My man, books alone were >$600 every semester at TAMU 20 years ago.
Thanks so much for this! Do you happen to know if adding a foot controller or connecting to a laptop to use Axe edit would add to the pull or not?
Apologies in advance for this. I went to Texas in the mid to late 80’s and my tuition was less than my books. I also have a kid at another SEC school. So I have 3 in college at the same time. The costs now are ridiculous. That said, I love college station, and when my youngest said she didn’t even want to apply to Texas, I was fine with it. I cannot tell you how many Texas exes, both husbands and wives, are sending their kids to A&M now. It’s where I would go now if I had had a do-over. But the traffic down there is really bad.
I'm running off a generator and a hot spot right now. The map says I should have power but still nothing. Thank God for the generator. I'm jamming through a playlist and dropped in on the forum to see if there was a new firmware update. No added hum from the generator.
I don't know if that's different on 120V, which would be what the OP is on...
Omg I hope you're hanging in there! Honestly there is a thread on Reddit r/Houston that I found was the most helpful at knowing what zip codes were getting/not getting power. Glad you're still rocking at least!
I just got power about 30 min. ago. I put the generator up but I can still get to it quickly if needed. That may have been my best purchase besides the Fractal. After the 'tornado storms' I was on a mission to get set up with a nat. gas hook up that would feed my down stairs. It's too hot in Houston and the electricity company is playing games. The generator ran from Monday afternoon up until this afternoon with oil changes at 25 hr intervals.
We installed the Generac 22 KW and it’s the best thing we ever did. We have a 500 gallon Lp tank it will also run on natural gas. In January when the tornado came down are street we where in the closet we could hear the tornado the power went out and about 10-15 seconds the lights came on and we light up the neighborhood with all of our flood lights.
We had strong thunderstorm that came through in early May that knocked power out for a couple of days. It was at that point I made it my mission to get a generator set up that could run my AC. I bought a portable one (Westinghouse 11500 Tfc - Tri fuel: Runs 14,500w on gasoliine, 12,500 on propane and 11,500 on Nat Gas.) I had a plumber create a stub up quick connect to my back porch and then an electrician installed a transfer connection box so I can plug into my main breaker box and choose what breakers I want on. My AC started tripping the breaker at the generator after a few hours the first day, so I could run everything but the AC on day 1 & 2. But I had my AC guy install a Soft Start kit that reduces the load the compressor pulls when the AC kicks on. Then the AC worked. It probably would've worked if I used gasoline for fuel instead of nat. gas.
Traffic in both College Station and Austin is horrible. Glad I'm past all that. Interesting that your daughter is in architecture. I started off in Architecture, but they dropped it as an undergraduate major after my freshman year. They instead put us in something called Environmental Design, which I hated. I still graduated from the College of Architecture, but it was with a Construction degree. Can't imagine putting three kids through college at the same time. I suspect that involves and has involved a lot of sacrifices over the years. And yes, an A&M degree is a wonderful thing to have (in Texas, at least) as far as jobs on down the road, because of those connections. Best wishes to y'all!
I've got the larger Generac at my place in town. 500 gallon tank like you. Unfortunately, we didn't check the tank before the storm hit and ran out of propane about a day and a half before power came back. I was able to get it refilled just a few hours after we got power back on. However, I've not been able to restart the generator (manually), as there must be air in the line. My message is this: don't let your tank run out of gas!
