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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?

Wind power will save us.

Wait till China gets more involved with the power grid. I heard they build top quality stuff.

Many are locked into contracts of varying lengths for X amount per kilowatt in TX.

It was high 70's last week. Next week a high of 68 forecast. Today 15, makes sense lol.

Should have got your wife or girlfriend a snow shovel for Valentines day. Thundering pretty hard here now as it snow picks up.

Not having 1 BTC beats having had bitcoin and lost your password.

Rain snopped and snowing now finally. I-10 closed and I assume all bridges in the area since it rained hard at 25 most of the night. Spillway on I-10 had a 14 car pile up, which is about average there even without ice. Flipped on the TV for a second. Some talking head was asking why they don't...

Ford is having to shift F150 production they announced due to a silicon chip shortage.

I hear limbs falling nonstop. :(

San Antonio snow. Not much but not common. 16 there and snowing further south at least to the border. Snowing here, didn't walk outside but it must have a lot of ice in with it kind of sounded like hail.

The good news is supposed to be up to a high of 68 within a week.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/crypto-forward-miami-to-study-paying-workers-in-bitcoin-and-allowing-residents-to-pay-taxes-in-bitcoin I think they want to give them the option to having part of their pay in bitcoin not the whole thing.

Okay it's serious now. They cancelled day 4 of the start of the season baseball games at LSU. Lol. I want to see baseball in an ice storm.

Hmmm

Not really concerned about the cold weather. Concerned the forecast is till calling for "heavy rain" at single digit temps. Someone needs to fix their model or something.

The hits just keep coming. Forecast of a low of 10 and a high of 22. 100% chance of heavy rain, wut?

I wouldn't think it was that pure. Ozarka water and it comes out Dallas public water.

Want to know the oddest thing about cold weather. 20 years ago I was out on the Gila in New Mexico elk hunting. Had a gallon of water in my toolbox I had picked up at the store to have "just in case". It was down in the low 20's the entire time I was out there. The water never froze lol. Yeah...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-13/japan-hit-by-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-off-fukushima A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit off Fukushima prefecture in northeastern Japan late Saturday night, leaving at least several injured and causing widespread power outages in the region.

It's not bad when there is ice everywhere. It's bad when you drive mile after mile of normal road and then hit a 1 foot rise and there's ice on the downhill side from dripping off signs and trees. Some times the ice just comes down, sometimes like an ice fog. The worst is it rains and blows out...

Ice on I-35 now a New Braunfesls. Halfway between San Antonio and Austion. Gonna get nasty quick. Forecast up in east, TX now right on the Louisiana border calls for 0. Currently I'm less than an hour from Baton Rouge and the forest is arouond 5 and snow/ice Monday. Fun fun fun. Almost 10 years...

It was the toll lane that's barricade in on both sides. There was a small patch of ice just below a rise nobody had run into or saw and then only took one or two getting sideways in the toll lane. There hadn't been any ice from what people said and then there was. The forecast was for no...

0F forecast for Dallas Monday. Last time it got this cold I remember it well. Christmas 1989 in Baton Rouge it got down to about 2-5F. Chemical plants and refineries down here don't react that well to the cold. Exxon refinery had a stuck valve fail at the tank farm, blew up and pushed back...

Pretty good steady rain here now at my parents house in MS. Walked outside for a sec and ice on the driveway. Gonna be a wonderful day to get out and drive, umm no. Fun will be if it doesn't warm up and the shit drips off trees and structures for two days. The good news is weather only says 18%...

DFW had a super low forecast of rain today. Didn't matter apparently. Massive wreck just before daylight on the backside of a small rise. The ice nobody could see or expect. 100+ vehicles. All it took was one to get started. Guess they had a giant one in Fort Worth and another smaller one in...

Forecast of a low of 15 on the gulf coast Monday. East, TX and up into Dallas well into the single digits for Monday. Buy your plumber stock now.

Everything in my private investments has totally pulled back and I've shed a lot of it already this year. A lot of people and a lot of the industry are waiting for the bottom to fall out. Just into index funds for the most part at the moment. So from income to growth but it will do for now. Was...