OnTheTrail
Rock Crawler
Being that it's Oregon, I'll bet it's a big government thing. ;-)
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Being that it's Oregon, I'll bet it's a big government thing. ;-)
skinnyj
Pebble Pounder
No, it's probably a Big Insurance thing. I had a similar situation here in NH. I had a 12" thick limb break off a tree in my yard and rest on the roof of my neighbor's garage. The tree company had to crane it off my neighbor's garage before bucking the limb instead of bucking it where it was. Why? Because their insurer won't cover any damages caused by what they consider an "improper removal."
I’m sure it’s a liability thing.. everything is a liability issue anymore. Just like the notice I received saying move your cars away from the damaged trees.. were not responsible for damage that occurs during removal. But Oregon has a government issue also lol!
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Oregon... Where its legal to do crystal meth, but illegal to start a chain saw.
ScaleLifeNewbie
I wanna be Dave
Yeah, same way here. You have to have different permits for different landscaping things. you have to have a permit to remove bushes/vegetation lmao.
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It's 3:30AM here in Austin, and I am wide awake after having gone to bed at about 6PM, since it was dark and I had no power..."thumbsup"
It snows here about once every 6 years on average, and we just got walloped (I see it's all over the news) with multiple cold fronts and more snow than I've seen since I was in middle school and my family was stationed in Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.
Thankfully, I only was without power for 24 hours - but they are predicting a strong likelihood of more rolling blackouts, so we will see how long I have.
Yesterday afternoon I could see my breath INSIDE my 3rd floor apartment... :shock:
It snows here about once every 6 years on average, and we just got walloped (I see it's all over the news) with multiple cold fronts and more snow than I've seen since I was in middle school and my family was stationed in Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.
Thankfully, I only was without power for 24 hours - but they are predicting a strong likelihood of more rolling blackouts, so we will see how long I have.
Yesterday afternoon I could see my breath INSIDE my 3rd floor apartment... :shock:
ScaleLifeNewbie
I wanna be Dave
Wow! Snow in Austin!
I wish I were in Indy right now. Plowing friends back home are saying at least a foot of wet, heavy snow. I love the snow and I love plowing it!
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QuesoDelDiablo
RCC Addict
This is absolute craziness. All of y'all down south are getting hammered with snow but I'm up here in Canada with barely a snowflake in sight and temps that will barely dip below freezing. I'd actually like some (just a little) cold and snow, I haven't been able to run the Blizzard much at all for the last few years..
Don't know whereabouts in Kelowna you are but I have friend who lives at Sunset Ranch above the airport and every time I've been there in the winter I've been helping him shovel 6" of snow, twice a day. Maybe if I could visit him you'd get your snow. Mind you, I've generally been there in January.
Not a lot of snow where I am, maybe about 1/4" to 1/2" per day for the last week. Perfect "scale" depth for a Blizzard. And cold, -13, -15C overnight and -4, -5C during the day. Supposed to start warming up in the next day or so.
We're in the same boat here in N. Idaho. Its crazy that we get a little snow, then it warms up to the 40's and it goes away, and the south is getting hammered with snow.
Mike Flea
I wanna be Dave
Here in Chicagoland, it was a mild winter until February showed up. Then we got a double whammy. Been snowing off and on every day for the last 2 weeks plus we've had sub zero nights and single digit days. Normal for Feb is temps in the 20's, with a few sub zero days in Dec or Jan.
Sniper4370
Quarry Creeper
My buddy in DFW area has had no running water for 2 days now. Not sure if just frozen or burst. Luckily, he still has power. I got a call at work today from a guy in Texas asking about battery backup to power his fireplace as he is out power. Mind you, I am in SoCal.
QuesoDelDiablo
RCC Addict
I live quite a bit lower down than SS Ranch but even up there I don't think they've had much snow this year. It's been a really odd year. We've gotten hit with a heavy dump about 2-3 times but then the weather always warms up and it all melts in a week. It's actually been kinda annoying - I wish we could have winter or spring and be done with the bs flip-flopping weather patterns that seem to have an identity crisis..
I did get one really great day in for the Blizzard (Sunday last weekend actually) but I'm not expecting I'll get any more this year. for one day conditions came together - temp was down to about -5 and 1"-2" of snow came down - I actually got to scale plow my driveway..
I got power FINALLY about an hour and 45min ago - otherwise I had 2 hours total power spread out since around 2AM Monday morning.
The only place I could get warm was in bed, fully dressed, and every damn blanket I owned piled over me... my phone was totally dead, even though I had used it only to let people know I was alive.
Now, it's back to work! (teleworking, thank goodness - I don't think I could get my car outta the parking lot right now!)
