Odessa is thirsty

[4HE 156]

On 6/19/2022 at 11:35 AM, InkaUtexas said:

address please? ya know, so I know what place to assist/attack.

Smart man, good set up. How deep are the wells? I had a great one at my old farm. Never was worried about water for the family and animals. Damn I miss that place. 

Somewhere north of Odessa. 😂

we just bought the house earlier this year so I have no idea how deep they are. We also have a pond out back that has catfish. Planning to add some largemouth bass to it as well. 

[InkaUtexas 25869]

58 minutes ago, 4HE said:

Somewhere north of Odessa. 😂

we just bought the house earlier this year so I have no idea how deep they are. We also have a pond out back that has catfish. Planning to add some largemouth bass to it as well. 

Add some cheap goldfish. fuckers love eating mosquito larva! 

[4HE 156]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Add some cheap goldfish. fuckers love eating mosquito larva! 

Did not know that. That will need to happen. Thanks!

[Deej 76755]

And the bass will eat the goldfish. 

[atomheartbevo 89628]

7 minutes ago, Deej said:

And the bass will eat the goldfish. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

On 6/19/2022 at 11:09 AM, Tom said:

 

Please stop doing this.  Buy a reusable water bottle, tumbler, camelbak, or anything that helps keep another plastic bottle from ending up in the ocean every time you and your family leave your house.

LOL.  We aren't sailors working on the high seas, have never Messed With Texas, and I'm pretty sure the US banned sea dumping decades ago.  (If you actually knew me IRL, you'd probably know that I absolutely loathe litterers.)  The bottles always goes in the trash, which end up in landfills or maybe incinerators.  Always taught to take the lid off and crumple them before tossing, if that makes you perpetual pissy naggy nanny scolds feel any better. 

It won't, of course.  CR really is a cult these days, always bitching about something.   Hall monitor and virtue signaling are what y'all missionaries of misery thrive on.  Worse than the cult of aggy, at least they don't go around telling everyone else how to live.  

So I might just respond by going to the store tomorrow and place every single item in a separate, new plastic bag!  Then toss all those empty bags into the trash bin without reusing or recycling!  Control freaks will sense it like needles in a voodoo doll...

OBTW, Odessans were able to drink their tap water again on Saturday.  Odd that no one mentioned this...

 

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/20/texas-city-residents-allowed-drink-tap-water-again/

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa may again safely drink tap water without having to first boil it, the city announced Saturday.

The decision to lift the boil water order came after water samples sent for testing Friday were determined to be safe by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the city said...

...The city said taps in 165,000 homes and businesses lost pressure or went completely dry after a 24-inch (61-centimeter) main broke Monday afternoon.

The water treatment plant was back online in the city about 330 miles (530 kilometers) west of Dallas by about 8 a.m. Wednesday. But workers conducted a “recharging” process, slowly adding water volume to the system to ensure there are no more leaks....

 

 

[InkaUtexas 25869]

6 hours ago, Deej said:

And the bass will eat the goldfish. 

yeah, but they are cheap and then you have better bass. 

[InkaUtexas 25869]

I love this site. So much good information combined with verbal middle fingers. 

[Tom 2959]

10 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

LOL.  We aren't sailors working on the high seas, have never Messed With Texas, and I'm pretty sure the US banned sea dumping decades ago.  (If you actually knew me IRL, you'd probably know that I absolutely loathe litterers.)  The bottles always goes in the trash, which end up in landfills or maybe incinerators.  Always taught to take the lid off and crumple them before tossing, if that makes you perpetual pissy naggy nanny scolds feel any better. 

It won't, of course.  CR really is a cult these days, always bitching about something.   Hall monitor and virtue signaling are what y'all missionaries of misery thrive on.  Worse than the cult of aggy, at least they don't go around telling everyone else how to live.  

So I might just respond by going to the store tomorrow and place every single item in a separate, new plastic bag!  Then toss all those empty bags into the trash bin without reusing or recycling!  Control freaks will sense it like needles in a voodoo doll...

OBTW, Odessans were able to drink their tap water again on Saturday.  Odd that no one mentioned this...

 

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/20/texas-city-residents-allowed-drink-tap-water-again/

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa may again safely drink tap water without having to first boil it, the city announced Saturday.

The decision to lift the boil water order came after water samples sent for testing Friday were determined to be safe by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the city said...

...The city said taps in 165,000 homes and businesses lost pressure or went completely dry after a 24-inch (61-centimeter) main broke Monday afternoon.

