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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:33:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I didnt mean to make this a hate texas thread  I like Texas. But damn I feel for the energy company as Im only catching the people who fat finger the number. Which is quite a fuckin few I had to deal with a guy who repeatedly fat fingered his email address to mine. Worst part is most of it was personal emails that he probably didn't want to others to know, like the time he got denied credit trying to buy a BMW or the time his landlord sent a ticket through his rental management software to let him know that maintenance wasn't responsible for plunging the toilet after a certain body movement that gets threads here locked. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:33:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL Texas is a joke of a state. Temps barely dip below freezing and huge swaths of the state come to a standstill. How many times has this happened in the last few years? This is at least the third or fourth time. Upgrade your shit, jesus.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:33:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That’s California. I grew up there and other states didn’t exist until I moved to Kansas, where everyone talks about Californians. From California. Makes sense that you would move from your shitty state to another shitty state and then attempt to talk shit about Texas. Kansas doesn't have to worry about ice storms disrupting power lines because you only have like 8 trees and a population of what, 2 million? lol ok. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:36:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I love the Texas hate threads….. Shitty states just latch on to anything they can.  
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:37:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:39:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:40:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Speaking of wrong numbers. One of my duties at work is answering after hours telephone calls for animal control. Unfortunately, the name of my city matches a City in Nevada and people OFTEN Google the city's name and animal control and click the first telephone number they see without noticing it's a different state. My first month on the job and someone said there was a stray dog passing xyz casino. I told her I lived here several years and while I have not been on every street, but I certainly had never seen a casino before . I asked her if she knew she was calling Texas and she apologized and hung up.Mesquite? |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:41:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas, your grid is failing. Texas is only good at creating narratives around things they didn’t do, like invent chili, a Mexican leftovers dish. lol dont be a dumbass just to sound edgy. It’s ice accumulation on trees and limbs snapping thus taking out power lines. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:44:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhen your state sucks so bad you have to use memes of other states.... |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 3:44:17 PM EDT
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Quote Historywhat does a cold guy from Hawaii have to do with any of this? if you want to fuck the guy, that's fine, but its irrelevant here. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:03:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Your welcome. Nice power grid you have down there btw. I haven't lost power in years up here in Oklahoma. We learned to keep our trees trimmed though. You know who trimmed your trees?  My next door neighbor and hundreds of other Texans who went into Oklahoma and Arkansas when ice storms downed your limbs. He worked three weeks straight, 10-12 hours a day and earned a shit ton of overtime from Oncor. Texas isn't the only state who sends linemen crews to other states. And before crowing about the OK grid....you might want to check out how many Okies are sitting in the dark right now.  |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:05:46 PM EDT
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Some areas had .9 inches of ice accumulation. Lot of trees went down. With that said, preparedness comes with you first. Quit relying on others. If you don’t have heat look at yourself in the mirror first.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:10:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Calling in outages? We have an app for that and I'm with a po-dunk electric cooperative. My meter automatically reports outages for me. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:14:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some areas had .9 inches of ice accumulation. Lot of trees went down. With that said, preparedness comes with you first. Quit relying on others. If you don’t have heat look at yourself in the mirror first. Yep. We had a decent amount. Probably 3/4" at least before it started raining and slightly melting today. Still a shit ton of ice on everything. Some areas where it has partially melted and refrozen is well over an inch. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:15:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My meter automatically reports outages for me. Your meter probably caused the outage.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:27:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You know who trimmed your trees? My next door neighbor and hundreds of other Texans who went into Oklahoma and Arkansas when ice storms downed your limbs. He worked three weeks straight, 10-12 hours a day and earned a shit ton of overtime from Oncor. Texas isn't the only state who sends linemen crews to other states. And before crowing about the OK grid....you might want to check out how many Okies are sitting in the dark right now. Literally less than 10 people on our utility. We haven’t had any problems on the grid with our ice but it’s not as bad as farther south. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:37:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Start telling them crazy stories like the lizard people caused the outage and they're eating the repairmen you keep sending out This is a great idea! |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:42:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Literally less than 10 people on our utility. We haven’t had any problems on the grid with our ice but it’s not as bad as farther south. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You know who trimmed your trees? My next door neighbor and hundreds of other Texans who went into Oklahoma and Arkansas when ice storms downed your limbs. He worked three weeks straight, 10-12 hours a day and earned a shit ton of overtime from Oncor. Texas isn't the only state who sends linemen crews to other states. And before crowing about the OK grid....you might want to check out how many Okies are sitting in the dark right now. Literally less than 10 people on our utility. We haven’t had any problems on the grid with our ice but it’s not as bad as farther south. Your electric utility has only ten customers? or There are only ten customers on your street? "The grid" is the power generation and distribution network to everyone who's connected. That there are only ten people on your line means jack squat if the same power company has thousands of other lines. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:47:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Your electric utility has only ten customers? or There are only ten customers on your street? "The grid" is the power generation and distribution network to everyone who's connected. That there are only ten people on your line means jack squat if the same power company has thousands of other lines. No I mean I run the electrical system for the utility I work at and we have less than ten customers out of power in two states. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:19:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No I mean I run the electrical system for the utility I work at and we have less than ten customers out of power in two states. Well, some providers in Texas have zero outages. If you look at the Oklahoma grid there are over 500 currently without power in just Owasso as of 4pm. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:24:56 PM EDT
