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jimmyjazz

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  1. 27 fatalities in Kerr County so far. 18 adults, 9 children. Fuck.
  2. KXAN is interrupting TdF coverage to broadcast the press conference. Sheriff up first.
  3. Why would anyone drive over that bridge except in extreme situations? It may be robust and capable of sustaining those hydraulic forces, but I wouldn't bet my life on it.
  4. It feels like Austin television outlets have gone way downhill. I can only find some hacks on KVUE reporting on this. Are there any official websites that are updating on rescues, etc.? All of these media resources and it's apparently amateur hour across the board.
  5. I have a feeling a lot of Austin area residents are going to know someone involved.
  6. Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown. Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.
  7. It's like swatting, but it's icing.
  8. Don't know about the Whole Foods variant, but my wife happened to bring some of that "Creamy Jalapeno" dip home yesterday. She took a couple of bites and said "this is just hot green salsa". I saw "Salsa Dona" and thought that's weird, Salsa Dona doesn't have dairy in it, read the ingredients and yep, no dairy. It's pretty close to the restaurant salsa. Why they labeled it as "creamy" I don't know. I mean, it's whipped with oil, but . . .
  9. It's all in the calculus of risk vs reward. I'd suggest the risks of a vehicle accident are fairly low, but of course not zero. Perhaps the risk of a catastrophic flood is similar. What bothers me is the perception that it's important to save face by NOT evacuating in the event the floods don't manifest is more important than the risk of losing lives. (Not your perception, but the official perception.) I hope this event serves as a touchstone by which future risk is evaluated. "Hey, we thought the same thing in 2025, and look what happened."
  10. This was why I made that point earlier -- they know cell reception sucks out there. When the forecast rains are climbing, at some point it would seem prudent to have local officials go to those camps and at least warn them if not "order" them to evacuate. I understand the actual rain bomb occured very suddenly, but what's not clear is when they knew it was likely, maybe not the magnitude but at least at a magnitude that could cause potentially deadly flooding. Yes, it's hard to evacuate 100s of people (if not 1000s) in a short period of time. Have a plan. A flotilla of locals with pickup trucks -- god knows they have plenty of those -- and of course some busses. I don't know, I'm less convinced it was as much of a misfire as I imagined earlier but I have to think this could have been dealt with better.
  11. What do those white placards on the tailgate and rear fender say? I'm sure it's witty and thoughtful.
  12. That low-rent white trash brain-addled treasonous narcissistic incurious unstudious abusive dipshit just claimed from the White House lawn that the passage of his One Big Beautiful Bill represents a "triumph of Democracy on the birthday of Democracy". Why don't you time travel back well prior to the birth of Christ and talk to the Greeks about that, Donald?
  13. Maybe the wife made the call? Maybe the husband should be the one giving out the favors?
  14. Sounds like surly needs to make & market Surly Hot Sauce in California.
  15. Wimberly cleanup folks: what are going to be the biggest needs going forward? I don't own a chainsaw or a truck -- I could go buy the former -- but I can drag shit to somebody else's truck, I can handle a broom/mop, I can bring in supplies, I can donate money. Which efforts were overdone and which fell short? I remember a few Texas natural disasters (Bastrop fire, various rain bombs, some tornados, etc.) where FEMA etc. basically said "stop bringing clothes and food, just give money", but I'd like to also do something on site if possible, however meager.
  16. It feels like you post this every time a natural disaster like this occurs, and I see it elsewhere, and people still can't seem to learn the lesson.
  17. I feel like I'm going to puke. When some crusty old ass like me dies in one of these events, that's sad. Little kids at summer camp? That's just totally heart-breaking.
  18. Whole piglet?
  19. Maybe just grow tougher skin.
  20. Lucky for us, Dan Patrick is currently "Acting Governor". He's probably more useless than Abbott.
  21. To Spencer in bed? Ew.
  22. Sold the house a few years later.
  23. KXAN's "future radar" seems to be predicting a near-total weakening by rush hour, and then a second build around sunset (for whatever that's worth).
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