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I got my boy out from La Junta. As far as I can tell the whole camp got to high ground well in advance of the bad stuff and watched the camp get obliterated. My son is 8 and they took the younger kids to the backside facing away from the camp and river and did a bunch of games and songs etc. One of the first things he said to me was he asked if they’re still doing the fireworks tonight. I love that camp.54 points
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We are talking about CR because we have a bunch of bitch ass snowflakes that are offended by reality. The fact they cant see the reality is the problem. Also cry less pussies. Kids died and we have a bunch of grandstanding politicians ignoring their own malfeasance and having the audacity to claim some sort of political win all while making it all about them. They throat the very person that is actively gutting the very thing that could potentially prevent this. What a backwards world we live in that we claim CR on that. Fuck you and I hope you reap the oats you sow you fucking animals.53 points
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"Every cycle is different." Since the 2022 cycle forward, NIL and the portal have combined to create an extremely complicated landscape to navigate. Texas (the Surly/Burton cabal, the AD, Sarkisian and staff, big money boosters) have solved the riddles presented in front of it each time. It hasn't been voodoo or just following the same "process". It's taken a lot of collective buy-in and hard, smart work and some luck each time. Hell, part of why Saban quit is because he couldn't model future recruiting cycles and portal activity into his "process". I don't know how much of the details he's gone into publicly about that, but he's gone into the nitty gritty on it in private, and he's become a plaintive bitch about it. At some point during each cycle, something has clicked for everyone involved and Sarkisian has been able to close on recruits, the current roster, and portal candidates. You can find the moments on the timelines for each period, really. Whatever the case, each cycle from July 1, 2021 forward has involved a spring/summer period of complete fucking shock. This one looks no different. I think a lot of folks are currently flatfooted by how some other programs are initial handling ramifications around House. "Past performance does not really inform future returns." I think this is important to note for this board, largely because there seems to be a reflexive "this is how it always goes" notion from the natives of this forum. I get it, but I'm not personally subscribing to that line of thinking. Why? Because the dynamics of this cycle are, yet again, different. Some of the money being thrown around by other schools, whether because they can (Oregon, Michigan) or because they're desperate (USC, LSU, Florida) or because they cannot help themselves and refuse to fall behind (Ohio State, Notre Dame) is fucking shocking. This is not a case of $100k making the difference. When other offers are coming over the top of yours by more than $1M for non-QB roles, that's just flat out new. Don't conflate some of these situations with a collective getting or staying aggressive, either. Some of this is coming through the school and not subject to the same compliance. It's "rev share" money. What happens if what's reported to be 85% of $20.5M is really $35M because the program can just do that? I haven't read the House agreement, but what I've heard and what makes sense is that if someone is washing through the rev share, no one externally is going to have the mechanisms to see or hinder that, or punish it. So what can programs do if that's the case? Do it as well? Not likely. Most schools cannot. The $20.5M is a huge fucking burden to get to in the first place. Other schools are just not going to take that approach. It seems pretty clear to me that Texas isn't going to do anything of that sort. Keep building through collectives? The burden has now been lightened for boosters at places like Texas, no doubt. However, if Texas wants to reach the mountain top and stay around there, they're going to have to be honest with themselves about it, much as Ohio State and Notre Dame are currently having to be as well. Will Texas? I don't know, but I'm relatively informed and still optimistic. "Maybe everyone is just catching up to us in NIL!?" I feel like this anxiety needs to walk away from the keyboards of this board, if nowhere else. No one is going to "catch" a competitive advantage. There is a very small handful of schools that sit above the rest in terms of access to capital and House doesn't change that. Texas would have to choose to give that up. Is that something a totally aligned organization and its benefactors are going to let happen? It seems unlikely. I think it is fair to think that Texas is still surveying the landscape and not making all of the moves early, but it will eventually take action and flips and surprises will fall in our favor down the line. I also think it is prudent to realize that there's risk on in this cycle that either may not happen or the calculations will be wrong, with timing being yet another factor that could work against Texas out of nowhere. "The current season doesn't really impact the current recruiting cycle." One final thought around all of this is that the performance within