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  2. Same NWS that recently suffered big cuts to personnel and resources?
  3. Fuck Trump Fuck Noem Fuck Abbott Fuck Patrick Fuck Cornyn Fuck ‘em all
  4. Where is the best place I can send $? Dollar for dollar. The smaller the org or more personal the better.
  5. Don't blame posters for CRing this up; blame the politicians at a news conference that CR'd the hell out of it. .
  6. I thought I'd read a child from Peter Holt's family was one of the surviving campers so I think you're right.
  7. Is this still tropical and may possibly ramp up again at night or would daytime heating fire the storms up now.
  8. Young one. Think the bad news is just starting.
  9. Well this just proves that government doesn't work and we should get rid of government. What we really need is a 1000 Paul Reveres where we have independent and local guys that ride horses house to house alerting the populace of floods tornados hurricanes and boys trying to play girl sports.
  10. Update: 3 p.m. NWS bulletin didn't really have much different.. lots of rain, system not going anywhere significant, hopefully some downshifting with nighttime (although these things can ramp up overnight, one hopes the atmosphere gets some stability and quits for awhile). My hope is that the system will meander slowly to the E, following a track it's already been taking. Today was Austin's day to get the brunt, so hopefully it'll move east of us tonight, as I've posted today. The rains today were decent but definitely more light/moderate than prolonged heavy (and at least there's been movement of the storms and not all that much training, they've been circulating in frontal (i.e. perpendicular to their movement) direction). Tomorrow's forecast is interesting, I'll post iater tonight (not terrible but not particularly the usual). Just want to get more confirmation about it. Anything on your mind hit me up here.
  11. Child or adult?
  12. Any recommendations for "hard" sci-fi books? I read a book a long time ago that was in that catagory. I can't remember the name though. It was very nerdy. I liked the complex explanations of the physics that seamed close enough to reasonable. I just grabbed Carbide Tipped Pens based on no information other than: it's an anthology, about 13 hours long, and reviews had some good hard sci-fi things to say. https://www.amazon.com/Carbide-Tipped-Pens-Seventeen-Science/dp/0765334313 Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well. In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball. From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the art science fiction. Includes short stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others!
  13. At least one more confirmed gone, not posting the link but it is on xwitter.
  14. Two weeks? Mansfield? I'll take that bet. The top 20' of Lake Travis are... massive. This is what it's made for.
  15. Thank you for these maps and details. Really lays it out for folks who have not been on property.
  16. Poooooorrr Dodgers. I hate their fan base even more than their team which is already at 100 on the hate scale.
  17. I’m not in a position to take a hard look I’m in Mexico so that was an off the cuff remark but the charity part is intriguing.
  18. That's fine but there is still on-topic and off-topic.
  19. So I’m a bit of an expert on the San Gabriel, at least for a few hours this morning. Got a call from a relative who lives in one of the flooded RV parks, that the Georgetown police had knocked on her door and told her to GTFO. Wife and I drop kids at friends down the street, head up there in our minivan, expecting to quickly empty much of her RV into it, well at least the important stuff. We get there, water is way up, she’s not leaving because either her RV goes or she doesn’t. She’s got two small dogs and we had them ready to go, but she’s pissed. The hitch in my minivan is good for small boats, kayak trailer, smaller uhaul trailers and bike racks. I’m not driving down into muddy/rocky area and trying to tow an RV that will tax my van - my van is worth more than her RV. Thankfully a friend in the area came through in minutes, got her RV towed to a local school and we moved her and her car up from the park. That shit came up so fast though. There were RVs that had bad wheels or problems or whatever that couldn’t get towed in time. I counted at least a dozen in one small section, which given that I know a few of them, that is their home, so it’s got to be devastating, TLDR: Georgetown PD (or whatever law enforcement agency it was) did good work and got people evacuating. San Gabriel came up really fucking fast. On, and if you live in an RV, don’t own a fucking sedan, own a truck or SUV that can pull said RV instead of relying on family and friends of family to drive up from Central Austin to help you out.
  20. Furk. That left side is going right into the zone.
  21. Cool. I wish they were taking the Endeavor from LA or the Enterprise from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum but whatever.
  22. NWS Upgrade = SHARPIES FOR EVERYONE!!
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