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Dnaguy

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  1. Look, this fucking douche canoe can eat multiple Cerberus dicks on the reg…. But if this actually goes down then I’ll lock hands with this jagoff to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. i don’t want anyone ever to experience the pain and the suffering of this weekend ever again. There should never be another human being swept away in theme sleep by a flash flood. im still so angry and numb all at the same time.
  2. I did this. Caught a stray from an asshole who think a thread about donations is the same as talking tragedy. But it’s been done.
  3. I can’t understand why / how the numbers keep changing. It’s so frustrating. There needs to be one, ONE consistent death toll and at least a confirmed number of those unaccounted for. There needs to be the state controlling this effort and our STATE leadership taking the reins. The PR aspect of this continues to flounder. The lack of organizational leadership is apparent to me. The state wants to blame the county so they aren’t trying to control the message. It’s so fucking obvious they don’t want any dead kid stink on them so they are sitting back. I hate everything.
  4. This. Instead of the politicians circle jerking themselves for their great response they can let ppl know this. But, they’ve got their signing photo op so this tragedy is only liability now. You won’t see any statewide or federal politicians anymore because they know it’s only dead kids. I take that back. You’ll see them when they continue to blame local officials and the NWS.
  5. How to help vs news or the discussion of the tragedy. But thanks for the asshole comment. Glad you’re here and moving the discussion along.
  6. I thought there should be a place to discuss the tragedy outside of the rain event itself, and outside of a political context. It might make sense to move the discussions about the Guadalupe, the camps, and the flooding in the Austin area to here as it’s more than just a rain event now.
  7. The Guadalupe is still flowing quick. Just saw something like 4300 cu ft / s… which is like 6 acre ft/ minute. That’s still a lot of water. The amount of water that has fallen this weekend is hard to wrap your head around.
  8. @immamacand @blacklab Considering we have a CR subject and the likely rescue and fallout that this matter will cause, I think we should have a July 4th Hill Country subject in the DT. But that’s totally IMO and this is y’all’s rodeo.
  9. This was heat of the hills for anyone interested as well. After: IMG_5407.mov Before reference
  10. I haven’t cried yet during this shit. Well. That’s one fucking thing to cross off the list. That ripped my guts out.
  11. Dick is LaJunta / Mystic. Jane and the Ragsdales are Stewart / Heart o’ the hills. Tragic any way you slice it though. fucking awful.
  12. To be fair that was 3 hrs ago.
  13. Geometry and volume …..
  14. Let’s try to keep this less cloak room. I just know in this particular instance we were, though. it’s only highlighted by the loss of life by children. Sadly that hasn’t moved the needle on true and effective change in the past. I’m so emotionally depleted right now.
  15. Help those of us who may not be as smart and want to be smarter. Any links and advice is welcome
  16. Canyon lake getting an enema.
  17. This. July 4th is a big reason. We’ll find that a lot of officials were on autopilot. Nothing will come of it. It’s the way things work now. True risk assessment and prep is hard. Yes there are mitigating factors…… but having done root cause analysis, the ultimate root cause is rarely identified correctly and it rarely rolls up to the level that it should. But we were failed by leadership and their complacently. Don’t let anyone lie to you and say otherwise.
  18. The ones that own the CAT dealerships / Spurs and the kids / grandkids etc
  19. One of the Holts posted that their kids are safe… one was at Mystic. But essentially HoH is completely decimated / destroyed.
  20. If anyone has any advice or resources about properly talking about this kind of stuff with children, I’m all ears. I don’t really have the most experience talking to my children about loss outside of great grandparents … which is weirdly easier because they have lived a full life. But idk how I’m going to tell my girls that Jane has died and about the girls at camp mystic. They literally just had the best experience of their little lives at camp and I’m going to burst that bubble a week later. its minor compared to what other are going through. And I know we’re still in it right now / don’t have answers, But I’m trying to start to think about how I’m going to break this to my girls.
  21. Having literally driven that stretch of 39 last weekend to get my kids at HoH, I can’t even wrap my head around just how high that water was. My gawd.
  22. Water that high is not safe. Even if you can ‘pass’ it, the water force being put on it is not something you want to fuck with. We over design bridges, but you can’t see debris / silt under the water line. If enough collects, you can create localized events of obstructed flow, increase force / pressure, and a catastrophic bridge collapse / event. Don’t fuck with it. Turn around and don’t drown.
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