Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

I found this interesting

Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time

Credit for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.

www.usatoday.com

Very good article. After all that's been said and written, especially about the early ups and downs with the Moderna vaccine, I feel much more confident in a positive outcome next week.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I prefer a gen-u-wine 3M Aura 9205 Plus N95 Particulate Respirator Disposable Protective Mask that actually filters out 95% of CV19 sized particles. My last batch came from eBay seller globedrug, so they must be real, right?

My gaiters are made in America and are probably as effective as anything. Especially if you don't go to crowded places.

 

[wngsprd]

I have a 23 1/2" blade and a 17 1/2" blade. They only come in full inches. Are all wiper blades actual length 1/2" short.

My wife just got back from Costco, using the membership rebate check we recently received. She picked up 4 Michelin blades...my 26" and 24, and her SUV needed a 26 and a 20. I measured them...The 24 has a blade measuring 23 5/8" and the frame fills out the remainder of the 24" ...the box is also marked 600mm. The 26 and the 20 blades are also 3/8" short of the measure, but the frame also overlaps. They each come with a couple of extra adapters.

You can look your car up in the .pdf near the bottom of their page...

https://www.costco.com/michelin-guardian-hybrid-wiper-blade.product.100454345.html

If your interested, the sale goes to 4/4/21. Just my opinion, but I think it's a heck of a blade for 5.99. I'll mount my new ones before the truck needs its annual state inspection in May.

 

[txdon]

My wife just got back from Costco, using the membership rebate check we recently received. She picked up 4 Michelin blades...my 26" and 24, and her SUV needed a 26 and a 20. I measured them...The 24 has a blade measuring 23 5/8" and the frame fills out the remainder of the 24" ...the box is also marked 600mm. The 26 and the 20 blades are also 3/8" short of the measure, but the frame also overlaps. They each come with a couple of extra adapters.

You can look your car up in the .pdf near the bottom of their page...

https://www.costco.com/michelin-guardian-hybrid-wiper-blade.product.100454345.html

If your interested, the sale goes to 4/4/21. Just my opinion, but I think it's a heck of a blade for 5.99. I'll mount my new ones before the truck needs its annual state inspection in May.

Thanks, that clears that up.

 

[txdon]

RNG just got the letter in the mail today dated March 12. It says the treasury department issued me the second stimulus payment of $600 (X2).
That happened 68 days ago. I guess in two months I'll get the letter of notice about the third stimulus payment.

 

[txdon]

Regardless of whether they source the energy they sell from renewable "green" sources ... or fossil fuels.

Are you saying the renewable "green" sources had electricity to sell that week?

 

[sodamo]

Tractor picked up and on its way for servicing.

 

[rswyan]

Are you saying the renewable "green" sources had electricity to sell that week?

Let me reconstruct what I said in a form that may be somewhat more understandable:

Personally, I'd guess, at this point, how any debt burden (due to those unforeseen price spikes) is going to play out is probably unclear for many Texas energy providers - not just Georgetown (Electric) - regardless of whether they (the Texas energy producers referred to previously in this sentence) source the energy they sell from renewable "green" sources ... or fossil fuels.

Does that clear anything up as far as what I originally said/meant/intended ?

As to your question (quoted above, at the beginning of this reply), even your own ERCOT says that renewable "green" sources (both solar and wind) were producing power that week ... so I guess the answer would be yes ... unless you think or believe the renewable "green" energy sources in question here were in a habit of giving the energy they produce away for free.

 

[toppop52]

“Texas lost 46,000 megawatts in the early days of the storm—roughly enough to power 9.2 million homes. Texas has a small interconnect, only about 600 megawatts, with the grid that serves most of the western U.S., but no power was coming across that line. With most of the country also facing bitterly cold temperatures, the rest of the U.S. wouldn’t have had much to spare anyway, said Bill White, the former Houston mayor and former deputy U.S. energy secretary who also once served on the board of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a nonprofit that oversees grid reliability and security for the United States, Canada, and parts of Mexico.”

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got my last pair of wiper blades at Costco...Michelin Guardian...right now they are $3 off, so $5.99 each. I've had them on for at least 6 months, maybe a year, through a lot of rain and I'm quite pleased...will pick up another pair next time my wife goes while still on sale.

I’ve been buying those for years at Costco, and keep a pair in stock in my garage. They are ok.

No stimulus action here