JasonL79

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I have two kids with it. I'm really not trying to be an a-hole here, but how did you end up with a statistically extremely rare situation like this?

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No idea, wish I knew. I do know if you have one autistic kid, you have a higher chance to have a 2nd one.

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But no family history of severe issues? Can you explain? I'd like to know more if you're comfortable.

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None that my family is aware of. I have a total of like 60+ first cousins (big families on my side) and wife doesn’t have any known issues, especially any severe learning disabilities on her side or mine. Lots of college graduates with various levels of college degrees (all the way up to doctorate) in both sides.

I live in Katy now so bit of my kids go to Katy ISD. Don’t really know of any commonalities between my kids and the other kids. I’m in north end of Katy so we get a lot of kids from out of state (west coast, east coast, Midwest, etc).

Wife and me both grew up in the New Orleans surrounding areas.

Not a medical expert but I do have two kids with it. No history in our families prior to ours but now have 4-5 total in our families.

Daughter was diagnosed early (around 2) and it was pretty obvious.she’s 7 now and still non-verbal, so no functional language. Still in diapers and has extreme food issues and extreme issues with change. Little boy is 4 (5 in two months) and was deemed autistic or considered to have a significant amount of autistic characteristics (by school system). He’s not non-verbal but very limited with language. Probably language of a 2-3 year old. Has sensitivities to sound and food issues. Only early signs he showed was regression. He was starting to talk and identify body parts, etc then all of a sudden in between 14-18 months he lost those skills.

Since my kids have it, I have been around the special needs school programs at 3 different schools here. Each school is filled with 3-4+ classes (5-10% of school total) of kids like mine. Some a lot worse off than my kids, banging their heads, self harm, etc.. Growing up 30-40 years ago, it was not nearly this bad.

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For some reason, autistic kids are drawn to water...

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It’s a sensory thing for most autistic kids/people. It’s calming to them and held stimulate/calm their brain. Autistic kids die in drownings all the time. They get to the water for the above reasons and then aren’t skilled/developed enough to swim.

Badlands is also in North Dakota near Medora and going north of there. Theodore Roosevelt National park is a hidden gem imo. Lots of animals (bison, mule/whitetail deer, elk, rams, wild horses, etc) there to see if you visit early in the morning.

Yep, typed too fast on my last post lol. Just edited it.

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I hate the drive but Waze says exactly a hour from me.

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It took me an hour and 15 min from Lake Charles, near the casinos. 1.5 hours or slightly more during peak construction on CPLNG project. Traffic would back up in Cameron and was slow moving.

If you don’t mind sharing, is the job with operations or with the project group?

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Prob autistic

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As a parent of a severely autistic child, this is similar to what my child did at this age and still somewhat does now that she is almost 7. There is nothing you can do to prevent this either and there is no reasoning with them like a normal child.

Don’t see what the big deal about reporting 5 bullets weekly. I’ve had to do this at multiple large companies/corporations in oil and gas.

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The courts ruled in VG favor I believe but it has left a bad taste in some people’s mouth.

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I don’t believe this has been resolved yet. Shell, BP, others are claiming VG has wrongfully earned $3B+ by breaking their contracts with them.

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VG has argued that the plant isn’t 100% commissioned but is able to supply gas to customers who buy the gas on the “spot” market.

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VG got their funding from the banks because of those long term contracts. Without the long term contracts, the banks would have never funded their projects. Should be interesting how this plays out in the courts.

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So I’m sure you remember maintenance manager Karen who was a complete dumbass

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I remember her well! :lol: She got moved around within the company after that mess of a turnaround.

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And during all of this, the plant manager took a job with another company but was willing to stay on to help the plant through this period, but the fine folks higher up the chain liked the other idea better of sending someone down there to escort the GM off the site immediately.

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Yes I remember this also. He went to be plant manager at Motiva in Port Arthur. That was P66’s policy, once you resigned or were fired or laid off, they wanted you off the premises right away. I don’t agree with that approach but I’ve seen them do that type of thing at multiple sites. They would have been better off letting him stay for sure.

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I was somewhat involved with a turnaround down at P66 Alliance back around 2014 or so. Some really spart folks way up high in that company thought it would be a good idea to have a TA (with major projects within) start during Mardi Gras. They also thought they could pay normal rates and didn't care that there were TA and projects happening all over east TX and south La. People were having to stay at hotels near the Kenner airport. Some of those guys quit the first week due to the horrible commute. Many contractors were forced to take a bus from about 7 miles away and management was damn firm on the request that the baws had to sit 2 to a seat on those damn school busses. Some quit because of this crap. shite quality, shite moral, and a beyond fricked up TA and project that went weeks over schedule and millions over budget. And even back then the traffic would suck badly in the afternoons heading back to Nola.

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I worked for P66 major projects during the time frame you mentioned above. Wasn’t exactly as you mentioned from my recollection but was a huge cluster for sure. They tried to pay extra on several crafts to get people but it’s not an easy area to get workers due to being further south than other plants and lack of housing in Belle Chasse. I was in the TA planning meetings. TA was 6k people which is massive for a size of that plant and got out of hand for their capabilities and planning. They also went too long in the past without major turnarounds. They really didn’t invest heavy in Alliance and was trying to sell it for way before hurricane ida. I heard rumors from reputable people that they were trying to sell it prior to 2010. It was always said within P66 that it was a maintenance monster and was probably their least profitable plant.

I also worked for Venture Global in Cameron at CPLNG and started out the project in Port Sulphur at the very beginning. On my end (projects), they were a difficult company to work for. Lots of pressure put on the employees and tons of hours expected. Working 60+ hours for years can get old. It was a good experience but glad I didn’t stay after it ramped up and became a cluster. Could already see signs of it being a cluster while working in the beginning with KZJV.