Yeah, the power of that water and the vast level of destruction can't be appreciated until you see it yourself. It truly is incredible.
Good on you for volunteering. The work wears you out physically and emotionally with the latter being the worst - just something you don't quite expect. Sounds like you didn't make it to the memorial on Water Street. That breaks one as much as anything especially seeing those hardened search and rescue workers openly weeping. As one of them said to me: "This humanizes our entire process."
You may not feel like you made a dent but it's true that all of the contributions add up. It's also true that your experience and the things you saw aren't going anywhere - going to be seared in your mind for a long time to come.
Great read on a Coast Guard search and rescue team:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/07/31/a-nightmare-the-coast-guards-harrowing-flight-to-camp-mystic/
If only we could say the same about the actual justice that'll be rendered.
The Cro-Magnon will post bail within 12 hours and commence the process of being a piece of shit to someone else.
I had not seen this timelapse infrared imagery. The explosion of the system during the early morning of July 4 is incredible.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/54/202507_GOES-19_ABI_SECTOR_sp_Band_14_(July_2025_Central_Texas_floods)_Output5Band14.webm/202507_GOES-19_ABI_SECTOR_sp_Band_14_(July_2025_Central_Texas_floods)_Output5Band14.webm.1080p.vp9.webm
Seeing video of Wilber Jackson in the wishbone wearing #80 is funny. Came to Alabama as a WR. Kept his #, moved to the backfield and was an All-American.
First black scholarship player at Alabama in the early 70s.