Jump to content

Captainant

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    18713
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    6

Posts posted by Captainant

  1. 4 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

    Internets just came back up on the far west side of town. Cellular appears to still be down.

    Generator did well. I need an OTA antenna for the TV. I also have lost my hand crank radio. Need to replace that.

    The derecho was a wake up call for our hurricane prep. Hand crank radio is a godsend for info when cell phones start to crap out 

    • Hook 'Em 2
    • Like 1
  2. 16 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I didn't think he'd dig in like this. I thought the debate (after a little time, and some encouragement) would be enough to make him realize he's about to do serious, long-lasting damage to the country by staying in. 

    You ever have to take the keys away from Grandpa or an elderly parent? It looks and feels quite a bit like this

    • Hook 'Em 1
  3. 7 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    The Biden Campaign's pitch of "Our meat is less rancid than the GOP's meat" isn't going to help with Moron's Who Vote(TM) who probably have golden tinged memories of Trump and think Uncle Joe is a drooling old fool. 

    Thing is, the Biden campaigns pitch ISN'T "our shit stinks less" - they have actual policy outcomes and goals and shit that they are campaigning on. Trumpco just isn't engaging with that and is steering the dialogue as he always does via his firehose of falsehoods. And then when the octagenarian inevitably does a senior moment, that's ALL that the dialogue is about. 

    It's hard to convince idiots to not vote for the guy who looks like and truly represents them. And for many of this country, that person is a criminally fraudulent child rapist

    • Hook 'Em 6
  4. Just now, SydneyCarton said:

    Same. My wife said same was happening in the woodlands. Maybe it’s a whole citywide cycle thing and not indicative of downed lines.

    I've definitely heard the occasional distant pop, followed by a brief dimming of my lights, so I'd bet there's a bit of oscillating happening as available voltage on the grid spikes up and down that causes the step down stations to skip offline

  5. More power flickers in Spring Branch but still have lights on. My neighbor's fence has half gotten ripped outta the ground and is wiggling in the direction of my garage so hope that stays put. My wife noticed our master bathroom vent fan was dripping water, getting pushed in through the exterior vent

    • Hook 'Em 1
  6. 2 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    6:00am update still shows the eye passing to the west of downtown.   Movement still North at 10 to 12 mph. Katy put on your big girl panties.  It will be there soon.

    Judging by the speed it's looking like 8 or 9 AM when it'll hit I-10. No telling if it'll be Katy or downtown though 

    Just now, Js1 said:

    Least I figured out what that noise that woke me up was - the fence between my row of townhouses and the neighbor row just went down 

    Yeah I've been hearing more "thunk"s than usual. I can't see my back yard really at the moment but curious to see what stayed and what flew off

  7. 8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Medium rain with 20 mph winds knocked out my Houston power again. Didn’t see that coming. 
     

    At least it will be light soon. 

    I just had a short power skip that turned half my stuff off and tripped my UPS alarms and then it came back on. Definitely making a pot of coffee while I still can

    Edit: in spring branch

  8. Reuters: Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes

     

     

    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million to resolve a U.S. Justice Department investigation into two 737 MAX fatal crashes, the government said in a court filing on Sunday.
    The plea deal, which requires a judge's approval, would brand the planemaker a convicted felon in connection with crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia over a five-month period in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
     
    The settlement drew swift criticism from victims' families who wanted Boeing to face a trial and suffer harsher financial consequences.
    The Justice Department's (DOJ) push to charge Boeing has deepened an ongoing crisis engulfing Boeing since a separate January in-flight blowout exposed continuing safety and quality issues at the planemaker.
     
    A guilty plea potentially threatens the company's ability to secure lucrative government contracts with the likes of the U.S. Defense Department and NASA, although it could seek waivers.
     
    ...
     
    As part of the deal, the planemaker agreed to spend at least $455 million over the next three years to boost safety and compliance programs. Boeing's board will have to meet with relatives of those killed in the MAX crashes, the filing said.
    The deal also imposes an independent monitor, who will have to publicly file annual progress reports, to oversee the firm's compliance. Boeing will be on probation during the monitor's three-year term.
     
    Lawyers for some of the victims' families said they planned to press Judge Reed O'Connor, who has been overseeing the case, to reject the deal.
    • Rage+1 2
  9. 5 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    Dos X dressed I believe.

    But I think the weak ones are bunkered up in their homes right now, they probably drink White Claw.

    I shall work on my word construction much betterer next time.

    Lol sitting in a boarded up house slamming clawz sounds terrible 

    • Fuck Around and Find Out 1
  10. 1 minute ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

    Feel like political Twitter is 50% laughing at Biden gaffes right now. Very little focus on Trumps misdeeds.

    10% is Democrats screaming into the void about how they would vote for a corpse over Trump.

    I mean, there's a fucking boat parade happening today for trump for crying out loud. None of them give a shit that trump raped 13 year olds with epstein, and they get mad and upset for being crass when you point out his child rape. 

    It's the essence of the conservative mindset

    • Hook 'Em 3
    • Like 2
  11. 39 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    It seems like at this point it would have to be in the extreme high end of potential outcomes for it to be very destructive.  Storm surge <5’, <10” of rain, winds <100mph.  I hate to downplay it, but it just doesn’t seem that dangerous.  I’m way more worried about getting caught in a traffic jam in the mass exodus tomorrow AM.  As far as I know they’re still doing fireworks in port Oconnor tonight.

    Yeah we decided to make tracks tonight, it's gonna be a madhouse tomorrow. I heard there's twice as many boats and folks down for the parade foolishness, and I'd bet most of em are sticking around for the fireworks tonight. A buddy coming in from the eight mile stretch said you can't see the end of the line of cars coming into to town

    Alligator Head made the call and is making everyone pull their boats out of the slings by noon tomorrow, but it's gonna be a madhouse 

  12. 7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Well, yeah.  And having "friends".  And having those "friends" publicly praise him with likes and retweets and phrases like your meme game is strong

    Wasn't that some employees of twitter telling him that while they were doing their "please don't lay my division off" brown nosing

    • Like 2
  13. 18 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    On the boat ride home yesterday (with my 2 elementary aged children), we saw at least 4 giant “FUCK JOE BIDEN AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM” flags, and more than a dozen “I love the rapist racist fraud-committing criminal lying egomaniac former president” flags.  Pathetic.

    Are you down in POC? I thought someone threw a shoulder check at me at speedy stop

    • Haha 2
×
×
  • Create New...