Tuesday is ‘Austin Everybody Chill Out Day’

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choad wrote:

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Welcome to spring in East Texas.  It's all that frigid air that keeps coming down from the great white north colliding with our warm southern air.  More people freeze to death every year than are killed by tornadoes.

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San Antonio is currently bracing for an influx of coastal refugees.
How much coverage is Harvey getting outside of TX?  And how hysterical is it?  I've spent the last two days reassuring NC family that no, we're not being evacuated and no, we're not going to drown.

Texans Brace For President’s Response To Hurricane

Baywolfe wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Because an apartment the size of a discarded refrigerator box costs $3000 a month.  You want to buy a home?  Hope you can afford a starting range of $750,000 to $3,000,000.

I'm impressed with the cost of houses in the Houston area.  I can almost buy two houses for what my house in Colorado is worth.  I keep thinking there must be something wrong with the neighborhoods, but housing is just inexpensive here even in desirable neighborhoods.

Most of the suburbs are nice.  We lived in Katy for a while.  It used to be that the closer to downtown you were, the more expensive the houses.  My oldest son and his family live in Tomball, it's really cheap out there.  What areas are you looking in?

I've been looking in Spring, The Woodlands, Kingwood and Katy areas.

Baywolfe wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Most of the suburbs are nice.  We lived in Katy for a while.  It used to be that the closer to downtown you were, the more expensive the houses.  My oldest son and his family live in Tomball, it's really cheap out there.  What areas are you looking in?

I've been looking in Spring, The Woodlands, Kingwood and Katy areas.

All nice areas.  At least they were...

The whole thing is a flood plain, who the fuck is stupid enough to build on a flood plain?  Idjits.

Emmeran wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Dirckman wrote:

I've been looking in Spring, The Woodlands, Kingwood and Katy areas.

All nice areas.  At least they were...

The whole thing is a flood plain, who the fuck is stupid enough to build on a flood plain?  Idjits.

Houston in built on a swamp.  The San Jacinto monument is slowly sinking into the ground.  To the north in Spring or west in Katy is much higher and more solid ground.

I'm looking for opportunity with this hurricane.  After Katrina real estate prices dropped to rock bottom and recovered 99% within three years.  I'm hoping to find cheap real estate that will appreciate quickly.

AladdinSane wrote:

I'm still waiting for Alex Jones to deny existence of the flooding.

I asked.

Oops...

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capita … fety-rules

Here comes the long Second Line of thieving shitweasles...

http://www.chron.com/business/columnist … 164662.php

My Dad lived in Gulf Port MS for a while and tanker cars would roll by 2 blocks from his house all day long. So he started looking up the placard numbers. A year later he moved. He told me that once per day he would see a train that, if derailed, would probably kill every living organism within a 1/2 mile and half of them within 2 miles. If it crashed on one of the innumerable bridges it would probably kill the shellfish industry within 20 miles. All chained together on a train, oxidizers coupled right to hydrocarbon tanks in a rolling version of a diesel fertilizer bomb, except in 10 ton loads.

Smudge wrote:

Deregulation is simply one more tool to privatize the profits while socializing the expenses of disaster mitigation. Us mere humans always pay the costs -- in terms of lives and dollars both -- of cleaning up the messes which deregulation makes inevitable.

Remember, the ultimate purpose of evolution is to create a few rich people, and then to make them even richer over time.

PS -- Everybody should have a Hazardous Materials Guide handy so they can read those placards on train cars, and the sides of trucks.

https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/P … RG2016.pdf

hedgewizard wrote:

GooberMcNutly wrote:

My Dad lived in Gulf Port MS for a while and tanker cars would roll by 2 blocks from his house all day long. So he started looking up the placard numbers. A year later he moved. He told me that once per day he would see a train that, if derailed, would probably kill every living organism within a 1/2 mile and half of them within 2 miles. If it crashed on one of the innumerable bridges it would probably kill the shellfish industry within 20 miles. All chained together on a train, oxidizers coupled right to hydrocarbon tanks in a rolling version of a diesel fertilizer bomb, except in 10 ton loads.

