2022-2023 Winter Weather Thread

[South Austin 52373]

Just now, MontereyMXmuthafucka said:

whack-a-mom       jejejeje

[crash_davis 23091]

3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I wonder if it's going to be like whack-a-mole for Austin Energy throughout the day.

It's going to be one long ass day.

 

"Didn't we just fix this neighborhood 3 hours ago? Fuck!"

[atomheartbevo 89587]

We just dropped to more than 30% of addresses without power again.  It dropped by several thousand and then shot back up to 163,000.

But 69% have power…

[4th&Five 41499]

Eanes called it for Thursday. 

[SquishMitten 10403]

Pretty crazy sitting at my desk looking out the back window and just hearing/watching trees crash down every few minutes. Fortunately, I haven't lost too much from any of my oaks, which is frankly amazing since the branches are touching the ground (when they're normally 10-12' up). 

On the plus side, most of what has fallen are junipers that were too tall for me to safely cut down myself. 

[South Austin 52373]

8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

We just dropped to more than 30% of addresses without power again.  It dropped by several thousand and then shot back up to 163,000.

But 69% have power…

I believe you live relatively close to my hood, maybe a bit south in Rosedale.  Do you have power yet? 

I'm sitting in my nice warm downtown office and wondering when I make the trip back home.

[Updawg 2264]

I’ve lost a lot of big oak branches. I think one tree is probably toast.

Luckily got on a schedule for a tree service

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2025]

Haven't heard from dripping springs isd but if the others are cancelling I am guessing we are too

[demos 2998]

Just dropping in to say fuck the City of Austin.

[MissingInAction 24973]

[yoladu 4089]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

This (hackberry) is my concern, dude…

 

Hackberrys are shitty trees. they come down easily.

[South Austin 52373]

1 minute ago, MissingInAction said:

A'murica?

[yoladu 4089]

15 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I believe you live relatively close to my hood, maybe a bit south in Rosedale.  Do you have power yet? 

I'm sitting in my nice warm downtown office and wondering when I make the trip back home.

so not South Austin?

[crash_davis 23091]

5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

A'murica?

Retirement home?

[atomheartbevo 89587]

18 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I believe you live relatively close to my hood, maybe a bit south in Rosedale.  Do you have power yet? 

I'm sitting in my nice warm downtown office and wondering when I make the trip back home.

That’s my area, but we haven’t lost it yet, but the poles on our street are leaning over.  There’s a lot of sporadic outages between the hospital area and where you live.

I’m claiming the hospital district as the reason we haven’t lost it, but like I said, poles up and down the streets are leaning.

Edited February 1, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[South Austin 52373]

2 minutes ago, yoladu said:

so not South Austin?

Haven't lived in South Austin (Barton Heights area) since 2006.  It was my Hornfans handle, and I kept it for Shaggy and this site. 

[MissingInAction 24973]

3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Retirement home?

Social Security office.

[Trey3216 15335]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

After the piece of shit product we're seeing from recent mobility bonds, we might not see another capital improvement bond project approved by the Austin voters anytime soon.

There will be an “unhoused right of way” walking bridge over every overpass bond done in no time, and it’ll pass.  

[South Austin 52373]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’m claiming the hospital district as the reason we haven’t lost it, but like I said, poles up and down the streets are leaning.

I think that's the reason I wasn't part of the rolling outages in Feb. 2018 (I'm closer to the state health services dept. on North Loop, but I think that's "protected" as well).  I only lost power back then because ice eventually forced a tree limb onto a line close to my house.

[MissingInAction 24973]

14 minutes ago, yoladu said:

Hackberrys are shitty trees. they come down easily.

I nearly died helping @NorthLoop take down a dead one in his old backyard.

[Born to Run 6569]

My power did not go out during snowpocalyose, but here we are now with no power. Lines are buried in my hood and on a hospital circuit. 

The Hills?

Its been out since 2am in the 34. I heard a whole power pole snapped down the road so not expecting it back soon. We were down 3 days in 21.

Wood burning stove and batteries for the laptops so we will be fine.

Lost two decent limbs on my 160 year old live oak is kind of a bummer. And my neighbors shitty Hackberry is unscathed of course. POS is invincible.

[Born to Run 6569]

Hackberrys are shitty trees. they come down easily.

Older ones do nothing but drop limbs. Younger ones can be chopped down, poisoned, burned and cursed and grow back 30' tall in two years and block my view. And then spread thier spawn all over my property too.

Kill em all.

[dieucla98 2942]

Lost this epic tree in our neighborhood today. Had to be one the biggest.

[Wally Pryor 5260]

With another 18-24 hours before we get above freezing it's going to be really ugly tomorrow at this time. 

[Cap33 381]

Booking a hotel room. Zero chance we get power back before dark.

[Pato del Muerto 52461]

7 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

With another 18-24 hours before we get above freezing it's going to be really ugly tomorrow at this time. 

18-24 hrs?  Where?  Should be at or above 32 in all of austin metro right now and for the next several hours, and be back above freezing tomorrow morning. 
 

my weather widget doesn’t even have austin proper freezing tonight. 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[JesusSweatDuck 17780]

8 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Lost this epic tree in our neighborhood today. Had to be one the biggest.

Wow, that's fucking depressing

[dieucla98 2942]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

18-24 hrs?  Where?  Should be at or above 32 in all of austin metro right now and for the next several hours, and be back above freezing tomorrow morning. 

