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justhookit

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  1. We are working on it. Should be a thread up tomorrow. Thanks y’all, and again it won’t be about what we do tomorrow, it’s next week or next month when they will really need help. Right now as much as I’d like to head there, I’m not much help and I’d be taking away a hotel room from someone that is homeless or someone that’s an electric linesman that really, really needs to be there. Again, if you want to help right now, it’s clothes. They will have plenty of drinkable water and food from FEMA and other sources.
  2. I wish we could take Beertha. when Shortys finally opened up on the generator and people could actually go in and have a cold beer after working all day clearing debris, half of them cried. The smell, and the flies is something you never want to experience. And that part of Louisiana is way poorer than what we went through here with Harvey.
  3. So…. Port A is sending a trailer of supplies, and money to Houma and anywhere else they can help. It leaves Wednesday. Thank you Zarsky lumber and the other people here that made that happen. Having gone through this before, they need clothes. Seriously if you can give just a few T-shirt’s or shorts it will help. And pots and pans and almost anything you can think of that would help if you lost everything. They also need moral support and beer and cigs. Seriously. The moral support is as important as the other stuff, and the beer at the end of the day helps. Especially if it’s cold beer. @immamac you ok if I start a thread for donations? Maybe we can do a Gofundme from Surly. I’m going to wait out and see where the needs are, but in a week or 2 there will be people there that really need help. I’ll be driving over in an SUV so can’t take much, but might be able to arrange some things.
  4. So regarding the charity conversation the RC might be fine, but if you are wanting to get help quickly to the people try to find a way to get it to local charities or even directly to people on the ground. After Harvey in Port A some people organized what came to be known as “Camp David”, which provided hot meals every day for locals and volunteers and electric line workers, etc. That was huge. If you find a way to get money to groups like that it makes a huge difference. Also the volunteers for cleanup. I had 3 roofs in my yard and no way to get them out. A couple from out of town came in with a bobcat and I was on the list as needing help with large debris removal. 5 of us spent 2 days getting all the crap out of my yard. No idea what I would have done without that help. Regarding Grand Isle, it’s an island very similar to Port Aransas except almost a complete lack of dunes. It’s gonna be rough there because of the storm surge. Thankfully their wind speeds didn’t look too bad - lower than what Port A and Rockport got during Harvey - so maybe it’s not completely wiped out.
  5. Rebecca crushed it again. today was TWAT tournament (texas women’s angler tournament and yes the girls named it). 2nd place overall, and first place blue marlin. They are on fire this year and it’s too bad it’s the last tourney of the season. Congrats to Clinton, Reid, Rambo and the team. That’s a 2nd, 1st, and a 2nd in their last 3 tournaments for those keeping track at home. 1st place boat , Tenacious, was another local boat that spends a lot of their time in the marina I’m in in CR. Awesome job Vince and Nyla.
  6. Still like 15 minutes to kickoff. The way 2020/21 have gone there is still time for the asteroid to wipe out the planet.
  7. What’s Island Time? That’s a new one to me.
  8. There’s a thread for that commentary, and you know it. You aren’t even responding to anything on this page. I don’t know why they let you get away with your passive aggrresive CR bullshit that you spew everywhere. if it makes you feel better, this thread got a little off track lately. Cheers and hook ‘em.
  9. I think cheetah’s shut down. Not that I would know anything about that.
  10. Starting to? at this point it all just makes me angry and it shows in my posts. On the plus side, my mother (married to my stepfather who was an obgyn surgeon) is now willing to go get the booster or 3rd shot. She talked to her doctor yesterday. 2 days ago she was telling me that her husband was telling her not to get the 3rd shot and to go on a prophylactic course of (pharmaceutical) ivermectin. Now, I’m not in with the surly group thought that seems to equate Tractor Supply horse paste with prescribed Ivermectin, but it was a relief to say the least. Her doc also said if she shows ANY symptoms that might be even allergies to come in and get tested. He’s got the monoclonal antibody thing and is giving it out immediately to anyone that tests +
  11. @NorthLoopCalled it. Twice. This thing is going to Tampa. I hope. I really don’t want to be looking for a place to stay early next week. No offense to Tampa or Clearwater which might have been the worst place I’ve ever spent 3 or 4 days.
