MY POWER IS BACK ON!

/me hugs Beyond3d and then the whole damned internet!

You never know how much you have until it's gone. Love y'all more than upgrades, stay well!

 

Texas was just arrogant and refused to take climate change in to effect and plan accordingly even though there were lots of people aware and screaming about the problem.

No, I live in NW Indiana. Affectionately known as "Da Region" we're the bit of Indiana closest to Chicago so we're on their time zone and get all their broadcasts. (Back when location was a thing for that.)

We're the bluest part of the state, the Region is hardline liberal democrats while the rest of Indiana doesn't seem to be so much. I actually moved the the newest boundary where the Region is bumping in to Southern Indiana, (what we call everywhere else in Indiana), so it's weird as hell. A mix of Bears flags and Colts flags, and the McDonalds around here give out Colt cups in football season instead of Bears ones like back home. Also odd to see the mix of libs living next to conservatives, which is where I'm at, but they're nice enough people except for their political/social views. We help each other out and try to not talk too much about stuff that we disagree on and it works out well.

We've been buried in about 22" of snow around my house, there's a farm behind our subdivision so the snow drifts can get damned scary. Our driveway was almost impassable, until I smashed it all down in a 20 minute fit with my wife's Jeep. Made it so I could at least get my car out and power up it.

Then we got another foot or so over the last few days and my car was going no where. I'm still working on my snow thrower, my neighbor came over to give me a hand and we both were stumped. I researched it, got the bits I need ordered, but my wife couldn't even get the Jeep up the driveway last night. So I gave up and called a plow guy.

Shockingly one came by last night for me at 10:30pm and did an awesome freaking job! Picts later when I go throw some salt on it, but he said it would take about 20 minutes when he got here and he didn't leave until an hour later. He wanted $150 for it, but I talked him in to $160 because that's all I had and he damn well deserved it! He doesn't usually do residential, but he was between snow storms and apparently likes monies. We're friends now.

Having power back is great, me winning my running battle to keep our furnace going just one more season is still working as long as I play with it every day/other day, and now we actually have transportation again. Life is pretty good, a lot better than a few days ago.

I feel for the people in Texas. We're used to bad winters here and ready for them and we STILL have problems and need to shut down. I can't even picture how bad it is when they have no cold weather plans at all in place, it scares the shit out of me for how bad it is and will get for them.

 

Did you know I got married there? Me and Chrissy invited anyone who wanted to come to our wedding, and we held it in Cancun. Only her parents showed up. (My brother was getting married in Hawaii that year, most of my side went there)

I've been to Cancun a few times since and it went from beautiful to the party capital of the world. Whistle bars and 24/7 partying is the order of business there, and he's saying he went because his 10 and 12 year old daughters wanted to go with friends and he was just flying them out there to drop them off? Something don't add up.

Also, this is hilarious. A fake made a video claiming to be his spokesman and people don't seem to realize it's fake. ROFL

 

NO MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES ON THE MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!

 

Why do people keep falling for that every single year? It staggers my mind.