the season now matters more than ever. The old thought above this in bold is now an old trope. Money being funneled in for recruiting and roster management is some of the same money recruiting to buyout an old coaching staff and to hire a new one. Florida's money started flowing after they decided to keep Sun Belt Billy. If that flips and they have to fund a big buyout, there will be blood with that roster and recruiting class. If USC fucks the chicken again, they likely still can't afford to buyout Riley, but that obvious future need may well close off the NIL valve and lead to serious attrition even without coaching change. These are scenarios that will play out at multiple schools before the mythical "signing day" in December. I think Texas is going to have another amazing year on the field, so it can only benefit from the carnage within the realm of poor performance and coaching hot seats and firings.51 points
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Push boundaries like creating the nation's biggest and best NIL collective, spending more in NIL than everyone else in the nation, while killing the portal and ending with the #1 recruiting class in the nation, LITERALLY LAST YEAR? Other schools are pushing those kinds of boundaries? Oh wait, some 17 year olds made non binding decisions based on absurd potential numbers before fall camp has even started and you for some unknown reason let that ruin your entire mental state...but oh, ah yes, Texas and their vaginal tendencies. How the fuck have you not been crowdsourced yet you thin skinned puta, take your pants pissing over to Orangebloods49 points
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I'm heartbroken by this event, like many here not one of us 4 in my family doesn't know someone at most 2 Kevin Bacon steps from ourselves who is dealing with loss of human life. So much I could post, including why this storm was so bad - we get lots of Mexican landfall tropical systems that come in early hurricane season and don't. I'll pick that up maybe in a few days if interest. Not definitive answers but good estimates. Mainly I wanted to give a few words on today for ATX and immediate areas: This storm's center is almost on top of us, moving very slowly ENE. It's been bubbling today, that is the early a.m. concentration was up in San Saba/Burnet areas, and now seems to have formed another "barbell end" S/SE of ATX east of San Antonio in the Lower Guadalupe/Blanco area. Watch there in particular the next few hours and take care. However, there are some training storms N to S in W. Travis/Hays. Right now they're not too sated and are moving; however in some spots they're in a long line and could strengthen and douse a given area. It's next to impossible to know exactly where the "reds" will boil up and move. So stay near home or off roads where running water comes into play. Barry's remnants have lost a little punch in the last few hours, but there's always the danger of a "bomb spot" especially as diurnal heating takes place today over the system. Fortunately they ground around us is cooler from the past days' rains and might help reduce the intensity. This storm will slowly slide east of the 35 corridor by sunset or so, and being on the "backside" of it, will definitely decrease the totals. Tomorrow can see more rain but not what we've seen, even in Austin. By Monday this should be reduced to spotty light/medium showers widely scattered. Any questions etc. I'll try to check in. My heart and prayers go out for the grief that you can just feel over this region today. Godspeed to loved ones dealing with this.48 points
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A post from a friend… This is a tragedy beyond tragedy's. Violent storms on the evening of 7/3 flooded the Guadalupe River which Camp Mystic rests on. The damn broke and all the younger girl cabins down on the "Flats" as they call it were basically submerged. From my daughter Tiny, "Water rose up to the door mom. The only way out was to break the back window and climb out. It was am and I couldn't find my shoes. I was so scared but I kept going. I had my retainers in but didn't want to lose them, so l put them in the pocket of my pajamas. We climbed through the window and headed up the hill. The rocks really hurt my feet and I was so cold and shivering. We got to the top of the mountain and our counselor Annabelle was with us and was so awesome. She kept us safe under a tree. We huddled shivering and singing songs in the dark. Mom I thought I was going to die I was so scared. The thunder and lightening was so loud. Once it got lighter out we made our way back down to the Cypress side of camp and then Annabelle through us over the river and we ran into the dining hall of Cypress where we sat in the dark. They found me some dry clothes. We all just sat there waiting and waiting for hours. Then we were told we were getting on helicopters. Mom I didn't know if I would see you again."47 points
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Just got the dreaded text. Doesn’t appear that my friend’s girl survived. I think they found her body.46 points
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When Fasusi went to OU last year we all were mostly okay with it because of a 2026 OL we wanted and that OL wasn’t Felix Ojo. Pumped to have Turntine in the class. Checks a lot boxes on and off the field.46 points
