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Big Phoenix

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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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Burnem Wizfyre said:
I live Just north of Corpus Christi in a small town, it’s snowed 4 times in my life and I’m 41. All four events happened in the last 20 years, it happens much more frequently even just relatively north of me in San Antonio. Climate change is real, global warming is bullshit, hell is freezing over a lot more often.
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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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Nothing to see here. Move along citizen.



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Burnem Wizfyre

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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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It snowed in 03, first time in 107 years down here. It’s snowed an additional 3 times since 03.
 
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rhinohelix

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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.
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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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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.
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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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Why do you think all the members of Congress and their releatives are rich?
 
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Big Phoenix said:
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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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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Borzak

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Bummer, thought the snow and ice was heavy enough to have knocked of all the pine straw on the shop I was going to have to get off. Shit melted, noep just hiding it blah lol.
 
Borzak

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I don't know about Dallas and such. I haven't talked to the one person I know that lives there in a few days. In Baton Rouge they opened up curches so people could come in all afternoon heated and save their firewood/propane/generator gas.
 
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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.
 
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