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Sucks for the people living in multihome buildings where shutting off their own water would have done nothing. This aint cool 8bit guy got raped by the ice;
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Burns
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Weird, must only be Houston then. When I lived there in 98, my neighbors (and their parents, who were 50+), that have never left the Greater Houston area, were calling the ice storm, the worst snow storm they have ever seen. It was hilarious.
I have lived in Austin, Houston, and DFW since then, and the only time I have seen snow, is in Dallas. Everything else was ice.
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Burnem Wizfyre
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It snowed in 03, first time in 107 years down here. It’s snowed an additional 3 times since 03.
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Just FYI, I live on a cul de sac, my neighbor knows I am taking water out of his pool; in fact, he offered it.
Snow in 88-89, maybe in 97-98 but that was mostly Ice storm, some 2008? Then again 2018 and then this bullshit in 49 years IIRC. Someone was telling stories about as a senior in high school I scrapped snow off a diving board and dove into my own swimming pool at a party in 1989.
Who would have thunk, after all of the Not-Government-Spending-but-"investment" and "Shovel ready jobs" and "You didn't build that" with more federal spending and the largest federal and state spending in the history of mankind that we have crumbling infrastructure? Where the fuck do the Democrats keep putting all of these Taxes they keep raising? It sure as fuck isn't into infrastructure. When you have Crony-Socialism, this is what you get, I guess.
Snow in 88-89, maybe in 97-98 but that was mostly Ice storm, some 2008? Then again 2018 and then this bullshit in 49 years IIRC. Someone was telling stories about as a senior in high school I scrapped snow off a diving board and dove into my own swimming pool at a party in 1989.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Why do you think all the members of Congress and their releatives are rich?Just FYI, I live on a cul de sac, my neighbor knows I am taking water out of his pool; in fact, he offered it.
Who would have thunk, after all of the Not-Government-Spending-but-"investment" and "Shovel ready jobs" and "You didn't build that" with more federal spending and the largest federal and state spending in the history of mankind that we have crumbling infrastructure? Where the fuck do the Democrats keep putting all of these Taxes they keep raising? It sure as fuck isn't into infrastructure. When you have Crony-Socialism, this is what you get, I guess.
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Holy shit that really looks like my apartment at Chapel Hill in lewisville 20 years ago. I lived on the third floor there, and not many apartments there have a third floor.
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lmao. Meanwhile, my electric bill might be 150$ because of how much I ran the heater. I'm sure they'll raise the rates a bit to make back the money the spent, but don't mind.
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So some friendly information on the financial fallout of this. My electric company, which is a not for profit city utility posted that they paid 220 million for power to operate over the worst 3 days. Their typical operating costs are under 200 million per year. This is 4150$ per customer. Assuming the 2.5 people per customer holds true to the state as a whole, and assuming that 66% of the state's population was effected (probably higher), we can extrapolate that texas spent in excess of 32 billion on power in a 3 day time span.
Thankfully my city is red as fuck, so we had that sitting around as change in the bank.
Thankfully my city is red as fuck, so we had that sitting around as change in the bank.
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