Pretty much everything hazardous travels by rail.  I wouldn't live near a rail yard by choice, what can be near each other switching or just sitting there is far more lax than what can be near each other in a train.  Manager's bonus money trumps all when deciding if something is legal or not.

I did a project for Sealand/Maersk where I wrote a process that would go through a ship's cargo manifest for hazardous materials (and on a ship, even a bale of cotton is deemed a hazardous material) and compare that to what a port would allow 1) to leave its docks, 2) to sit on its docks or 3) even allowed in the port at all.  Many, especially in other countries, were very tight-assed.  New Orleans, however, lived up to its Big Easy title.  Nothing was banned; even nuclear material was allowed in.

hedgewizard wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

I did a project for Sealand/Maersk where I wrote a process that would go through a ship's cargo manifest for hazardous materials (and on a ship, even a bale of cotton is deemed a hazardous material) and compare that to what a port would allow 1) to leave its docks, 2) to sit on its docks or 3) even allowed in the port at all.  Many, especially in other countries, were very tight-assed.  New Orleans, however, lived up to its Big Easy title.  Nothing was banned; even nuclear material was allowed in.

I remember a DOD shipment where the paperwork said you have something hazardous in this car and it could be any of these things (a laundry list of every chemical, nuclear, and biological nasty you don't want to be near).  Well which one is it?  We're not telling you, just run the damn train and shut up.  Rules are meant to be broken when it's convenient/profitable.

Yes, absolutely!  In fact, another function of the process I wrote was to disallow the shipment if any hard-rejects came back.  It wasn't in production one day before they asked me to add an override to allow the shipment anyway.

Very impressive stuff. And that's how you build absolute customer loyalty too.

Dirckman wrote:

I am officially living deep in the arse of Texas now.  If you want to find me I'll be in the piney forests of deep East Texas.

A very nice area.  I, myself, have wandered through the Piney Woods a time or two.

Volunteer fundraisers for the city? What could go wrong?

Dirckman wrote:

Deep East Texas was too racist and backwoods for us so we moved to The Woodlands....   I like it.

When I moved to Houston in 1980, well Spring really, the Woodlands was where the wealthiest of the nouveau riche lived.  The old money actually still live in Houston.  It was also the first area to become deserted after the oil bust of the 1980s.  Now it's just a really nice suburban city.

That projection was made Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, as Harvey barreled toward Houston. The next day's Army Corps forecast was even more worrisome: Both Barker and Addicks reservoirs would spill beyond government-owned land, engulfing nearby homes and businesses.

The Corps did not share these predictions with the public.

It wasn't until Saturday, Aug. 26, that authorities in Fort Bend County - after being briefed on the latest Army Corps forecast - issued the first flooding advisory for neighborhoods adjacent to Barker.

So the Corps projected the event on Thurday, briefed the County in the next 24~48hrs and the County announced the advisory on Saturday.  That doesn't sound like they hid anything to me, that sounds like a designed process.

It also sounds like idiots built/bought houses on a flood plain and now want the tax payers to foot the bill.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

It also sounds like idiots built/bought houses on a flood plain and now want the tax payers to foot the bill.

Also see: Florida coastline.

See also out my front window. The pine paneling my walls arrived dirt cheap after the last big blow flattened most of our trees.

Note, this particular village across town was settled by Spiritualists, fundi fruitcakes who believed they could commune with the dead.

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Mugwump wrote:

..those cars look rather vintage....when was that pic taken?...1930's..?

1938.

AladdinSane wrote:

NEW YORK POST: Texas billboard has a very special message for liberals

LOL.  Vega, Texas.  Way up in the panhandle outside of Amarillo where only the prairie dogs and mental defectives live. I'm sure he got a real good deal on the rental price.

Since I-40 runs East/West and Texas is between New Mexico and Oklahoma, I'm not sure where he thinks those liberals are coming from.