Yesterday morning:

This morning: Cat. 5 hurricane hits Acapulco.

Holy shit.

Right now in Athens, GA it is EXTREMELY nice.

Just fucking gorgeous.

I bought a sweet leather jacket a few months ago and I've been patiently waiting for it to cool down enough so I can wear it but today, November 6, in Tucson it was 92 fucking degrees. What the ever living fuck.

All of you in the Midwest & Ohio Valley.. stay safe tonight. Yikes.

EDIT: spent some quality time in the basement but all okay. Hope everyone else is too.

Looks like Beryl caught everyone in SE TX off guard. Lots of my Houston family with a flooded street, trees and fences blown down, and no electricity. Tornadoes all over the place as the storm tracks northeast. I hope you Houston/Beaumont PRFers are ok!

Dave N. wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:07 pm Looks like Beryl caught everyone in SE TX off guard. Lots of my Houston family with a flooded street, trees and fences blown down, and no electricity. Tornadoes all over the place as the storm tracks northeast. I hope you Houston/Beaumont PRFers are ok!

+1

I guess if there's any good news, it seems like the storm is moving faster through the area than forecasters originally said. I remember a few days ago they were thinking it would stall over Texas for the whole week.

My brother vacated Houston and is staying with family in Austin due to prolonged power outages and now extreme heat. This shit doesn't seem to happen in other states without Freedom Power Grids and hard-right leadership.

I’m hoping Francine goes easy on my Louisiana and Mississippi peeps.

Dave N. wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:42 am I’m hoping Francine goes easy on my Louisiana and Mississippi peeps.

+1

Any hurricane hitting that part of the country is scary since almost all of the land is around or even below sea level.

penningtron wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 8:34 am My brother vacated Houston and is staying with family in Austin due to prolonged power outages and now extreme heat. This shit doesn't seem to happen in other states without Freedom Power Grids and hard-right leadership.

I hope you and your peeps are good

I'm a network engineer in Texas and the network I support has thousands of elements scattered all through about 400 cities in TX. I am one of only two on my team who lives in TX. The rest are scattered throughout the rest of the US.

1. The number one cause of trouble year round regardless of weather is commercial power interruption (which I shouldn't deal with, but have to b/cz our processes are garbage). And our equipment is almost universally EoL. This should be completely unacceptable to any business wanting to move here or continue to operate from here.
2. People I work with outside of the state - even those in LA and FL where weather events are bad - are fucking shocked at how bad our shit is here.
3. I think this one is important - I live in a house that happens to share a grid with a local hospital and fire station. It has never once in over 9 years lost power. My entire block was without power other than my side of the street during the major newsworthy ice storms and tornadoes. The hood was built in and serviced by infrastructure built in the late 50's through the 60's. So it can be done, but the State will not prioritize it.
4. Don't get me started on crypto mining here.