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C-Man

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  1. Sounds like La Junta could’ve been really bad too save for the efforts of some bad ass counselors.
  2. These are the grandkids of the couple I mentioned yesterday. The grandparents were dental patients of my FIL. The father went to ESD with my wife. Sounds like the parents were five houses down in the flooding and the father jumped in a kayak or some other small boat to try and get to his parents’ house but wasn’t able to fight the current.
  3. Watching that fuckstick take a hard turn into oncoming MAGA traffic is equal parts hilarious and pathetic.
  4. All of the private camps have some sort of loose “Christian” hook. Longhorn makes all the kids go up to a mountain bluff every Sunday for some kind of service. My kids went to Ozark in Arkansas for a number of years. It’s a “Christian” camp too. I’m sure the religious angle helps with marketing and maybe even for tax exemptions, etc. But I’m a cynical bastard these days.
  5. Just got a text from another source ‘confirming’ this news.
  6. Somebody on the other thread posted that they’re hearing they found the missing girls and counselor from the Bubble Inn cabin dead.
  7. Well, appears we have two threads now. WSJ reports 67 dead now. We still have 11 missing campers and one counselor from Mystic.
  8. WSJ says death toll up to 67. Eleven Mystic campers and one counselor still missing.
  9. I was thinking this yesterday after we heard that the body of our friends’ daughter was found. The Fourth of July will forever be a day of sadness for them. Silly, I guess, but it’s what I was thinking.
  10. Texas flooded. People died. MAGA’s reaction was predictably fucked up https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/texas-flooded-people-died-magas-reaction?r=3agz2m&utm_medium=ios
  11. That whole company is amazing. Full stop.
  12. I'm running out of adjectives -- unfathomable, shocking, tragic, etc. I've written so many texts in the last 24 hours, I'm almost numb. I didn't know them but former patients of my FIL (dentist) were washed away with their grandkids and all four are dead. Their son (and the kids' father) went to ESD with my wife. Could you imagine that -- your parents both gone. Oh, and here's a bonus, your kids are gone with them. Fucking nightmare fuel.
  13. Fuck, I love HEB. Just logging back in. My wife and I had to get out of the house this afternoon to stop watching news and doomscrolling, then went to her brother's early birthday dinner. After that, we met a buddyfor drinks because we needed to not be home. Now I'm fucking crying again.
  14. Absolutely this. As a former journalist, albeit in the frivolous realm of sportswriting, it’s important to tell these stories. Tastefully, of course.
  15. Confirmed. Fuck. Whole life in front of her. Eloise is the blonde sweetie on the right.
  16. Just got the dreaded text. Doesn’t appear that my friend’s girl survived. I think they found her body.
  17. Damn, that was great. She’s feisty. I like feisty.
  18. Not many companies offer flood coverage up to policy limits. It's mainly the HNW carriers such as Chubb, PURE, etc. You can sometimes buy excess flood (like an umbrella) that sits above the standard 250/100 flood policy that the NFIP offers, either thru a HNW carrier or a wholesale/surplus lines avenue. The thinking was you could have a foot of water on the bottom floor of a home but once the water recedes you can clean shit up, replace flooring and whatever was damaged. In instances like this, or New Orleans in Katrina, the whole home is destroyed. (Hurricanes are probably a bad example because then you get into arguments over whether the primary damage was the force of the wind or the rising water.) Oh, and flood insurance can be very expensive depending on where it's located in the flood maps. If you're not a primary flood zone, they're pretty cheap $500 or so annually. I won't tell anybody they don't need a flood policy any more. There ain't a place on Earth that can't flood given certain situations.
  19. They're more acquaintances at this point, one or two are former newspaper industry colleagues (the few who aren't liberal anyways). They were so giddy to be buying Tesla at "the bottom" and were proudly gonna ride it back to the top!
  20. Unless you have a separate flood policy, you're out of luck in situations like this. Depending on where the property is and official flood zone it is in, a lender can require flood insurance is bought. Typical flood policies cover up to $250K for the structure and $100K for contents. They're not designed to help all that much when the home is a total loss because it washes down the river and is smashed to pieces. You can buy supplemental flood, or some policies will cover the whole house, but those are few and far between.
  21. That’s accurate. Jane Ragsdale. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/07/05/beloved-texas-summer-camp-director-killed-in-hill-country-flood/
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