re: I just hooked a water hose to my water heater to get bath water

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SlowFlowPro

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Yea and I wasn't really talking about you specifically, as I knew you were handling your business and more bitching about the lack of preparation.

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oh this old house has a natural gas heater in the bathroom and a NG oven/top. we were prepared to cook without power

NG ovens are a requirement for any house I live in no

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Yes should always be.

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it's just the whole planning/rollout yesterday was terrible. again, likely WAY above Hunter's head, but they've created a real big tragedy of the commons situation with the water/pressure issue now. a lot of that is from the panic people had waking up yesterday to no power/water. hell my cell phone service was utter shite yesterday morning, too.

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The rolling blackout was entergy side, but water was on him and if outside city limits on police jury. They need to have more generator backup, but again some of that was not the lack of generators and not lack of preparation, much of it is the way the systems are designed. They do not have the flow nor pressure capabilities to handle everyone being at home.

I haven't done water system design in a long time, but in general these systems are based off peak usage and a multiplier. For most places that is 9am. In Lake Charles case, if the system was built before the oil bust in the 80s then the system can prolly handle it, other areas built after the bust and the subsequent population drop...Can't. But even if built for the same population that we have today, they are not designed to handle the volume/pressure needed on a day like yesterday. The demand yesterday was way way above any design numbers.

Same thing happened after the hurricanes with the huge pipes busting and draining volume/pressure.

In general people pay for services and have a reasonable expectation to demand better service, especially with what we pay in taxes. But unless the citizens want to rip up everything and start over with a system designed to deliver peak flow to every house at the same time and pay for that.....well then you have to realize this kind of stuff can and will happen.

That's why diamond dog bitching acting like nick is an idiot for asking them to stop overloading the system is a dumb thing to bitch about. He has no concept about how the system is designed demand wise, what the codes say or how the system is kept. He is just bitching cause he didn't have water for 24 hours. He bitches about preparation, yet he had 10 days or more and failed to prepare himself.

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Take out the casinos and Lake Charles is Beaumont or Port Arthur

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Beaumont is fair, laughable about PA.

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Majority of the city was ragged/run down even prior to the hurricane

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The majority you saw. Southwest lc and parts around the lake are anything but run down. Same with far SE lc. Moss bluff isn't run down either.

Have you ever ventured anywhere in LC besides interstate and casinos?

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It’s just a place people pass through when going to other parts of LA or a place Texans come to blow their money at casinos.

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Fair

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The only sense of culture that it has is the casinos and that brings a lot of trash into the city.

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Laughable. The whole salad region has always had a strong Cajun culture. Not the same as Lafayette, but more independent.

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Take out the casinos

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Take away LSU and baton Rouge is not much different form LC. See how that works. The casinos aren't going anywhere, isle is building a new land based one to compete, the lake front is getting a major uplift. Economy is still going strong and about o have more expansions soon at the plants.

With the hurricane money pouring in, LC will be just fine.

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people who primarily take i10

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False. I have family and plenty of friends in LC and deridder. Spent a lot of time around the area and still dislike LC. I’ve been all around there. Like I said , majority is crappy there’s some decent spots but not enough to overcome the amount of shite. It’s not a nice city. No way around it. People say Houston is a shite hole , sure there’s a lot of shitty areas but there’s also a lot of nice areas that make up for it. There isn’t enough nice to make up for the bad for LC. IMO. Just my opinion. Been there for Mardi Gras. Been to downtown plenty. Been up and down Ryan street. I will admit that darrels is good. I don’t know if it’s the setting that I enjoy or what but a roast beef po boy is solid from there.

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Spent a lot of time around the area and still dislike LC.

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that's fine, but it's not "run down" in the nice areas

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Been there for Mardi Gras

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If you want to go Texas....better than Beaumont, El paso, albiline, Laredo, Lubbock. About the same as Corpus. Waco is prolly nicer.

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The only place on this list that it’s debatable for being nicer than would be Laredo or Beaumont. You’re beating a dead horse here defending Lake Charles as if it’s something nice. It’s barely even top 5 in LA. That’s even close.

