Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[robbyr]

I am so sorry. I put that big tarp over my sawmill, because of July. No rain since then.
hugs, Brandi

Now we know. It's all Brandi's fault.

 

[bindian]

Hey, it's okay now. One end stretching the tarp tight over the main rope ripped out and the end of the tarp is vertical. So no major tarp failure, which would have equaled a flood. So I am enjoying the slow, soaking rains I am getting.

I will fab some wooden blocks that will hold the rope, while the tarp is sandwiched between the two blocks with screws. I will get these up as soon as it quits raining, so sunshine will come back ASAP.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

bindian said, "So I am enjoying the slow, soaking rains I am getting."

Sure wish I could say the same. Just hot and dry here and no relief in the forecasts.

 

[two_bit_score]

I was really hoping to get rain from the hurricane but nary a drop.

 

[K5lwq]

Same here. No rain.

 

[bindian]

I got the tarp end back up today. At least where it will shed rain. Still gotta secure more from billowing. So the sunshine is gonna come out now.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Remember all that July rain? Sure could use some now.

Problem is......it is fall now......someone needs to dig up the fall thread and awaken it.

We need rain too. I thought Ida was gonna do it but she let me down.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I just wanted to sympathize with those of you who live in Texas. A friend says there were six ERCOT power plant outages yesterday. How's that deregulation working out for you? Plus, 100 degree heat? As an old carpenter once told me, "If I had a farm in Texas and a home in Hell, I'd sell the farm and go home."

In Texas, heat knocks six power plants offline

With an early-season heat wave searing much of Texas over the weekend, the nonprofit that manages power to more than 26 million customers wants them to turn up their thermostats.

www.eastbaytimes.com

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Jinman mentioned that we needed to start this thread, so I decided I would. And to start with . . . I hate Live Oak trees, unless they're a long ways from the house, and mine are not. For those who don't know it, they stay green year round, but they also shed leaves year round, and especially this time of year. And those leaves fill the rain gutters, stop up the downspouts, etc. So yesterday I was up and down the ladder, cleaning them out again. And then I put the bagger on the mower and filled three and a half contractor bags with a mix of green grass and dry Live Oak leaves. And now it won't be long before these two Live Oak trees produce their catkins that are as bad, if not worse, than the leaves.

But with a low temperature of 66 going for a high of 78 in March. Hard to believe. But everything, yards, highway right-of-ways, etc. is either getting mowed or needs mowing.

I have some live oaks 20' from my front door. Whippoorwills in them last night. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I just wanted to sympathize with those of you who live in Texas. A friend says there were six ERCOT power plant outages yesterday. How's that deregulation working out for you? Plus, 100 degree heat? As an old carpenter once told me, "If I had a farm in Texas and a home in Hell, I'd sell the farm and go home."

In Texas, heat knocks six power plants offline

With an early-season heat wave searing much of Texas over the weekend, the nonprofit that manages power to more than 26 million customers wants them to turn up their thermostats.

www.eastbaytimes.com

Yes, it's hot in Texas. We had plenty of power until the rest of the world decided to move here. Our roads are congested, snakes in the grass, poison ivy/oak/sumac, cactus, sticker burrs.....

Oh the humidity!!!

 

[Torvy]

6 plants went offline for maintenance. Despite the unseasonably warm temps, it's all good in Texas. Maybe stop finding clickbait and believing it.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

6 plants went offline for maintenance. Despite the unseasonably warm temps, it's all good in Texas. Maybe stop finding clickbait and believing it.

Not clickbait. That was from a friend who lives in South Texas. She's less than pleased at the mess the energy utilities have made of that state. They have sucked up all your money and left you with a junk electrical system that works fine until you need it.

 

[Torvy]

Not clickbait. That was from a friend who lives in South Texas. She's less than pleased at the mess the energy utilities have made of that state. They have sucked up all your money and left you with a junk electrical system that works fine until you need it.

Ok, so your friend has no idea...most likely reading news sources that hate Texas.

Given that Texas has an independent grid, we don't have nearly as many problems as people believe. During the cold snap in February last year, at least 14 states had significant outages. The press coverage highlighted Texas because we have our own grid, conveniently ignoring that the national grid fared no better.

California has many more problems with their effectively state-owned power company.

Green California has the nation's worst power grid

More than a million Californians suffered power blackouts last Friday evening. When high temperatures caused customer demand to exceed the power

www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

[tradosaurus]

Im in East Texas. And not on Ercot. thank goodness.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Why you gotta come on here and cause trouble? Is your state perfect?
We are averaging about 10-15 degrees over normal. Some units down, waiting on parts/crews for annual maintenance (probably caused by shutdowns).

I believe Texas could use 5 new nuclear plants, spread out, to handle these newcomers.

 

[bindian]

People get confused too from the term...........outage. I know refineries use that term for maintenance..............as in planned outage. I know the electric plants were down for planned maintenance, as usually in May, it isn't that hot here. To me, May usually is springtime here, What 100 degree heat? Maybe out in West Texas. I didn't hear of any brown or black outs either.
hugs, Brandi

 

[lostcreekranch]

Not clickbait. That was from a friend who lives in South Texas. She's less than pleased at the mess the energy utilities have made of that state. They have sucked up all your money and left you with a junk electrical system that works fine until you need it.

You might do some research next time .. prior to sounding stoopid ...

Storms caused blackouts in Oregon and Texas, but their power grids are vastly different

What looks like the same crisis caused by unprecedented winter weather in two states actually brought down large swaths of two very different power grids.

www.kgw.com

 

[Bird]

We have not had any outage in a long time now, but of course I am a bit concerned because my wife is on the oxygen generator day and night, so in a power outage she'd have to go to the little oxygen bottles that she uses if she goes out anywhere. So I do try to make sure we have those little bottles on hand at all times.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Not clickbait. That was from a friend who lives in South Texas. She's less than pleased at the mess the energy utilities have made of that state. They have sucked up all your money and left you with a junk electrical system that works fine until you need it.

"The East Bay Times, formerly the Contra Costa Times is a daily newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, U.S. "

If your "friend" is not happy here .. she should consider going back to California?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

yea, Cali residence can't notice when the generators are down, cause they just turn their entire grid off anytime the wind blows.