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Hagbard Celine

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  1. 2' england turnover 1 sweden 0 england
  2. i posted this a week ago in cr after further review i can't see anything in it that is "against the rules" of dt so here you go: +++ How do the failed barriers fit together? The 2025 atrocity is neither a 2025 problem, nor a 2025 camp/citizen/tourist problem, nor a 2025 State/County/City government problem. It is instead a true example of an organizational accident with causes that existed for some time before the event. While no one person is responsible for the atrocity, the aggregate effect of actions and decisions by government officials and those they serve, over many years, created the physical conditions that made the atrocity possible. For the current State, County and Local governments, Guadalupe Flooding was, and is, an institution. And leaders do not change institutions unless there is a clearly perceived need for change. Guadalupe Flooding has grown from isolated events lost in institutional memories trapped in time into an atrocity with massive loss of life. From just a dozen deaths to hundreds. From the occasional high-water cleanup to a 100-year event every 10 years. For Guadalupe Flooding, the State, County and Local government’s role was to ensure that controls were in place so that if and when a flood occurred, the results would be non-consequential. But as Guadalupe Flooding has grown in frequency and intensity, the actions and decisions by government officials, taken or not taken, to prevent the flooding, have remained the same. The State of Texas, Kerr County and the City of Kerrville do not have a proactive risk management approach for Guadalupe Flooding. As a result, behavioral and safety problems never prompted past or present administrations to reassess Guadalupe Flooding risk to campers, citizens and tourists. The State of Texas, Kerr County and the City of Kerrville have a culture that instills bias and tunnel vision in decision making. No one in the current or past administrations ever interpreted ongoing behavioral problems as indications that Guadalupe Flooding risk mitigation was beyond the capabilities of past or present administrations. There was no appropriate plan, policy or program to mitigate the risk of Guadalupe Flooding. Instead, important design details were communicated through an oral tradition. As a result, Guadalupe Flooding risk mitigation was never undertaken the same way twice, even though the accepted basis for risk mitigation was “we have always done it this way, and it has always worked.” Thus, changes made in the absence of a sound risk mitigation strategy reduced critical margins of safety. Kerr County and City of Kerrville leaders were the sole design authority for Guadalupe Flooding risk mitigation. Yet they did not have the knowledge or skills necessary to identify and correct structural and institutional deficiencies of the type that caused the 2025 atrocity. Though its individual components are complex, the central message is clear. The atrocity was about physical failures driven by organizational failures, the origins of which span decades. No single factor caused the atrocity, just as no single change will ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/44760-4th-of-july-texas-flood/page/29/#comment-7195227
  3. you must have missed my cloning of the bonfire report
  4. more made-up maga bullshit vaccine mandates were tied to covid funding only at nursing homes and in schools
  5. once a day, we should be able to bestow triple-rep in the form of a mushroom cloud emoji the above post is my nuke of the day i have been trying so hard to abide by "the rules" in dt and tf has been making it very difficult thank you homercles
  6. /crazypills i need to stop checking on this thread
  7. seriously? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOo6OGDTEjY
  8. we're at the half in the first quarterfinal norge/italia nils excellent first half, worth watching uefa are running the quarters 1 per day, so 2pm the next 3 days
  9. when a given rainfall volume/time equation is met in a critical mass of rain gauges in the upstream watershed /science
  10. aggy barn klan aggy vanderbilt they are at risk of missing the cut if there is a breakaway from the ncaa just so you know what's coming
  11. my grandfather was 1/8th osage and he was fascinated by the advent of the weather channel in the 80s the indigenous native in me likes to watch the radar - whenever there is rain in texas i look at the radar on my phone every couple of hours overnight the 4 july storm was only 150 miles in diameter and just kept rotating with no forward movement in any direction the volume and velocity of this rain event should have been enough warning to any sentient texan regardless of education or politics - no radar needed
  12. it may have been reported earlier, apologies if so.... when sark was introduced for his media days address, the aggy fight song was playing
  13. the night is not darkest before dawn there are 3 phases of twilight and they appear in reverse order before sunrise sunset -> civil twilight -> nautical twilight -> astronomical twilight -> night -> astronomical twilight -> nautical twilight -> civil twilight ->sunrise +++ Civil Twilight: Occurs when the sun is between 0 and 6 degrees below the horizon. During this phase, there's enough light for most outdoor activities without artificial light, and the brightest planets may be visible. Nautical Twilight: Occurs when the sun is between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon. The horizon is still visible, and sailors can use the stars for navigation. Astronomical Twilight: Occurs when the sun is between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon. It's the darkest twilight phase, and faint stars become visible, making it suitable for astronomical observations. These twilight phases are also reversed in the morning, with astronomical dawn being the first stage, followed by nautical and then civil. +++ in addition, because of light scattering, in a pure black sky, the gegenschein is *usually* brighter astronomical twilight preceding sunrise, as opposed to after sunset:
  14. i'm a t-shirt amateur in this thread but even i could see the freakout was misplaced and while we are grilling big cats and shitting outside, i will confess my greatest culinary sin... i love the bueno chillada (taco beef in a tortilla w/ chiliqueso) at taco bueno
  15. i absolutely believe you and think you should report the sighting just know that as of 2022 this is the "accepted" range:
  16. kerr county has the land at $1.623m and improvements at $7.678m
  17. parasites are not rivals lsu also disavows any fucks given re: aggy aggy have rape, pig and tceh they really should go back to the rig
  18. can we get the hat pickup first? please? then go scorched earth
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