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oh and...

 

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What steps do I need to take for my refrigerator water dispenser and ice maker?

We recommend drawing and discarding at least one quart of water from your refrigerator water dispenser before drinking. Automatic ice makers should be emptied of any ice created during the boil water order; allow the machine to make new ice and discard any ice produced during the next 24 hours.

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What a shining example of Austin leadership.  "Hey, while it's still top of mind for everyone involved...should we do a top-down review of what happened on the both the treatment side and also how we got/didn't get information out to Austin residents and businesses?"

Austin City Council & Mayor: "Nope, fuck you.  Everything is fine.  Maybe in a month, we'll look into it."  

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  On 10/28/2018 at 10:24 PM, slorch said:

It masks the patchouli...

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During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him - that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!”

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  On 10/29/2018 at 3:40 AM, Trey3216 said:
“During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him - that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!”
There's something very strange about that man.
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According to Foxy Troxy, the city paid to embed another artist-in-residence after the boil water order was in place to inspire creative thinking in the department. This city is so fucked up.

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  On 10/30/2018 at 12:31 AM, Deej said:

According to Foxy Troxy, the city paid to embed another artist-in-residence after the boil water order was in place to inspire creative thinking in the department. This city is so fucked up.

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She also attempted twice, with two other council members supporting her, to get a formal investigation underway by Austin Water to see how this happened, how the communication channels both internally and to the citizens broke down in that first 24 hours, and what we can learn from this going forward to prevent future 7.5-day long water issues in what is about to become the nation's 10th largest city.  Ann Kitchen and Pio came along and cock-blocked the measure.  Adler basically told her to get bent.  

Welp, this afternoon Spencer "Could I Be Any Whiter?" Cronk proposed an eerily similar measure to the Mayor, and yep---the exact same investigation that Ellen called for that rest of council said wasn't appropriate at this time...is now under way.  

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  On 10/30/2018 at 12:38 AM, Lobo said:

She also attempted twice, with two other council members supporting her, to get a formal investigation underway by Austin Water to see how this happened, how the communication channels both internally and to the citizens broke down in that first 24 hours, and what we can learn from this going forward to prevent future 7.5-day long water issues in what is about to become the nation's 10th largest city.  Ann Kitchen and Pio came along and cock-blocked the measure.  Adler basically told her to get bent.  

Welp, this afternoon Spencer "Could I Be Any Whiter?" Cronk proposed an eerily similar measure to the Mayor, and yep---the exact same investigation that Ellen called for that rest of council said wasn't appropriate at this time...is now under way.  

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Well that at least speaks well of Cronk, no?

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  On 10/30/2018 at 3:20 AM, Biff Tannen said:

Well that at least speaks well of Cronk, no?

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At least he's doing his job, I agree.  But when Troxclair isn't there as their punching bag anymore...Cronk will take an idea away from Flanigan, or Pio, or Kitchen and they won't take so kindly to the uppity Nordic bureaucrat stealing and passing off their ideas and measures as his own. 

We certainly need a more competent and engaged City Manager as our city booms in size and complexity.  But Cronk may burn a few bridges by being a little too activist, that's what Council likes to shine at.  

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Probably only getting investigated because KXAN and some others were pressuring them.  I wouldn’t be surprised if FOI requests had been flying.  

That Austin Water graph that I posted showing that they had a huge problem Saturday at midnight would be a lot more interesting had they included data going back to Thursday (when Troxy said they knew they had problems).  

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  On 10/30/2018 at 12:31 AM, Deej said:

According to Foxy Troxy, the city paid to embed another artist-in-residence after the boil water order was in place to inspire creative thinking in the department. This city is so fucked up.

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This kind of shit is why other cities laugh at us when we fuck up relatively simple problems.  

We still want to pretend we are a small city.  

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https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/city-emails-show-scramble-to-handle-boil-water-notice/1600238500

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As major October floods muddied Austin’s reservoirs and clogged its water treatment plants, emails and text messages obtained by KXAN show city officials scrambling to handle the city’s first-ever citywide boil water notice and its repercussions.

The emails, sent between numerous city officials on the day the boil water notice began, show a concerted, exhausting, and, at times, chaotic effort to manage the unfolding emergency.

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A whole lot more at the link, including:

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The City of Austin did not release all communications regarding the boil water notice and sent some of the materials requested by KXAN to the Texas Attorney General for an open records ruling.

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What I would like to see, is why they didn't act prior to Sunday night/Monday morning, when they knew back on Thursday/Friday that they weren't going to have the capacity.  You look at the graphs they provided (suspiciously leaving out the days in question), the comments from City Council members, etc. and it was clear this did not come out of thin air.

Oh wait, it's Austin, and Formula 1.

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Mayor Adler said, with a straight face (because he has no other expression other than melancholy), that it wasn't water or the budget that brought out Austinites to the polls...it was their adamant support of the Convention Center expansion.  He said this.  Out loud.  To people . 

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  On 11/16/2018 at 2:50 PM, Lobo said:

Mayor Adler said, with a straight face (because he has no other expression other than melancholy), that it wasn't water or the budget that brought out Austinites to the polls...it was their adamant support of the Convention Center expansion.  He said this.  Out loud.  To people . 

