Ice Storm

[Chop]

Photos from the Austin area:

 

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More from the Austin area:

 

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[LonghornCatholic]

Crazy. Thats why it's important to keep trees trimmed near power lines. Some is the responsibility of home owner, other times (can't speak for all utilizes) have tree trimming contractors where limbs have grown too close to the lines.

 

[mchammer]

Somehow Abbot is at fault.

 

[Chop]

Somehow Abbot is at fault.

And he's clearly quite gleeful about the situation...

 

[Chop]

 

[Horn6721]

Gotta find mb's post on Austin delaying trimming. NOW it makes perfect sense.

 

[HornHuskerDad]

Looks like the Austin area really caught the brunt of the storm. Not quite so much here in DFW Metroplex, and we're getting a good thaw today.

 

[Horn6721]

Oncor can be brutal but they do whop off limbs that are close to lines

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Yeah their contractors aren’t exactly Edward Scissorhands lol, but they do whack em down.

 

[guy4321]

Yup, @Chop - that's what my neighborhood looked like!

 

[mchammer]

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Yeah generation wasn’t a concern. Delivery due to ice damage was the culprit.

 

[nashhorn]

Thank God for nat gas. Yep.

 

[ViperHorn]

Thank God for nat gas. Yep.

Messers. Gore and Kerry do not agree with you.

 

[theiioftx]

Don Lemon told me yesterday he isn’t surprised Texas is having problems with their known neglect of infrastructure.

 

[Chop]

Don Lemon told me yesterday he isn’t surprised Texas is having problems with their known neglect of infrastructure.

The whole country has grossly neglected our infrastructure.

 

[nashhorn]

Well Viper neither do I agree with them - the loons.

 

[Horn6721]

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I bet more people here on see what don lemon told you than actually saw him say it on CNN.

 

[Statalyzer]

30k in Round Rock areas? Round Rock only has 100k residents. That doesn't sound right at all.

What doesn't sound right about it? 30% of Round Rock out of power at some point seems pretty believable to me.

Very important to keep trees trimmed, especially near power lines.

Trying telling that to Austin Energy. Or, to be fair, to all the condos, apt complexs, enviro orgs, community groups, and homeowners associations who moan and complain whenever they actually do get around to trying to get the branches out of the wires, both screwing themselves and tons of other people who had no choice in the matter over in the process.

 

[Monahorns]

What doesn't sound right about it? 30% of Round Rock out of power at some point seems pretty believable to me.

The comment was at a specific point in time not "at some point". At the time, I was hearing things from Round Rock and Austin. Sounded like Austin was having a much worse go of it that Round Rock. As time went on up until Thursday morning Round Rock had more issues. I think 30% over the whole weather event being effected for some time is believable. I was without power 6-9am on Thursday morning due to falling limbs. Austin residents who lost power were without it for a much longer time on average than residents of Round Rock.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Austin Energy has a Vegetation Management group. Are ya'll saying they do a poor job, or don't implement? Shame on them if thats true. You're asking for a disaster if you don't trim your trees.

 

[Horn6721]

Did Austin city council stop Austin Energy?

 

[mb227]

Messers. Gore and Kerry do not agree with you.

They can kiss our collective fossil fuel producing asses!

 

[mb227]

The whole country has grossly neglected our infrastructure.

Northern Nevada was having winter storm warnings the other day. Why didn't Abbott do something?

 

[Statalyzer]

Austin Energy has a Vegetation Management group. Are ya'll saying they do a poor job, or don't implement? Shame on them if thats true. You're asking for a disaster if you don't trim your trees.

I don't think they emphasize it enough because of the "it probably won't happen" effect, but they also run into a lot of opposition in trying to do it.

 

[horninchicago]

Don Lemon told me yesterday he isn’t surprised Texas is having problems with their known neglect of infrastructure.

Don Lemon molests collies.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Don Lemon molests collies.

So that's why the ***** in aggyland acts so weird.