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Somehow we have fewer power outages, even considering hurricane season.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:27:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Start telling them crazy stories like the lizard people caused the outage and they're eating the repairmen you keep sending out FALSE!!!! the Cold Weather stuns the Lizard People and thus they must be in some sort of Hibernation mode until the weather warms up again. Now if you said it was Chupacabra's that were eating the repairmen sent out - they might bite! Bigger_Hammer 
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:31:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol dont be a dumbass just to sound edgy. It’s ice accumulation on trees and limbs snapping thus taking out power lines. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Texas, your grid is failing. Texas is only good at creating narratives around things they didn’t do, like invent chili, a Mexican leftovers dish. lol dont be a dumbass just to sound edgy. It’s ice accumulation on trees and limbs snapping thus taking out power lines. That. It's not Generation, but Transmission due to heavy ice weighted tree limbs falling onto power lines. Trees all over Central Texas have dropped limbs into streets, on top of cars, and those by power poles into transmission lines. Bigger_Hammer |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:39:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Start telling them crazy stories like the lizard people caused the outage and they're eating the repairmen you keep sending out +1 A long time ago our middle school sent out paperwork/stationary with the wrong number on it. It was my Grandpa's phone number and he got his fill pretty quick of the same nasty people on the phone when he tried to correct them. So he started telling them wild stories... School is closed for the week. He doesn't care if little Johnny is sick, he will be expelled if he doesnt show up. Their kids were caught smoking /using drugs. Etc etc until the school updated the stationary and updated the parents. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 6:54:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: +1 A long time ago our middle school sent out paperwork/stationary with the wrong number on it. It was my Grandpa's phone number and he got his fill pretty quick of the same nasty people on the phone when he tried to correct them. So he started telling them wild stories... School is closed for the week. He doesn't care if little Johnny is sick, he will be expelled if he doesnt show up. Their kids were caught smoking /using drugs. Etc etc until the school updated the stationary and updated the parents. Awesome.  Back in the mid '80's I started getting calls on my home phone from people wanting Sears appliance repair. Seems Sears added a phone# specifically for appliance repairs and guess what, they would transpose the last two digits. My roommate would just tell them "wrong number" and hang up. I got tired of that and started offering advice and making appointments. Kinda how I handle the Chinese telemarketers wanting to buy my house now. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 7:02:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: From California. Makes sense that you would move from your shitty state to another shitty state and then attempt to talk shit about Texas. Kansas doesn't have to worry about ice storms disrupting power lines because you only have like 8 trees and a population of what, 2 million? lol ok. Yes, Kansas sucks. We’re full too. No room for more of your squatted 2nd gen Dodge Rams. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 7:13:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: FALSE!!!! the Cold Weather stuns the Lizard People and thus they must be in some sort of Hibernation mode until the weather warms up again. Now if you said it was Chupacabra's that were eating the repairmen sent out - they might bite! Bigger_Hammer Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Start telling them crazy stories like the lizard people caused the outage and they're eating the repairmen you keep sending out FALSE!!!! the Cold Weather stuns the Lizard People and thus they must be in some sort of Hibernation mode until the weather warms up again. Now if you said it was Chupacabra's that were eating the repairmen sent out - they might bite! Bigger_Hammer Little known lizard person fact, their blue blood is actually warm. They evolved past being cold blooded. They do still enjoy sun light and warmth however. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:20:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, some providers in Texas have zero outages. If you look at the Oklahoma grid there are over 500 currently without power in just Owasso as of 4pm. I don’t know where you got that info but I don’t see it. They aren’t on our grid anyways. We’re larger than all the other providers combined and probably multiplied. Again we didn’t get as much ice as down south but we didn’t go to shit during the cold of Christmas either. I’m sure the guys running the grid are earning every penny the last few days. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:32:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When your state sucks so bad you have to use memes of other states....
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:32:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: what does a cold guy from Hawaii have to do with any of this? if you want to fuck the guy, that's fine, but its irrelevant here. 
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:35:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Your welcome. Nice power grid you have down there btw. I haven't lost power in years up here in Oklahoma. We learned to keep our trees trimmed though. Oklahoma is such a shit hole, every time I've driven through I'm thankful I live somewhere else
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:41:10 PM EDT
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Umm ERCOT bros? You ok ?
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:45:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:51:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Umm ERCOT bros? You ok ? Totally fine. Power's been rock solid. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:51:25 PM EDT
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Now that things are thawing we’re starting to see more trees breaking. Saw a live oak spilt in two in my parking lot and land directly on the internet/phone hub. We were without internet for two days (unrelated). Made me realize how impossible it is to conduct modern business without it.
