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Nueces River Rat

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  1. Actually not on the bay, but inland ground water wells. They are upset about the plan to discharge the brine into a creek that feeds into Baffin.
  2. Or Nebraska.
  3. I wish more would go towards Camp Wood and the Nueces River up there.
  4. This guy does a wonderful job covering the Frio from the headwaters down past Uvalde, flood or drought. https://fb.watch/AQRbS7rT2r/?
  5. Same here. A normally 3 hour float took about 30 mins. Won’t dare do that now as a 53 year olds….. I was up there in 1987 when the floods that made the national news on the Guadalupe dumped the same amounts of rains in the headwaters of the Frio. It’s amazing what a matter of miles can do with rivers up there from being in flood stage to a trickle during these rain events.
  6. Times have changed……. Things that encourage us to stay indoors and home have altered a lot of stuff. I see this even in my own neighborhood in a Burb like area in the twenty years we have lived vs when we built our home. We’ve had so many people move in and out on our street I might know a handful of people who have been here for the long term as well. When we first moved here we had neighborhood gatherings, etc and nothing now. Football fridays we’d have a nearly sold out stadium, now a lot of empty seats. In the small town I grew up in which I visited over the weekend, it’s the same dynamic but more so because the younger generations starting with mine (Gen X) moved away and didn’t come back in large numbers after college, etc.
  7. Funny thing is the community barely recognized him with a tribute just in the last year or two. They kind of shunned him when Manziel wanted Manziel and some other things came out about his move to Kerrville.
  8. Kerrville used to be retirement destination number one when I was growing up for folks from the RGV. Seemed like every business folk my parents knew after they sold their business or put in their notice after 30 years of service was moving to Kerrville or Fredericksburg. This was back in the 80’s. The direction San Antonio is growing it might become more like what Boerne was 20 years ago where folks who wanted to live away from the city but still wanted the small town feel end up. Kind of like Dripping Springs in the Austin area where not too long ago it was out in the sticks. Now the Austin metro area is clearing a lot of those sticks and merging up with Dripping Springs.
  9. Recovery agencies at all levels of government in every state and even internationally could learn a thing or two from how HEB deploys. I can be certain if a hurricane hit the coast in the next couple of weeks, they’d be down here and still be able to do their thing in the Hill Country or any other part of the state if we had simultaneous events.
  10. It hit the Rockport/Port A areas and then headed towards San Antonio. But a stalled frontal boundary around Gonzales got involved and pushed it back towards the east and then back over the Gulf where it moved at very slow pace along that boundary with the moisture shield being on the north side which gave the Houston area the massive rains. https://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey
  11. Hurricane Beulah. Before many of us were born, but it’s legend and the standard down in the RGV and the Coastal Bend for that matter. This is the rain event my parents and other old timers reference when it comes to floods and hurricanes for that matter down there https://www.weather.gov/crp/Beulah It slowly went inland and stalled much like Harvey and then drifted around for five days giving many of the cities in the region rainfall records that haven’t been broken since then. Some areas got over 30 inches of rain and this was on top of a fairly wet August in the region.
  12. I pulling for it to make it Camp Wood, Barksdale, and west of Uvalde. The Nueces River could use the water, So close to but has sat out during this event.
  13. It’s the Amber and Silver alerts (that’s for the Senior Citizen that goes missing) are becoming too much of a routine thing and finally folks discovered how to turn the audible off on their IPhone and Androids. The whole concept of the EBS/EAS was created for local emergencies which put lives in immediate danger or national crisis such as nuclear war as was the fear in the early 60’s when it was created. And of course back then the only forms of media we had was radio and TV to broadcast the warnings. I’d honestly like to know how many children or missing elderly folks have been located directly tied to those alerts. Or was it general media coverage that now gets passed down the line by social media and good police work?
  14. Yep. The fact it almost has 9,000 likes is a tell assuming most of them are aggy. I’d be fricken livid and embarrassed if this was a UT fan or grad doing the same and vocally so.
  15. There is scene from Scarface I’d like to see done to people who do this sort of thing. Actually a few scenes.
  16. Today I don’t care if my HEB is open, short staffed, or if I can’t buy shit they make because it’s out of stock. They always come through when Texans are in need.
  17. The only thing about the cell phone emergency system is the tendency now for people to shut that off themselves like I have because of the way it’s used for things like Amber or Silver Alerts. I’m not sure it was a good idea for the Emergency Alert System to be used for this in retrospect. There is nothing close to giving a person a heart attack or a step rise in blood pressure than having that alarm go off at four in the morning and find out it was missing persons report at the opposite end of the state. Please don’t take that as me minimizing that sort of event. What might be a good alternative moving forward is some sort of direct alerts that are transmitted directly to the camps and other interest along the rivers facilitated though the emergency management agencies. Make sure it gets to multiple people in charge of the facilities with the information updated every year before the peak season.
  18. You probably answered the question. The area hasn’t had a historic event like this one since 1987 almost forty years ago. They’ve had plenty of floods since then, but not one of this significance or which caused so much loss of life. It’s kind of like in hurricane prone zones with building methods or where one builds doesn’t change until an event pushes it. I think a more short term look back would be to see what they did in the Wimberley area after the Blanco floods 10 years ago.
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