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  1. Except we do look at these events and a lot of the engineers who are working on evaluating these conditions are explicitly accounting for climate change and associated impacts in terms of evaluating these facilities. - an engineer who designs dams throughout the southwest. 

    Yep. While a lot of very loud people insist that climate change is fake, the people whose jobs and lives and money depends on designing and planning for such events are doing just that.
    But it’s still a bitch to predict these things in real-time.
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  2. My sister rode quadrille. My niece is a Comanche. Connie was a legend. She was a drill sergeant.

    I just got confirmation that Jane Ragsdale, the operator/owner of Heart of the Hills drowned.

    Fucking hell. I served on a board with Jane a few years back.
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  3. Yeah, this whole situation still makes me want to puke.
    Mother Nature gives zero fucks, and no matter how much we think we know and can predict…we haven’t figured her out all the way. And this state in particular is unforgiving in that respect.

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  4. Looking back at the radar, this storm exploded and dropped an unprecedented amount of rain at an unprecedented rate at 2am. Sometimes it’s just bad luck and nature.

    What’s a bit odd is that the forecasts seemed to totally miss this risk. There was talk of rain, mostly w of 35, but not of any major flood risk. It’s not common for forecasts to miss so widely these days.

  5. Waldemar, Loma Linda (Mo Ranch), and Stewart all sit on the north fork (I think)of the Guadalupe.
    Mystic, Heart of the Hills, Arrowhead, and La Junta all sit on the south fork. I have no idea if it makes a difference, but I’m pretty sure they collide right at Hunt. Hence, La Junta getting absolutely pummeled.

    Mo Ranch reports no power or phone, but everyone safe. They have lots of high ground there, and very few buildings are down low.
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  6. 1 minute ago, royiv said:

    Same. You always knew it was getting good when the jacket came off, the tie got loosened and the sleeves got rolled up.

    When he and Yeomans were working together on I think the big freeze...that was as good as weather coverage gets.  Seriously, they were both A-teamers, and played off of each other perfectly to communicate how alarming and big a deal it was, without coming across as hysterical or hyperbolic.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    I'm ready for change. All this Make America Great Again bullshit is a real ass-beating. Let's Make USA Fucking Fantastic. Those hats will sell like hotcakes.

    You may have a future as my third assistant director of merchandising and selling cheap chinese shit falsely labeled as made in america because fuck the rubes.  Sure, it's a long title, but you can see that it has lots of responsibilities.

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  8. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    He has been bitching about the bill, about it attacking solar energy, he's pushing SpaceX stuff.

    Oh, and retweeting pro-Tesla tweets that with 7,400 cars sold in Turkey, it's the best-selling car there (in June) and with 520 or so cars sold in Ireland, it's the best-selling car there (in June).

    And he's retweeting polls and people calling for him to start an America Party. 

     

    I offer my services as a candidate, consultant, coffee boy, whatever, to the America Party.  Due to my extensive posting history on the internets, and the fact that my meme game is strong, I think a $50 million compensation package is appropriate.  And I will take whatever political positions the America Party chooses to adopt.  Because I am embracing this era of grift and absolute amoral whoredom.  If you can't beat em, join em.

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  9. 7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    I feel bad. I wrote a few pages back about San Marcos not getting any rain so that means we will flood. 

    That shit is just going to sit over Central Texas and pound us all. 

     

     

    7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    Are the lakes full yet?

    How do the lakes' asses take that length?  Seems we're gonna find out.

    This is always the way it goes.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, YChang said:

    Yeah, isn’t this the ecological reality of central Texas since forever?

    Correct.  As observed by a federal meteorologist in the 20s, I think - Texas is the land of perpetual drought, soaked by occasional devastating floods.  That's the way it is, and always has been.  Some of those are becoming more extreme, but being a land of some extremes is nothing new.

    And I've been headed to Hunt (one of the sites along the Guad up that road) when a flood hit.  I had to bail out (literally backed my truck up once I hit a spot where the rushing water was up to my hubs - NOPE), go back into Kerrville, and come at it from the north end, where the road doesn't cross the river at any low points.  A Hunt school board member wasn't so lucky that night.

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  11. 37 minutes ago, Hitch said:

    It’s not going to fill the void of such an unimaginable loss. But it sure would help. 

    I know you think it would help.  But the accounts of most folks who have been through such things tells you that, for the most part, it actually doesn't.