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Like I said before, LC is more Cajun culture without the glitz Laffy has.

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I gotta beg to differ here, you guys sprinkle your crawfish, mispronounce many cajun names (i.e. choupique), and put the word bayou after the bayou's name (i.e. Contraband Bayou). I'd say you're most East Texas than anything. I don't mean any disrespect to the people of LC, but you have somewhat of a simple minded mentality about the culture of your place. You need to spend more time elsewhere to get a valid representation of the differences you have from Acadiana and SELA.

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We have a bunch of nice local restaurants

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I also disagree here. As a BR native I know that I am a little biased, but your local cuisine is mediocre at best. Seafood is hard to find and most of the chef's aren't putting out anything special. Hell yall get excited about rice and gravy on the menu at restaurants.

And finally....Darrell's (although delicious) aint an effin poboy. It's microwaved food served on a damn hoagie. If it aint got french bread, it aint no poboy!!!

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I gotta beg to differ here, you guys sprinkle your crawfish, mispronounce many cajun names (i.e. choupique), and put the word bayou after the bayou's name (i.e. Contraband Bayou). I'd say you're most East Texas than anything. I don't mean any disrespect to the people of LC, but you have somewhat of a simple minded mentality about the culture of your place. You need to spend more time elsewhere to get a valid representation of the differences you have from Acadiana and SELA.

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Bro, no offense but not many sprinkle the crawfish but many will try different things. Nothing wrong with not having same thing over and over.

I have spent tons of time in Acadiana and all my family is originally from that area. I can trace my heritage back to nova Scotia and France before that on my dad's side.

There are differences between Acadiana just like Acadiana has differences between itself and SELA.

Didn't say it was the same but it's similar but less pretentious for sure.

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I also disagree here. As a BR native I know that I am a little biased, but your local cuisine is mediocre at best. Seafood is hard to find and most of the chef's aren't putting out anything special. Hell yall get excited about rice and gravy on the menu at restaurants.

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Have you been to any nice restaurants in LC? Seafood is anything but hard to come by. Get off I-10.

Go try Lunas, 121, calla, 1910, villa, la truffe savage, mavens, cousins amongst a bunch of different nice restaurants. There is a damb crawfiah place on every corner. Seafood palace is the best seafood restaurant for purely fried and boiled seafood.

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Hell yall get excited about rice and gravy on the menu at restaurants.

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Dude....stop hanging out with lower middle class people

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And finally....Darrell's (although delicious) aint an effin poboy. It's microwaved food served on a damn hoagie. If it aint got french bread, it aint no poboy!!!

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Well it isn't a fricking hoagie, the bread is French bread and damn good pobody bread...the rest you are right about. The sliced sausage and shrimp are much better.

As much as I'm not a huge fan of the special, name me a better poboy. I have eaten at most of the so called bets ones in the Lafayette area and the ones in Nola and not many beat darrels. If you only consider true roast beef or fried seafood to be the only things acceptable on a poboy....well we will have to disagree.

I do think the special would be much better with quality meata cooked on site.

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Go try Lunas

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BIGGEST complaint about your shite city. The restaurant is called fricking LUNA not LUNAS. The grocery store is called KROGER not KROGERS. Learn how to read the damn sign and speak the English language.

Also, I lived their 5 years. I tried it all. Luna is the only one worth a frick.

It's a lower to middle class city with some old money sprinkled around. Most of the town is simple minded and does things one way because that's the way Daddy did it. I have not met many there whom open to new ideas.

You know what parts of BR are shitty? The parts that are near industrial facilities. You dumbasses over there put golf courses next to your plants (Graywood and The National) in an effort to attract people to live there.
Albeit those are some nice courses that I enjoy, do you really think that those parts of town won't go to shite in the next 20 years. Nobody with any sense wants to live close to something that can go BOOM.

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You dumbasses over there put golf courses next to your plants (Graywood

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do you really think that those parts of town won't go to shite in the next 20 years.

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Graywood

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i'll take that bet

also which plant is by Graywood? the lng plant or are we talking about across water?