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The city needs to put their shit together & bring transparency to home owners. No one notified us, or even communicated, that there was gonna be a vote to increase taxes by 20% - otherwise we would have voted NO.

This MoU, to be voted and approved on August 5th, sets up a Large Load Power Study between three parties:

- The Metals Company (TMC)

- American Electric Power (AEP)

- Port of Brownsville (Brownsville Navigation District)

Purpose: AEP will study the electrical infrastructure and future power requirements needed to support TMC’s proposed project at the Port of Brownsville — essentially assessing what grid capacity, transmission, and distribution upgrades would be needed.

Investor takeaway: This is an early-stage infrastructure/feasibility step — it signals a concrete, real-world move toward securing power for a large industrial project at the port (consistent with TMC’s processing 1400 acres refinery ambitions), but it’s a study commitment, not a finalized power agreement or construction commitment.

Dear experts - our basement been lightly flooding over the past months whenever there’s a storm.

I traced the leak to this drain cleanout. There’s barely any water that can actually reach upstream of this pipe - o-ring looks like new, water evacuates, sewer line was relined just recently too - although grade isn’t the best.

What I then found is that I can slide my screw-driver riiight above the plug - at the seam between the pvc cleanout and a short pipe at the foundation. It’s quite obvious once the plug is removed. I can feel soil and I can see water down this gap. There was a few inches worth of mud on top of the cleanout plug when I first unveiled it.

I suspect water infiltrates through this gap, bypassing the plug, and flooding our basement…

What I’d like your expertise on:
- what should I use to permanently close that gap? both in terms of compound and tool. any gotchas?
- should I also caulk the ceramic cover tile together with our vinyl wood? we have another sewer cleanout downstream of this one in the basement, the tile isn’t caulked, there’s no leak.

Thank you all~