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For every dollar you donate, my law firm will donate two. We’re looking to raise $18,000 by collecting up to $6,000 in donations to the Kerr County Relief Fund operated by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Go to the following link to make your donation and in the section at the end regarding “Tribute Information,” enter “Slingshot Law” and choose to notify angie@slingshotlaw.com. https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201 My law firm is looking to raise $18,000 by collecting up to $6,000 in donations to the Kerr County Relief Fund operated by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. Go to the following link to make your donation and in the section at the end regarding “Tribute Information,” enter “Slingshot Law” and choose to notify angie@slingshotlaw.com. https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201
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Bob Lives! started following Floods - how you can help
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2025 Wimbledon Championships
shadow_operative2.0 replied to shadow_operative2.0's topic in Other Sports
Who didn’t have lucky loser Solana Sierra in the 4th round? -
Yes, I was talking to a friend who lives in Kerrville. She said all the campgrounds were loaded. Lots of unknowns. I was surprised we didn't see more housing debris or tents piling up at that bridge. That is a huge watershed between Hunt and Canyon Lake. It's going to ring up some astronomical damages. Hopefully the folks downstream got better warning in a more timely effort.
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Counties and school districts and rural hospital districts have been asked to do more and more with less and less. This is a result of our republicans continuing to reduce property taxes to insure re-relection. Schools, roads, hospitals, county services are all expected to pick up the slack. It's rampant. Not just schools, emergency response, distaster preparedness, but it includes things like election expenses too that are accrued while they dream up new ways to suppress votes. Year after year the strain has been pushed onto rural counties and they keep losing good election administrators due to just being fucking tired of the bullshit. I can imagine the same thing for disaster preparedness. And so much of that is heaped onto volunteers. It's fucking insane. And on top of that, they keep taking more and more control from local governments. My county judge, a republican, actually went to Austin to testify why eliminating county wide voting was insane. He's very pissed that Austin keeps grabbing more power and leaving his commissioner's court pushing the shit cart at the end of the parade. You'd think all these commissioners who have to deal with this regularly would stand up and throw down. But they won't. They throw half ass measures at things with complete certainty there will never be a school shooting or train derailment that poisons a whole town. At least not in their county. It is just madness. Much like driving and X amount of fatalities each year is normalized. We are normalized to it, and even though so many rural Texans will play the lottery every day, assured their day is coming, they can't see the odds of catastrophe are much more likely. Especially now with reduced funding going into research and regulation.
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i'll guess that every rv park and camp site was sold out family members will be asking out them
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Fucking hell. From almost nothing to above the roadway in less than 40 minutes, on a bridge that looks 30-40' high. I told my wife earlier that -esp with this being July 4th weekend - there were probably a whole lot of campers missing that aren't even being counted yet as 'missing', so I don't think they even have a good idea yet how many are actually missing. Then we saw a video at an RV park where there had been 28 RVs parked. They all got washed away. Unknown how many people made it out. Many of them - sometimes whole families - got washed downstream even with people trying their best to rescue them. And that's at an RV park. Now think of all the people who just roll up in their car and pitch a tent. I'm sure we haven't even come close to learning the true extent of this horrific disaster.
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That whole company is amazing. Full stop.
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What possesses you to start posting your bullshit again when you haven’t posted in six months?
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I liked seeing Jonas take some pulls at the front today to split the group in the crosswinds. Good stuff. Primoz may be a nice guy, but he totally lacks any killer instinct. Frankly, a dumb racer. Losing time on stage 1? Not great Bob.
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I’m up in Colorado picking up my youngest, a teenager, from camp. The camp director of the Colorado camp broke down in tears at the closing ceremony today and they had a long moment of silence for all the kids and staff lost. This has absolutely gut punched me as it seems like a blink of an eye we were taking our daughter out to camps in the Hill Country when she was the age of these precious little girls. I’m sure we know someone affected as we lived in Austin for fourteen years and thirty in Texas overall but haven’t heard anything yet. Saying that, I’ve never had anything affect me the way this event has…physically ill with sadness.
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their disaster team is amazing
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
C-Man replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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I did 5 years there too from’87-‘91. Jeeper and Jane were around the whole time. Very sad indeed.
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Fueled by the current president
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I should have searched before I posted, I see several people have posted about it. Oh well fuck me.
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You right now.
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Is Marcus gay or just his realtor buddy or am I off on this?
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Not sure if anyone posted about it but I just learned that Heart O The Hills director Jane Ragsdale was killed in the flooding. Neither HotH or Camp Stewart were in session but both got hit. I went to Stewart for 5 years and my grandparents were friends with the Ragsdales. I never met Jane but Si and Kathy were great people from what I remember. I'm fortunate not to know anyone who had kids camping this year down there.
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A true statesman. How refreshing.
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Hi everyone. We live between Ingram & Hunt. Here is how you can help: We are set up at City West Church with food for first responders. Other locations that are feeding folks are The Kerr County Youth Event Center (The Ag Barn) and Cross Kingdom Church. We have plenty of volunteers and food at City West. There may be needs at the other two locations. For those wanted to help with search, please meet at the Centerpoint Fire Dept tomorrow morning. Harry Holt is the coordinator. Ask for Harry when you get to the station. We had around 200 searchers today, but will not have the folks tomorrow, so help is greatly needed. There are piles of debris 20-25 feet high and this all needs to be gone through. We do not need any equipment, just people willing to work. For those inclined, please give to a nonprofit that will help Kerr County folks and not pocket the $. REK's non profit is good (he is a local). Another is Blind Faith Foundation, which is located in Ingram and the head of it is a friend of mine. For those that cannot give or help out, we would appreciate your prayers. I have been around for over six decades and have never seen devastation like this. God Bless Ya'll. West Kerr Horn
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Buddy sent this into a group chat, and my brother responded with a rambling screed about how "taking Jesus out of the schools and government is how we got here" Sigh.
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I'm running out of adjectives -- unfathomable, shocking, tragic, etc. I've written so many texts in the last 24 hours, I'm almost numb. I didn't know them but former patients of my FIL (dentist) were washed away with their grandkids and all four are dead. Their son (and the kids' father) went to ESD with my wife. Could you imagine that -- your parents both gone. Oh, and here's a bonus, your kids are gone with them. Fucking nightmare fuel.
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