The water treatment plant was back online in the city about 330 miles (530 kilometers) west of Dallas by about 8 a.m. Wednesday. But workers conducted a “recharging” process, slowly adding water volume to the system to ensure there are no more leaks....

 

 

 

Cool.

The fact that you took my comment as "CR" or political and then blew a gasket and felt throwing a tantrum was the way to go says a lot more about you than me.  I can't even remember ever having any past back and forth exchanges with you in CR, but whatever.

I made a suggestion of something pretty effortless you could do that actually saves money overall and doesn't lead to needlessly creating more of something that takes half a millennium to decompose instead of giving Walmart money every week for the exact same thing you already pay for to come out of your pipes.  Your response in turn was a tantrum.  

You're also pretty naive if you think our trash doesn't end up in the water, illegal or not.

But feel free to go to the store today and buy as many plastic bags as it takes to fill that hole in your soul if it makes you feel better.  Here's one more suggestion: you could take the money you save from not going through case after case of bottled water to pay for therapy instead.

[Samson's Wig 3191]

In clappy's defense, filling your reusable water bottle from a well or city system pumping that Ogallala Aquifer slush is a gamble for your teeth and your health. By the time that water seeps it's way down from up north it's more like drinking mud (and tainted with Oklahoma sediment to boot).  Many panhandle folks buy their drinking water and use the ground water for showering, flushing toilets, and watering the yard, which is about all it's good for.   I grew up drinking well water up there and I don't wish it on anyone.

Even in that scenario, of course, there are ways to minimize the plastic usage, but it's not as simple as filtering your Colorado River water (now infused with Zebra Mussel flavor!) and filling up a Yeti.

[hayden_horn 11362]

19 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

LOL.  We aren't sailors working on the high seas, have never Messed With Texas, and I'm pretty sure the US banned sea dumping decades ago.  (If you actually knew me IRL, you'd probably know that I absolutely loathe litterers.)  The bottles always goes in the trash, which end up in landfills or maybe incinerators.  Always taught to take the lid off and crumple them before tossing, if that makes you perpetual pissy naggy nanny scolds feel any better. 

It won't, of course.  CR really is a cult these days, always bitching about something.   Hall monitor and virtue signaling are what y'all missionaries of misery thrive on.  Worse than the cult of aggy, at least they don't go around telling everyone else how to live.  

So I might just respond by going to the store tomorrow and place every single item in a separate, new plastic bag!  Then toss all those empty bags into the trash bin without reusing or recycling!  Control freaks will sense it like needles in a voodoo doll...

OBTW, Odessans were able to drink their tap water again on Saturday.  Odd that no one mentioned this...

 

https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/20/texas-city-residents-allowed-drink-tap-water-again/

Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa may again safely drink tap water without having to first boil it, the city announced Saturday.

The decision to lift the boil water order came after water samples sent for testing Friday were determined to be safe by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the city said...

...The city said taps in 165,000 homes and businesses lost pressure or went completely dry after a 24-inch (61-centimeter) main broke Monday afternoon.

The water treatment plant was back online in the city about 330 miles (530 kilometers) west of Dallas by about 8 a.m. Wednesday. But workers conducted a “recharging” process, slowly adding water volume to the system to ensure there are no more leaks....

 

 

i really don't understand why yall don't use the political forum for political hot takes. it's right there. click it. post your political takes there. it's easy.

enjoy the 24 hour break.

[Hpara759 1778]

4 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

   I grew up drinking well water up there and I don't wish it on anyone.

I grew up drinking the same....nothing better than having water coming straight out of the ground from a Minneapolis Moline engine and 10" pipe

[clapclapclap 9000]

On 6/21/2022 at 4:14 PM, hayden_horn said:

i really don't understand why yall don't use the political forum for political hot takes. it's right there. click it. post your political takes there. it's easy.

*'y'all

I did.  I made a thread there last week.

Well, technically I didn't post anything political in this thread here.  Someone nagged me with the laughably false accusation that when I buy bottled water and properly dispose of it in a trash can it ends up polluting the oceans.  So I responded by noting that posters from a certain forum have a history of frequently being pious, scolding nags. 

"It's funny because it's true." 

Also funny that when I saw Tom's post and all the likes I bet that every person liking it would be frequent posters in the CR.  Sure enough....

 

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enjoy the 24 hour break.

I did!  Thanks for the well wishes.

Edited June 25, 2022 by clapclapclap