Chalkie

It seems from you are saying that only you have to domicile in Utah. Why not have your husband become a Texas resident and that would then cover the licensing and having Texas plates on a vehicle in Utah. He would be "visiting". I understand that there might be some complications with tax filing but a good CPA should be able to sort all that out.

Veterans may may find this article from USNI of interest.

Interesting article. I have been to Carson City and it is a nice town. I am never sure what criteria Forbes uses when it compiles some of these lists. To carry the stats a bit farther as per Johns Hopkins Carson City has 255 hospital beds with only 219 of them staffed and 32 ICU beds. The death rate is 1.95. Williamson County in Texas where I am has 971 beds with only 843 staffed and 156 ICU beds. The death rate is .99 or almost a full point lower. Based on that I think I would rather take my chances where I am.

If the messages on the device are too small for you to read you can log into the device itself via the device Admin screen at my.mifi/ and read them on your computer screen. Note: You must be connected to the internet via the device for that to work. If you have not downloaded the Owners Manual yet you can find it here M2000 Manual and it tells about the Admin Website starting at page 28.

Barb, I did some messing around with my hotspot and you CAN receive messages on it IF you know the number. I was able to send some test text messages to mine. If you go to the main screen hit Menu. Then scroll down and you will see Messages and it is there you will see them.

You do have a T-Mobile number, the device is assigned one. Does it require text message or just a confirmation? I only ask because as a T-Mobile customer I am (depending on what I am doing) offered verification by text or email. If that is not an option would call T-Mobile tech support as I am sure they can help get it all set up for you. Oh, and the online account is also good to track your usage.

Many years ago when my parents lived in the Colorado mountains a group of inner city Boy Scouts visited sponsored by a neighbor. In typical fashion all the neighbors pitched in to provide quarters and meals for the boy with daily day/evening/night activities where all the boys got together. One night before lighting a bon fire they had the boys sit in the dark. All of a sudden one of the boys jumped up and pointed to the skies and asked what he was seeing. It was the Milky Way, something he had never seen with the light pollution of the city. We rarely turned on outside lights as they drew in a bazillion bugs! Same applies today. I hate the bugs drawn by the outdoor lights and I hate the light pollution.

This may be something you have already done, but have you checked out the RV parks on Camp Ground Reviews? If you have, then never mind. 😁

Well, yes and no. Fry's grocery was owned by the father of the owners of Fry's electronics. He sold out to Kroger and the kids had no interest in groceries but did in electronics. If you take a look the emblem for Fry's Groceries and Fry's Electronics you will notice they are very similar.

You said you have a CDL and you live in California, so I am going to presume that you have a California Drivers License. CA licenses are good for 5 years and they started issuing Real ID licenses January 2018. So if you don't have a license with the star, you surely will when you next renew your license.

I don't think that Fry's Electronics going out of business was all that sudden. It was more like slow death on a ventilator and someone finally decided to pull the plug. Fry's was a privately owned corporation and the owners decided to take what money they could and get out. The internet and other businesses that reacted faster and better to the internet (Best Buy for one) killed Fry's.

We have taken our 40' 5vr over the Mackinaw. We kept the right lane, took our time enjoying the view, and as said if it is windy they will double up the vehicles. No worries at all!

The correct term "non-commercial" as you said. From the Texas DPS site:

Herd immunity is simply put when a large part of the population becomes immune to a certain disease. It doesn't matter if people are immune due to vaccine or immune due to having the disease and recovering from and thus having antibodies. It doesn't matter what administrations wish to call it, the medical definition is the only one that counts.

As far as I can tell that big onboard generating from Ford is only available in the full hybrid F-150s but I have to say it is pretty impressive at 7.2Kw. The power outage is already affecting the national car manufacturing sector as 3 semi-conductor plants were closed down and 2 NXP plants provide chips to the auto industry. Samsung provides chips to third parties so its impact is harder to determine. Read about it in this Fortune article.

Horse pucky! And this was the fault of Texas just exactly how?

No, I don't think that listing all the military bases (and the other links) in Colorado Springs added a thing to the discussion is all. Critical military facilities have their own power backup, as they have at every military base worldwide, and therefore it really doesn't matter. CSU as far as I am aware (I am open for evidence otherwise) gives no preference to the military bases. I would also love to see evidence that CSU utilities are "hardened" specifically due the presence of the bases. Additionally, CSU does not provide utilities to Schriever AFB, just look at their coverage map. This is so far removed from my point that you can not compare CSU to ERCOT and has nothing to do with the problems in Texas.

Having dealt with deep wells (190' at my folks cabin) and shallow wells (about 35') I have to say that is the strangest setup I have ever heard of. Is there no way to actually drop a pump down the well? That would prevent the pump from freezing for sure. Otherwise, yes, I agree that if the pump was inside the cistern it would likely shield the pump from freezing events in other than extraordinary events.

Holy Cow!!! What a tirade. Does it change that CSU is a city owned non-profit organization that pays NOTHING to shareholders? Does it change my statement that they serve about 500,000 customers? If power does happen to go down in parts of Colorado Springs as has happened in the past, the military bases get no particular priority. A downed line is a downed line and when restored so is power to the affected customer.

If you clear all WSJ cookies from your computer that will reset their count. That sounds like the article I was quoting.

Yes, and I think I read somewhere that there is a call in legislature to require that all ERCOT board members be residents of Texas. That makes sense to me.

We can only hope so. Here is a chart from the CDC: The source link for this is found on the CDC Data Tracker and scroll down to "Reported Cases". To go along with this I found an OpEd on the Wall Street Journal written by Dr. Mark Makary who is a is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. In it Dr. Makary says: You can read the full piece here at the WSJ. Overall, I find this to be very hopeful and I hope his assessment tied with the CDC stats is accurate.

I am going to pick a hole in your statement as a former 30 year recent resident of Colorado Springs. There were some outages in Colorado, perhaps not enough to warrant any rolling blackouts, but they happened none the less. They had a lesser impact because Colorado is mostly prepared for the cold. Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), where your power never flickered, serves about 500,000 people and because it is a city owned, non-profit utility, the profits are constantly being put back into the system as improvements and to keep rates low. Profits are not paid to share holders. As a result CSU has a power on record of approximately 99.99% of the time. To compare what happens in Colorado Springs to other areas, especially the 26 million that are in ERCOT, is simply invalid. Now, if you want to hold up CSU has a shining example of what could be in utilities, that would be fair.

Yes, the wind turbines in Texas do not have the cold weather packages that they do in colder areas.

I am familiar with the group and I did state that I am not an engineer, etc. They explained the methodology so why would it have an anti-wind bias if the facts check out? They did not give real high grades to coal and gas and real kicker to me is that 2 other renewables fared better, so I don't think it is anti-wind, as much as it is validating the fact the wind in Texas failed when it was needed most. If this had been the first cold weather event in Texas one could forgive ERCOT for not knowing what would happen, however, there was a similar event 10 years ago almost to the day.