The only place I could get warm was in bed, fully dressed, and every damn blanket I owned piled over me... my phone was totally dead, even though I had used it only to let people know I was alive.
Now, it's back to work! (teleworking, thank goodness - I don't think I could get my car outta the parking lot right now!)
Mike Flea
I wanna be Dave
Something I was thinking about, after I heard 3 million people in Texas were without power, is how the hell is that possible? Like Cali, there's a lot of open space for wind turbines, and lots of sun for solar panels. Texas isn't exactly a poor state. You mean to tell me that 3 million people are unprepared for power outages with all the storms they have there? Or have they become so reliant on expecting the state and local government to keep them plugged in?
Please enlighten me
Please enlighten me
OnTheTrail
Rock Crawler
I was thinking the same thing, then it dawned on me that not everyone can have a generator for such times as these. I'm guess folks that live in apartments don't have to many options. When they say "3 Million" without power, I'm pretty sure they mean a couple million or so residences and 2.6 people per home or something like that. A lot of the people that live in homes with a toolshed or garage are probably running their generators as we speak. The ones in apartment, not so much.
Sniper4370
Quarry Creeper
I just read that the wind turbines froze. The added power consumption couldn't be made up with coal and nuclear. I would also imagine that there was outages due to downed lines from trees and other things from the ice and the snow.
All of this power outage stuff takes me back to a question I've been asking for years now. Where will all the power come from when electric vehicles take over from the fossil fuel vehicles? I saw some info on EV charging and if you are trying to charge an EV with a 110V power source it would take 17 hours (Tesla I think). That tells me the "power station" chargers need to be capable of much higher amp output than a typical 15amp 110V household circuit. It seems every year in the heat of the summer, everyone running their house AC, there are brownouts everywhere. Now we'll add more demand for all the EV vehicles that need to be charged. Again I ask - WHERE WILL ALL THE POWER COME FROM???????
And now you're seeing an issue during the winter as well. Probably not the same reasons, more like power lines and poles down due to winds, icing, etc.
Amazing how quickly this modern world comes to a standstill when there is no electricity available.
I've been through the no power thing a couple of times. Not days, maybe 6 to 10 hours, and I found that bad enough. They actually did some work on the grid and we haven't seen that for a couple of years now. You should know, where I live, when there is a power outage the whole village is without power. Not saying we're small town, but . . . . . I feel for anyone going through a winter day, or more, with no power.
And now you're seeing an issue during the winter as well. Probably not the same reasons, more like power lines and poles down due to winds, icing, etc.
Amazing how quickly this modern world comes to a standstill when there is no electricity available.
I've been through the no power thing a couple of times. Not days, maybe 6 to 10 hours, and I found that bad enough. They actually did some work on the grid and we haven't seen that for a couple of years now. You should know, where I live, when there is a power outage the whole village is without power. Not saying we're small town, but . . . . . I feel for anyone going through a winter day, or more, with no power.
BJoe
I wanna be Dave
That was different from what I’ve read, sounded like solar and wind had been working o/t and gas, coal, oil, and nuke sources were having vital components freeze up since the companies were allowed do what they wanted after being deregulated and taken off the national grid, which means they can’t import power when needed either. It’s kinda screwed me over in Illinois since the insurance my employer went to is Texas based and I needed to call them to set up an appointment for a Dr visit as well as what name to give the admins for the insurance. Where this has screwed me is that the call center is closed down right now and I had got worse and I ended up at the ER and now have a 2-3 night stay at the hospital.
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Not to make light of people's desperate situation, but I had those same "WTF" thoughts this morning while I was watching the news. So, we are in the middle of a pandemic, and we have seen how just a little bit of crazy can affect what we are able to buy (shit-tickets, for instance), so by now, people should have a supply of food and supplies to get them through something like this. Personally, I upped my emergency kit from two weeks to a month's worth of supplies in case everything was cut off. So, it seems like there is little excuse at this point for so many people to be this unprepared for a few days of really bad weather.
With that, I do feel for the people dealing with burst pipes, that is just something that isn't planned for down there.
Remember two years ago with California started mandating electric vehicles, then shut the power off...? Yup, same thing right here. If we are going to move to EVs, then the electric grid needs to be a hell of a lot more robust.
Honestly, if you want reliable, cheap, environmentally safe/friendly electric power, there really is only one way to do it... nuclear. Nuclear plants that are built to today's standards are very safe, they have a very small footprint compared to wind or solar, and it doesn't matter if you have sunshine or wind. Each reactor produces one 55 gallon drum of waste every 40 years or so, and that gets encased in glass and burred.
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