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Big name tuners are no longer selling "off road/race" tuning

@dbrannon79, you can keep your ERCOT utility bills. My Budget Plan for electricity on my 1800ft² total house, is about $90/month. Water/sewer is City-owned, runs about $50 every two month billing cycle (I don't water the yard, do 1-2 loads of laundry a week, don'tuse the dishwasher any more, do them by hand, both toilets are 1.2 gpf, usually am billed for the Minimum Usage Amount. Sometimes I'm billed for two units in a month, as the meter reading rounds up from the partial the month before. Private contractor for garbage service, multiple companies competing in this part of the city, $13/month for once weekly p/u, $17/mo for twice weekly p/u. The only downside is that our Governor is almost as nuts as yours is, he just hasn't gotten Covid, yet.
 
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My point was we have a private and public power company here, just a 10 minute drive away. The public one used to be better but only because of a sweetheart deal made with the corporation that built the dam in the 1930’s. It was going to be better rates than private for a 100 year contract- except one 4 year cycle of politics wrecked the last decade of it.
The private one is better now, and once the 100 hear discount is over will be way better.

but if billionaire warren buffet keeps wrecking it since he took over, maybe they will get crappier too.

Only problem is the state legislature wrecked people from being 100% off grid also.

The tree thirsts...seems every day is closer to getting to dry.
 
while on the subject of alternate power sources, look what happened in the small town of Luling TX today. I downloaded the video to post here for those who don't have facebook. but the site isn't letting me upload an mp4 video. If anyone knows what video file format I can upload, I'll try to convert it so everyone can see it.

also If, I am breaking a rule posting a link from FB please let me know and I won't do it again.

please excuse the language in it as I didn't record it, just sharing what someone posted publicly. here's the link from Facebook.

Train hits truck hauling windmill blade!
 
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@Will L. Yeah, I hear that they're rationing Colorado River water, Mead is at its lowest since building Hoover because of the droughts the past few years. No better with Lake Havasu, hear London Bridge may soon be over a dry channel.
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yup. We been doing cloud seeding throughout Cali and Utah. Then not enough snow fall into Colorado which feeds Colorado river and get surprised when there is not as much water as used to be. Hmm. Human driven Climate change- uh, yeah! When we make it rain 4 times as much as used to happen in one area then 1/2 as much in others and get surprised when it affects things...

pee-pol iz dum
 
@Will L. Yeah, we had all that moisture in the air yesterday (Saturday) with those ungodly Heat Indexes and Dew Points, and late last night into early this morning a weak frontal boundary of a Low Pressure system with a slightly (10° cooler) Cold Front curled down from South Dakota and across Northern, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Nebraska - triggering massively intense Super Cell thunderstorms with 60-80 MPH winds and MASSIVE amounts of rain and lightning moving through at 45 MPH. At about 2:30 this (Sunday) morning (I was up then!) the band of cells hit Lincoln. The Front Line of cells dumped almost 2.5" of rain into my gauge in 35 minutes. Over the next hour as the front finished passing through and the rain clouds behind it petered out, another 1". After Front finished passing through, we went from a 2:00am temperature of 85° with a 78° Dew Point, or just a hair under 92% Relative Humidity, to at 3:00am the temperature was 68° and by 4:00am 63°!

Yesterday's high was a gorgeous 79° with a 52° Dew Point! Right now, 11:45pm Sunday, it's an absolutely gorgeous 68°! Haven't had overnight lows in the 60's for over a month! Mainly in the upper 70's to mid 80's and muggy nasty humid overnight!
 
I don't know anything about OBD2 tuning much less the older ones, but I am trying to learn "DIY OBD1 tuning" I was able to locate all the software online to allow it for our trucks on pre-96 models through another thread here and from couple of other forums on the web. picked up a few stock bin files to play with too. not sure how many of us out there have use for OBD1 stuff but if anyone is interested in a collaboration to help each other learn it, I think it would be really neat for us to do. I know one of the threads got kinda shut down here due to some copyright thing but if we do it carefully making sure everything is free from copyrights and such, I feel it would be good for lots of people. the last thing I want to do is step on anyone's toes while just learning this stuff.
 
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while on the subject of alternate power sources, look what happened in the small town of Luling TX today. I downloaded the video to post here for those who don't have facebook. but the site isn't letting me upload an mp4 video. If anyone knows what video file format I can upload, I'll try to convert it so everyone can see it.

also If, I am breaking a rule posting a link from FB please let me know and I won't do it again.

please excuse the language in it as I didn't record it, just sharing what someone posted publicly. here's the link from Facebook.

