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Homesickhorn

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  1. It’s finally stopped raining in Kerrville. Unfortunately, now you can really hear choppers and sirens. C-130 landing at Mooney Airport.
  2. Drinking now. Here’s a pic of homesick jr and myself escaping Harvey. We’re standing on a “mini-dam, on the river property where the two houses out of view are now no longer standing. If this picture was taken right now, we’d be an easy 18-22 feet under water. The entrance to Camp La Junta is literally about 500 yards behind us.
  3. Do you not get it? I get that you’re trying to be informative. But this is a bit of an anomaly, weather wise.
  4. I can’t post vids. But these guys have been at it for an hour, easy. This is from my back porch. I know it looks like the same bird, but there are two, rolling tandem.
  5. Let me know if you need anything.
  6. Waiting to find out more. What I’ve heard, is that she was attempting to get to some stranded counselors, and didn’t make it to them. A lot is being said. It’s also been stated that Deen found her. Again, I’m skeptical of everything. But people very close to her/us have verified that she had passed.
  7. It’s true. Lower left vid is a DPS bird.
  8. 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.
  9. We’ve migrated back to Kerrville, actually my side of town (south). Birds are doing slow, low level passes. I’m back at my house. But the flight pattern, and the non-urgency of the helicopters, make me sick at what they’re now looking for.
  10. I can confirm this.
  11. My sister rode quadrille. My niece is a Comanche. Connie was a legend. She was a drill sergeant. I just got confirmation that Jane Ragsdale, the operator/owner of Heart of the Hills drowned.
  12. Depending on when you were there, you might have known my sister and cousins. She was a Tejas.
  13. Same from a friend of mine who’s married to a Texas Theta. Not their child, but one of her sorority sisters. This is rough.
  14. Still pouring here in Ingram. Blackhawk and other whirley bird pilots earning their pay.
  15. Looking back at the radar, this storm exploded and dropped an unprecedented amount of rain at an unprecedented rate at 2am. Sometimes it’s just bad luck and nature.
  16. There are some swift water teams from San Antonio here. And I hear helicopters, but can’t see them given the weather ceiling. We’re going to do what we can from the ground. There’s plenty for us to do, but, unless I have a Zodiac or a helicopter, my hands are tied.
  17. Britt and I graduated together. I used to go to Texas games in high school with the entire Eastland family. Edward is the youngest of the brothers. He and his wife are on the list of people unaccounted for. God damnit.
  18. Fuck. We’re in Ingram. Two of my friends and I are going to work from land. Sheriffs and Firefighters are going in the boats.
  19. Waldemar, Loma Linda (Mo Ranch), and Stewart all sit on the north fork (I think)of the Guadalupe. Mystic, Heart of the Hills, Arrowhead, and La Junta all sit on the south fork. I have no idea if it makes a difference, but I’m pretty sure they collide right at Hunt. Hence, La Junta getting absolutely pummeled.
  20. Mystic moved their campers from the “river camp” to the second camp that’s located on substantially higher ground.
  21. Grabbed my son and nephew from Stewart last weekend. Niece finished Waldemar last weekend as well. I’m really good friends with the Mystic owners, and am waiting to hear another update from him. The friends’ houses that were destroyed were in Canyon Springs, directly across the highway from La Junta. An AFD buddy (who had the 4th off) and I are loading up his truck right now, and heading to meet two more friends with flat bottom boats in Ingram. We’ve got permission to try and launch with another friend who’s a Kerr Cty sheriff’s deputy. And it’s still pouring here.
  22. I’m in Kerrville. And it’s been pouring since 10pm last night. It hasn’t slowed down yet.
  23. This is right down from my house. I’d load the whole video, but don’t know how. This is an incredibly tall bridge over a valley. You typically can’t even see the river from this road.
  24. You’re correct. My friend’s wife and children are being rescued from the 2nd floor of the River Inn Resort as we speak. Family friends in Hunt who have two houses on property are safe, but both houses are completely destroyed. One of the houses is 150 years old. I had no clue it was going to be this bad.
  25. Absolutely this^^^.
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