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Shooting Blanks posted:Houston is still well above freezing, luckily, not supposed to drop below until tonight. And it shouldn't be at risk of burst pipes this year provided you drip, unless you have some really long, weird, exposed outdoor runs. Wasn't the bursting last year not because of outdoor exposed water runs but rather homes without any heat for 3-4 days so the pipes inside the homes were busting?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Wasn't the bursting last year not because of outdoor exposed water runs but rather homes without any heat for 3-4 days so the pipes inside the homes were busting? Both - tons of people in Houston have poorly or uninsulated exterior lines/faucets because it so rarely gets cold enough here to be an issue. My burst was an exterior burst, likely only preventable by dripping my taps harder (maybe), insulating it (in a very, very awkward location), or turning off the water at the street and draining the lines.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Houston is still well above freezing, luckily, not supposed to drop below until tonight. And it shouldn't be at risk of burst pipes this year provided you drip, unless you have some really long, weird, exposed outdoor runs. We stay drippy out here Mr. Nice! posted:Wasn't the bursting last year not because of outdoor exposed water runs but rather homes without any heat for 3-4 days so the pipes inside the homes were busting? The big flashy damage that makes the news was the latter. Those of us with the former know the "oh, it's going to be cold time to turn the water off and let the house drain via the hose faucet" drill, or the "oh, poo poo the yard is flooded time to turn the mains off and put in some new PVC" panic by now.
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Welp, hope things don't go to poo poo for the next few days. Is it weird that I let my house get to 60 F before I turn on the heater? I just put on a sweater and my fuzzy slippers. Of course I let the temperature drop lower at night.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Welp, hope things don't go to poo poo for the next few days. Is it weird that I let my house get to 60 F before I turn on the heater? I just put on a sweater and my fuzzy slippers. Of course I let the temperature drop lower at night.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Welp, hope things don't go to poo poo for the next few days. Is it weird that I let my house get to 60 F before I turn on the heater? I just put on a sweater and my fuzzy slippers. Of course I let the temperature drop lower at night. Considering we live in a perpetual state of swampass, letting yourself enjoy a little bit of a chill isn't weird no. Sometimes I like to not just set the heat lower at night, but also crack the window in my room a bit. Just bundle up.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Welp, hope things don't go to poo poo for the next few days. Is it weird that I let my house get to 60 F before I turn on the heater? I just put on a sweater and my fuzzy slippers. Of course I let the temperature drop lower at night. gently caress that. balmy 72F here. it's every man for himself. the texas way.
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i say swears online posted:https://twitter.com/McConaughey/status/1489266653812559872 THIS is what makes you relieved that a himbo actor didn't run for governor, and not all of the oooooother poo poo he said? Ever since the first cold snap a week or so back I've been keeping the house at 72, once everything equalized in temp around the house heater barely would turn on when it got warmer inside house temp was perfectly fine. Probably the least I've used the heater when it's been cold. Jiro fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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i say swears online posted:it's weird in the fact that while it's the appropriate thing to do, nobody does it and plows through energy use instead 68 is the correct setting during the day, lower at night (during the winter), if you have a programmable/smart thermostat. Yes, that's an energy company's website, but I've seen that repeated elsewhere and they've linked to unbiased sources. Also they have an awesome loving flowchart there that for some reason doesn't want to be linked here. i say swears online posted:https://twitter.com/McConaughey/status/1489266653812559872 Weirdly enough, Benioff is supposedly one of the more progressive tech CEOs out there in terms of politics and philanthropy - and he has been consistently for years. Maybe it's all window dressing but I haven't heard anything otherwise. Conversely, I have friends who are current and former SFDC employees and basically none of them like it. The pay is great, but the work environment is brutal.
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68 is also the correct setting during the summer
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Marxalot posted:We stay drippy out here That's from the Columbian White, not the weather.
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Year round, 72 when awake, 68 when sleeping. Whichever combination of AC or heat it takes.
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My wife slowly trained me to accept 77 during the summer and I’ve in turn gotten her to accept no heat ever in the winter. Currently 65 inside and bundled up cozy like.
