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Time for another CSPD and ATM athletics BBQ. Last one was what? 10 years ago?
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The biography of Jayne Mansfield done by her daughter Mariska Hagerty is good. I had watched JM in The Wayward Bus and enjoyed it, so gravitated to the doc. It's always interesting how many very talented and intelligent women were keyholed into their personas by the men in Hollywood and NYC. Hedy Lamarr always stood out, but also Monroe and now Mansfield. How frustrating it must have been for them to be seen only for their body or looks.
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Kendall Scudder acknowledges flooding, but talks about redistricting and why it's so important to Abbott. Standing up, throwing down.
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There is a correlation between these two.
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I would think kids who can command NIL type money are just as much looking to land somewhere that has the staff and facilities to develop them into high draft choices. It's a two part exam, and I don't see Sanders as having the chops or staff to pass the second part, even if CU had funds to match UT and other NIL leaders.
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Not to derail the thread, but who exactly are the State Police? What jurisdiction do they serve and how much power do they hold? I sure have been seeing a lot of cars and trucks lately marked as police but with no indication of what city they serve. Might be better in the ICE thread. But this is one of the trucks sent to respond in Kerr Co.
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Sorry, I have searched CBS News several times now with no luck. It was on the revolving one that comes through the internet several times a day, not of the actual airwaves or like CBS morning or evening news.
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Amidst all of this sometimes I have to stop and think about those poor teens who were acting as counselors at Mystic and the nightmares and guilt they are going to carry forever. And while I do imagine they come from privileged and affluent backgrounds, still to be placed in a position of life or death for people who trust them is not a place to put those kids. There are a thousand ways that could have been different, but there is no reason for a camp that charges that much would not have a trained adult assigned to those cabins. To have to live with the questions about whether you did something wrong, or missed some announcement, or ignored some part of a lecture on emergency response is a lot to ask those kids. Those who survived, that is. I saw a segment on CBS online Tuesday which called out the commissioner's court hard. They had quotes from Buster and his picture, explaining how he has since passed. But there was no doubt they had done their research and were casting blame on that group. I have also seen other media reports that stop just short of accusing, but lead the viewer to answer the hanging questions. Unfortunately, that just isn't enough for lots of people. They have no critical thought process.
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Every school in our county has an emergency response plan that covers pretty much any potential situation from fire, planes crashing into bldgs, WMDs, active shooters and even nuclear accidents. Each school has the same outline for their plan. Once the outline is laid out, then each plan is customized for each school system. For example: layouts of buildings, who is responding from where, how long it will take, etc. This way if their is ever a need for the plan, each responding group will know exactly where to look for pertinent info on just about anything. Saves time and confusion. I can imagine going to a school for a fire and the section for where to shut off electrical power is buried in some obscure bldg description section. So yes, each camp should have a plan that is customized to them, but also follows a standard layout and format, much like an MSDS sheet. Texas is so large that it is quite possible a big catastrophe can strike and the rest of the state can muster what it needs to deal with the response. To what effectiveness I can't guess. But smaller states can get hit and the whole state is now limping along and needs neighbors to come help in times of needs. That state's emergency reserves could have been wiped out or made inaccessible, while their neighbors can get to their own supply, leaving the challenge of transporting it to the areas of need as the biggest impediment. Every town has a fire/EMS department, even the really small ones. And they can handle the day to day, but they can't handle the big ones alone. That is where the idea of other states stepping up through FEMA makes sense. How many Texas firefighters went to California the last go around of wildfires? Hell, we even had Mexico come in and help us in Kerrville and they aren't even a state. WIthout FEMA the smaller and less populated states are at real risk, especially with extreme weather becoming the norm instead of the outlier.
