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  1. There are photos of what apparently are some of those cabins, if not those in particular with high water marks at 6-8 feet. Seems like leaving the cabin, if that's what happened, might have been a mistake.
  2. I am a prototype Aussie meathead dipshit. Romper Stomper. Animal Kingdom.
  3. Yeah, I dunno. I mean, like a lake house, being close to the water is kinda part and parcel of the whole deal. Seems like a calculated risk. I think there's definitely an acknowledgement of the possibilty of property damage, but loss of life is unfathomable. From one of the graphics, though, the Mystic cabins in question were fewer than 100 yards from the water. Some of the La Junta stories talk about 300 yards from the water. Then again, my cabin at Longhorn was probably 50-100 feet from the water's edge, and many are actually ON the water, but it is pointed out that Inks is a pretty low flood risk and probably not a flowing flood. Sidenote, I participated in Texas camp culture as did a lot of my peers, then and now. I don't think of myself or my peers as extremely privileged in the sense of the Hunts. And, I don't think of summer camp as some huge indulgence. But it costs, and it costs something that a whole lot of folks can't or shouldn't afford. Like many/most of us here, we're upper 5-10% of American society, we're pretty damned privileged if not extremely so.
  4. Shoulda taken the tube.
  5. Also, a US Senator advising a locality to keep money to keep it out of the hands of other localities with "suspect values." That is so beyond fucked up.
  6. Kerr County Commisioner's meetings. Linked several times above.
  7. Online resources that have been available to anyone with a functioning brain for decades. Absolutely catering to morons. It's brilliant.
  8. Texas Monthly has some great coverage of this and has brought back some articles from the past on flooding and Hill Country camp culture.
  9. To a certain extent, that is to be expected, these are rural-ish Texans. But I do know that a significant number of inhabitants are imports from Dallas and Houston that have retired there. In other words, old and white. I also know that doesn't seem to help the situation a bunch. That Moser dude is/was a what NASA engineer that held positions of significant responsibility. I was wondering how monolithic that was.
  10. The answer on negligence is, pretty much never. For pretty good reason, we don't hold legislative officials liable for their legislative acts, even when their motivations are plainly stated and idiotic. The answer for idiot officials lies at the ballot box. And there's your problem.
  11. No question. My "defense" of him upthread was in response to a post that sort of accused him of being a jackass.
  12. Texas DPS is the equivalent of "state police" in other states and it says "Texas DPS" on the hood of that thing, which seems conspicuously useless in this context (among others).
  13. I honestly think they're a great idea. I do tend to pay attention to weather alerts, but sirens really do get my attention. From a timeliness standpoint, yeah, they're the last line of defense, but something needed to get through to people.
  14. I saw that and growled the same thing before seeing the Succession gif.
  15. Well, to one degree or another, anyone who posts here is engaged in attention-seeking behavior. Very little any of us have to say is really that important to anyone except us. Nicole seems to be a very empathic person, generally speaking.
  16. Doesn't sound like what I know of Dick Eastland. I didn't know the man, myself, but I know a fair number of people that do, whose judgment I respect and they all say he's a very kind, humble man. Some of that litigation story belies that a little bit, but I think when something that is a labor of love starts to pay off, people can get a little off-center.
  17. Commissioner Jesus Shot says it's not cloud seating. Or seeding. https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-agriculture-commissioner-denies-weather-modification-allegations-central-texas-floods/
  18. I don't think anyone can dispute the natural beauty and that is what I am most familiar with. Sounds much more diverse than I would have guessed.
  19. That all seems to have concluded via settlement around 2011. The scheme described then was a land-ownership corporation, Natural Fountains, that owned the land, and a camp-operation corporation, Camp Mystic, Inc., that ran the camp, collected the fees and paid rent to Natural Fountains. Those family members not actively running the camp owned Natural Fountains, mostly; those running the camp, I.e. Dick and Tweety, owned Camp Mystic, Inc. It's conceivable that separating the ownership of the land from the operation of the camp insulates the land from the negligence claims sure to come. And all of that may have changed through the settlement. Also, the recent opening of the Cypress Lake branch may a) reflect some new harmony among the family and b) still more changes to the corporate structure.
  20. Yes, Mystic seems to be an unusually vulnerable area. Was the South Fork more seriously flooded than North Fork? It seems so, several of the other camps are on the North Fork. We've heard some stuff about La Junta and Mystic, but Heart o The Hills is between them and have heard nothing, that I am aware of. It's also on the north bank of the river.
  21. Yeah been around Gibsons in various towns, including WF.
  22. Send her to fucking South Sudan. Rwanda. I dgaf. She's a criminal.
  23. Americans. Pay. The. Tariffs. You. Fucking. Dolt.
  24. Yeah the 2011 article had the Eastlands making about 200k from the camp seemingly in profit distribution above any salary, and other family getting 20k annual dividends. And yeah the location of any cabins in the floodplain or close to the river is problematic, let alone for young girls. And that seemingly should have prompted some extra vigilance in flood conditions.
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