an even more frightening perspective

[dolomite]

It’ll be encouraging when results of the “climate change” fight start to roll in.

[ousdahl]

When the lib snowflakes changed "Global Warming" to "Climate Change", we all knew it was a hoax. Because that's not how science works.
Right? (Great photo Ousdahl)

Whoa…does this mean we can be friends again? Right before the empire party and everything?!

[KUTradition]

100+ degrees and no power…lovely

~4200 in my “hood” in the same boat

[TDub]

reminds me I nees to get a new generator

[KUTradition]

reminds me I nees to get a new generator

we’ve been debating, mainly for cold weather camping (3-fuel option, for sure)

might be a good idea otherwise since this seems to be the new normal

[Shirley]

100+ degrees and no power…lovely

~4200 in my “hood” in the same boat

That's sucks, Trad.

[KUTradition]

100+ degrees and no power…lovely

~4200 in my “hood” in the same boat

That's sucks, Trad.

just one of the reasons i’m looking to move

[KUTradition]

going on 3 hours now…wife started moving perishables from fridge to cooler

glad we’ve at least got a basement

[Shirley]

Did you get your power back yet Trad?

[KUTradition]

Did you get your power back yet Trad?

yes, fortunately

off from 11:30 to 4, then another hiccup from 5-6…odd

others in our hood weren’t so lucky

[pdub]

My bro lost his power Friday afternoon and it hasn't come back since.
In between Friday and Monday morning, a tree limb from his neighbors tree, probably damaged from the storm, came down on his fence and took out another power line.
This same tree had a limb go down in his property, also taking out his fence and power line, which took out power to 7,000 people.

My bro's insurance paid for it but he had an arborist come out to inspect his neighbors tree and the arborist said that the tree wasn't in good condition and multiple limbs would likely come down in a future storm. He contacted his insurance company and they helped him craft a letter to send which he documented and forwarded to his insurance company.

Chances that his neighbor gonna be paying for this one are not zero.

[TDub]

this thread reminds me of more and more things I need tonadd to my list. First the generator....now I gotta remember to get up and limb some of the tree that are encroaching on my power lines. Since they are on my property and not on the county road easement I suppose its my deal

[Shirley]

this thread reminds me of more and more things I need tonadd to my list. First the generator....now I gotta remember to get up and limb some of the tree that are encroaching on my power lines. Since they are on my property and not on the county road easement I suppose its my deal

"If you can't remember whether or not you need toilet paper, buy toilet paper."
RMan

[JKLivin]

reminds me I nees to get a new generator

we’ve been debating, mainly for cold weather camping (3-fuel option, for sure)

might be a good idea otherwise since this seems to be the new normal

Just had a whole house generator linked into the gas line installed at our home this week. It was a $13,000 investment, but, since power companies seem to be fine with letting people go without for weeks at a time in these parts, it is peace of mind. If I were living in the Tulsa area, I'd be furious. They've had multiple multi-day outages over the last month.

[KUTradition]

reminds me I nees to get a new generator

we’ve been debating, mainly for cold weather camping (3-fuel option, for sure)

might be a good idea otherwise since this seems to be the new normal

Just had a whole house generator linked into the gas line installed at our home this week. It was a $13,000 investment, but, since power companies seem to be fine with letting people go without for weeks at a time in these parts, it is peace of mind. If I were living in the Tulsa area, I'd be furious. They've had multiple multi-day outages over the last month.

zero sympathy for climate change deniers

maybe you should pray for power

[JKLivin]

we’ve been debating, mainly for cold weather camping (3-fuel option, for sure)

might be a good idea otherwise since this seems to be the new normal

Just had a whole house generator linked into the gas line installed at our home this week. It was a $13,000 investment, but, since power companies seem to be fine with letting people go without for weeks at a time in these parts, it is peace of mind. If I were living in the Tulsa area, I'd be furious. They've had multiple multi-day outages over the last month.

zero sympathy for climate change deniers

maybe you should pray for power

It's not climate change. It is power companies like Consumers Energy in Michigan, who pay their CEO a $6 million bonus last year and at the same time cry poverty and claim they can't maintain the trees around their power lines or upgrade their delivery system. They cut corners at the lower levels of the organization and then point fingers when the inevitable storm comes.

[pdub]

Our power company, despite the general animosity from the population against it, will trim limbs of your trees surrounding their lines on request.

We called in and they came within a couple days.

[JKLivin]

Our power company, despite the general animosity from the population against it, will trim limbs of your trees surrounding their lines on request.

We called in and they came within a couple days.

That's awesome. I wish it were that way here.

[twocoach]

Our power company, despite the general animosity from the population against it, will trim limbs of your trees surrounding their lines on request.

We called in and they came within a couple days.

Ours does the same. The only problem is that they pretty much hack the entire side of the tree off and it looks like shit. Yet another example of "you get what you pay for".

[KUTradition]

and this isn’t getting near as much attention as it should be, imo:

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article ... bed-mining

the UN International Seabed Authority is getting ready to rule on initial regulations for opening up parts of the deep ocean to mineral extraction (namely, polymetallic nodules)

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/07/13 ... cal-threat

climate solution? ecological threat? both?

the UN has said that the ocean bed belongs to all of humanity, yet a small group of people (some with direct ties to mining companies) are likely going to be deciding it’s fate

https://funds-europe.com/news/financial ... sea-mining

A group of 36 financial institutions managing over 3.3 trillion euros in assets has released a joint statement calling on governments to refrain from deep-sea mining until its potential risks are understood.