Covid-19 Community Check In

Is based on vaccine availability and you must be registered with the VA medical system. If you are, I would recommend you call your local VA hospital and asked them. I have validated this with other veterans around the country and is just not in South Florida.

This is the TXT they sent me last week, of course, I responded immediately and got the vaccine on Feb 10:

"Miami VA Medical Center is offering COVID-19 vaccines to Veterans who receive care at VA.
To schedule an appointment, please reply to this message with a date and time you would be available from Feb 10 to Feb 20
Please respond within 24 hours. More Info: https://go.usa.gov/xASD8 "

Hope this helps.

JP

OK, thanks- I will sign up and keep my fingers crossed...

My wife and I had both surgery at utsw. And we have high blood pressure.
We got an automatic email from the Utsw system to signup, answer some questions and then we were scheduled for the next day .
The vaccination process was very well designed. 15 minutes from entering the building to receiving the shot. I was really impressed.
They do between 6000 and 8000 shots there per day I believe
Karl


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Glad you and your wife got your shots - stay safe my friend....

And another good news:
All Faucets working again no burst pipes - also the outsides. And today we will have 0C. The melting will start.


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Really hoping all is well for you all down there. We have family in TX with no electricity, no heat, and frozen pipes. It's a bad deal for sure.

Here near Chicago, we have been sub-zero for weeks and they're reporting that this is the most snow we've had in 42 years. I feel like all I've been doing is shoveling. But at least I have power, heat and water.

If anyone has a really long extension cord, you're more than welcome to plug in here.

EDIT: that's sub-zero ºC.

[matt (support)]

We've had one (relatively brief) power outage and record cold temperatures (below 0°F!) a few days ago. Jay is further south and hasn't had power for days, but does at this moment (hope it stays on!).

Should finally be above freezing tomorrow so maybe some of the snow will melt. The infrastructure and houses are definitely not built here to handle these extreme temperatures. Lots of damage from broken pipes, not enough water/gas/electricity, and several areas are having to boil water since pumping stations have failed. Basically, a huge mess.

Up this way soooo many people lost power for many many days - we got lucky and power only went out for about an hour (at 2:15 AM - I know that cause woke up to the sound of my UPS — BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. )

Up here it was mostly from downed trees from an unusual 14 + inch snow storm followed by an ice storm (which is not the norm for Feb in these parts).

My indigo machine shut it self down perfectly

Hope everyone stays safe and warm.

[jay (support)]

Yeah, so our power went out early Monday morning at 2:07am and didn't come back on until 2:27pm yesterday. Our Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid provided periodic shots of power to use our electric griddle to "cook" dinner and to power a space heater long enough to keep Fort Bedroom (my name for the one place in the house we hunkered down) from going below 50°F. Now we're without water, but fortunately yesterday we heard rumors that we might be losing water and/or going into a boil notice so we filled up every container in the house. We also have the complex pool that we can use to gather water to flush toilets.

It's been a long, cold, frustrating week of cascading failures. But, with power back on at least we're not cold any more...

[jay (support)]

And AT&T's (and probably other) data network folded like a cheap deck of cards, so we were out of touch except for the periodic bursts of power from the Outlander which could power enough of my network equipment to get a little internet access. The one thing that worked - cell phone service and TXT messages, were sorely under utilized to get information out from the various agencies. Another in a long line of failures.

Glad you are safe with no burst water pipes!!

A Friend from Dallas sent this (not his car):

So Jay , no short trip to Cancun with the indigo jet?


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[jay (support)]

No - unlike the junior Senator from Texas, we couldn't flee the state for better weather. COVID restrictions notwithstanding (which he also ignored)...

It’s the windmills fault


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Should finally be above freezing tomorrow so maybe some of the snow will melt.

Be vigilant, it’s often when the thaw comes that unexpected leaks start happening.. pipes that are currently frozen up, but because they’re frozen nothing is leaking.. but when it starts getting warm again, disaster time!