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austingirl

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  1. Trump will never, ever resign. I believe that with every fiber of my being.
  2. Oh my god, I'm so sorry and glad you and Kora are ok. So you were able to subdue the dog and keep it there till animal control got it? I carry pepper spray for stuff like this.
  3. I only know about the service they used (4 Paws for Ability) but I believe it cost them $17k. It's a lot, and certainly out of reach for many people, but the price doesn't surprise me considering that it takes two years to train them. This is a video they did about the process.
  4. My friend and her husband adopted a special-needs baby at birth - his mom was on drugs and he has a seizure disorder caused by schizencephaly. Two years ago they were able to raise enough money to get on a list for a service dog for him, and today he and the other kids placed with dogs from this training group got to meet their dogs! The agency recorded all the kids and their families as they met their pups so if you want to tear up and/or forget about election stuff for a while, here's the video: https://fb.watch/1w0lvKLgHq/ These dogs have been training with the service dog agency since they were puppies and it takes about 2 years for them to be ready. This is Al:
  5. They may all go to hell.
  6. Oh, Greg. It's not you, it's 2020.
  7. From Groves around 6 pm. They lost power around this point but it could be wayyyyy worse. (Knock on all the wood.) IMG_0394.MOV
  8. It's really interesting for sure. We did this with Rocket and were shocked that the test showed he doesn't have lab in him, at least in any significant amount. I shared them back in the day and someone here goes "So that's what labs are made of. " This is Rocket and below are his results.
  9. Goddamn, 2020. I mean...goddamn.
  10. I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it. I think Jordan Peele does interesting work and has interesting ideas, but in execution they don't always play out as smoothly as I'd like. Perhaps some of my hesitation is because I thought the premise of the show was going to be the main characters road tripping around the US and running into weirdness as they search for Tic's dad, but that storyline was done in the second episode. I'm not sure how the supernatural stuff is going to play out if everything happens in Chicago - for example, WTF is going to happen with this Ruby/Hillary story now? Will Ruby never see the boss around town or in the store she loves? I do think the Christina/William thing is one of the more interesting plotlines and I want to see how it plays out. Are they trying to make us feel some sympathy for Christina and get Ruby to empathize with her? Although Christina obviously has the upper hand, being a white girl who's also a sorceress, she has probably faced discrimination associated with just being a woman in the 50s. Being able to walk around as a white guy probably gets her into places she couldn't go before and gets her information she couldn't get as a woman. Plus, is she queer? Is one of the reasons she likes being William so she can be with women openly? Anyway, I'll finish out the season. I'm hoping they can smooth some of the rough edges. The show could be great if it's done right.
  11. Yeah, not to derail, but y'all all need to read The Devil in the White City.
  12. We call this look "pizza face."
  13. It's a bizarre, trippy new Charlie Kaufman movie on Netflix starring Jessie Buckley (Lyudmilla in Chernobyl) and Jesse Plemons. Do yourself a favor and try not to read anything about it before seeing it, but if you're a Kaufman fan you should enjoy it. I'll put some spoilery stuff in spoiler tags.
  14. The pics I've seen have shown lots of wind damage but not much flooding. In other news, the Isle of Capri casino did get loose and is now wedged under the I-10 bridge.
  15. Everyone's alive and the house is still standing. Storm surge didn't get to them but there's tons of wind damage - front porch destroyed, huge trees down everywhere, fence down, etc. Basically what you'd expect from Cat 4 winds and tornados, but all in all it could've been much worse.
  16. Thanks - we appreciate it. You know I was just messing with you about the snake pic, right?
  17. Husband's grandma and three aunts are still in Lake Charles. Mawmaw is in her 90s and in very ill health and they really don't think she could handle an evacuation. It is a shitty rock and a shitty hard place. I don't expect to get much sleep tonight.
  18. Oh fuck you straight to hell
  19. What are the chances she could become a 5?
  20. Ugh this thing reminds me too much of Rita. At least it's not already a 5, I guess. This notice from the City of Port Arthur got me thinking about the pre-Katrina warning that went out just before it hit. Not as dire, of course, but it's still a punch in the gut after all these years. Seriously, y'all, be safe.
  21. I totally get it. Best of luck to you all, and stay safe.
  22. I would not be heading north at this point, especially not to Lufkin, which is still pretty close to Beaumont. This bitch is going to hit land and head northeast, going in around the same place Rita did, and if Laura also comes in strong a bunch of people up the TX/LA border are going to lose power and get stuck there. All those felled pine trees are going to block the roads and it'll be a mess. I'm sure traffic is awful but heading west and inland is the best bet at this point.
  23. Rita was a clusterfuck of nightmare proportions. Everyone was on edge already because of Katrina and then they told a million people to evacuate at the same time. And, if I remember correctly, in a lot of places they hadn't marked the contraflow lanes so people didn't know they were an option. Took my parents 21 hours to get from Groves to Austin - it was them, my grandma, a pug, and a cat in a carrier in a Toyota Avalon. Ever since they've tended to get out early even when there's still uncertainty about the track, and they're retired so they have more flexibility than in the past.They usually leave their RV in Crystal Beach all summer but they brought it up here yesterday - there's a decent KOA in Leander, and they didn't want to get caught in all the traffic when the evac orders hit.
  24. Saw this in a Dave Barry column back in the day. Someone needs to make a 2020 version.
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