I don't think that's right (unless Wunderground weather stations are inaccurate:

[Pato del Muerto 52461]

9 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Lost this epic tree in our neighborhood today. Had to be one the biggest.

Was it already marked for some reason?  

[Anastasis 23447]

31 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

The Hills?

Its been out since 2am in the 34. I heard a whole power pole snapped down the road so not expecting it back soon. We were down 3 days in 21

Nope. But 38. Everyone we have talked to out here is without power, from falcon head to lake point over to old lakeway. Hope the twins is running off a backup generator. 

[dieucla98 2942]

Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

Was it already marked for some reason?  

I was wondering that as well - I don't remember how long that mark has been on there.

[Wally Pryor 5260]

2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

18-24 hrs?  Where?  Should be at or above 32 in all of austin metro right now and for the next several hours, and be back above freezing tomorrow morning. 
 

my weather widget doesn’t even have austin proper freezing tonight. 

I've got 31 on my app (StormShield). It may be a degree or two warmer but nothing is really melting. Maybe it gets above freezing late tomorrow morning.

We seem to be losing a limb every other hour. Just hoping nothing goes through the roof. That's the best outcome. 

Tonight's going to suck.

[Wally Pryor 5260]

 

6 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

I don't think that's right (unless Wunderground weather stations are inaccurate:

Yeah, about right. 

Shit's not melting and the trees already under strain have a long night ahead of them. 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Wally Pryor

[RamjetFDO 10573]

2 hours ago, utee94 said:

Hackberries are almost as bad as The Derrell.

 

 

Hate the Derel.

[UnivTex34 1763]

Shit is melting like crazy down in south Austin. My roof is almost ice free and dry. 

[South Austin 52373]

Anyone know if the area of Spicewood Springs heading down to 360 has ice patches?  I may need to take that way to a friends house later this afternoon.

[ftf82 485]

Been misting/drizzling for about the last hour in Westlake and many more trees are all of a sudden cracking and dropping branches and limbs. Unless we get some solid rain to help melt off the ice faster before the wind hits tomorrow morning it's going to be apocalyptic in the Hills of WL 

[HOOKEM4 5036]

It is 33.4 by the lake per my weather station that is protected from ice and about that on a old patio thermometer. So I am rolling with what phd said. It will not get colder. I hope.

Edited February 1, 2023 by HOOKEM4

[Pato del Muerto 52461]

11 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

I don't think that's right (unless Wunderground weather stations are inaccurate:

According to that my house should be 30 degrees but I look outside and I see water dripping from everywhere. It is sprinkling so need to account for that, but my widget says 32 and that’s more what it looks like.  

[SHOOTER12 8799]

6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

I think the dude on the left in clown shoes is doing the sign for Pauly Shore.

He trying to remember which one he picked his nose with and.......which one he picked his ass with.

[Armybrat 40798]

Two Oncor trucks rolled up across the street about a half hour ago. There are overhead power lines back there where it is in the CoA limits. Our Brushy Creek MUD utilities  are all underground.

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Armybrat

[bonnieblue 542]

1 hour ago, yoladu said:

Hackberrys are shitty trees. they come down easily.

Ugh, the hackberrys that we were on schedule to remove are looking strong as hell, while all of our poor cedar elms are disintegrating around us.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33857]

Sooo, any news on power in south austin? Been out since 6:48. Near st David's south and didn't lose power during snowpocalypse but of course we do now

[bonnieblue 542]

34 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Lost this epic tree in our neighborhood today. Had to be one the biggest.

No! Is that near Deep Woods? 

[texasdago 7554]

SW Austin here and I suspect we're hovering at freezing.  Would either appreciate a warm up of a degree or two or I thought I heard legit rain would actually raise the temperature.  Our ice is nuts.

[hornbri 1384]

In 78730, and i hear water running off the trees and roof pretty consistently now. Still hearing lots of crashes in the branches but it seems to be ice falling not more limbs. 

[RamjetFDO 10573]

1 minute ago, texasdago said:

Our ice is nuts.

Stay outside for too long, and you should just reverse that statement.

[bolverk 29621]

4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Sooo, any news on power in south austin? Been out since 6:48. Near st David's south and didn't lose power during snowpocalypse but of course we do now

Go to the Austin Energy Outage map, and zoom into your neighborhood. Click the icon closest to your address, and look at the "Crew Status." I don't know where you live, but I clicked on the icon that had the little guy with a hard hat on next to it. That's the only one in your area that has a crew assigned to it. All the others say pending.

[Blotto 23476]

Pleased to report that the Crown and Anchor has power and burgers. 

[atomheartbevo 89587]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I think that's the reason I wasn't part of the rolling outages in Feb. 2018 (I'm closer to the state health services dept. on North Loop, but I think that's "protected" as well).  I only lost power back then because ice eventually forced a tree limb onto a line close to my house.

We keep getting power flickers.  I think it’s a case of power going out and then being rerouted in from another direction.  Looking at the Austin Energy map, in your general area, to the north of Hancock and between Burnet and Shoal Creek it showed around 2,700 without power.  I’m not sure how far those boundaries extend or if it’s multiple outages or what.

No crews assigned yet.   Looks like HEB or somewhere close to it is out.

Edited February 1, 2023 by atomheartbevo