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  1. iahawkhunter

    Bridge Collapses in Baltimore

    Any time I see the word "riparian"...
  2. iahawkhunter

    Apple Airtag

    Which would be particularly amusing given the purpose of airtags....
  3. iahawkhunter

    Hy-Vee's weirdest business decision yet?

    Inducing an athsma attack at the pharmacy. That's some guerrilla marketing right there.
  4. iahawkhunter

    ***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

    It upgraded itself
  5. iahawkhunter

    ***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

    The percentage is a likelihood of the temperatures being higher. It's saying that they are quite certain (70% - 80% certainty) that the temperatures will be above normal. It's not indicating how much above normal, just that it's quite likely to be above normal.
  6. iahawkhunter

    Random, Useless, Interesting Facts

    And I think I read somewhere that they ran into heating concerns after switching to LED lighting. Basically the new lights didn't give off nearly as much heat, so the building-heating assumptions were no longer valid.
  7. iahawkhunter

    Kids - School Grades

    Counterpoint: The universality of **** Iowa.
  8. iahawkhunter

    ISU Power Plant Fire?

    Reporting hasn't updated since 10:55am, but at the time the campus plant was producing about 1/3 of the campus needs (11.7 MW from the campus plant vs 28.6 MW campus demand). https://www.fpm.iastate.edu/utilities/plantdata/
  9. iahawkhunter

    ISU Power Plant Fire?

    From what I've heard, the issue is the compressed air that's used to actuate controls in several buildings. It's not the power supply or the AC compressors at the buildings themselves.
  10. iahawkhunter

    Making out a will

    For us it was mainly a series of questions like this, to handle several layers of "what if" scenarios: If you each die at separate times, who gets what If you and your spouse die at the same time, who gets what and who takes care of any kids (and a 2nd & 3rd choice in the event that the...
  11. iahawkhunter

    Making out a will

    My wife and I did our wills in ~2018 and this was our experience. $500 for both wills and we had a couple meetings with the attorney as part of that process. No recurring cost, and only future cost would be potentially for modifications.
  12. iahawkhunter

    Kid names

    My wife's cousin is a pediatrician, and is of the opinion that every hospital should employ a middle schooler to tell parents all the ways their name choice will go sideways as their kid grows up.
  13. iahawkhunter

    Housing market

    +61% in 3 months? That's a pretty bold flip attempt.
  14. iahawkhunter

    Anyone using Google Fi for their cell service?

    I used to have Fi, currently on Verizon. I didn't have any coverage issues with Fi. My phone itself, though had an intermittent reboot issue that royally pissed me off. I couldn't pin down the behavior with any repeatability, though, so I didn't push for a warranty replacement. My wife had...
  15. iahawkhunter

    Fertilizing my lawn for initial spring application

    Username checks out
  16. iahawkhunter

    Retirement Targets

    Not on this side of the pond
  17. iahawkhunter

    ***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

    And in Utah of all places, too....
  18. iahawkhunter

    ***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

    Here's an example of what that difference can be. At the extremes it can push 150 *F between the continental high/low on a single day.
  19. iahawkhunter

    Alec Baldwin

    I could see liability for the actor if they are fooling around with the gun. Seems like that's a different circumstance than an accident happening during the course of filming a scene.
  20. iahawkhunter

    ***Official 2022 Weather Thread***

    Here's a cool visualization combining snow plow locations, road conditions, and the radar from Wednesday to today.
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