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And the last 15 years servicing the power plant industry along with the petro chem industry. I should spoiler and post the ginourmous long post I sent to someone I knew this morning it's very very long. Just the shit I run into with power plants and the shit that happens to them and gets idled...

You can only shift power so far. The adjacent states are in the same shape but it doesn't make news because they are a much smaller state. OK was -17F. LA lost major sections of power they are still working on. The nuclear plant outside New Orleans, River Bend just north of Baton Rouge, and the...

Have some XOM, from back when it was still XON. They used to give stocks or options to buy stocks at a discount for reaching certain goals during a turnaround. Had it for about 25 years. The dividend has well paid for and then some. Was really surprised to get one this year. They are under a lot...

Magic 8 ball says, sure why not. I am not a professional broker or investment consultant, take all advice with a grain of salt.

I think I'm going to wait till they get to the end. How long that will be dunno.

Still wondering about the co-op power in TX works. Two different people on two different co-ops had a total outage of 20 minutes total. I had co-op when I lived there. The good part about it was the office/yard for all the workers and repair stuff was 15 minutes away.

I was still trying to figure out how much a billion hundreth of penny was in real money.

Obama weanted to break up the organization in TX that oversees the grid so that CA could tap into it to get power. Talked to someone else in northeast TX and they are on a different co-op and never lost power either. So co-ops worked apparently, not sure how their contracts work. But you have...

https://www.complex.com/style/judge-rules-revlon-lenders-keep-500-million-citigroup-accidental-wire-transfer Ooops. Citigroup, which was acting as Revlon’s loan agent, sent $893 million to Revlon’s lenders, seemingly paying off the makeup company’s debt that wasn’t due until 2023. Citi had...

It's open at 4am without the thugs and lowlifes associated with some other places at 4am. It's now owned by a venture capitalist group out of Chicago.

Makers found a new top price for the market that could be supported, in low numbers but supported anyway.

Much of TX the water table is in fact too high. Houston it is very low since it's right at the Gulf. San Antonio and Austin would require blasting into rock. In the hill country around Austin and San Antonio you see a lot of barb wire fences where the post aren't able to be driven into the...

It got above freezing just in time. Now under a tornado warning the rest of the day.

Pre ordered one. If it sucks it's cheap enough to sell off or just write it off. Sweetwater said about a month.

I imagine lot of people in TX are looking for water. Lot of places under a boil notice. Plus the lack of water due to busted pipes and distribution problems. You can melt snow to use in the toilet, if you have power. If. Surprised my grandmother lost about an hour of electricity the whole...

14 yesterday morning, 18 this morning. Looking at the weather in less than a week a high of 71. Yeah crazy stuff this time. But of course rain all day.

..suffers worst wheat harvest in 55 years. Labor and food riots...

Plus it's just shit that would be burned out for the pines anyway. Nobody grabs pine to burn lol. So all the oak and hickory needs to go anyway.

You're supposed to get a firewood permit to get firewood in the 4 national forest in Texas. I worked for the US Forest Service. The office said they didn't even know where the paper work for it was and assumed everyone just took what they needed, and they did. I also don't know how someone would...

Told me friend in Rockwall she could drive to my grandmothers and stay/eat soon as the road thaws out. She would love to cook for someone and does it all the time. Of course her parents live not far from Toledo on the LA side so she would just go sponge off them.

Have no idea, you see people in big cities on TV that literally buy food on the way home from work everyday or eat out. Having grown up in hurricane area and been in some I've always had plenty. When I lived in east, TX I bought groceries once a week when I went to town. Would be totally...

Friend in Rockwall, TX texted. Said she has had 20 minutes of power 3 times in the last day and a half.

-17 in OK this morning.

Anyone see the vids yesterday of the new Fender Mustang micro amp that's just an instrument plug you use with a headphone? Looked much better than the other ones I've seen. Didn't seem all that bad and could actually be somewhat useful just sitting around at times. $99 pick a dozen or so amps, a...

Mardi gras is today. It was cancelled and guessing lot would stay home regardless. I've been when it was below freezing and the drunks didn't seem to care. It's not that cold in New Orleans.

Suns out now may help. Not that it matters to me I was just curious. By Thursday high in the upper 60's. If your fireplace is a net lose of heat you need a better fireplace, better wood, or more wood. I got up at 7 and mom said the heat was running too much. 3 hours later now the heat is...

Someone has been attempting to drive on the interstate in Baton Rouge from pic on the news lol. All that is elevated interstate. Freeze? Seriously lol. Some people.

Friend just sold their house and is staying with a relative while they build a new one. She texted and said "we're adding a fireplace" lol. No shit. I don't think I've ever lived in a house without secondary heat. Even the short time I lived in San Antonio in an apartment that company leased it...

I walked outside. I assumed the all white was snow. Nope. Yard and driveway solid ice with a slight dusting of ice. I picked up a hammer I had on the porch and couldn't crack it. Couple inches thick. Came in before I became a statistic of broken bones. Supposed to above freezing for an hour...

Instead of salt the highway department usually puts sand on overpasses so traffic kind of bust up the ice as it goes. A lot of times the ice is normally on on bridges and overpasses where they get cold from not having ground beneath them. This time just too much water was still coming down and...

Got a text from a friend in Rockwall outside Dallas. Said she had power on/off for the last day and probably had it only 4 hours on.

We used to get rolling blackouts in the south when a really big heat wave would hit. Our power company would say they had contracts to provide the power to the east coast and they had to shift all their stuff over to the next company and so on up the coast. The power company changed hands about...

Use NG more than ever now. Used to be flared off all the rigs instead of being pumped through pipelines for distribution.

During the Obama administration the EPA pushed for and partially funded a "clean" coal power plant. Southern company built it in Kemper county MS. It was budgeted at $1 billion. Goal post were moved over and over and general shit that happens on big projects and projects with the government. End...

Some of the natural gas pumping stations are down cause they can't pump at that low a temp apparently. Parents have electric heat but also a fireplace that has the HVAC duct circulate around it and also butane heaters with a sizable tank. I had natural gas heat in TX and a fireplace that had...

Not sure I would call it once in a century. Not sure what the exact temps were in TX, but in 1989 Baton Rouge, LA got down to low single digits as I assume TX was close to that as well. Of course between then and now as T. Boone Pickens and his wind power bullshit.

News showed people on the I-10 MS river bridge driving around the barricade lol. No problem at all, what ice? Power is out in parts of TX rolling due to all the wind mills being offline while they get the ice off of them with a helicopter, everyone at home plus a holiday running the heat all...

Sounds fun. https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/lawmakers-tax-hike-temptation-could-end-ny-as-we-know-it/ Meanwhile, leaders in the securities industry, which accounts for 18 percent of state tax collections, are sounding alarms about similar “consequences” of reinstating a stock-transfer tax:

Usecured loan to someone that makes probably $10/hour. What could go wrong?