Wanker Bob

Yes. Power went out here from 2 - 2:20 in a rolling blackout. Dropped my downstairs from 68 to 64 in 20 minutes Master bath 2 sinks cold water is frozen. All others in the house working. Just opened those up to relieve pressure and will hope for the best

Fake patriotism worshiping symbols while ignoring that real patriotism is doing what's best for your community is annoying and sucks. Fake religion worshipping fabricated deities with no evidence whatsoever is perfectly fine. Deranged but fine. Said fake religion ideas spilling over into legislation and governance is bullshit. Governance should only be based on fact and evidence. America's problem is it's been backwards since the beginning. If not for the outcome of WW2 and the subsequent building of a fantastic higher education system that allowed it to raid the best and smartest from around the globe this country would have been relegated to back water garbage 70-80 years ago. It was a dying country with a starving population when WW2 brought it to life. America has been a society of backwards ass troglodytes living off the backs of a few brilliant innovators for decades. It's just taken a while for them to get to this point of destroying the society from within with their cult like mindset and arrogant idiocy.

It's a broken country with a broken government where the only consideration is "how do I get mine and what do I need to do to keep getting mine?" from every member of over one half of the government. The people actually wanting to help the government run better and more efficiently are the massive minority and have no authority to do so. The war's over. The bums won. I've made peace with it and now just look at this as if I was living in Russia or Venezuela or the like. Stay low key and out of the gestapo's cross hairs and go about my business.

Asked my wife to check with her brothers to make sure their mother's house has the yard faucets covered. Her brother texted back that's a scam and as long as the heat is on inside nothing will happen to them. We shall see.

If they aren't going to be allowed to hold impeachment trial after the president is no longer in office as long as the impeachment began when in office then two things need to change. 1) any resignation of office means the person is banned for running for office again. 2) the transfer of power occurs at the exact moment a victor is declared in the election. Without those two there's a giant loop hole where a person can incite an insurrection to overthrow the government and receive zero punishment as long as they either resign or their term runs out as long as they have cover from the Senate to not complete the impeachment process. Due to such a massive hole in my opinion you cannot interpret the Constitution the Way you are. It has to be the other way in order for that loophole to not exist.

With the sun out and a balmy 29 degrees I went and unwrapped one of them to test if it withstood the 19 degree night. Turned the knob and the water flowed like wine at a Sarkisian family wedding. Re wrapped it all up and hopefully it stands tall on the other side.

Thanks for that link, I didn't think I'd be able to find a little heater but checked the Plano location off 75 and they had a pallet full of them by the front door.

And the Lord thy God said: Oh you Texas bitches didn't want to quarantine from my plague? Hold my fuckin' beer...

I don't see any way to keep these fuckers from freezing. Last night I found two covers at the store when looking for pool noodles and also got some rubber pipe insulation. Went out freezing my ass off and rewrapped them this time with the rubber insulation then covered with the new covers then wrapped that and duct taped it all sealed. That shit is still gonna freeze. I wonder if we should open the valve just a bit to relieve pressure and when it thaws the water has somewhere to go.

Where can one find a pool noodle in February? I haven't seen those in the stores as I don't believe they're stocking summer stuff yet. I've got some extra duct insulation so that's why I was thinking of measuring it out and then fashioning a cover from it with a little cap and gorilla tape it all together

Well went outside and both the side yard and back yard spigots were frozen. Heated them up and got the water flowing again then wrapped the shit out of them with rags and a plastic bag then tied off with twine. Thinking about just wrapping the shit out of them with duct insulation. I'm going to have to go out and thaw them every day arent I?

Well that's an unfortunate design.

Okay so how does this work? Do I leave my faucets continuously dripping 24 hours a day until the next time we get above freezing? Is dripping slowly sufficient or does it need to be a quick drip? If I haven't turned on my outside faucets in over 2 months do I still need to wrap them? I can't imagine there would be water in them to the point wrapping the outside spigot would do anything

God doth have a sense of humor

The state that fired their female statistician because she wouldn't falsify the numbers now falsifying the numbers?

When I need to make one pretty quickly I use a Moka stovetop unit. It works well for coffee and also herbal tea. If I have some time and really want to make it taste fantastic I do the Turkish method with a cevze. There's a definite learning curve to using it but when you get it mastered you can control the temperature and duration to get the exact taste you want without the burned taste of drip makers. For the coffee sometimes I'll buy from La Colombe and I'll also buy from Specs and Sprouts

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Another thing that's weird is that happened on I35 W which is about 35 to 40 or so miles west of me in Allen. Greenville is a small town about 35 miles east of me. Both had roads all iced over but here there wasn't a drop of precipitation on the ground. It's why you didn't hear about anything in Dallas itself. Weather be crazy

I don't think he died because the camera pans back at the 1:35 mark and the guy's still walking with what looks like his hands in his pockets and doesn't appear injured at all. Either he realize what was coming and bailed just in time, or he's about the luckiest SOB in the world to get tossed like that from impact and get right up and just keep walking.

The video in the first post has a link that's dead so I didn't get to see it but this is one that's still up. Not sure if it's the same video, but go to the 1:04 mark and watch the SUV and white truck that's about to get obliterated. There's no one walking next to them but immediately after impact you can see someone stand up from behind the barrier. Was that a guy who bailed out of the vehicle at the last second and dove for cover? https://www.facebook.com/100003153511071/posts/3697402730374808/?d=n

This won't mean jack. All that will be recorded is he was not convicted in the senate twice. The details will be lost to history. What will leave a much bigger mark is if he's the first ex president convicted of criminal felonies and imprisoned.

This is what I was saying before all this started. This was never going to be anything other than a shit show and they were never going to convict. They should have announced after the inauguration that as a former president he's now subject to the justice system and will be investigated, arrested, and tried for his crimes including inciting insurrection and it's now turned over to the DOJ and state attorney general's to handle. This should be Merrick Garland and the state's number 1 priority for the next year or two to clean this mess up and lock away as many as the evidence allows.