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  2. Severe flood frequency is one of the elements of flood prediction and planning that's taken a huge punch in recent years. Now, those terms aren't really scheduling terms, they reflect the likelihood of such a flood event happening in a given year. So, the short term way of looking at a 100 year flood is that it's a flood that has a 1% chance of happening in any given year, not that you'll only get one such flood every 100 years. But, even then....the prediction of frequency is often way off in recent years. And every meteorologist and planner knows why. We can't talk about it, or even include discussions of it in government planning documents now, because Cloak Room, but trust me....engineers who matter DGAF about Cloak Room issues. They go where the data is taking them when it comes to planning. It takes a good bit of time to catch up, of course. And development and construction that has already happened is there, and isn't going away. But yes, these catastrophic-level events are happening more frequently, and to greater extremes. And our infrastructure and planning is not caught up to the threat, and we seem to be doing all we can socially and politically to ensure that they do not do so.
  3. He already told yall... there aint gonna be no more elections... so toe the line if you want to be re-appointed to your fiefdom.
  4. Some of you don't really grasp what's actually happening here.
  5. It'd be great if Tampa Bay wears the creamsicles when they meet.
  6. So Obama, Biden, Comey, etc. all got together and decided to make a Jeffrey Epstein hoax, in which they frame Trump for things he didn't do. Then they.... don't release it? Or do anything with it. Or talk about it. Ever. That has to be the worst frame job I've ever seen.
  7. That’s the fun part - nobody. Hope your waders have bootstraps
  8. If they didn't want to be on camera, maybe stay home... I get your point, but it's also 1000% preventable. There is no expectation of privacy there.
  9. Question: Is FEMA going away with all these cuts? If so, who's going to be updating and redrawing maps?
  10. Starlink works everywhere. You can go with traditional satellite services if you want to boycott Musk The Venn diagram circles of folks wanting public media access who live outside the reach of OTA access and cannot afford high speed internet probably don’t touch
  11. Interesting delusion. You tell on yourself you sick fuck.
  12. Yes, bus from Austin. And they'll even bring them home on the bus because it's a long haul from Dallas to get them. Adding three hours from Austin makes it REALLY long. It still gets hot up there but I don't think it's quite like the Hill Country camps. They're kind of up in the beginning of the foothills so I'm sure that helps. The camp owners are really sweet. They're aggy but they're good people. Hot Springs is fun -- once. It's a slog year after year after that. Better to go with a group of parents and stay at Lake Hamilton. We stayed in Mena (on the other side) the night before a couple of times just for a change. (That was Barry Seal's base of cocaine smuggling operations -- the Tom Cruise movie -- and there's an oversized broken-down, Scooby Doo Mystery airport just on the outskirts of town.)
  13. Do you have this 45 year old's name and number? Asking for a friend.
  14. Also Massie is the only member of Congress without an AIPAC handler lol
  15. I’m a bit ignorant on the term 100 year flood or 500 year flood. How is that calculated? Because at least twice in the last 100 years camp mystic has had cabins lost to floods, another time cars got washed away and the camp was badly damaged, another time the guy’s pregnant wife had to be airlifted out. So clearly these aren’t 100 or 500 year events if they’re happening that often. I’ve been really reluctant to criticize Eastland because by almost all accounts he was a wonderful human. But Eastland, by his own admission, knew the risk the river posed. His repeated efforts to get and then replace a monitoring system show that he knew the camp was at risk. His comments about dangerous the river is over the years show that he knew it. He knew that not having any way to monitor the river left his camp vulnerable, but from the firsthand accounts, he was asleep until the NWS flood warning came in at 1am. Even after that warning came in firsthand accounts from his family say that they didn’t immediately evacuate to higher ground. Firsthand accounts from cabin counselors say that they were the ones that made the decision to evacuate once the water in the fucking cabins got too high for them to stay. Eastland’s own words: “I’m sure there will be other drownings,” Eastland said in a 1990 interview with the Austin American-Statesman. “People don’t heed the warnings.” He ignored them. The 6pm NWS bulletin said that more than 3” of rain PER HOUR was expected and dangerous flash floods were likely. The first flash flood warning just to the south at 11:40. The flood warning at 1:15 should have been his signal that it was time to move. At that point their response seems to be little more than what, hope the flood didn’t get worse? There is plenty of blame to go around for politicians and camp management both. But the idea that this was just some fluke, unforeseeable, unpredicted event is bullshit.
  16. they were much closer….. like 1 play from being fucking shutout…coulda easily been 24-0.
  17. I read that post in this voice and thought process
  18. His elevator move was next level
  19. There was a NBC story last week that said the US had four 1000-year weather events across the country just that week -- the Hill Country Flood, flooding in NM, torrential rain in Chicago and I forget where the fourth spot was but there's definitely no climate change involved. None whatsoever.
  20. Evidence would suggest Jagger/Richards aren't greedy bastards when it comes to songwriting credits. Keef's daughter famously noticed the Stones' "Anybody Seen My Baby" was a cop of kd lang's "Constant Craving", however inadvertent, and so they added kd lang and Ben Mink as songwriters.
  21. Last 27 holes for Spiethcoaster best he's played in awhile... two poor putts from off the green in Rd2 resulted in his only 2 bogeys. Nice to see his 6 birdies in those 27 holes... 🤘 2nd Rd Scorecard...
  22. I don't doubt anything you say as being how copyright law works. I just think copyright law seems broken in this case. The song was an amalgamation of creative efforts and no one party is responsible for 100% of what the song evokes in a listener. So the logical (if not legal) outcome would have been for neither party to receive 100% of the proceeds from the song.
  23. Well aspirin is a blood thinner. I’m not going to get caught up on the thin skin and bruising in an 80 yo I’m not going to pin my hopes on the swelling being from CVI. first it’s benign; you just have to wear some ugly uncomfortable socks or maybe have some vein ablations done. Why I think it’s something else: it’s right there in the name, chronic. It does not pop up suddenly. Someone like Trump would have had venous ablations before it got to the point compression socks don’t work So my hope is his peripheral edema is from heart failure. I’ll take liver failure or chemotherapy toxicity as well, or any combination thereof
  24. obtained from ifunny.com I know you aren't really promoting political violence publicly 🙂
  25. Picked him up at the hospital with burns after he lit his single hit pipe.
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