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Captainant

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  1. They very literally turned down getting a flood alert system in place in 2015 because the funds would have come from the Obama administration. City of Kerrville leadership CHOSE to not have alert system. Below is the transcript from that meeting: Mr. Hewitt: Sirens did not seem to get very much support. The thought was that sirens are better for tourists than local residents. The sirens would only be beneficial for someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do. .... COMMISSIONER MOSER: The cost of that whole thing is going to be like 976 thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. All of it, and the reason we're here today and moving so quickly is that there is a FEMA grant that's available until as long as we apply by January the 20th. JUDGE POLLARD: Which is when President Obama goes out of office. (Laughter.) JUDGE POLLARD: Well, the reason I mention that is because he authorized this particular thing, and it's going to -- MS. KIRBY: It's a coincidence. COMMISSIONER MOSER: Going on the record with that it's a coincidence. And so there has to be a presidential declaration of disaster to be able to have these kinds of funds available. So it goes away just so happens to be when he leaves office. ... COMMISSIONER REEVES: And I will say and, Sheriff, you can correct me if I'm off base on this, the camps have had a very good system of letting down river if there's a rise, they're phoning their competitors or colleagues down river and letting them know what happened. It's informal as you said, but it's been a very good system to let them know over time. more good links to the meeting minutes in the link below in the spoiler. They also turned down an ARPA grant in 2021 because it came from the wrong color president and they were being crazy about COVID. We're all getting the Texas that we voted for. And it is a Texas that doesn't give a shit about dead children.
  2. The same man who said we should all be doing is praying, is the same man who unilaterally authorized billions for a border wall project that has since been abandoned unfinished. There's money available, but that would be admitting that the climate has changed and become more dangerous for Texans. But I'll leave further comments for a more appropriate thread.
  3. Not like there's a parable explicitly about that or anything lol. My biggest issue is that the State is advocating for prayer over implementation of meaningful flood alert and warning systems. Can't spend a million on sirens, but can find billions for hateful projects that are quickly abandoned. But please keep praying!!!!
  4. Energy Corridor around Memorial and Kempwood had a bunch of green ribbons and bows on trees
  5. Holy shit Annie I don't know what you're saying but you're derailing the thread. Go deny some treatments or something, cheer yourself up. But mainly, fuck off.
  6. Not for nothing, but 5 out of 5 of my wife's cousins (no pics) that went to Camp Mystic are/were biiiiiiig into Greek Life, and were all debutantes. Camp Mystic ain't fo po' people
  7. You sure about that? "It could have been worse"
  8. Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.
  9. Almost like there was a concerted effort to overrule empirical reality with rhetoric and propaganda, or something
  10. Emergency alerts punch through DnD, but people started turning them off after the State started to abuse it with the BLUE ALERTS for a cop stubbing their baby toe 500 miles away
  11. Why would those repubican public servants give a shit about serving the public?
  12. I have a deep dark feeling that they don't want to update the flood plain maps because they'd be admitting there's a problem with their current emergency plan. It would drive insurance out of the state, and destroy RE values if it turned out vast swaths of "500 year flood plains" are really more like "50 year flood plains"
  13. I think it's because that's the only place they get their news.
  14. More just hopeful that one day you'll realize your analytical legal mind is getting led around by the nose by the fascists. Their entire game is to turn shields into swords and disseminate disinformation, and you only ever seem to tut-tut the forces working against that, for fear of being "just as bad as the fascists". How about you start paying attention to outcomes instead of procedure? I know that the fascists are hoping we all just stop worrying about outcomes and just get twisted over complying with bullshit rules of decorum and evidence that they're planning to break anyways.
  15. The 4th amendment that has protecting due process for all people? That thing that is being shredded as we speak by Roberts and the very fine supreme court? It truly is breathtaking how happily and readily you apply different standards to fascists and those who stand against them.
  16. Who's claiming a conspiracy? Weather patterns are measurably more intense than they used to be, because of the increase of thermal energy in the system in general. It's the same oscillations as there's ever been, just getting more and more intense as our climate gets ever warmer. A couple degrees net increase in your body leads to all sorts of dysfunction and discomfort - a couple degrees net on the world is gonna do that on the scale that only mother nature can bring. As a Texan, it's pretty fucking important to be congizant of that reality. Plus, gutting our gulf weather data sources is only going to make that challenge of prediction of both timing and scale even harder thr stochastic environment known as Texas.
  17. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. If you were born in the era of a hydrodynamic drive being the pinnacle of technology, I could see how this sort of advanced mathematical model could seem magical. But Elon is not the wizard or originator of any of the technology that he is fawned over for. I'd bet your FIL spends a bunch of time on Fox and Twitter and has internalized the cult of personality
  18. Nevermind that they all use the same sources for their radar maps, and we have been defunding weather radar systems and deactivating data sharing systems all over the place. Someone said up thread this is complete outlier, and I fear that these data points are going to be less and less the outlier as we lean harder into fucking the environment and climate
  19. Inb4 the sign is changed to Alligator Auschwitz
  20. Yes yes, anyone staking a radical position is just as lame as the mainstream. I'm familiar with the play you're running from Bernie
  21. It literally got trump elected, so why not give it a whirl? Harness the hatred for the extravagantly wealthy, rather than for brown people
  22. Lol you sound like TahoeHorn talking about trump. This is a weird bit to do on July 4, but go off king
  23. Unless you're prosecuting a trumpist lmfao. How the fuck could you type that sentence on July 4, 2025 with a straight face
  24. Concern troll is VERY concerned.
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