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George H.W. oval office posted:My wife slowly trained me to accept 77 during the summer and I’ve in turn gotten her to accept no heat ever in the winter. Currently 65 inside and bundled up cozy like. 63 with no heater on. If it gets lower we'll cut the chill but no sense in running the heater when you can layer up north of like 55-60.
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chglcu posted:Year round, 72 when awake, 68 when sleeping. Whichever combination of AC or heat it takes.
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I leave the heat and the A/C off for the most part while I work UberEats during the day (everyone went home and closed early today, it was a great excuse for a day off), so it's ~60 in the house right now. I also put blankets over the windows like ghetto blackout curtains so my place is well insulated. I cannot recommend long johns enough. Layering owns, even in above-freezing temperatures. saintonan posted:https://twitter.com/WalkerATX/status/1489291697230159881 Dude, solid recovery on the spin there. Waffle House fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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I didn't even make it 3 miles to work before nearly spinning, and if my born and raised Montana rear end is having issues, I decided I do not want to be on the road along the local drivers... forgive me for that. Wonder if my boss will be there on time for me to call in. Most the roads are actually dry, but any dip in the road has flowing water on top of ice which is always a fun problem, what does this state have against culverts? Maybe that is my issue, I am used to roads designed with the idea that letting water flow over the road isn't a great idea. Twibbit fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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Goddamn posers, in the Valley I never even turn on my heater during the winter (i.e., from Christmas until New Year's) and the thermostat stays at 80 during the summers.
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General Dog posted:64 in winter, 79 in summer 69 in the sheets
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https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1489614279762456580 Unsurprisingly all four of the commissioners (the two Rs and the two Ds) all are pretty bad about vendor contributions but frankly they should just slap some limits on that. Hidalgo (who isn't a commissioner with a precinct and thus isn't as privy to things like vendor selection) is doing great with just small contributions: quote:Shortly after taking office in 2019, Hidalgo said she would refuse contributions from vendors, saying she wished to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. She asks donors to certify they are not vendors and lists their occupations on her campaign finance reports.
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Sure do love having the logistics department I work for get audited by an outside company because number isn’t high enough during a truck driver shortage and continuing global pandemic.
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One day of snow and freezing, and then the next everything melts. Which I guess it was still a bit unusual for it to stay below freezing for a whole day so all the snow that melted would refreeze, but it's still not that extreme of a situation. I understand why everybody was panicking, but I'm still amazed that Abbot felt secure enough to just shrug and go "well I killed a bunch of people last year and I might kill some amount this year" when he could've gotten away with foolish optimism.
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SlothfulCobra posted:One day of snow and freezing, and then the next everything melts. Which I guess it was still a bit unusual for it to stay below freezing for a whole day so all the snow that melted would refreeze, but it's still not that extreme of a situation. From a game theory perspective, there were basically two choices he could have made for his statements (optimism or caution), and two possible weather outcomes (disaster or normality). Be optimistic and have good weather: Look like the guy who "fixed" the grid, and deflate a lot of potential attack ads. Be cautious and have good weather: No real harm, just the quote about not being able to guarantee anything (that no one will care about since there wasn't a disaster). Be cautious and have a disaster: Able to save yourself some of the political harm that comes with being in charge during a disaster. Be optimistic and have a disaster: Lose the Republican primary. The downsides of foolish optimism were bigger than the downsides of being cautious, so his choice made sense.
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LanceHunter posted:From a game theory perspective, there were basically two choices he could have made for his statements (optimism or caution), and two possible weather outcomes (disaster or normality). FTFY
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i say swears online posted:how do you not remember the TAAS test? I got juice and crackers, it ruled Ooooo you taking it all the way back to my grade school days before they changed it to the TAKS test 
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I think it's extremely cool how the state press raised the expectations to the moon for this, heavily implying that the grid wasn't fixed and playing up the storm like it was going to be another apocalypse. So when that didn't happen - and there's never, ever any reason to think it would've - it lets Greg take a victory lap for doing the absolute minimum. Meanwhile, Beto's on the "Keep the Lights on Tour" pretending like the lights actually did go out while the city of Austin, that avatar of liberal governance doesn't have potable water for some loving reason, which really makes Democrats look like the party to restore competence to state infrastructure. 
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