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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 12:20:19 GMT -5
. . and it was less than 5 degrees this morning. in TEXAS. and we got ~7 1/2" of snow overnight. rolling blackouts, whole city/state shut down. whee.     |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 15, 2021 12:27:16 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't know it snowed so much in Texas.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 12:39:36 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't know it snowed so much in Texas. it's not supposed to!
our "winter" is usually 50's-60's
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 15, 2021 15:26:46 GMT -5
Wow, I didn't know it snowed so much in Texas. it's not supposed to!
our "winter" is usually 50's-60's
Thanks a lot for taking all the snow, and then sending all the dregs (sleet, ice, freezing rain) on to us here in middle TN.  No snow for us-- the same system is currently here but producing the very worst precipitation possible.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 15, 2021 16:01:49 GMT -5
Do they sand/ salt/ spread any kind of treatment on the roads down your ways,@bert and tartanphantom? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 16:58:42 GMT -5
they tried, but Texas is not used to this kind of weather - hence the power grid overwhelmed and so many without power in sub-freezing temps.
also complicating is that there's a sheet of ice on the roads already, under the snow from Friday's sleet storm.
so people are being asked not to drive anywhere, but people being people? the idiots are out, and there are accidents everywhere.
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 15, 2021 18:24:07 GMT -5
It's going to get down to 19 in Mobile tonight. No chance of rain or sleet thankfully and @bert, when it does snow here, it's usually too much of a slush to even bother with
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Post by shaxper on Feb 15, 2021 18:30:17 GMT -5
Back in 2016 my wife & I became certified to be foster parents. As our 2 daughters were finishing college we found we missed being parents. After awhile we decided to pursue adopting a 13 yr old boy in 2017. However that went off the rails for many reasons. We then became reluctant to continue so we stopped being foster parents for a year. However the agency asked us to provide respite care in 2019 for a 14 yr old girl whose foster placement was having some struggles. After helping for 9 months they withdrew respite care and we assumed everything was going well for her & her foster parents. My wife & I decided that once our current foster care certification lapsed in June 2020 we would not renew it. Then out of nowhere in Jan 2020 the agency asked if we would be a permanent foster home for the 14 yr old girl we provided respite care for in 2019. We agreed and even with the additional challenges from covid/schooling/etc. we moved beyond foster care. Today she became our 3rd daughter through adoption! This is amazing. Congratulations! I've often considered fostering once my kids have moved on. This inspires me a ton. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 15, 2021 18:33:28 GMT -5
Hehe, had to go check it out
Such a budget video. The perils of being signed to a small independant record lable, I guess. The outdoor parts of that video were filmed on the South Bank of the Thames on a bitterly cold January day. And it looks like it from the video! We all look absolutely frozen.  I don't know what we were thinking! The studio bits of that video are cool though. They kind of remind me of the Doors' promo film for their "Break On Through" single. there's definitely a difference in energy with you guys. Outdoors: Is this really a good idea? What are we doing here? Outdoors, but up above: Okay. We're feeling this now. Random worms' eye view from a basement shot... In the studio: Paul comes ALIVE! I've started singing this one around the house again. My apologies if my girlfriend already hates your song without ever having heard the original. It's me entering rooms, singing, "I've got a word for her EXCELSIOR!" every five minutes. BTW how does your old record label figure into the release of your new album? Were you still under contract with them? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 15, 2021 18:59:17 GMT -5
they tried, but Texas is not used to this kind of weather - hence the power grid overwhelmed and so many without power in sub-freezing temps. also complicating is that there's a sheet of ice on the roads already, under the snow from Friday's sleet storm. so people are being asked not to drive anywhere, but people being people? the idiots are out, and there are accidents everywhere. It makes for highlight-reel Laff-a-Lympic footage up here on the news shows -- and nationally, too. I don't care for it; reminds me of those obnoxious video shows that exploit others' pain for your pleasure. The Ice Follies reel on the news amounts to patting oneself on the back for being used to it -- although, as you said, you can't fix stupid, and people just can't seem to resist the call of the open road even when that road is as icy as the way down from the Matterhorn. I guess there is something to be said for living in a place where you have to deal with all four seasons. Though of course we have vast herds of the stupid up here, too. |
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Post by brutalis on Feb 15, 2021 19:17:29 GMT -5
We have the monsoon stupid. Roads that dip into and through dry desert riverbeds which become roaring flooded rivers with heavy rain and every year is full of news reel highlights of all the morons sitting on the roof of their cars in the middle of a raging river above their car windows. Why? Because they think they can drive across and it's not that deep. Stupid folk taking firemen and police away from more important events to "save" them from their own ignorant idiocy. Every year!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 15, 2021 19:34:18 GMT -5
Over here in NY, its been above freezing ( 35 degrees) for 2 days and it's supposed to rain tonight into tomorrow. It will help melt the mountains of snow that have been here since the 1st of the month.
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 15, 2021 20:39:46 GMT -5
Do they sand/ salt/ spread any kind of treatment on the roads down your ways,@bert and tartanphantom ?
Oh yeah we have and use both hard salt and salt solutions. We also have plows. Biggest problem is not the main roadways, but the danger of getting out of your own neighborhood, most of which aren't salted or plowed.
Ice is actually a normal winter for us. The Nashville area sits at the bottom of the Jet Stream trough. If it rides high, Kentucky gets all the bad weather. If it rides low, we get it as well. Our average snowfall is usually around 4 to 10 inches for the whole winter season. However, if we get our first snow before Thanksgiving, it's usually an omen of a bad winter to come. Almost every time. We had our first snow of the season around November 15th this season... and February is traditionally our worst month for winter weather.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 15, 2021 21:48:21 GMT -5
February is bad so far over here. December and January were beautiful averaging in the 40's .
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2021 0:07:30 GMT -5
BTW how does your old record label figure into the release of your new album? Were you still under contract with them? No, the original contract was for 5 years (which have long since elapsed) and after that ownership of the recordings reverted to us. That was something we insisted on in our original contract: we wanted to eventually own all of our own recordings, just like we still own our own publishing. The record lable is long defunct, so we'll either be releasing this again on our own lable or there is some discussion about the lable who are proposing to release the new album also releasing this, but those negotiations are ongoing at this point. |
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I don't know what we were thinking! The studio bits of that video are cool though. They kind of remind me of the Doors' promo film for their "Break On Through" single.
