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I agree with most everything you wrote except the bolded parts. I think we do know what would have happened if everyone moved uphill an hour earlier. There's video of Mystic girls walking through shin deep water pretty close to Bubble Inn and Twins. Oddly, they are evacuating to another building that was located in the floodway (area even lower than the floodplain), which to me indicates there was a general lack of knowledge, poor planning, or poor communication about where to go in a flooding event. I get the reservations about assigning blame and can sympathize with the dilemma of sheltering in place vs evacuating; but its OK to evaluate an event and recognize mistakes were made while also applauding the efforts made to save lives. And to be clear I am not being critical of any campers or counselors for their decisions; I do think it's fair to be critical of a plan that clearly failed those girls - especially if the camp-designed, state-approved plan was for the girls to just ride out the flood in cabins that sit in the floodway and/or 100 year floodplain.
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I was thinking about this too. Either LCRA (or whoever makes these decisions) is completely incompetent, or there was concern for the safety of boaters on those lakes if they opened up the floodgates earlier because they had to know the water was coming. After seeing the footage of all the water flowing over Starke dam I feel like the only reason to not open them sooner was concern over the safety of the people celebrating the 4th on the lakes. If that wasn’t the case then someone should get fired.
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That’s a really confusing, misleading, and shitty tweet. Don’t click.
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The camps we’re talking about are all upstream. That’s not to say there isn’t flooding downstream too, but looking at the radar I don’t think you’re getting accurate info.
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I was in Wimberley during the Memorial Day flood several years ago, and I can tell you this is easier said than done. That downpour came out of nowhere and the rate at which the river rose was incomprehensible. By the time the weather reports/warnings started coming out there was little first responders and officials could do - though I will say they were all over the place doing what they could.
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And I knew you were talking about Pasadena, CA. Made me laugh though since this reminded me of rumors homeland security once initially dismissed a threat as non-credible since it entailed targeting a refinery in Pasadena, and their high level investigators quickly determined there are no refineries in Pasadena. Fortunately someone eventually realized there's also a Pasadena, Texas.
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Well shit. And to think this whole time I thought we were talking about Lower Alabama. No wonder I'm so confused.
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In that case I think you meant to write Pasadena, California.
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“Gravy Seal open carry types” - I’m not sure if I’ve been living under a rock but I’ve never heard this term before, and I love it.
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And before anyone else gets their panties in a wad over this (or gets tricked by a far-right leaning, billionaire-funded smear machine again), if you read the bill you’ll see it only applies to the following people/entities: Sec. 255.0015. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This section applies only to a person who: (1) is an officeholder, candidate, or political committee; (2) makes expenditures during a reporting period that in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, and bandwidth; or (3) publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for consideration. So if you want to make funny memes fire away. You’re safe so long as you aren’t a politician, PAC, or getting paid to do so. Sincerely, Dade’s mom
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Speaking of dirty money, if you’re going to link articles published by Texas Scorecard, you should know Tim Dunn was the primary financial backer of Empower Texas; Texas Scorecard is an online publication that was launched by Empower Texas; Tim Dunn is on the board of Texas Scorecard; Tim Dunn is a contributing author for Texas Scorecard. Tim Dunn is the one who wants to kill this bill because it would criminalize misleading campaign materials like the ones aimed at Dade Phelan when Patrick, Paxton, and their cronies were trying to get him primaried. The dirty money guys you mentioned above are the ones who funded the article you linked, and are the ones fighting against this bill.
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You should realize you have this completely backwards. While Phelan is a Republican, he is the former Speaker of the House who Patrick and Paxton tried to get primaried. Phelan led the effort to impeach Ken Paxton, something he actually got the majority of Republicans in the house to support. Read the bill. This is related to the mountains of misleading campaign materials aimed at Phelan in the primary; much of which was funded by the $3 million Defend Texas Liberty PAC (largely funded by Tim Dunn) gave Dan Patrick ahead of the impeachment trial in the senate.
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We’re shitting the bed but what’s going on with these refs is absurd.
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That was only 8 seconds, btw.
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