As someone who grew up in the east, that's one of the things I miss the most, lightning bugs and more melodic song birds. Nothing like a mocking bird or wood thrush out this way. Noisey Stellar's jays or crows.
As someone who grew up in the east, that's one of the things I miss the most, lightning bugs and more melodic song birds. Nothing like a mocking bird or wood thrush out this way. Noisey Stellar's jays or crows.When I was back there in May, I realized the only things I miss are fireflies and thunderstorms. Still absolutely worth it! I actually found myself missing winter because I like hiking through the forest when it's all shrouded in mist. But now I don't hate doing yardwork anymore during the summer because I'm not sweating my arse off.
I guess this implies that the contiguous 48 are entirely inside the lower erogenous zone and the west coast is just an absolute dump truck of an ass?
As someone who grew up in the east, that's one of the things I miss the most, lightning bugs and more melodic song birds. Nothing like a mocking bird or wood thrush out this way. Noisey Stellar's jays or crows.
Is this the Texas 'green plan'?It depends. I’m on a 3 year all green plan at 11.7 cents/kWh. They can’t charge me more.
It’s really to influence commercial providers to turn on their generators and for commercial users paying market rates to turn stuff off.
There were some residential users who used a market rate provider and during th winter storm last year got hit with $10K+ bills.
Meet the cactus wren…No kidding. The birds around here...to say it politely... are assholes. There is no quiet. Only CAW CAW CAW starting around 5am. Then the jays kick in that sounds like metal screaching across metal. And then this little poofball birb that sounds like a 1950's sci-fi phaser gun charging up. tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tweeet tweeet tweet and repeat that about 50 times an hour.
That sounds like maybe a chickadee?No kidding. The birds around here...to say it politely... are assholes. There is no quiet. Only CAW CAW CAW starting around 5am. Then the jays kick in that sounds like metal screaching across metal. And then this little poofball birb that sounds like a 1950's sci-fi phaser gun charging up. tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tweeet tweeet tweet and repeat that about 50 times an hour.
Well, if you go the Hoe rain forest, there is the thousand note wren.Meet the cactus wren…
XC493359 Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus)
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and the Gila woodpecker.
XC725508 Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis)
About 10m away in desert riparian. Family group of three birds, at least one seemed like a juvenile (seemingly the most vocal one, possibly begging).xeno-canto.org
all day long, every day.
Who told you that?We here in Texas know what we are doing, thank you very much.
We are the envy of the nation.
Again, just move, it's not worth staying. Mental anguish is going to kill you even if the heat doesn't.
I’m paying for 100% wind I believe. Of course the electrons come from the closest power plant but if I use 2000kwh in a month I pay for 2000kwh of wind energy to be dumped on the grid.Is this the Texas 'green plan'?
I live in a state that plays nicely with others, so our power is reliable, and my rate is 10.6¢/KWh
Wondering if Texans would have another outage in 2023 winter.
Chilling is exactly what you are going to be doing.Dude....chill. Abbots got our back.
Said no sane person about any politician, ever.Dude....chill. Abbots got our back.
As long as it isn't a school shooting, Hurricane, freeze or 100s of other situations where Texans are dumber then shit.We here in Texas know what we are doing, thank you very much.
We are the envy of the nation.
The high for this month, per my weather station, is 87.6 °F. Had my weather station up since 2005, and the max temp for July was in 2008, when it was 92.3 °F.Finally had our first sub 100 day of July, think it got to like 93 which feels like 73 after a bunch of 105+ days. Back to 105 Wed through Friday though with 102 this Sunday. Might stay under 100 tomorrow.
Huzzah for well water.Man, I do feel sorry for folks in the Southwest who cannot relocate, but don't have the finances to secure a dependable source of water.
The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. Amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next?www.newyorker.com
Huzzah for well water.
Sorry, I meant hurrah for me having well water. We get constant runoff heading into a major lake, and while it's terrible with sulfides we've never had shortage issues even in drought conditions.I'm at a point where I don't know sarcasm anymore.
The wells are dry. 1000 feet no water. $40k-$70k for that kind of drilling.
I used to have a 450 foot well that was drilled right into an aquifer. It was caustic (salty) and depending on where exactly it was very sulfuric. It smelled bad. It tasted bad. It had to be treated into oblivion. RO process to make it drinkable wastes 4 gallons for every 1 you can drink. Which just further exacerbates a water shortage problem.
It's bad. And just going to get worse. The Atlantic current is almost dead and la Nina pattern is going to be more normal. This is going to last.