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Yeah and he was re-elected by about 60% of the voters.  He could say his shit is peppermint flavored and people would buy it.  I'd probably just tell the voters they need to give me $100 each by Sunday midnight or they'll lose their citizenship, and I'd make serious bank.

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Don't get me wrong, his margin of victory considering the field was impressive.  But it's why, in his mind, that many people turned out for him that baffles me.  

But seriously, we need to get to the bottom of the 48 hours of "mystery" at Austin Water.  Ann Kitchen would have us believe it's 6 people that can't be bothered with our questions right now because they're providing a million people with the purity of life.  But I've been in that building dozens of times.  There's 3 floors of people right now that aren't doing anything except shuffling the truth around.  

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  On 11/16/2018 at 2:55 PM, Lobo said:

Don't get me wrong, his margin of victory considering the field was impressive.  But it's why, in his mind, that many people turned out for him that baffles me.  

But seriously, we need to get to the bottom of the 48 hours of "mystery" at Austin Water.  Ann Kitchen would have us believe it's 6 people that can't be bothered with our questions right now because they're providing a million people with the purity of life.  But I've been in that building dozens of times.  There's 3 floors of people right now that aren't doing anything except shuffling the truth around.  

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Bold:  Beto + incumbent mayor.

Also remember that since Austin voters defeated Prop J which called for public voting to make any changes to land development codes, I'm sure Adler and Company are even more equipped to say fuck you all, I'm in charge here, eat shit.  So they're probably stocking their toilets with voter question printouts and crowing about how they're saving on toilet paper costs.

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That was a curious stroke of cognitive dissonance.  The very people that tirelessly fought CodeNEXT also shit on Prop J and their opportunity to be heard more clearly and proactively next time around.  That was weird.  Everything else I saw coming, but the people that shoved CodeNEXT up Adler's ass, turned around and gave him cash and the carte blanche to go repeat the same idiotic exercise in a couple years.  It's easy to crack wise on the Austin electorate, but that one is downright baffling.  There's no sociology model that can explain it.  

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Prop J was terrible. Our current land development code hasn't been comprehensively updated since 1984. It's outdated, and it's failing at every level to deliver the number of housing units we need to keep up with demand. It makes zero sense to delay changes for years when we know and have known that our current code and development processes are archaic and broken.

I'm not saying we need another CodeNEXT, but there are at least three or four changes that can be made today that will help deliver the number of housing units needed, and those should be done immediately without a citywide election.  

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  On 11/16/2018 at 3:03 PM, Lobo said:

That was a curious stroke of cognitive dissonance.  The very people that tirelessly fought CodeNEXT also shit on Prop J and their opportunity to be heard more clearly and proactively next time around.  That was weird.  Everything else I saw coming, but the people that shoved CodeNEXT up Adler's ass, turned around and gave him cash and the carte blanche to go repeat the same idiotic exercise in a couple years.  It's easy to crack wise on the Austin electorate, but that one is downright baffling.  There's no sociology model that can explain it.  

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What exactly are you talking about? 

One of the biggest factors in the CodeNEXT debacle was the ANC/preservationist/NIMBY wing of connected and concerned citizens that for the last few decades controlled the direction of Austin politics. 

Adler attempted to walk a tight rope in his "bargain" or "compromise" or whatever dumb thing he labeled it, in trying to update the code while also giving the anti-growth forces things he thought would placate them into supporting a code rewrite. 

The result was an ever-growing, ever worse CodeNEXT document that got longer, more confusing and in my view worse (and drastically more toward the status quo we have now) which each draft. 

These same people then also used the petition and Prop J to try to further hinder any ability to make land use changes. 

Unless you are referencing a different group of people/stakeholders, in which case, I again ask, who are you talking about? 

 

 

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  On 11/16/2018 at 6:33 PM, TheYoungHorn said:

What exactly are you talking about? 

One of the biggest factors in the CodeNEXT debacle was the ANC/preservationist/NIMBY wing of connected and concerned citizens that for the last few decades controlled the direction of Austin politics. 

Adler attempted to walk a tight rope in his "bargain" or "compromise" or whatever dumb thing he labeled it, in trying to update the code while also giving the anti-growth forces things he thought would placate them into supporting a code rewrite. 

The result was an ever-growing, ever worse CodeNEXT document that got longer, more confusing and in my view worse (and drastically more toward the status quo we have now) which each draft. 

These same people then also used the petition and Prop J to try to further hinder any ability to make land use changes. 

Unless you are referencing a different group of people/stakeholders, in which case, I again ask, who are you talking about? 

 

 

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Yeah, this exactly. Not sure what the other guy's point was.

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Man, Austin's water reeks right now.  In theory this was caused by a two-inch layer of zebra mussels on the water intake pipe, but we have gone from zero to super smell in 24 hours and it does not seem to be getting better, although Austin Water has said it should be over soon.

Anybody understand how this could suddenly happen?  Did they clear out the pipe and cause a ton of zebra bits to flow into the system?

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I'm in NE Austin and haven't really noticed the smell (yet?) but I have noticed a slight brownish discoloration to the water if I open a faucet that has been idle for a day or two. May be a local issue (or isolated to my own house somehow).

 

 

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