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  1. 4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Yeah, those records we are breaking are normal.  Well.  The new normal I guess.

    Weather records in Austin have only been kept since the 1890s, and the Earth is about 4.5 Billion years old, and had at least 5 global ice-ages.

    So weather "records" are relative to only the minuscule time on this planet that weather measurements first had to exist, and then measurements and observations were recorded.

  2. 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    The planet is snow.  The animals are snow.  Why don't they call it "Snowdth?" 

     

    That's Goldth, Jerry!  Goldth.  


    Oh I'm gonna puke!  

    Cause of how bad they smell........................................................................on the outside?

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  3. 14 minutes ago, texasdago said:

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    How soon we forget!

     

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/rain-of-terror/
     

    September 2007

    It’s a safe bet that most back-to-school essays on the theme “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” will be short on details about the beach and long on complaints about the rain. To anyone who has lived through the kind of relentless, triple-digit scorcher that tests the resolve of even the most seasoned Texans, this has hardly felt like a summer at all.

    By the first week of July, some areas of the state had received as many as 44 consecutive days of rain (it was the wettest July on record since 1903). And it kept on raining. Tubing trips were called off, fireworks shows fizzled out, barbecues were ruined. As flash floods overwhelmed rural communities and farmers struggled to save their waterlogged crops, state officials called the monsoon catastrophic. So many crickets descended on the University of Texas at Austin that the school darkened the Tower at night in hopes of deterring them. And though the rain has since abated, the trouble isn’t over yet: Mosquitoes are thriving, and not since 1957 have the state’s river basins all been at flood capacity. Still, despite the grumbling about the weather, the deluge has brought us benefits too. It’s been a mild summer— so mild, in fact, that you might even remember it wistfully the next time the temperature breaks 100 degrees for a week on end. Most important, the rain has solved one of our biggest crises: For the first time in at least a decade, Texas is officially drought-free. Now, that’s something to be grateful for.

  4. 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    All of us, no matter which side of the hydrocarbon debate we find ourselves, have to agree on one thing.  Everyone who scorched through that 1909 summer is now dead as a result.  

    To be fair, it's not one person's fault.  But c'mon...that dude wouldn't know if he was touching himself no matter what...

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  5. 11 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    The question is why?  Why won't it stop?  Why won't the high pressure go away?  Like why is it completely stuck here other than Abbott?

    Some are blaming El Nino, some are saying it's because the normal Bermuda High (the regular high pressure center that forms over Bermuda each summer) isn't as strong this year as it normally is, allowing a secondary continental high pressure area that includes being over us to form.

    But I've lived long enough to see these kinds of summers come and go. It's not new. Summers like this happen like it's the next stop on a 11-year circle.

    In the summer of 2007, people here in the ATX were screaming bloody murder at the sky because it rained at least a little (or a lot) EVERY DAY until the last 2 weeks of August when it finally stopped doing that.

  6. 17 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Lol. So much for that. Now it's the next Monday... as in two weeks from now. So that's another 14 days of 100 degrees at least.

    Accuweather forecasts here in Round Rock that the 100°+F days end on 8/16, and it's sub-100°F after that for the rest of that week (still upper 90s, though).

    8/16 also has a 55% chance of rain, at which the point the Star Trek Federation Weather Control Net in place over the ATX metro area glitches and allows rain.  Lulz.

  7. 15 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    You have echoed my point. 

    From the date Arkansas left the SWC, its rivalry with Texas was dead.

    When aggy left the Big 12, its perceived rivalry with Texas was dead.

    And yes, financially, CFB has exploded, thus proving the point that rivalries are NOT needed for the proliferation of the money grab in college football.

    It was Skippy McSkip who previously attempted to connect rivalries and geography with the golden goose. My reply indicated his statement was fallacious.

    College football is about Mr. Green.

    Dammit.. pay attention. 

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Smax said:

    Funny, I am in Houston visiting family and the subject tolls came up last night. When Txdot and Harris county were floating the idea of Houstons first toll road, beltway 8, they said that once enough tolls were collected to cover the construction cost it would be switched to a non toll road. Here we are 40 or so years later and

    https://abc13.com/archive/8671067/

    Tuesday, May 22, 2012

    HOUSTON

    The next time a politician asks you to vote on something, you might want to get all the fine print in writing. Don't you get sick of broken promises?

    It's another morning drive to work, and before this day is over, half a million of you will pay a toll just to get where you need to go.

    Doesn't that make you feel like you want to cheer? Well, we really did cheer when the West Belt Tollway opened in 1989. Of course, maybe that's because the girl band The Bangles were playing a live concert on top of the new highway.

    Steve Malouf now pays close to $200 a month in tolls.

    "Makes me angry, really angry," he said.

