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  1. Then there's the matter of LBJ's being a constant-level lake, which, when I see pictures of the flooding on the Llano arm, really confuses me, but maybe that isn't noticed on the lake-proper as much. Anyway, your point is well-taken, but I was thinking about this earlier since Inks is constant level/pass-thru to a degree, but definitely rose several feet last weekend.
  2. Do it in a separate pan after the sear. That pan should be hot enough to melt butter but not burn it. Alternatively, get that sear pan hot, but not ridiculously so. Have a big spoon and keep that butter moving so it doesn't burn. I prefer the first way.
  3. That latter part is weird. That wasn't the case in the 80s and as I may have mentioned above, those camps were above my pay grade when my kids were that age. But the Surly acceptance ceremony is quite nice. @immamac has it catered. Everyone chants, "Muledick!" South Austin's mom has a raffle of sorts. There's a stripper pole and a sex tent. Sorry you didn't get one.
  4. I probably jogged by your house more than a few times.
  5. It's hard to keep up, but I think there still is a missing counselor, Katherine Ferruzo, age 19. Chloe is the one from Kinkaid (headed to UT), who was confirmed dead. Katherine, also was an incoming UT freshman, who graduated from Memorial. They were counselors in the same cabin, it appears. edit. I added her name. It's in the news at this point. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14882191/photo-entire-cabin-Camp-Mystic-girls-counselors.html
  6. They could pay me $500, and the final bill would be too rich for my blood. My kids went to some smaller camps close by and had some fun times. My older son finally got to go to Longhorn . . . as a counselor. Better to make them pay you . . . and they don't pay a lot.
  7. Apparently, Indian Springs (a/k/a Ranch Branch to us olds) is the harder one to get into these days because it was renovated most recently. According to my son, they pay their counselors quite a bit more than they do at Inks. When I went there, I went to Ranch because the waiting list was too long at Inks. It was fun for a few years (forty years ago). But there was a waiting list even back then for the "Main" camp.
  8. I felt like that was the correct answer as well. And I say that as someone who did not keep up with anyone from summer camp. But I can still remember their names and have run into a couple of them over the years.
  9. What's weirder, this or people who spent 3 weeks at a time with other kids for years, formed friendships, and have kept in touch. I think I know the answer.
  10. He, with his 20,00xth post, said on the most recent iteration of a message board where people interact regularly and have formed friendships. Just saying.
  11. No, it's not. We peeked at it for our kids, and the ones at this level were $5k and up for a 2 or 3 week session. Too much for this civil servant. I wouldn't doubt for a second that exclusive/expensive summer camp attendance is up there behind zip code and private high school attendance for some fraternities and sororities at UT and elsewhere. In fact, I know it is. And the parents who send their kids there surely understand this to a large degree, whether it's Mystic, La Junta, Waldemar, Olympia, Ozark, Longhorn, Champion, etc. But the kids don't figure this out until much later and are there to have fun.
  12. Okay, I missed that part. I figured the text groups were people who had kids there. I went to Longhorn for three summers and by the time I was in sixth grade had decided that was enough. I still remember some names of people there and have run into them a few times since then, but I don't otherwise keep in touch. I guess if I went there for eight plus years, I might keep in touch with more people or have been added to some random text group. But yeah, seems kind of strange. But these camps are pretty close knit, and a lot of these kids (now adults) went to high school (smaller, private schools) and college together. So maybe I'm not so surprised that some of them keep in touch regularly.
  13. I think a little better description of it is that it's swimming, and sailing, and fishing, and horseback riding, and all sorts of other fun things for kids to do. So a lot of the kids go back for years until they are in high school, at which point, some transition to being counselors at the camp. But these camps are very expensive. So, as @C-Man mentioned, later, when some of these kids end up at large Texas universities like UT, some of them know each other and end up in fraternities or sororities together or get recommended for bids to these organizations because they knew each other from years of going to summer camp together. I wouldn't call it weird for what it is at its base. It's just fun shit for kids to do during the summer. But because it's expensive and there are limited spots available (and because people have been attending for generations, it is exclusive and because of that, it feeds into the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities later.
  14. I went to high school with her mother and played soccer with her uncle. Sweet people. Chloe was an incoming freshman at UT. Just tragic.
  15. There were a couple of Jewish campers in my cabin and the one above ours. They gathered for a separate service IIRC. I wouldn't have described Longhorn as a "Christian" camp either. But things seemed less in your face back in the 80s, except when it wasn't, in which case, it seemed very in your face.
  16. I show up too. Civic duty, etc. They aren't picking me.
  17. Well, I mean other than not being able to use the walkway to a floating cabin this morning and having to float shit out. But yeah, for sure relatively fine, and I mean that as a relieved parent.
  18. You misspelled DAF.
  19. My son was a counselor in one of those cabins this morning. The water was over the walkway this morning. They had to float everyone's gear to shore on paddle boards. All are safe. End of 2nd term today.
  20. I like the fact that it was posted two posts above your very helpful post that gave us the confidence to tell our son to drive on to Austin. He made it safely, and thanks again for your earlier, in-the-moment info at that time. My wife was pursuing news sights. I went to Surly.
  21. Much appreciated. Just relayed the info to him.
  22. Thank you(s).
  23. Yes. My sister-in-law knows their cousin. Her grandmother is picking her up from camp and has to bear that awful news. They were camping and their camper/vehicle was swept away in the floods.
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