  12. It’s the fucking daily Texan thread about hurricanes. I know you can’t help yourself but no it’s not the place to talk about any of that.
  13. Good grief. Vietnam and Republic downtown, Yardarm is worth a look. Dragonfly on north padre along with Rock n Roll sushi. Scuttlebutt’s for casual food and a good happy hour. There’s plenty of good food. 3putt is right the Mexican food is terrible. He didn’t actually say that but it’s true.
  14. Well, we are up on new cases from last Wednesday, again. However they nailed it and whatever data they are looking at should be at least worth a look as a model going forward. It’s still not a decline yet but it’s looking better. From today’s report - “• New cases showing signs of peaking • Hospitalizations still skyrocketing https://www.cctexas.com/sites/default/files/20210825-Public-Health-Briefing.pdf
  15. I don’t know where they are getting their data for their model then. Avg new cases per day has increased since Aug. 13th. I’m just going off what the county is reporting every day. https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2021/08/02/nueces-county-covid-tracker-daily-updates-cases-deaths-hospitals/5462565001/
  16. As of late last week Corpus was definitely not declining. Last week’s report was “new cases skyrocketing and hospitalizations skyrocketing.” R# was 1.25 New report comes out today so hopefully it’s better news.
  17. Happy Harvey 4th anniversary everyone! Needless to say that isn’t helping matters with locals here in Port A. Everyone is on edge. I’m Liking the recent storm track towards LA a lot.
  18. What is 95% of the population vs.5%, Alex? Also it’s not surprising to see the lawyers reversing the trend and fucking things up.
  19. So I have a pretty good friend that recently broke up with his longtime girlfriend. He didn’t mention why and I didn’t want to ask. So his girlfriend came into town this weekend and I bumped into her. She’d been drinking and was pretty talkative and eventually brought up why they broke up. Apparently he had been trying to convince her to get vaccinated for a few months and she kept refusing, so last month he decided he’d had enough and told her if she wouldn’t do it he was leaving her. She still refused, so he left her. She’s extremely upset about the whole deal. So I asked her why she wouldn’t take the shot. She said, and I quote “I just don’t want to”. That was her entire reason. At that point I threw my beer on her and walked off. Ok I didn’t do that but I wanted to. And no, y’all don’t want pics. it’s really hard to comprehend the level of stupidity we are dealing with.
  20. Back on track, this wasn’t one of their more thorough updates but https://www.cctexas.com/sites/default/files/20210818-Public-Health-Briefing.pdf And I do like this conclusion : SUMMARY • New cases skyrocketing • Hospitalizations skyrocketing • Recommendations to avoid public health disaster • Change behavior A.S.A.P. • Mask up in public • Social distance • Self-isolate if symptomatic • Get Vaccinated
  21. Yes, but that still doesn’t get you to 30% of adults or whatever it is now that is not vaccinated. Hell, maybe it does. If you just go by age I’m pretty sure the young people are just trying to kill us all off. There is an enormous gap in vaccination rates -roughly 20% - between age 20-40 - and then age 40 plus. im going to put the links in the CR thread because I don’t want to mess this thread up.
  22. I don’t know that there is any evidence of Delta being less harmful or deadly. I think that was more the theory that as the virus evolved it would be less deadly because that’s what a virus tends to do. I’m still amazed by all of this. I know a very large cross section of people and everyone I know is vaxxed and pro vaccine. I’m still trying to figure out who is refusing to do it. It appears to me at least that it’s the uneducated and unfortunately there is no quick or easy fix for that other than cutting out their access to Walmart.
  23. Shit, Eagles had all of like 28 receptions last year and Smith had around 20? Oh and we lost Tariq who got caught from behind by the defender 10 yards behind him that was carrying ctj and Sydney in his jock strap. Our receivers sucked last year. They may suck this year too but they won’t be worse. Moore was our best receiver last year and while he might be a head case, he’s the same dude we trotted out last year. Hopefully we get our guys healthy and they can be better than the suck we had last year - our top 4 receivers combined for around 100 catches for 1500 yards. But yeah, we are going to suck because of our WR group. Holy shit.
  24. Damn, Rene and the girls crushed it.
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