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Category Archives: Austin
Legislator Proposes Renaming Austin Overpass “Steve Adler Public Restroom Highway”
Ever since Mayor Steve Adler and the Austin City Council repealed the public camping ban in 2019, Austin overpasses (and significant parts of the rest of the city) have been filled with drug-addicted transients trashing the place. Rep. Bryan Slaton … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Democrats, Texas
Tagged Austin, Austin City Council, Bryan Slaton, Democrats, homeless, Steve Adler, Texas
4 Comments
Prepper Paul Martin’s After Action Report on the Texas Winter Storm
Paul Martin, a much more serious prepper than I, has an after action report on what went right and wrong in his own disaster preparations. Following winterization checklists and having good gear on hand were among the successes. On the … Continue reading
LinkSwarm for February 19, 2021
It. Has. Been. A. Week! Regular readers know that Austin has been climbing out of a once in a century winter storm that froze our roads and wrecked our power grid. Right now it’s still 19°F, but it’s supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Media Watch, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, unions
Tagged Anthropogenic Global Warming, Apple Computer, Austin, Baen Books, Bill Gates, Border Controls, China, Citadel Securities, coronavirus, data security, Democrats, dogs, Donald Trump, Energy Policy, ERCOT, Facebook, Foreign Policy, GameStop, Guns, India, Iran, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lincoln Project, Mark Zuckerberg, Media Watch, minimum wage, New York Times, pedophilia, Rick Wilson, Robinhood, Russia, science fiction, Social Justice Warriors, SpaceX, Sphere, Starlink, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, Trump Derangement Syndrome, unions, Virginia, Vlad Tenev, Vladimir Putin, Wuhan
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Austin Winter Storm Update for February 18, 2021: What’s Open?
Update: I ventured out to the HEB at McNeil & 183 and the major roads are passable. HEB closes at 5, and the meat section was picked almost clean, but there was a lot of edible food available in various … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Austin, Big Lots, Greg Abbott, HEB, ice storm, Texas, Walmart
2 Comments
Interview with TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua On The Texas Winter Storm Energy Crisis
I reached out to the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s energy expert Katie Tahuahua about the dire energy problems brought about by the huge winter storm, here are her answers: 1. The Texas Interconnect Grid is a separate grid from the … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Energy Policy, ERCOT, Katie Tahuahua, oil industry, Regulation, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, Texas Public Policy Foundation
3 Comments
TPPF’s Chuck DeVore on Reasons Behind The Texas Blackouts
Some brief background on why so many Texas households suddenly seem to be without power: Two problems in #Texas, one short term and exacerbated by the long term issue, and one long term. 2/10 — Chuck DeVore (@ChuckDeVore) February 16, … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Austin, Chuck DeVore, Energy Policy, oil industry, Regulation, solar power, Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation, wind power
9 Comments
It’s a Freaking Winter Wonderland in Austin This Morning
7°F and a good four inches of snow on the ground (which probably feels like a foot to us). There’s an official disaster declaration and the city has pretty much shut down: The University of Texas at Austin is closed … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas
Tagged Austin, Bergstrom Airport, ERCOT, HEB, Houston, ice storm, oil industry, Pflugerville, snow, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, University of Texas, Waffle House, weather
5 Comments
Zer0
The estimated Austin low temperature for Monday, February 15, is now 0°F: One good thing about Thursday’s ice storm is that maybe it snapped all the power lines its going to snap, and hopefully everyone will have power for the … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas, video
Tagged Austin, dogs, ice storm, Smashing Pumpkins, video, weather
4 Comments
LinkSwarm for February 12, 2021
Greetings, and welcome to a Friday LinkSwarm! Bad weather and bad driving are themes, as the ice storm mentioned yesterday already slammed Texas hard. I was without power for over 10 hours last night and this morning, and every tree … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Global Warming, Guns, Media Watch, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, video
Tagged Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Cuomo, Border Controls, Brian Manley, Bruce Springsteen, cats, China, Conde Nast, coronavirus, Crime, dogs, France, Guns, ice storm, impeachment, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Ken Paxton, Keystone Pipeline, Lincoln Project, LinkSwarm, Milwaukee, New York, New York Times, NFL, oil industry, Social Justice Warriors, Ted Cruz, Texas, video, weather, Wuhan
4 Comments
Se7°en
Here’s the seven day forecast: Take a look at the temperature on Monday: 7°F. Not 37, not 27, but 7°F. That wouldn’t be the coldest Austin day on record, but it would be the coldest this century and the coldest … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Texas, video
Tagged Austin, David Bowie, ice storm, Texas, video, weather
10 Comments