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  1. https://bsky.app/profile/callmenash.bsky.social/post/3ltiaz4nhd222
  2. Sadly, in effect, it is. Morons get one vote, just like anyone else.
  3. Who/what is Ryan Hall? That's the thing. It doesn't appear to have been executed at all, except by the counselors who weren't given, well, any lead time at all. Exactly.
  4. I think the important lesson from the Station fire and Mystic having a plan approved just 2 days before this disaster (among others) is this: Having a 'plan' on paper to show an inspector is very different from actually practicing a plan so that it can be effectively implemented when the shit hits the fan, and having supervisors monitor situations closely enough to know when the plan should be executed. Yep.
  5. h/t @speed817 in the Leavitt thread.
  6. Also, re: this bit from theUSA Today article: I don't know why that figure surprises anyone. I said from the beginning that they would soon find out that there were a large number of people missing that they didn't even know were missing yet. With so many people being there for July 4 and the water coming in the middle of the night, it was always going to be in the hundreds. Worst case scenario.
  7. That little motherfucker seems to have missed the fact that we got the everloving shit kicked out of us. We fucking LOST. BADLY. And he's acting like we were a good team and won the fucking game. "We got this"? No, we don't fucking 'got' anything, you stupid idiotic little shitstain.
  8. Which show are you hearing this on?
  9. So, basically the way government in general should work.
  10. It's worked so well for them, why would they stop now? It's the same question my buddy always asks about COTA. The answer is the same.
  11. I'm sure there are many more posts that I could quote on this topic. And yeah, even as a member of that union local and a retired Austin ff, I don't understand the accusation ... but tbf, I stopped keeping up with AFD shit the second I walked out the CTECC doors after my retirement party 3 years ago. Never looked back. DGAF. And yeah, the writer of that posting (yes, I know them, and no, I'm not naming names) writes some pretty cringy shit. My uninformed guess based on past experience is that this is probably based on previous relations with said chief. Emergency resource management is not quite as simple as "They need it, so let's send it. Right now!", and they know that. ETA: Maybe something good will come from the mention that the State knew ahead of time and was mobilizing well in advance of the storm. Maybe there's some method to the author's madness after all.
  12. Exhibit #eleventy bazillion and 89 of why I completely disassociated myself from the Republican party. I can only extend my deepest apologies for my past voting record. Please forgive me.
  13. Jesus fuck, dude. Are you serious with this shit? Quotes? We fucking lived it, you fucking moron.
  14. Yep. I'm a firefighter who's had fairly extensive swiftwater rescue training and has made a few rescues in my time. Even so, I was utterly shocked by what I saw in the video of the water rising at the Center Point bridge over the Guadalupe. I've heard of and even seen some 'walls of water', but I had no idea something like that was even a thing. That video and these events have changed forever my view of flash flooding situations.
  15. Srsly. Stupid shit like this "weather weaponization" idiocy is something we used to only hear from our 11-toed methmouth cousin who lived in the trailer out back. But now, thanks to the internet, these morons get to infect the rest of humanity with their stupidity.
  16. Well, this. Exactly. Getting the forecast right and issuing an alert is just part of the deal. Not having an EAC is huge imho, and iirc according to what's been reported the EACs in at least San Angelo and Austin took the early retirement (forced retirement) 'offered' by the DOGE demons.
  17. Or the more than $500M they've given to COTA, so far. COTA, who lies their asses off re: attendance to justify it, and which isn't actually eligible for the subsidy in the first place etc, etc.
  18. I don't think it requires that much either. The bigger point imho is how little it would cost to cover even a much larger area than necessary.
  19. Am I the only one who sees Dwayne Johnson every time they see that gif? WWtRD?
  20. nsiap. I can't catch up.
  21. More than 24 hours of Niagara flow? Holy fucking shit.
  22. 1000% of this, esp the bold bit.
  23. No phones needed. No registration. Just a direct, audible warning to everyone along the river. Add flashing lights for the deaf. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
  24. Cosigned. So sick of all the fake bullshit wannabe cowboy posers. Where do we start?
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