep hill right off the bat that kind of sucks. I think it's about a hundred foot rise in about a tenth of a mile. But just past it is a pretty neat canyon you kind of maze your way through. I think the roughest part of the trail is the first two miles or so from the eastern end.

    I've been on it three times, but I never did the full end to end. The first two times, I took my daughter with me (she was 9 the first time then we went back when she was 10). The first time we started from the eastern trailhead and we only went in about 3 miles then camped and came back the next morning.

    If you go down to County Road 5000 there is a place to park and a trailhead sign there where the trail crosses the road. That's where I started both other times and went east from there. I would recommend doing the same, just out and back from that intersection. Going in a couple miles from there to me is the best moderate part of the trail and is a pretty interesting hike. And you'll want to remember your trekking poles.

     

  13. 1 minute ago, tx ind said:

    Reporter asked him how he felt, he said "disappointed but he wouldn't comment on anything personal between him and Lincoln".  Net, did not seem happy.

    And Lincon Riley's response

     

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  14. 46 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    If we win and make the CFP, doesn't Baylor get the Sugar Bowl, hen OU is next in line in the pecking order, which I think is the Alamo? Or another NY6 bowl if they take OU.

    Yeah Baylor will get the Sugar Bowl vs. highest SEC team not in the CFP (Bama or Ole Miss?)

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