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At least it wasn't in November of February when all the major refineries do maintenance and schedule their downtime with other refineries. So except for the closures due to weather everyone else should be able to run at maximum output now.

Just engineering drawings of all the processes and structures and associated stuff to go with it. I've never been in the one in the Woodlands or the one that was in New Jersey when Exxon was HQ'd there, but the one in Baton Rouge is pretty big. It's designed to withstand an attack, a big...

Along with all my other stuff had 2 skin biopsies today. Dr. wouldn't lean toward sclarderma or however you spell it. It's about the only thing that would explain all my issues, but I've had multiple ANA test which is the normal first test for it. The skin issues, high heart rate, abdominal...

The amonia is the only thing that scares me. I've been out of multiple chemical plants in my life, but amonia is the one that scares the shit out of me. Dow chemical had an amonia leak once and talking to the guys who made it out, no thank you. Rather deal with roach poison and whatever else...

Well the largest refinery in the country is down now, with Motiva down We'll see how that works out. I know the Exxon refinery in BR which used to be 2nd and is now 3rd runs at near 100% capacity at all times. I'm sure there's a lag and some stockpiles but we'll see how much is real and how much...

They are pretty tight with the "vault" they keep at the main deal in the Woodlands and the "vault" at the refinery in Baton Rouge. When 9/11 happened I was refused entry into the vault until additional higher ups cleared it which was odd cause I went into it daily or weekly. The funny thing...

On the radio today they were talking about how the storm was soooo big and the people that had to move out. People don't realise how much Houston and especially the areas that flooded have grown, even in my lifetime. Use to go to Conroe and then there was a break and then you got to Houston. Now...

If you flooded you really have to watch rebuilding. After Katrina drywall was in massive demand so home improvement companies imported a shit load of drywall from China. Several years later that was a multi billion dollar settlement because the Chinese drywall rotted out peoples copper pipes in...

Wonder how bad Aransas got hit. At least the whooping cranes were out of town.

You would think TV reporters who are from out of town/state would ask how do you pronounce the stuff they are reporting on. Just heard one go on and on about the Brazos river. I can't even begin to pronounce it they way they did. It took me a few times to understand what they were trying to say.

I have him on ignore and have for quite a while. It is funny to see people in threads complaining about him. Last I saw was he worked as a night time janitor for a fortune 500 company or something. Who knows.

I haven't heard anything about Exxon. But I can tell you from dealing with them for the last 25 years they have a contingency for everything. Everything from hurricans, power outages, plant takeovers, earthquakes even in Louisiana and Texas. Having visited their vault on a daily basis they have...

No place set up for that kind of rain that quickly. My parents were living in a small town 175 miles of Houston 10 years ago. At an elevation of 375ft, not exactly coastal. They got 25 inches overnight just from a freak storm that stalled. It washed houses off their piers that were 100+ years...

My steam store shows a blank page, it only shows anything on "big picture mode" which kinda sucks on a PC. The library shows the games as normal but anything under the store tab is totally empty.

Les Miles got a job with Fox Sports, so at least that pay will be deducted from his buyout. Probably negotiated his pay to $5/year.

Excitement for this die down already? The few streams I knew that were streaming it quit.

Going to assume most people don't have flood insurance for 4+ feet of rain in a day and a half. My uncle lives below Houston on the coast and he's just fine the storm didn't do anything to them wind wise or rain wise.

VIDEO: While Houston Is Under Water, People Start Looting

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From experience, nothing about it is going to be "temporary".

Saw they were calling for evac of Conroe now and opening the gates to Lake Conroe which means anyone below Lake Conroe is going to get more water, Spring and The Woodlands. Saw Dayton got it pretty bad, used to live there for a short time. They're right on the Trinity, so I assume that means...

Imagine how bad rush hour traffic is, now multiply that by all the people who don't work, don't work the hours of rush hour, all the people who don't drive much, all the people who are at work during rush hour. It adds up quickly.

Well hopefully that's right.

I imagine 45, East TX freeway (59), and 10 in both directions are/were a parking lot even with contra flow. Moving that many people quickly just isn't going to happen. Pre Katrina I left Baton Rouge to stay at my grandmothers in East, TX. Always amazed me that people act like the only way to...

Latest is Harvey will moved back into the gulf and reform. Saw that with Andrew. Crossed Florida and gained strength when it got back into the gulf and hit Louisiana. Several other storms in the past have landfalled and then moved out into the gulf to reform. During Katrina I opened the summer...

Where you going to go? Storm impacted 1/3 of the state by population. During Katrina the motels/hotels of Baton Rouge, Houston, Jackson, MS, Little Rock, Ar, and a good part of Atlanta were full. You can't stick a population the size of Houston and the population along the gulf between Houston...

Maybe take a few really short flights to help get over the fear. A lot of commuter type flights are under an hour. Doing it on a longer flight may lose it's appeal pretty quick.

Hire a full time nurse for X number of years.

Dealing with the TSA and airport normally 10x worse than anything that can/will happen on a plane. Fly first class to start off with, even a short relatively inexpensive flight and work your way down to lower cost. Lot less stress, not just related to the flying.

When the recording answered the idiot calling couldn't even get his name out and what company he supposidly represented.

A bunch of Jr. Michael Jacksons running around.

When I visit a jobsite I have to put on an ID badge around my neck and my TWIC card. Soon as I key out, drive out or walk out it goes in the glove compartment. No way I would have one attached permanetly. Of course I have to show the badge at the cafeteria, but in the office every one I've...

There was a guy who sold a device that would just go on and on keeping the idiots on the phone wasting their time. "Would you like to buy XYZ" "Ok let me get this...ooh there's a bee in here let me get it" "Almost got the bee" 5 minutes later "Oh I got the bee now about your product.." "Yes...

If I don't recognize the number I don't answer. I sure don't answer ones from area codes I have no clue where they are.

Have 4 phoness with consecutive numbers. Every time they go right down the list one phone after another. 2 of which I have never given out the number to anyone. I assume they just go down the list one after another and then change prefixes and start over.

Companies that have no way to choose shipping. I'd pay some extra to not get packages via USPS. Double rustled when you pay for UPS and it still gets delivered via USPS which causes a 2 day delay as it goes from the UPS place a mile down the road back to town 15 miles away and then out for...

On a non gun related note. A fabricator located out of state had an ad for some consulting for switching their software package they use. Very limited market. The package they wanted help with I've used for 25+ years. I did some review work when the guy made the first release of it. Reviewed it...

Rustled and guns. My neices new husband was kind of ticked he didn't get a wedding present from me of one of my guns. I've met him twice, yeah let me give yo a gun. Nope.

MS Paint going away. Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years Guess too many crude memes made with it.