So who else is riding out hurricane Beryl?

#51
Still without power at the house. Lots of old trees laying on houses. Some big enough that two grown men couldn’t encircle the trunk. Some uprooted, others broke off at about waist level.

Wife called bullshit on sleeping in a hot house and we drove to Austin. Gas stations had long lines and/or shuttered pumps damn near to Bastrop. Hoping Centerpoint gets the power back on today. So far, hanging with the in-laws is ok, but the wife and her mom will be at each others throats before long.

These are some of the smaller trees that were pushed over…

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#53
Update from my dad.
We survived another night using 9 extension cords and 3 fans. Upstairs is too hot. Our little generator is running 30 hours on 5 gallons of gas. We have been blessed.
A one story house about a mile from us had 3 large pine trees drop right through different sections of the house.
There are still about 6 locations we can see which have large pine trees that have fallen and downed power lines. I believe it will be awhile before we have power.
 
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NFAJohn said:
Lost two of my 150-175' tall pecan trees, glad the house rode it out fine.View attachment 8456025View attachment 8456026
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Those are some dandy pecan trees. I always hate seeing old trees like that go. Whereabouts is your ao? It looks like the damage is really wide spread. I figured the coastline would catch the worst of it but it looks like it was tearing up Dixie for quite a ways inland.
 
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Well the corn bounced back after the flood two weeks ago… but doubt it’s coming back this time!

Beryl strikes Schloss Nitrocellulose with 5” of rain.

Not bad here. Road washed. Driveway rutted. But all good.

Cheers! Sirhr

PS neighbor has new indoor pool in his basement. Ba. Hahahaha. They’ll never learn!

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Kinda strange how there's no coverage on the damages. The usual weather nuts standing in the wind and rain while telling us how it's an apocalypse weren't on the tube 24/7. Other than "it might bring some rain to our area" it was barely covered here.
 
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DarnYankeeUSMC said:
Kinda strange how there's no coverage on the damages. The usual weather nuts standing in the wind and rain while telling us how it's an apocalypse weren't on the tube 24/7. Other than "it might bring some rain to our area" it was barely covered here.
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Flyover country.

And no one gives a shit about VT. Most think it’s part of Canada.

Sirhr
 
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sirhrmechanic said:
Them's fighting words, Buck-o!

There's a world of difference between "Eh?" and "Boi Jesis!"

Thought we DO put vinegar on fries. But not gravy... that Pou-teen shit's nasty!

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Would much rather have sausage gravy on my fries than vinegar. Salt n vinegar chips are fu-cking gross
 
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We got stupid lucky, power came back on about time for bed Monday night. Didn't lose anything but the back fence here.

For perspective, during Harvey, we never lost power or internet. Stayed dry too, back yard was the biggest threat being at the end of the street, multiple back yards drained through ours.
 
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NotByWorks said:
As I was driving north on 59 Tuesday, there were hundreds of lineman bucket trucks headed south. It was impressive to see than many workers mobilizing within 28 hours of landfall.

We lucked out and got power yesterday evening. With Ike we went 13 days without.
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Apparently there's a lot of squabbling about pay for lineman from out of our areas and a whole lot of nut squashing going on while they sort it out.

KTRH has been interviewing Centerpoint management and linemen about why they have guys cabbed up for hours on end.

I'm an hour south of Houston and we just popped up on our providers (TNMP) outage map today. After they sent my wife a text saying power had been restored to our area. Lol. I haven't seen any trucks from the power company in my ao all week. I'm under no illusion I'll have power back any time soon.
 
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hlee said:
Well, the outage tracker map is back up. That’s good. They have their work cut out for them. That’s less good…

I don’t see a whole lot of fully energized circuits…

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Yeah, my only complaint about the map is the StuPiD fUckiNg cOloR sCHemE ...

Two shades of green ... what kind of fucktard does this?

If you actually read the legend you can make sense of it but two days of listening to people bitch on the news about "my house is in a green zone but I don't have power Centerpoint is a LIAR!" ...

Should have been red, orange, blue then green from the bottom up.
 
#76
SW side of Houston. Power, phone, and internet went down Monday 3:30am. Power back Wednesday late afternoon, down again Thursday morning, back on Thursday evening. Went on generator Monday afternoon after wind and rain died down. Would run until 10ish pm and back on the next mornings. Had plenty of gas to keep downstairs AC running and all lights, fridge, 3 freezers. Juggled a little when she wanted to wash and dry clothes. Front of subdivision still has no power.
Lots of tree damage in subdivision. Eye went right over us. May have some roof
damage. Fence is down and tree limbs. Most cleaned up now.
Had to do a temp patch on oil line to oil cooler. Was going to repair today but wanted to be sure power was stable.
Work for tomorrow.

People in Houston are pissed that Center Point worked to get baseball stadium in service so they could have a game. Don’t blame them either.
 
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#77
Texas new Mexico power says maybe tomorrow for us getting power back but I ain't holding my breath. Most likely next week sometime. They haven't even started removing tree off the lines yet on our route. I'm working seven twelves right now or I'd do it myself.

I've yet to see a bucket truck in my ao. Strangely enough, I did see a Centerpoint pickup yesterday on my way home from work. As far as I know, we don't have anything Centerpoint around here. They are over around lake jackson, but that's 45 minutes from us.
 
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