No power for days. Magic marker lied. 1/10. Do not recommend.
Weird weather
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Just got home from an extra long day at work. Thought MAYBE the power would be restored in time to play Grounded 1.0.
But no, no, I get home and STILL NO GODDAMN POWER.
But no, no, I get home and STILL NO GODDAMN POWER.
Do you know if there is a list of the closures? Everyone talks about the "Waffle House Index", but I haven't been able to find a list or visualization of the 21 stores they've closed.
Also,
GasBandit
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Typically people have previously just used locations.wafflehouse.com, but it looks like they're only listing open stores right now. Maybe they got tired of the slashdot effect.
"Sell their houses to who, Ben? FUCKING AQUAMAN?!"
Not too much to report here thus far. There was about 3" of rain today, but the last major rain was 9 hours ago. The wind has picked up, but it still isn't at tropical storm force yet. There's going to be strong wind and more rain all day tomorrow, giving way to a calm day on Friday.
My house has been 69F all day. Alexa says it's supposed to get to 90F today, so I refuse to turn on the heater. Luckily, I've recently crocheted a bunch of blankets and stuff 
The weather people in Houston screwed up the forecast. The thunderstorms were supposed to be out of here an hour ago. It has been raining and thunderstorms for the last 4 hours. It looks like there will be another 4 hours to go. And it is about to get serious.
Looks like much of it has moved more my way, we’ve got the rain 3 hours after is was supposed to start and will be continuing for the next several hours. I’ll take every single drop we can get though, it’s been very very dry here for months.
Turning on the heater for the first time...
GasBandit
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Right there with you buddy. It was 80° yesterday. It's 41 this morning.
First day of "real" snow.
On the first actual snow day, I like to count how many spinouts I see on my 39mi/63km drive to work.
There were eight. Nine if you count the place where the guardrail was newly destroyed but they must've already towed that one away.
That's an average of just over one crash every 5mi/8km.
--Patrick
On the first actual snow day, I like to count how many spinouts I see on my 39mi/63km drive to work.
There were eight. Nine if you count the place where the guardrail was newly destroyed but they must've already towed that one away.
That's an average of just over one crash every 5mi/8km.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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My insomnia is getting to me, because I got the perspective wrong on this at first and thought it was a Doomweasel next to a much smaller mound.
Well, Ted Cruz SHOULD have a good excuse this time, hopefully dealing with the mental health of his poor daughter. But considering how he probably contributed to it, I doubt he'll be giving either subject the attention they deserve. Keep an eye on the airports!
It looks like there might be a green Christmas here.
Florida Iguanas Could Fall From Trees on Christmas Weekend
My drive home tonight in western Michigan:
I know it's just a ~5sec looping .GIF, but you could seriously just replay it for about 45min and it would still be a fairly accurate representation of the majority of my actual drive.
EDIT: This was recorded at 4:30 in the afternoon, btw. And I’m on a side road because the freeway felt like it had one jackknifed semi about every five miles or so. The temperature was 3F/-30C.
--Patrick
I know it's just a ~5sec looping .GIF, but you could seriously just replay it for about 45min and it would still be a fairly accurate representation of the majority of my actual drive.
EDIT: This was recorded at 4:30 in the afternoon, btw. And I’m on a side road because the freeway felt like it had one jackknifed semi about every five miles or so. The temperature was 3F/-30C.
--Patrick
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Videos like this make me happy to live in Texas.
On the last leg of my journey to work, I had a car pull in front of me and could smell the wave of dank blowing back from it. My first thought was, "Dude! Not today! We need you to bring all your brain cells for today's drive."
--Patrick