    Which is both hard for me (a vengeance minded guy) to grasp...but also, knowing just enough about human nature, loss, and grief, it also makes sense.  We don't find actual closure and peace by trying to "balance the ledger," because such ledgers can never be balanced.  To continue the metaphor, most people who speak of finding peace and closure get there because they "write off the debt."  Holding onto trying to collect on a debt that can never be repaid is a recipe for continued suffering and anger.  It's counter-intuitive at first, but in the bigger picture, it makes sense.

    You say such things definitively -- "it would bring closure."  "It sure would help."  You may genuinely think that.  But first, you don't know that, as you haven't actually applied that path to yourself.  And second, looking to the folks who HAVE walked that path, they mostly tell us that what you think is generally not how it turns out.  Maybe listen to them, the folks who have come out on the other side.  They aren't speaking in the abstract or unknown like you and I are' they are speaking from actual experience.  They have more credibility than you or I on the matter.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Hitch said:

    See, that’s just not the case. I know exactly what I’d want if my child were to be stabbed to death. 

    I agree.  I know what I'd want.

    What we'd want is one thing.

    Whether it would actually bring us peace and closure is quite another.

    There's a metric shitton of things in this life that, if only I could get it, then it would surely make me happy/feel better/etc.  But then, having gotten one or another of those things, it's amazing how often the thing that I wanted did NOT ultimately make me happy/feel better/etc.  Knowing that pattern doesn't make me stop wanting those things.  But it has made me more realistic about the outcome I expect from getting them.  I'm suggesting that a realistic approach would be to acknowledge that the thing you very much want - vengeance - won't fill the void.

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  13. 2 minutes ago, berlinerbaer said:

    All of this.

    The AI provision banning any regulation for a decade was also scrapped. Maybe responsible governance can address that shit 4 years from now.

    The Dems need to take the House in 2026 and play hardball with the budget and try to chip away at the edges of this monstrosity.

    False.  We need the temp on the stove to be turned up to max, so all who touch it suffer from undeniable and excruciating third degree burns.  There is no way out of this except the changing of minds that can only come from suffering unspeakable pain.  We're past the point of no return.  We're committed.  So let's do this.

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  14. 4 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

     

    It's pretty arrogant to presuppose what and how someone should grieve and what or how should bring a sense of emotional comfort and closure to someone who is not yourself.

    Even if you vaguely agree on such broad concepts like "justice", the details can be widely different for different people (e.g. justice for one might be the death penalty in an eye-for-an-eye and for another it could mean a cosmic or spiritual justice like hell once life on earth ends, etc.)

    Yes and no.  The evidence on such matters -- as in, actually gathering input from people after the fact -- indicates that Twice's take is the general rule.

    Not that I don't get Hitch's take; if one of my kids had been a victim, I'd almost certainly feel the same way.  I have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance, I admit it.  BUT...I'm also objectively rational enough to know that no matter how much I'd want that outcome, it is very likely, even certain, that once the perpetrator was dead...I'd still not have that closure.  That is because some things are so horrific that no "closure" or peace can be obtained by external events.  It can only be obtained by doing the one thing that so many of us are loathe to do: letting go.  And again, I don't know if I could ever pull that off.  I'd probably carry unspeakable pain, rage, and hate to my grave.  But that's my weakness, of which I am well aware.  I won't lie to myself and tell myself that I would obtain peace and closure that way.  

    It's okay and human to want that revenge.  Just don't lie to yourself and insist that vengeance is the way to peace and closure.  Millennia of human experience tells us that's not the case.

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  15. 14 minutes ago, pacman said:

    Yet it somehow will cost $80k per immigrant each year to house them?

    That math ain't mathing, except grifter.

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    There's always money to be made in human rights violations.  The fact that such activities are hidden from detailed scrutiny also means that the spending on same is similarly hidden.  It's really one of the top grift opportunities on the planet.  All you need to succeed is to be completely immoral/evil.  Fortunately, we've got an unlimited supply of that type of folks in MAGA land.

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  16. 27 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    So when you fantasized about Sela Ward; is it her of a certain age, or is it current 68 year old Sela Ward?

    Don't be clever and say : "yes" :)

    Don't tell me what I can and can't do, motherfucker.

     

    So, my answer is indeed "yes."

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  17. 4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm just glad the public lands stuff was taken out.  Some form of this was always going to pass.  My focus is just on keeping my job so I can keep my health insurance now.  Sucks for a bunch of people.  Maybe they will learn that elections have consequences.

    "I hope that stupid people will become smart."

    Less chance of that than "I hope that Sela Ward finally comes to her senses and joins the wife and me for sexy time."

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