Train hits truck hauling windmill blade!
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Here in Nebraska you either get a convoy of three blades with OVERSIZE escorts going down I-80, or a Unit Train on the BNSF just outside of Lincoln full of 120' blades and nacelles like this one I caught just east of Lincoln heading west back in September of 2018.

Top photo looking out the windshield of my car, across the parking lot at work, across the 100 yds of grass to US 6, across US 6, and another 50yds to the BNSF mainline, for scale in the background to the NW is the I-80 overpass over US 6/BNSF double-track main and two sidings through Waverly.

Second photo from same place in parking lot, looking straight North and phone camera at full zoom.

Third photo from the intersection of the access road to the plant and US 6, looking back East at the Waverly, NE grain elevator ¾ mile East.
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Husker6.5 said:
Here in Nebraska you either get a convoy of three blades with OVERSIZE escorts going down I-80, or a Unit Train on the BNSF just outside of Lincoln full of 120' blades and nacelles like this one I caught just east of Lincoln heading west back in September of 2018.

Top photo looking out the windshield of my car, across the parking lot at work, across the 100 yds of grass to US 6, across US 6, and another 50yds to the BNSF mainline, for scale in the background to the NW is the I-80 overpass over US 6/BNSF double-track main and two sidings through Waverly.

Second photo from same place in parking lot, looking straight North and phone camera at full zoom.

Third photo from the intersection of the access road to the plant and US 6, looking back East at the Waverly, NE grain elevator ¾ mile East.
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Yipes! that a lot of them lol thankfully no one was hurt in that accident, but the sad part of those things is I have heard that when they replace the blades, the old ones or in this case the wrecked one are not recyclable! they just get dumped in a landfill and covered with dirt!
 
Or earlier this summer, for five days straight, there was the convoys of 120' to 175' long concrete bridge beams being transported from the concrete plant on the NE side of Lincoln to the SW side of Lincoln, right down the main, west-central N-S arterial through Lincoln, for the new South Beltway Interchange with US-77 that will get all the heavy Semi traffic on NE-2 out of Lincoln and onto an expressway that circles from four miles East of Lincoln and arcs three20210521_125343.jpg20210521_125346.jpg20210521_125351.jpg20210521_125357.jpg20210521_125358.jpg20210521_125400.jpg20210521_125405.jpg miles South of town over to US-77. NE-2 is the 45 mile "short cut" at Nebraska City to Lincoln that saves 120 miles of driving between I-29 Northbound out of Kansas City and I-80 Westbound at Lincoln. Otherwise you drive another 60 miles North of Nebraska City on I-29 to Omaha, then backtrack Southwest another 60 miles on I-80 back down to Lincoln. Or go the 45 miles straight West (or East) on NE-2 to get between I-80 and I-29. They widened NE-2 from 2-lane to four lane divided with some hwy interchanges like US-75 in Nebraska City, NE-43 at Bennet, NE, and multiple surface intersections at county roads back in the early 80's, but NE-2 has gone from being the south edge of City Limits back then, to 2-3 miles INSIDE City Limits now as Lincoln grew South. The heavy Semi traffic on what has become a main E-W Arterial street across Lincoln combined with rush hour commuter traffic has become a congestion and safety nightmare. So the South Bypass will take through traffic off of NE-2 about four miles East of town and take it over to a new interchange junction with US-77 3 miles south of town. US-77 is already four lane divided, limited access from Beatrice, NE 45 miles south of Lincoln up to I-80. These beams are for the overpasses/interchange ramps of the new US-77/NE-2 "T" interchange.
 
I know exactly where Marquette is, @MrMarty51! Half way between Aurora and Central City on NE-14, just South of the Platte River. I have a friend who owns a nice little "get away" place with a sand pit lake just a hundred yards South of the Platte between Marquette and Northwest of Hordville, about 3 miles North of NE-66.
 
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I know exactly where Marquette is, @MrMarty51! Half way between Aurora and Central City on NE-14, just South of the Platte River. I have a friend who owns a nice little "get away" place with a sand pit lake just a hundred yards South of the Platte between Marquette and Northwest of Hordville, about 3 miles North of NE-66.
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I probably wont get back over that direction. The cousin that lived at Marquette died several years ago. His wife lives in Nebraska, not too far from Grand Island. Might be something like Superior. I’ll text Her tomorrow and ask her.
 
Superior is in south-Central Nebraska, literally on the Kansas border. Perhaps you mean Sutton? That's about 25-30 miles South and a little East of Marquette. It's about 55 miles SE of Grand Island. Perhaps she lives in St. Libory, about 12 miles straight North of G.I. on US-281? Or St.Paul, about another 10-15 miles further North up US-281, between the Loup and North Loup Rivers, on the edge of the Sandhills?
 
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