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Yes, from what I have read the camps were responsible for having their own plans. That's ridiculous, because it's akin to each student writing their own test questions. How do you judge the strength of a plan without a standard to hold it to? Just more passing responsibility along. Having served as a first responder in rural Texas I have to say the radio communications suck in most counties, particularly ones with hills or mountains. Then add in that the government about 20 years ago sold off a huge chunk of bandwidth of our airwaves to private vendors like cell phone companies. That forced departments to start moving away from analog radios to digital systems, which are way more expensive. So I really can't fault them for going that route. Where I can fault them is for not upgrading their flood warning system earlier when they had the chance for Obama money. I disagee, stupidity and complacency broke it. The internet sped it up. Yep, you'd think he'd tell himself first thing to call the guy in charge of monitoring to get some idea on what's headed their way? Please no. I avoid DT like I avoid FB these days. To go in there does me no good. To me this makes me think of roaches scrurrying about in the middle of the night when the kitchen light comes on. Can hear them screaming "Politicization! Politicization!" Or however the fuck you spell it.
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I read somewhere yesterday that she was on a committee under the Whitmire regime in Houston on Food Insecurity. She has been removed from that committee because of her comments. The difference to me between the events is the gun lobby. It keeps gun regulation at bay. I would guess that it will when it comes to the locals and state officials. Same as tort protected the Board of Regents and everyone after the Bonfire tragedy. I gotta go with Hagbard on this. These people are affluent and their way of life is bouyed by a system that MAGA makes possible. They will choose the money every time. It is all they know. It is their whole valuation system for living.
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Newsweek has a decent article if you want to fight your way through the ads. https://www.newsweek.com/flash-flood-alley-has-history-deadly-camp-floods-meteorologist-2095170
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If you are looking for a very good movie about love, life, kids, parenting and interactions with assholes in your life, I suggest When Life Gives You Tangerines. It is Korean, and dubbed, and the dubbing is actually pretty good. It's definitely a series to watch with your spouse and hopefully family. There are parts it gets real dusty. I can't find a way to give you a trailer in English dubbing, but here's one with english subtitles. I've always enjoyed UI (who plays several characters). Gives you a pretty good sense of South Korea from the rural parts all the way into Seoul.
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I went to MO several times in the mid 70s. Brisket can correct me, but I remember it being a retreat for Marathon Oil? Some oil company or another. It was a great camp compared to the scout camps I attended. They have this old water slide there that was super fun. There's a video of it attached. But when we used it, there were no walls on either side. The pain in the ass was hauling that wooden luge thing back up, so the second year we brought some rope, a pulley and some barbell weights. We used that to pull the cart back up the track instead of lugging it. worked pretty well. That was a really fun and clean camp. All presbyterian run, and they were even laxer than the methodists at that time. Always made sure I went along on those trips if i could.
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I would hope it would be the moms who get up in arms. I'm not keyed in to how MAGA dads perceive their daughters now, given this whole push towards traditional wives, mothers, homemakers. It seems that if they won't stand up for their daughers' health care and all the other things 2025 is trying to push on society, do they value their daughters as much as their sons? I mean we haven't seen any stand up for the victims in Santa Fe and other school shootings. It's nearly like they are ok with having their daughters become sacrifices. But then we are talking a different level of MAGA here. These folks aren't living in trailers and probably have a pretty solid education. Most I bet have some deep roots in different fraternities. Watching the unfolding of things will be interesting indeed when it comes to those parents.
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Y'all are both (fuck now it's ALL of you) right. The NWS and meteorologists did their jobs. I misstated myself. What I meant to say that NWS being short staffed could have been part of the problem. But I have also seen that being short staffed alluded to for being maybe under estimating the magnitude of the event? And all the talk about the 100 year events is based on data and analysis by the NWS and watershed authorities (corp of engineers, etc). So defunding them, cutting staff could have been part of the initial problem. Not defending myself, it was an error.
