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3 hours ago, texasdago said:

Absolutely.  I mean, she needs to complain on FB about Austin.

I encourage it.  Austin is terrible and nobody should move here.  

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19 minutes ago, utee94 said:

I encourage it.  Austin is terrible and nobody should move here.  

We all live in homeless encampments under high rises and next to food trucks selling birria for influencers.

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Posted
1 minute ago, texasdago said:

We all live in homeless encampments under high rises and next to food trucks selling birria for influencers.

There are roving bands of disgruntled state employees who will drug you, steal your kidneys, and dump you in a bathtub full of ice.

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Just now, utee94 said:

There are roving bands of disgruntled state employees who will drug you, steal your kidneys, and dump you in a bathtub full of ice to buy Tecovas and Stetsons on South Congress.

FIFY

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Posted
27 minutes ago, utee94 said:

There are roving bands of disgruntled state employees who will drug you, steal your kidneys, and dump you in a bathtub full of ice.

I didn't know Nicole worked for the state!

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As wildfire anxiety grows, Austin plans to designate half the city as at risk of fire damage
Austin plans to greatly expand the amount of land, and therefore homes, considered at risk of wildfire damage.

Council members are scheduled to discuss updating rules surrounding Austin’s WUI, or Wildland-Urban Interface, later this month. This is the area where wilderness and development meet, and where there is a higher risk that a fire burning in a wooded area could jump to homes and businesses.

The move would put 71% of the city’s land parcels in a zone vulnerable to burning should a wildfire break out, according to a presentation in January by the Austin Fire Department. That amounts to about half of all city land, up from 38% a decade ago.

The discussion comes as experts have grown increasingly convinced conditions are ripe for Austin to have a devastating wildfire. Summers have grown hotter and droughts more extreme. Austin ranks fifth in the nation on a list of cities with the highest number of homes at risk of being damaged by wildfires.

The four cities that rank above Austin are all in California.

“We’re sitting on the edge of a major catastrophic fire,” said Randy Denzer, a former battalion chief with the Austin Fire Department. “This isn’t too far-fetched.”

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Rest of the story: https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2025-03-13/austin-texas-wildfires-risk-map

 

 

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Just now, bolverk said:

As wildfire anxiety grows, Austin plans to designate half the city as at risk of fire damage
Austin plans to greatly expand the amount of land, and therefore homes, considered at risk of wildfire damage.

Council members are scheduled to discuss updating rules surrounding Austin’s WUI, or Wildland-Urban Interface, later this month. This is the area where wilderness and development meet, and where there is a higher risk that a fire burning in a wooded area could jump to homes and businesses.

The move would put 71% of the city’s land parcels in a zone vulnerable to burning should a wildfire break out, according to a presentation in January by the Austin Fire Department. That amounts to about half of all city land, up from 38% a decade ago.

The discussion comes as experts have grown increasingly convinced conditions are ripe for Austin to have a devastating wildfire. Summers have grown hotter and droughts more extreme. Austin ranks fifth in the nation on a list of cities with the highest number of homes at risk of being damaged by wildfires.

The four cities that rank above Austin are all in California.

“We’re sitting on the edge of a major catastrophic fire,” said Randy Denzer, a former battalion chief with the Austin Fire Department. “This isn’t too far-fetched.”

Old map vs New map 

Rest of the story: https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2025-03-13/austin-texas-wildfires-risk-map

 

 

Well, that's swell.  Let's make insurance rates skyrocket without doing anything to actually mitigate the risk.  Swell.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, that's swell.  Let's make insurance rates skyrocket without doing anything to actually mitigate the risk.  Swell.

More good news tomorrow. 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, that's swell.  Let's make insurance rates skyrocket without doing anything to actually mitigate the risk.  Swell.

To be fair, you have to designate those zones as high risk to force people to build lower risk housing via building codes. Housing stock that is already there is actually higher risk and should pay more.  Besides reducing fuel in proximity, not much else you can do until people decide to do work on the individual houses. Also have to hope they pull permits so shit gets done correctly.  Maybe fund some grants or rebate programs for people to do that work?

Goddamn I can’t believe I just defended insurance companies. I’m going to go take a shower. 

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Years ago, I used to leave my keys in the armrest console of my Jeep Cherokee.  Had it parked in the Stiles Switch parking lot for a visit to the flower shop and left it overnight when I was overserved.  All the change was gone the next day, and the armrest up, but the car was still there.  

Did they at least have the decency to piss, ejaculate, and shit on the floor and not on the seats?
Posted
3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, that's swell.  Let's make insurance rates skyrocket without doing anything to actually mitigate the risk.  Swell.

My first reaction as well. Good way to goose insurers to further pull out of the central texas market. 

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Huge pileup on 35 tonight. 17 vehicles involved, five fatalities including one child and one infant. According to Reddit an Amazon truck plowed into stopped traffic.

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Huge pileup on 35 tonight. 17 vehicles involved, five fatalities including one child and one infant. According to Reddit an Amazon truck plowed into stopped traffic.
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WTF? That’s fucking horrific.

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