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Hmbre97

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  1. Camp Mondamin in NC is > $9000 for their 5-week main session for next year.
    Ozark breaks their sessions differently (1 and two week chunks), but staying 4 weeks is basically the same as above.
    Texas has no monopoly on this industry.
    Thank God for Boy Scouts. The summer camp in North Carolina I sent my boy to this week was $400 for the week.

    Just another indictment on the growing wealth gap in this country.
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  2. 6 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    HEB has a "resort area" of sorts for any employee to schedule and use.  Well, it was possible when Oma worked for HEB.

    How many of these properties does HEB have? I know they have one right by the causeway in Rockport. A buddy of ours went to work in their IT dept and we've been bugging him to try and get us in there.

     

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  3. Shiiiiiiieeeet, Erewhon would clean up in Austin between all the pretentious tech bros and gals, then throw in all the influencers. Either downtown or West Lake would be a money printer.

     

    I didn't have any of my usual Herdez roasted salsa verde but had a jar of this in the pantry that I got a while back in a meal deal. This is definitely going to be my new go-to. 

     

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  4. 6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    One of the tragedies with a lot of stuff (not just Kerr County) is seemingly otherwise intelligent, educated people like Moser behaving like complete dumbfucks when they get into politics.

    Moser, who was first elected to the Precinct 2 county commissioners seat in 2012, previously had a long career in the aerospace industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. studies at Rice University. At the NASA Johnson Space Center from 1963 to 1986, he served in key management positions including as chief engineer, program manager of the Space Shuttle and Space Station. Upon returning to Texas from Washington, D.C., in 1997, he served as the executive director of the Texas Aerospace Commission, where he established Texas Spaceport Authorities.

    https://dailytimes.com/news/county-commissioner-tom-moser-to-retire/article_be0e203a-d83b-11eb-8399-db048532ed79.html

    It's crazy to read his background, then go back and re-read his comments from those meetings and think that a guy that has had the career he did was completely cool with continuing to rely on a game of telephone as your warning system to prevent loss of life. 

    It's fascinating. 

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  5. Just now, troph said:

    I think it deflects blame from camp, local and state officials. 

    the storm was stronger than anyone expected but the forecast was severe enough to cause reasonable people to take action, and they did not. Those are the ones to blame. 

    My take is Camp Mystic is to blame for their tragedy. They are locals and should have been well aware that there were no sirens or advance flood warning system locally. It should have been standard protocol that they have a night watch crew equipped with weather radios or whatever necessary to monitor for any updates from NOAA/NWS. Same goes for Camp La Junta or any other campground in that area. They had plenty of prior warning to move people to higher ground. 

    Kerr County and anyone involved in neglecting to set up sensors and sirens in a known flood plain should have to answer for the lives of all those poor folks from the RV sites and houses on the banks of the river that were lost.

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  6. I had to go pick my oldest up from his mom's place in Georgetown at 3am so I could take him to the airport and yeah, I caught one of those bands that peeled off around that time. Shit was hairy.

    After this happening yesterday, it was rough dropping him off this morning. He's going for a week to a scout camp just outside Asheville, NC and that tropical storm has me nervous as hell.

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  7. is this the thread where you post when you've been DOGE'd / TACO'd? My now prior employer is in the healthcare space and is very reliant on federal/state funding and grants. We went from living it up during covid to now "workforce reduction and restructuring" because of all the cuts made and cuts proposed. I knew things were going to shit but thought my position was pretty insulated from cuts.

     

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  8. 35 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    So, each agency needs a completely different bureaucracy to handle that information instead of combining it into one function across all of the agencies?

    Guess you like inefficiency...Instead of ONE, we should have hundreds?

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