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Ha!, that wasn’t the cause of mine.
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As I recall during the last year of Fred Akers tenure, admissions was guaranteed if you were either in the top 25% of your class or made 1100 or better on the SAT. I remember this because in the 11th grade I made exactly 1100 the first time I took the SAT and proceeded to to screw off the rest of high school and managed to drop out of the the top 25% by graduation.
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I posted in the DT thread about my experience in joining a search team for a couple of days. My CR comment on that is that nearly all of the efforts going on in Hunt right now are being carried out by non profits. Some are religious based, others are ex military. I am positive that a lot of these folks were MAGA. Believe me, there were lots of signs of where these folks came down on things. What I am having difficulty reconciling is that these people were obviously doing good work and I am appreciative of their efforts, but are also supportive of some of the worst people to ever inhabit our government, and who are doing some pretty terrible things. There were several chaplain types walking around supporting those who were doing the work. I give them credit for that. But, one in particular came up to check on me and ended our discussion by asking if I wanted to pray for our leaders and especially our President. Out of respect for the work he was doing, I did not make a big deal of it but it was just hard to reconcile. Like I said, it is extremely admirable what these people are doing and I want to give them credit for that. I just don’t understand how they recognize the suffering of people in one way but not another.
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In addition, there is barbed wire, nails, shards of metal everywhere. A ton of hazards and a lot of people disregarding. Volunteers were urged to go to Hunt VFD and get tetanus shots as well. My friend stepped in the wrong place and had a nail go completely through his boot. Luckily, it missed his foot. I threw my clothes away and put my boots in a bucket of soapy water and scrubbed them down. Plenty of people working down there not caring about the dangers and just doing what they can.
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My 17 year old self was lit getting broken up with on the phone by a girl I had been seeing while they were performing. I didn’t really hear most of it because I could not look away from them on the tv.
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Sometimes it’s just a matter of who is willing.
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As someone who was definitely not part of that crowd at UT, it’s the first thing I did when I had daughters. My parents certainly didn’t know anything about all that. To me, summer camp was going to the Tom Nissalke Basketball Camp at SHSU.
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I went to search with a group on Friday. If you have ever been to Hunt, you won’t recognize it. Looks like it was clear cut. Standing near the river and looking at the debris line was daunting. So much water. Hard to really understand it without seeing. I thought it was strange that I encountered no dead animals other than fish. Maybe they have been removed but still strange. I mostly was searching the high water line. Can’t tell you the amount of Mystic t shirts and shorts that were on the ground in my am search area. As a father who sent two girls to camp in the area it was rough because I recognized what a lot of the things I came across were. Hard to see. Heartbreaking.   If you have been keeping up with the numbers you will know that the bodies found have been slow the past few days. I did not come across anything. No smells other than the stench of silt which is everywhere. Its not just a little. It’s everywhere and deep. The main search tool seemed to be excavators digging up the silt on the banks and people lined up on the side of it looking underneath what was dug up and the watching as the bucket was sifted. Other excavators are moving trees and brush piles while spotters look in the area beneath. This is going on all up and down the bank. There are lots of non profit organizations in Hunt running this machinery and either supervising volunteers or their own people doing the spotting. Every person who told me what to do, handed me a water, food, or a cold towel was with a non profit. No FEMA or any other official types that I saw. I wonder how long this will be going on and Abbotts claim that they aren’t leaving until all missing are accounted for seems unrealistic. I did come across some game wardens walking around the water line trying to detect decomposition odors. One issue with this is that you have to till up or poke the silt wi th a stick to get oxygen to potentially what might be underneath it in order to detect a smell. The scope of this flood is just massive. Being there made it feels enormous. Finding everyone who is missing just seems very difficult. I saw no National Guard. Nowhere. No military vehicles, no base camps, nothing. Not saying they aren’t there but I didn’t see them. In fact outside of the game wardens , I had the impression that it’s just locals and the non profits. I’m assuming that’s not the case but I covered a lot of ground and that’s all I saw. Met people from all over the country. It is really bad down there. I’m just not sure what will happen over the long haul.
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CTC2 started following 4th of July Texas Flood
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Mo Ranch has entered the chat: https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/mo-ranch-summer-camp-safely-evacuated-70-staying-along-river-ahead-of-deadly-flooding/ Two things can be true at the same time. Eastland could have been a great guy who did a lot of good things for kids as well as got complacent and dropped the ball when he needed to be on the top of his game.
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Thanks, but this is different and authorized. I was just told that all I need to do is get to Kerrville.
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I’m thinking of joining a volunteer search team tomorrow. Has anyone seen any information about how Trump’s visit might impact my ability to get to area between Ingram and Hunt where the team has been searching?
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I am just amazed by the grace that these parents have demonstrated in some of the interviews. This family are really good people and it really makes me angry they are going through this.
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The guy from the Cajun Navy was on CNN this afternoon and said based upon the number of cars and especially RV’s they are finding he thought it was more like 500. He mentioned something about RV’s being submerged in 40 feet of water and something about air pockets. Anchor asked if he was suggesting people could be alive and he kind of stammered and then the feed was lost.
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I always enjoy his reporting. Does a really good job. Although, if I see him walk up to me, I’ll know for sure something bad has happened. The guy always goes to the worst news events. His interview with the father from Beaumont yesterday, made me cry. His interview with the old timer in front of the Hunt Store made me laugh when he stopped mid sentence to spit.
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When a politician is not afraid of losing a general election, there is no accountability for them being bad at their job. Texas keeps returning the same people to office who generally have no fear of losing to a democrat who may actually be interested in public service. However, what they are afraid of is losing a primary to someone who is more crazy than them. They have no interest in governing, but are more interested in culture war stuff. As a state, we care more about trans people in sports than actually working to make the lives of people safer and better. All that makes for bad governance.
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