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  1. Done. Thanks for posting this.
  2. Not directly, but by way of Normandy, kinda. Hiberno-Norman on one side (with a good dash of French from 100 years in New Orleans), and a bunch of whatever is filtered through the other northern English/Scottish side, with some German thrown in for good measureβ€”also, possibly some Melungeon from the Appalachian family (2% Senegal). However, I was instead referring more to your oft-cited Swedish stock.
  3. As a man of proud Scandinavian heritage,
  4. That theory doesn't hold any water.
  5. Greece is on fire. Coincidence? Hardly.
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  7. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
  8. One of the tragedies with a lot of stuff (not just Kerr County) is seemingly otherwise intelligent, educated people like Moser behaving like complete dumbfucks when they get into politics. Moser, who was first elected to the Precinct 2 county commissioners seat in 2012, previously had a long career in the aerospace industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. studies at Rice University. At the NASA Johnson Space Center from 1963 to 1986, he served in key management positions including as chief engineer, program manager of the Space Shuttle and Space Station. Upon returning to Texas from Washington, D.C., in 1997, he served as the executive director of the Texas Aerospace Commission, where he established Texas Spaceport Authorities. https://dailytimes.com/news/county-commissioner-tom-moser-to-retire/article_be0e203a-d83b-11eb-8399-db048532ed79.html
  9. @Gatorubet Looks like you haven't lost it -- you're still that same spry ol' geezer (and I'm actually not that far behind you). Really happy to hear you're okay, man.
  10. Looks like things got too quiet so they were ordered to instigate more shit.
  11. Came across this on Reddit where someone has put together a precise timeline of the floods.
  12. Someone, maybe Troph (not sure), mentioned multiple times that overnight camps are required to be certified/inspected by the State of Texas in some manner. I have no knowledge beyond that statement, if true. But, it would undoubtedly be good to know what that certification process entails, how rigorous it is, and to what degree and how frequently inspections occur. Absolutely no idea (but doubtful) that the county requires any sort of inspection since the State doesn't allow for many regulations of properties outside of ETJs, except in limited circumstances.
  13. Yep. The last few frames on my weather app suggest that most of the energy is heading SxSW toward Junction and Menard.
  14. Those are all excellent questions that I hope are eventually answered. Unfortunately, I can't offer any.
  15. Messed up the order of the prepositional phrases. I added the detail about her staying at camp to clarify that she wasn’t some skeezy townie picking up 8th-grade bandcamp nerds.
  16. I was sent up to a Boys Scout camp up in the Davis Mountains a couple of times (Buffalo Trail Council) and band camp at Tech 2-3 times. The latter was a very different experience, staying in college dorms and whatnot, plus this one time at bandcamp between 8th & 9th grade I got my first blowjob from some Lubbock girl staying at camp under a tree on campus, which was nice. Gotta tell you guys, there's a reason American Pie included that line. Bandcamp kids in the mid-80s were sex fiends.
  17. Yes, it's been mentioned that the campers themselves were not allowed any electronic devices, including phones. At the same time, someone posted an article a day or so ago that also stated every adult on site was supposedly required to have a cellphone with them at all times.
  18. I can't speak for anyone else here, but the locals hosting visitors (owners of the camps, the RV park owners, the city, and the county) are primarily to blame. They live there. They know the history of flooding. They chose not to have a flood monitoring system. They chose not to have a warning system. They chose not to have adequate evacuation plans. On top of that, I blame the state for not adequately funding a regional system, as well as this regime for stripping resources from the NWS. The degree to which any of the campers themselves are to blame is nada. The degree to which any of the RVers are to blame would lie in their potential choices at the ballot box that foster negligence among all layers of government.
  19. Yeah, I misunderstood your question, likely my fault for not reading as closely as I should've. No idea on whether those low-lying cabins had flooded in '87 or any other time previously. Personally, I believe there was serious negligence on the part of the camp in keeping the little kids in those cabins closest to the river, regardless of the historic nature of the flood. I also blame the city, county, and state for not having an early warning system upstream and/or sirens in populated areas.
  20. Crossposting from the rain thread: all-time record for Hunt, third highest for Kerrville proper.
  21. I know you were, and I'm not going to get in the middle of that. I was merely pointing out that the brand spanking new account you were quoting is GRhorn, a guy who has been banned by mods or crowdsourced more times than I can count, likely approaching 50 times now.
  22. He's approaching 50 usernames at this point.
  23. Have you had a chance to check up on your hole yet to see if it's become a well?
  24. Background on past efforts to get a warning system in place. It seems to me that a regional warning system for the Hill Country makes a whole lot of sense so that the cost burden can be shared among various jurisdictions and the state, with the latter covering a substantial chunk of the tab, because the state is fucking loaded. As we all know, people from all over the state visit the area, and they may be at even greater risk than most permanent residents, since visitors are more likely to be in the lower-lying, flood-prone river valleys. Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue. Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River. A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way. But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. β€œWe can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time. In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others. The rural county of a little over 50,000 people, in a part of Texas known as Flash Flood Alley, contemplated installing a flood warning system in 2017, but it was rejected as too expensive. The county, which has an annual budget of around $67 million, lost out on a bid at the time to secure a $1 million grant to fund the project, county commission meeting minutes show. As recently as a May budget meeting, county commissioners were discussing a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as something that they might be able to make use of. But in a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that local residents had been resistant to new spending. β€œTaxpayers won’t pay for it,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if people might reconsider now.
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