Weather

Lanx you alive? Saw Franklin got hit pretty hard with ice.

Kobayashi said:

I had that happen a few years ago when I was getting ready to sell my old house. A branch ended up nailing my detached garage. When I went over to inspect it, it was like out of a movie - every 5-10s another branch would come down somewhere in the neighborhood. In retrospect, it was probably really dumb to be outside at all that day.

Then, like out of a different movie, some of the shadiest dudes I've ever seen in my life started coming out of the woodwork offering to remove and cut up the branch. Thankfully my neighbor already had a legit business coming over to quote, so, I piggybacked on that. Since I was going to make an insurance claim, I wanted some more qualifications than: "has chainsaw".

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We've had that over the years with the various floods and hurricanes. It's like carnies that follow storms, doing roofs and cleaning up trees/limbs etc. Some are OK and the others grifters following the money and looking for elderly and others to make them marks. We've got three or four tree folks on speed dial, though.

OU Ariakas said:

Ahem. Fuck cold weather. I moved to Houston thinking I was going to get away from this dumb shit. Now I want Trump to annex Mexico as a territory so that I can live further South and never have to deal with this dumb shit. Give me 100 degrees F and 100% humidity over this dumb shit.

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This is your once every 3-4 year burst of Winter™. You'll get a sticker in the mail and then you should be good until Canada gets full again. I agree much prefer heat to cold. I was never bothered at football practice 95 degree/90% humidity where the practice field was covered in rice hulls and they drained a swamp to build the high school a few miles from the Sabine River. You start talking about temps in the 20s I start wishing there was more places in Texas further south and west of what I have always called the Green Line, that separates green East Texas from brown West Texas.