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  1. Just now, chainsaw said:

    Watching a livestream, and there's a comment "God sent the floods"

    That's a dipshit thing to say, and yet I'm certain people said that for Superstorm Sandy and again when people drowned in their basement apartments due to a similar tropical remnant torrent in 2021 (Hurricane Ida).

    Supposing you were the sort of person to believe that natural disasters were a sign of God's wrath, what message would God be sending and to whom?

    Let’s see. Republicans are running literally everything so

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  2. 4 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    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.  

     

    So yes—and going forward, there are scheduled WEA tests via national broadcast networks.

     

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    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.

     

    So the county commissioners in 2016 debated putting in sirens and said nah?

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  3. 11 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

     

    No. Because it’s the 4th of July weekend, almost 250 years to the day after we kicked your limey ass.

    Cornwallis did not surrender until 1781 my good sir

     

    2 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    You WILL NEVER guess who else is pissed.

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    They’ll forget all about this

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  4. 45 minutes ago, utee94 said:

     

    Bull.

    Fucking.

    Shit.

    There's no need to discuss a political press conference on the RAIN thread.

    You wanna know the right place to discuss your feelings about a political press conference.

    It's the fucking CLOAK ROOM you dipshits.

    You mean the press conference ABOUT THE FUCKING RAIN?

  5. 18 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    well good to know we can focus on Trump during this press conference.

     

    18 minutes ago, twosheds said:

    Trump and Noem love the state of Texas.

     

    16 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Jesus Christ stop talking about Trump you fucking sycophants.  This is an utterly worthless, information-free presser so far.

     

    11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Cornyn leading off with the Trump blowjob.  Well done, John, you simp.

     

    4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Chip Roy wants us to pray.  Drink!

    Hey @Wilcox Cummingtonite go fuck yourself

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  6. 2 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    In this case a "life threatening" flash flood warning issued at 1:14AM for Kerr County

    I didn’t know about this. From what I’m hearing from my daughter the cabins were filling w water at 2 so in that case there was time. Just terrible 

    2 hours ago, Texas Fight said:

    Are you sure that they didn’t?  Or are you just talking shit.

     

    1 hour ago, Texas Fight said:

    How do you know each of the camps didn’t have someone “monitoring this 24/7”? 
     

    How do you know each of the camps didn’t have a “well established and trained evac plan”?

    Some of us know campers and counselors at Mystic, so, yeah

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  7. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    You only need 4+ inches to cause flooding. It’s not like you wait until it’s 10+ inches to act especially when you are close to a creek or river. Shit I grew up watching brushy creek flood on just a few inches of rain. It doesn’t take much at all.  

    There is flooding and then there is this. I haven’t seen anyone post they’ve seen this amount of rain/flooding above Kerrville in living memory. Do we know the rain total over those few hours relative to what was predicted?

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  8. 1 hour ago, pacman said:

    This may not be a popular opinion here but I actually agree with this arrest regardless of her and her husband’s political views. She’s not fleeing oppression, violence, or even poverty. She’s a scofflaw and cut the line more than once. She should have been gone long ago yet has been here 26 years. 
     

    1 hour ago, Bookman said:

    She is a felon. She should be in jail instead of being deported. 

    maybe again an unpopular opinion but I’d prefer to deport criminals other than rapists and murderers rather than use taxpayer funds to feed clothe and shelter them

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  9. 16 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:

    Predatory loans will be the new norm (again). They have the blue collar workers and immigrants lined up to be slave labor, now this puts white collar jobs as debt slaves. It’s all in project 2025.

    I’ll let you know how it goes 

  10. 5 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    Oh shit. 

    Huge favorite of mine. Damnit. 


    RIP 🌹🌹🌹


    It is I suppose an odd coincidence that both he and Shannen Dougherty were on Charmed together. In real life they hooked up even though their characters on Charmed did not. 

    he was pretty much imo amazing in everything he did. Damn. 

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    Not the McMahon I was hoping for

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:


    And you think private loans won’t increase rates? Lol

    I don’t understand your point. I was clarifying that there is not a hard $50,000 per year cap on financing grad school. I’m not making an argument that this is as good or better than what we had before just that you can still finance 100% of your graduate or professional school costs

  12. My oldest is a rising senior and looking at law schools, so I have looked into this a bit.my understanding is the cap is on federal student loans. You can borrow the remainder of the cost of tuition, books, and living expenses (I’m assuming that is calculated by the school) using private student loans. They can actually have lower interest rates than federal loans if you are willing to cosign and have good credit, or if the student has established credit worthiness. It definitely sucks, but in my opinion in the Pell grant changesucks worse.

  13. 36 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    There is absolutely no more worthless group in a situation like this than the Red Cross.  They literally made things worse in Wimberley.  

    If you're going to donate money to the relief efforts, PLEASE do not donate to the red cross.  

    We learned this with Rita

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