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aggy has been hounding this account all week since the final DC numbers came out, so he tried to help them out.46 points
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Not for nothing, but it’s fine for you to just not post anything when you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.46 points
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Just found out our very good friends lost their toddler while their river house was ripped apart in Kerrville. Mom saved the older child. Absolutely devastating.45 points
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She and her late husband have been family friends since my dad moved us here in ‘88. I left here when I graduated high school, and never looked back. Until I moved back here a year and a half ago. This is a wonderful place (politics excluded), to raise a child as a family, or a single dad like myself. I went to sleep last night and it was sprinkling. I woke up periodically throughout the night to a torrential downpour. At 8am this morning, my backyard was underwater. That’s when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I reached out to my firefighter friend, and questioned the three flash flood alerts I’d received starting at 3am. I wasn’t able to do shit, other than load and unload stuff for the first responders. I had to stand down when it came to getting into the fray. I’m having a lot of trouble with what’s going on. I was able to watch a woman rescued via helicopter, from a tree. It reminded me of the footage from 87. People who I’ve known all my life, and consider family, have lost their homes. If these Mystic kids are gone, I’m going to lose my shit. I don’t really pray anymore, but I’ll do whatever it takes to just get some good news. I absolutely hate feeling helpless, and that’s how I feel right now. I woke up today, and planned on a day of drinking. Man, that changed. Sorry for the rant, but it’s been a fucking day.42 points
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The body of my daughter’s friend has been found. I haven’t seen her image in any of the social media postings which makes me realize that there are just so many babies still out there we haven’t even seen yet. Those poor sweet girls, those poor families 🙁38 points
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Confirmed. Fuck. Whole life in front of her. Eloise is the blonde sweetie on the right.37 points
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I love how you show up to chastise emotional posters here for not giving you information, but you don’t extend that expectation to your elected officials who spend the 30 minutes of a press conference giving no information. I’ve lived through Harvey, which had a new press conference every few hours. I guess my experience with emergency press conferences differs from yours, since apparently your’s all start with a 30 minute dick sucking session and providing zero information about things like missing or dead citizens.37 points
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Sad but true - it’s actually four, not three. Two of the girls were confirmed deceased in the last couple of hours, and two still missing with little hope. I don’t even know what to do and I feel guilty being so happy that we picked up my kids safe from CLH today. Beyond heartbreaking and going to affect so many for generations. 💔36 points
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Day's Final Update: - Convection/rainfall has greatly diminished this evening as hoped & mentioned in my previous post. Latest NWS guidance keeps open the possibility of scattered heavy rain just like last night, although factors aren't as strong. This means hopefully spottier rains. But I expect it to pick up in the post-midnight hours as influx of warm, moist air re-feeds the column of saturated mid-level core. - However, the system hasn't moved much, in fact seems to have wobbled a bit SW to just west of Round Rock. Unfortunately the trough I hoped would pull it up is just too weak in this part of the country to drag it out - there's just nothing to influence moving it away right now. So what's going to happen is default - a high pressure ridge to our east is going to slowly work its way in from the Mississippi Valley region and nudge the system back westward. It's weakened somewhat but by no means isn't still strong enough for another round of flooding rain - but not to the destructive degree before. - However, this means again more heavy rain for some part of the Hill Country - were exactly is impossible to predict (models are suggesting the more northern quadrant again)- possible early a.m. tomorrow. Flood watches are now well into Sunday afternoon/early evening. I think ATX will escape the worst, lying just to the east of the core (again!) - our flood risk is a 1, vs. 2 or 3 west of Travis/Williamson. This is still a potentially dangerous situation west of 281 for tomorrow. Unfortunately, this thing is going to die a slow, gradual death, not finally GTFO. But again, the hopeful prediction here is less than the last 2 rain bombs. Sunday will see this system move over the Hill Country and hopefully a little weaker. It'll either finally meander SW and die out or kick up towards the panhandle, then out. But that's for tomorrow, hopefully I can get a handle on how this thing is gonna end once and for all. Finally, I know adults are among the deceased and I grieve for them as well, I just want to leave this in memory of those lovely little gals who've perished in this disaster. We remember you. (This was my daughter's favorite stuffed animal when she was at that age.)35 points