Even if everything is in stock and the guys show up to work, you can’t create invoices, receive payments, send invoices, perform any banking, My scheduling, phones, email, and text platforms are all web-based. At least I got my showroom redesigned and cleaned |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:56:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Start telling them crazy stories like the lizard people caused the outage and they're eating the repairmen you keep sending out This is the way.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 8:57:32 PM EDT
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hahaha
Dude, I used to work at a company and did basically technical support. One night (I worked nights), we got a guy calling who was apparently trying to reach a Holiday Inn Express, but kept reaching us. He went through my whole team (only about 4 of us that night) and was pissed. I told him that someone on the hotel's end must have inadvertently forwarded their number to us and there was absolutely nothing we could do about it. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:02:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t know where you got that info but I don’t see it. They aren’t on our grid anyways. We’re larger than all the other providers combined and probably multiplied. Again we didn’t get as much ice as down south but we didn’t go to shit during the cold of Christmas either. I’m sure the guys running the grid are earning every penny the last few days. Hey @RePp , you know why Texas doesn't slide into the gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks! Seriously. So we have a few power outages because of fallen trees. That shit happens in Maine too. Our grid is fine and will get better over the next few years as we modernize. During the Xmas cold snap everything was fine here too. Ice is a bitch and we are dealing with the fallout. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:43:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hey @RePp , you know why Texas doesn't slide into the gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks! Seriously. So we have a few power outages because of fallen trees. That shit happens in Maine too. Our grid is fine and will get better over the next few years as we modernize. During the Xmas cold snap everything was fine here too. Ice is a bitch and we are dealing with the fallout. I haven’t lived here long enough for Oklahoma jokes to really matter to me. I mean ice and trees get everyone. Sporty when the tornadoes come through to. The ones that blow my mind is when there’s a cold spell and plants are offline, freeze or can’t get gas. Those are pretty un excusable. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:54:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven’t lived here long enough for Oklahoma jokes to really matter to me. I mean ice and trees get everyone. Sporty when the tornadoes come through to. The ones that blow my mind is when there’s a cold spell and plants are offline, freeze or can’t get gas. Those are pretty un excusable. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Hey @RePp , you know why Texas doesn't slide into the gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks! Seriously. So we have a few power outages because of fallen trees. That shit happens in Maine too. Our grid is fine and will get better over the next few years as we modernize. During the Xmas cold snap everything was fine here too. Ice is a bitch and we are dealing with the fallout. I haven’t lived here long enough for Oklahoma jokes to really matter to me. I mean ice and trees get everyone. Sporty when the tornadoes come through to. The ones that blow my mind is when there’s a cold spell and plants are offline, freeze or can’t get gas. Those are pretty un excusable. Yeah, I hear ya. That was a one time deal that will not reoccur... |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:03:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It wasn't very long ago I had some Texas folks bragging about their power grid. Freezing rain brings down trees which rip down power lines. This isn’t about our grid, it’s about weather that wreaks havoc no matter where you live. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:06:03 PM EDT
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I'm about 35 miles outside of Austin and we've been without power for 2 days. I have several large oak trees in my yard that lost most of their limbs due to ice. One 3-ft diameter oak snapped off about 15 ft above the ground. That was quite a sound hearing that oak crack when it broke. Cell service is almost non-existent with all the power outages.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:06:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas Power Grid Map Looks like a swath from Austin to Dallas is out, rest of the state is fine. We haven't lost power here at all (San Antonio area), I wouldn't have known there was an issue had I not seen this thread. At least this time there are actual outages. Last time you guys did a thread on this there weren't actually any outages. 17,000 lost power in San Antonio but by this morning it was mostly restored. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:14:58 PM EDT
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You need to start fucking with them
“Well, maybe if you paid you bill the power would be on” “The environmentalists made us shut down the plant” “We’re all out of atoms for the reactor” “Well, what did you expect from solar? I mean seriously, the sun is up less than half the day; little thing we call night. No sun, no juice “. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:19:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistorySays Billy Bob Joe…the only state with people with 3 first names…can’t remember their daddies last name. At the same time. I hope you guys get through this. Really feel for you. We normally get flash floods that cause deaths. |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:38:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL Texas is a joke of a state. Temps barely dip below freezing and huge swaths of the state come to a standstill. How many times has this happened in the last few years? This is at least the third or fourth time. Upgrade your shit, jesus. you never lose power? neato |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:41:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Calling in outages? We have an app for that and I'm with a po-dunk electric cooperative. elderly tend not to use apps for stuff, but yea, we have apps too, as well as our teeth, shoes |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:44:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL Texas is a joke of a state. Temps barely dip below freezing and huge swaths of the state come to a standstill. How many times has this happened in the last few years? This is at least the third or fourth time. Upgrade your shit, jesus. what has 7 teeth, no shoes and an IQ of 40? Maine family reunion |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 10:45:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL Texas is a joke of a state. Temps barely dip below freezing and huge swaths of the state come to a standstill. How many times has this happened in the last few years? This is at least the third or fourth time. Upgrade your shit, jesus. what has 7 teeth, no shoes and an IQ of 40? Maine family reunion |
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Posted: 2/3/2023 1:27:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It wasn't very long ago I had some Texas folks bragging about their power grid. It hasn’t changed. It was an ice storm. Ice forms on tree limbs and the tree limb snaps taking out the power line. |
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