OSA Chit Chat Thread

[retrieverman]

Starting day 3 without power, and though it’s not fun, it’s also not horrible since we’re halfway prepared for it. I got an old window unit out of storage yesterday, so now we have an oscillating fan AND cool air. I had never used the burner on my grill until now, and I actually forgot how much I like cooking with gas. I also forgot what an electricity draw the coffee maker is. It worked fine yesterday but tripped a reset this morning, so it’s now on its own cord hooked directly to the generator. After the coffee is ready, I’m going to start rotating the 4 freezers again.
Fortunately, temps are only supposed to be in the low 80’s, so it shouldn’t be hard to keep the house tolerable.
Oncor is still saying Friday evening or Saturday for power restoration.
Y’all have a good day!

 

[XYZ]

Got obligations this weekend so I snuck out this morning to try and get my yard mowed.

Just finished and this popped up on my phone.

Probably ought to go to the casino real quick.

 

[retrieverman]

Got obligations this weekend so I snuck out this morning to try and get my yard mowed.

Just finished and this popped up on my phone.

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Probably ought to go to the casino real quick.

We supposedly have another storm coming this evening, and the power company is using that as a caveat as to when they might get power back on.

For whatever reason, the power company outage map is showing that the number of people without power is increasing instead of going down.

 

[XYZ]

Sucks…

About 40 years ago (guessing) we had an ice storm in the middle of winter that left us without electric for almost 2 weeks. Fortunately I was on a wood burning stove so we survived. It was like over a week before we could get out of the driveway. We played lots of Yahtzee and Spades.

 

[retrieverman]

It was like over a week before we could get out of the driveway. We played lots of Yahtzee and Spades.

I’ve heard sex called a lot of different things but never Yahtzee and spades.

 

[retrieverman]

We’re getting kicked in the teeth with another storm as I type this, but my power can’t get any more out unless the generator quits.

I was just scrolling through a regional online gun classifieds site, and I saw an ad for a “BERETTA 12 GA PUMP A400 EXPLOR”. When I clicked on it, the gun pictured is a Browning Citori. Other than probably being a 12 ga, everything else in the ad is wrong.
The site is notorious for scammers, and I reported this dumb@ss.

 

[TerryMiller]

Sucks…

About 40 years ago (guessing) we had an ice storm in the middle of winter that left us without electric for almost 2 weeks. Fortunately I was on a wood burning stove so we survived. It was like over a week before we could get out of the driveway. We played lots of Yahtzee and Spades.

Don't know where you live, but back in 1987 or 1988, there was a major ice storm that hit the central part of Oklahoma. The wife was scheduled for a IT conference in Norman, so I drove her down here and then came back for her a week later. The storm put a nice layer of ice on everything. That's when I learned that I kind of like a vehicle with front wheel drive.

 

[TerryMiller]

Northern New Mexico, approaching Raton, NM on Highway 87. Some of the lower Rocky Mountains and one of my favorite drives, largely because for decades, it meant that we were nearing where we liked to camp in Southern Colorado.

Follow up to this photo. We head out for Oregon in the morning and our route will take us up this highway, but I doubt that there is that much snow on the mountains.

 

[dennishoddy]

Northern New Mexico, approaching Raton, NM on Highway 87. Some of the lower Rocky Mountains and one of my favorite drives, largely because for decades, it meant that we were nearing where we liked to camp in Southern Colorado.

Not far from the NRA Whittington Center.
It's an amazing shooting facility with an RV park open to the public. You don't have to be a NRA member to camp there.
Wildlife everywhere.

 

[retrieverman]

Day 4 of listening to the generator purr.
Some of the people that got power back yesterday lost it again in the storm last night.

I’m kind of afraid to total up my gas receipts.