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Thats what is taking place. Ive been out there twice now and my body is completely out of whack at this point. You just cant help but expect the worst. The search teams are working extremely hard but in my opinion the reason the officials arent being more forthcoming, is because they're trying to figure out when they have to tell everyone they cant even find most of the bodies. Its my expectation that we lost a lot of wonderful people and a lot of beautiful little girls. Its such an important place to so many people, for so many thats their happy spot. Especially talking to the Mystic people, something that brought them true joy has brought them devastation on a level that they just cant comprehend yet. Theyre just paralyzed. And the bad news just keeps coming in. Sorry if Im sounding dramatic, but I do think something dramatic has taken place that will leave a major scar.34 points
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Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown. Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.34 points
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Don't blame posters for CRing this up; blame the politicians at a news conference that CR'd the hell out of it. .31 points
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If we’re talking about systems state officials have available…just treat life-threatening floods like they react whenever a cop gets shot: Blaming the NWS is chickenshit. But the next time I see Texas state officials take responsibility for dropping the ball will be the first.31 points
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Hahahha what a group of fucking clowns. Any of you that support these cocksuckers deserve what is coming for you via them. These ain't fucking Texans. They are cosplay jokers. Holy shit. We are fucked. Thoughts and prayers going hard in the paint! Fuck all you assholes.30 points
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Oh fuck off. Your guys are already literally blaming this on evil Biden weather modification and shit. Whereas the sane people are noting that state authorities have an easy mechanism to send statewide alerts out: they use it whenever a cop gets a hangnail, even in the middle of the night. But for this? Nada from state authorities. This state is poorly run, and it’s getting exponentially worse by the day. The only thing holding shit together are some local governments - which are run mostly by regular Texans, your neighbors - and volunteer decent Texans. There will be a shitload of failure analysis after this, but don’t worry your little head, nobody in the group that has run this state for the past 30+ years will take any responsibility. We’ll just hear the new official state motto: “It could have been worse.” My fellow Texans are fucking dying, and not one of those fuckers cares about anything but themselves. Makes me want to puke.30 points
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6th street as the voice of reason in this thread means that we have crossed the point of no return.30 points
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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 Horn28 points
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Oh. You’re back. Yaaaaay… He retired early specific to the cuts. The cuts that were made by entirely political decisions, influencing one man’s 32 years of experience in his job issuing warnings to the central Texas region of Texas. You’re saying this isn’t political? Because if you say it isn’t, then me commenting that these political decisions potentially killed a bunch of kids isn’t Political, and doesn’t belong in the Cloak Room. Because I’m commenting on the News.28 points
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Let me say something about the CR accusations: I don't think any clear-minded individual would watch these dicksticks on parade and think "yep, those are some real leaders right there, yessir", regardless of party/persuasion. These people are not only grandstanding they are getting in the way of information flow which is beyond vital at this point. Maybe Ann Richards pulled similar stunts, I don't remember. Shame on her if she did. This shit should transcend politics, but somehow commenting on it is "political" when it's just factual.28 points
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Posting that number publicly is a recipe for some bad feelings in the locker room.28 points
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Just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you’re talking about. This take is dumber than a bag of rocks.27 points
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Just so we’re on the same page here, you do realize that you’re actively engaging with one of the lowest IQ, highest vaginally juiced fucktards in all of longhorn netdom, right?27 points
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The only thing I'm confident about is Texas will do absolutely nothing and voters will forget about it in a week26 points
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