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THE TRAINWRECK. Brought to you by thcfarrmer…..

Normally I’m all types of prepared every weather person in the us and the weather tracking programs all failed. No one in Houston thought it was coming here. Like I have silver, and some gold in hard currency, I could probably use that to smash a window...
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Normally I’m all types of prepared every weather person in the us and the weather tracking programs all failed. No one in Houston thought it was coming here.
Like I have silver, and some gold in hard currency, I could probably use that to smash a window and snatch a bag of chips?
I have a close friend in Houston, she called me in the middle of the night last night to let me know she's ok, still no power but they were spared the damage

sorry to see what happened to you, glad everyone's all right!
 
I have a close friend in Houston, she called me in the middle of the night last night to let me know she's ok, still no power but they were spared the damage

sorry to see what happened to you, glad everyone's all right!
I wish your htown homie the best, I’m running 2 generators, I hope they at least have one .
And thx buddy. It’s been a tough one ,
 

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Your grid is over a decade older now with nothing but bandaids applied since would be my guess.

Tennessee pays for infrastructure and schools with the lottery and a hemp farm bill tax. Our grid is legit as fuck tbh. Longest I had power out in spring was about 5 hours. And that was one helluva crazy hail/wind storm. Even up here in the mountain sticks it's pretty solid, and the roads are even better. Def don't envy Texas's grid. Honestly the roads up here in the mountains are the best roads I've ever been on anywhere. Kinda blew me away.
A decade you say? More like some spots still have almost 40 year old equipment on poles, it’s lunacy. I have some parts from an old transformer,
Electrician and I have been buds for years, I was having an issue with squirrel bbq them selves, everyone killed power to my house. Well, I asked him one day if I could have am few of the top caps for transformers.
Kinda neat.. he yeah sure man go ahead.
Surely enough, the parts were 30 years old, they had been acid dipped and resurfaced.
It made me angry as fuck.
 
Normally I’m all types of prepared every weather person in the us and the weather tracking programs all failed. No one in Houston thought it was coming here.
Like I have silver, and some gold in hard currency, I could probably use that to smash a window and snatch a bag of chips?
They failed Mom and I too, 2 years ago. Ian was supposed to hit Tampa, but it came up through the middle of the state instead and hit Lakeland. We flew in the end of September (she's a snow bird) and were there 2 days before the hurricane hit. Power was out for 24hrs. and it took me 2 days to pick up all the branches.
Nothing like what your up against but the predictors were wrong, again.

Ian trash
 
2 of my seedlings are down. We have winds that are 20mph currently. Light rain.

@Captspaulding
Sorry for the damage, but I'm very happy to learn you all, your car, your home, and your plants are safe. Glad you were able to obtain some gas. The way you did so is priceless too. I wish we bartered for all goods and services.
 
Since I’ve been dealing with this shit for 25 years now, this whiff, was 100% unprecedented. I can’t remember a more monumental fuck up having to deal with storms than this. And Ike in 08, had yachts on the interstate and power was on faster. Harvey, it will be longer than that fucking beast by this evening. And Houston was under water.
Something ain’t right. But it’s all gravy. This too shall motherfucking pass.
The incompetence across the board is widespread, they probably have a bunch of dumb dicks and not the bad asses that we used to have fixing poles. That's what I get from the guys retiring at least. Hopefully we get competent people back.
I really hope your area gets serviced first bro 👊 fuck the weather men and fuck hurricanes.
 
Bro I just acquired gas that exact way.
My neighbor is a saint. I was able to get 4 5g cans from him. Tossed him a zip. And
CATASTROPHE AVERTED
Still no fn power though.
And bro no worries, this isn’t how I Normally do this shit, it’s just when you get told by everyone in Texas that the storm is making landfall 400 miles to the south, that’s plenty far enough to where all we would feel here is a few rain bands. That is no sweat. But since it made landfall 35miles away.
Yeah we got caught slipping. All of Houston too. No one thought or even staged any emergency response the day prior to landfall. Which is normally what happens. So I have gas, for now. 👊🏻🤡
Fuck yea!!!!
 
If you buy store bought coleus and let them flower and go to seed here. They grow back following spring on their own.

But they always look like this. Way different then the store bought ones. Reminds me of trying to grow a granny smith apple seed and just getting crab apples lmao.
 

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Frylock! Aqua Teen Hunger Force!
 
Sounds crazy but in my pepper pots I used half composted… compost, still woody, big chunks, I use it in my outdoor pots in pace of perlite. The rest of my 5 gallon pepper pots I used a mix of top soil, peat and store bought compost. The ones I use my compost in, they drain excellent, dry back in 24hours to 36 hours and since it’s still breaking down it’s constantly feeding, next year I’ll take all the soil from these bags, and reuse it all freshly amended, next year I’ll add about 80lbs of peat and probably a full 25 lb bag of perlite plus new amendments, im looking at a 50 pack of 10 gallon bags on Amazon for $70 fuckin amazing price, thinking of doing 50-70 5 gallon pots in a seperate garden next year with peppers and other veggies

Did 15 5 gallon pots this year to test it out and they are doing as good if not better than the same plants from the same seeds in the ground
I started doing raised beds hugelkultur style with half composted wood at the bottoms several years ago. Never went back lol.

Can dev see a somewhat similarly arranged pepper planter giving me the same reaction 💚
 

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2 of my seedlings are down. We have winds that are 20mph currently. Light rain.

@Captspaulding
Sorry for the damage, but I'm very happy to learn you all, your car, your home, and your plants are safe. Glad you were able to obtain some gas. The way you did so is priceless too. I wish we bartered for all goods and services.
Oh I definitely always have cash when I cant get actual cash. It’s great in the clutch.
 
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Your grid is over a decade older now with nothing but bandaids applied since would be my guess.

Tennessee pays for infrastructure and schools with the lottery and a hemp farm bill tax. Our grid is legit as fuck tbh. Longest I had power out in spring was about 5 hours. And that was one helluva crazy hail/wind storm. Even up here in the mountain sticks it's pretty solid, and the roads are even better. Def don't envy Texas's grid. Honestly the roads up here in the mountains are the best roads I've ever been on anywhere. Kinda blew me away.
I’m in NH and I literally noticed a lack of line clearing in spring, summer, and fall over the past three years as electricity prices continue to rise. Now a direct result we lose power in the winter months for days on end anytime we get wet snow. Two years in a row I was without power for over three days at a time. And my stupid ass still hasn’t bought a generator 😡.
 
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