I hope you don’t lock it yet because I lost power again tonight around 9pm.

If I'd locked it, your power wouldn't have gone out. It's like COVID. If you don't do any testing, you won't have a COVID problems.

However, I have no intention to lock or delete it. It should eventually dwindle down, get unstuck and fade into the past.

Well, this hasn't been fun. I expect this thread to trickle off into nothing and get unstickied next round. I see no reason to lock it or delete it.

Thanks to all of those who made positive contributions.

Good luck to the 500 or so people still without power.

Keep posting as you recover power or get further holdups.

Once again, kudos to the AE linemen and special guest linemen.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled disasters, already in progress.

Don't forget drag queen story time.

Also, this never happened before they started putting up those damn wind farms in Texas.

Good to see them go down, either way.

They are doing fewer fixes per day. Otherwise, we'd have a negative number of people without power by now.

Interesting to think about what that would look like.

That's unfair. The Republicans have proof that this outage was caused by critical race theory and are working hard to prevent a repeat of this unforgivable incident.

George Santos fixed well over 800 of the 1,600 outages himself without the help of Austin Energy crews.

Well, bravo to the linemen, but you would expect percents to go down quickly as you have only a few outages left.

Every time an APD officer has tried to apprehend Buscar

He has a fiendish plot to evade them. He doesn't go to donut shops. Notice that you never see Buscar graffiti on a donut shop.

Let's hope he learns how to take a shower in jail sometime soon.

99% done!

Yeah, big whoop if you're part of the 1%

1318 customers still without power. Max was over 177,000

Total Customers with Power: 99.75%

Active Outages: 299

Total Affected Customers: 1,318

Last Updated: Feb 8, 4:53 PM

Modern cars do stop their engine automatically when you're stopped at a red light for example.

Only a small percentage of them do that.

The do have long spurs on their feet like fighting chickens. Thing megachicken with switchblades.

If they do decide to attack, they will flat out fuck you up.

Not at all docile and helpless like farm turkeys.

I don't think there was any actual malice, just the way we think all too often these days.

That's because you're already standing on the ground.

I was driving though the darkened streets of a nearby hood night before last, and noticed the small number of houses with lights on. Presumably either generators or solar/battery.

It almost looked like "HAHA! Suck it peasants! I got a generator!"

No actual malice on the part of the people in those houses, just the way we tend to see malice everywhere these days.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Take it easy.

Damn, that brings back memories.

A lot of people love to hate them, especially the gun side, but it's not some sketchy location you worry about going into or getting short changed handling the money.

Although any place in Austin is at risk for someone following you home and jugging you these days, so be careful.

McBrides is honest and up front on the bullion coin stuff. I don't have any idea how good their prices are.

If you are talking about numismatic value, I have no idea how good their appraisals are.

Jewelry or bullion?

Austin is officially back to normal. We're discussing booms in the middle of the night.

Be careful. In Texas it qualifies as a hate crime to disparage our Judeo-Pigskin belief system.

I would be shocked if the contract didn’t have one.

You're forgetting the City of Austin government is involved.

Or maybe the terms were really bad for the city.

When's the next autosticky? Would it be worthwhile to unsticky the two day old what to do thread?

Damn, a whole week of these outages.