    Because Steve knows what we found downtown inside a building that looks on the outside like it should be torn down; newspaper accounts of the nasty political fight three decades ago over the idea of selling bonds to build toll roads. Seventy percent of you said OK, but all those cheering people...wonder if they'd be so excited today if they knew they had been scammed?

    "You feel scammed?" we asked toll road driver David Sartis.

    "Oh sure, of course," he said.

    We found this brochure from the early days of the Toll Road Authority, printed just after we OKed building the West Belt and the Hardy Toll Road. The promise was simple: "When both roads combined have covered their costs, the roads will become free public highways."

    "What'd you think would happen when we paid the roads off?" we asked Sartis.

    "Well, you would think they'd take the toll booths away, right?" he replied.

    Well, if you used the toll road today, you already know that didn't happen.

    But the promise is there in black and white. They used it get us to vote.

    "Well yeah, it does make you wonder well why they aren't free," one toll road driver said.

    We've already made back the money we paid to build the roads and then plenty more. Take the Hardy. Toll road construction costs $287 million. We made that back by 2004. You've paid a total in tolls of $617 million.

    "You sort of wonder what happened?" we asked another toll road driver.

    "Yes," she said.

    This stretch of the Sam Houston costs $72 million to build. You know how much you've paid in tolls? $865 million.

    "Do you feel cheated?" we asked Malouf.

    "Very much so," he said.

    "The construction of that road has been paid for 12 times?" we asked Harris County Toll Road Authority Director Peter Key.

    "It's one system, it's one system that funds all the needs out there," he said.

    I didn't see that in the fine print. Did you? But leave it to politicians to welch on a deal. It happened in September 2001 at a Harris County Commissioners Court meeting, way down on the agenda. Look at H, a bunch of gobbygloop about bond stuff and then "a resolution for pooling of a list of toll road projects as component facilities." Translation: you're going to pay tolls forever.

    If you were watching Eyewitness News back in 1983, you heard a prediction that was right on.

    "These projects will more than pay for themselves, in fact, have money left over at the end," former County Judge Jon Lindsay said at the time.

    "You guys are a cash cow," we told Key.

    "This agency does take in a substantially amount of revenue," he replied.

    "Take a guess," we asked toll road driver Devon Pedrick.

    "I don't know -- $1.5 billion," he said.

    "It's actually more than $5 billion," we said.

    "Wow," he responded.

    "Don't surprise me, fourth largest city in the nation -- sure, captive audience, it's awesome," Malouf said.

    So much money has been made, the Toll Road Authority has to give some of its extra cash to Harris County commissioners every years -- nearly $900 million so far, not to pay off debts, but to pay to fix up other roads. So when you pay a toll, you're not just paying for the right to drive on a special road, you are paying to fix up roads for other folks who didn't pay a dime.

    "Everybody should pay their own fair share and it seems like just a few of us are paying for what they should be paying for and it's just not right," Sartis said.

    During that road party in 1989, The Bangles taught us to 'Walk Like an Egyptian.' Twenty-three years later, 13 Undercover has taught you something else.

    "The whole free thing -- never going to happen?" we asked Key.

    "From practical standpoint, it's hard to imagine the road going free," he replied.

     

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  9. Just now, elfenix said:

    sec wanted texas at the same time as arky and scar.  aggy got wind of it and ran to the lege. 

    And Texas officials were waiting for the right time to do it ever since then, and that's why that Bullshit of running to the lege only works once.

  10. Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

    Has this been inevitable for about 30 years?

    is my timeline correct here-

    big 10 adds Penn st around the same time sec adds carolina and arky-1990ish

    big10 adds Rutgers and Maryland around the time sec adds missouri and  aggy 

    big 10 adds usc and ucla around the time sec adds Texas and ou

    big10 adds uo and uw.  Sec yet to respond.  Accelerated by demise of pacX.  
     

    Big east, acc, big12, pac, and others all affected downstream of these moves.  Killing the big east and now the pac12 while the big12 has done its best aac impersonation (or wac/cusa to a lesser extent) of cobbling together an orphanage that should provide for good entertainment value  

     

    You forgot, even Finebaum repeated this yesterday, that the SEC offered FSU to join in 1990 and Bobby Bowden said, "Nope!"

  11. 4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    At this point I genuinely want to be named Pac-4 commissioner. What a fucking clown show. As a human being who can breathe, walk, and chew gum at the same time I would be better than Kliavkoff. Seriously, somebody out west contact the 4 remaining university presidents and tell them Huckleberry from the internet is willing to take the job. 

    And you can haz an Archer AI be your manservant.  Lulz.

  12. 2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    And there it is, officially official.

     

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    And only 14 teams for baseball since IA St. and CU don't play baseball.

    That'll be a weird yearly conference baseball schedule to work out, and add to that the BYU series must start on Thursday since they won't play games on Sundays.

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