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But isn't that part of the Great we are in such a hurry to recapture? I'm still on this bandwagon. While NWS is at fault, they don't have near the responsiblity in all this that the county does. I am betting there will be lawsuits that flesh that out. Unfortunately so many of these officials are protected from personal loss due to tort reform, leaving them with something akin to qualified immunity. While it was put into place to protect sincere good samaritans, it's been bastardized to protect those who make shitty decisions about service to people based on re-election bids. I live in a community that used to have a wide variety of amenities and services. Over the past two decades I have watched the bulk of those disappear. The move was to first underfund the amenities and let them fall into such disrepair people could not use them. Next obvious step was to do away with them all together, because no one is using them anymore, right? And in doing so they could keep their maintenance fees low and everything went into the golf course and landing strip. We have seen the same thing in our state govt. And trump is doing the same with his dumbass DOGE stuff. Musk is gone, but you don't see Trump scrambling to repair all the damage he did. Nope. And too many sit there and cheer this on. They have made the taxpayers of Kerrville or wherever seem like logical people when they refuse to pay for things of public safety. What they don't see is how many of their businesses rely on the tourist/camp visitors who will now be gunshy about coming to their county and choose to spend that money in a place that doesn't have such a deadly reputation. But in the end, those county commissioners are at fault here. They should have done better. It's part of your energy bill every month. I know mine is at least $50 more every month than before. Something else I bet happens. Trump miraculously finds some FEMA money for Texas, due to the fact that if Texas goes blue, so does the rest of the country, electorally. No FEMA for this will be huge...and we haven't even gotten into hurricane season properly yet.
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Apparently Austin is a hub for the Natalist movement: I'd have to imagine they would pay the Bullock to hold it there. but then I am sure they have some deep pockets behind them to rent such places to give them the appearance of being more established than they are. Bullock's gotta be turning over in his grave, right?
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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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https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/ I imagine that link is pretty busy right now.
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Tommy Boy retired as commissioner in 2017. Not sure how the potential for disaster was addressed, but I imagine there will be someone combing through the Comm. Court minutes to piece it together. https://www.hccommunityjournal.com/community_life/article_8db919ae-d772-11e6-8de2-db22ecc8f224.html
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Each county in Texas can opt into a reverse 911 program. This is an alert system that sends warnings throughout the county according to addresses. But the problem is those Reverse 911 systems are linked solely to landlines. Kerr County currently uses a system called CodeRed, which operates like Reverse 911. However, it only reaches registered landlines; cell phones and VOIP numbers must be manually signed up through the county portal people.com+8kerrvilletx.gov+8reddit.com+8. That means standard cellphones were not automatically notified, unless someone had beforehand opted in. Camp Mystic probably did have at least one operational landline, since reverse 911 focuses on those. But if that landline was not registered in the county’s system—or was affected by power/water outages—it likely didn’t relay any alert. Plus, once local systems like phones and internet went down during the flood, that lifeline likely failed. No verified Reverse 911 call went out to residents around midnight on July 4. The system depends on landline registration; cell phones don’t get alerts automatically. If Camp Mystic had a landline—but it wasn’t registered or was down—they would have missed any alert. Overall, this tragedy shines a glaring spotlight on the limitations and fragility of the current system—and the urgent need for more robust, multi-channel emergency alerts. On top of that, how many remember in 2018 when the government set us a Wireless Alert System? I assume that has also been defunded, since it's last one was in 2023. I assume they could tailor WEA for target areas. October 3, 2018 was the first-ever Presidential Alert test sent to nearly every smartphone in the U.S., triggered under FEMA’s IPAWS system. Users couldn’t opt out, and it blared a loud tone with a test message en.wikipedia.org+11en.wikipedia.org+11cbsnews.com+11en.wikipedia.org+2time.com+2weather.gov+2. The most recent nationwide test occurred on October 4, 2023, involving both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for radios/TV and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) for cellphones emergencyalertsystem.fandom.com+9umpdnews.umd.edu+9cityoflaurel.org+9. So yes—and going forward, there are scheduled WEA tests via national broadcast networks. I am going to assume CodeRed is a cheaper alternative to Reverse 911 and the county didn't spend much money getting people to opt in.
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Agreed. Same can be said for Uvalde? Sutherland Springs? Santa Fe? But there is a faction that continues to deny that guns kill people, and that our climate isn't affected by humans.
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