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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Sometimes it’s just a matter of who is willing.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. &nbsp 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Thanks, but this is different and authorized. I was just told that all I need to do is get to Kerrville.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. I’ve been searching but can’t seem to find an answer. I’ve sifted through all the false reports. Are there any confirmed reports of them fining someone alive today?
  14. Glad to see our elected Republican officials are on it.
  15. Let’s take these exact same facts but change just one. That one fact would be that either Biden or Harris were president instead of Trump. What do you think those pieces of shit who spoke at the press conference today would be saying?
  16. I really don’t want to be judgmental but these people are really acting like they don’t want to talk about anything of substance.
  17. There has literally been no information given here except for the number of rescues overnight. I see their mouths moving but nothing of substance.
  18. Where are you seeing this?
  19. People are really sensitive about pointing fingers over in the rain thread, but it seems like to me that Texas government is pretty much like the federal government. They put their best people on the grift and the worst on policy and governance.
  20. I said it earlier in the thread that there is no excuse for having as bad cell service as they do where all these camps are located. I don’t know who it is that fixes that but it always made me super nervous when my kids were going.
  21. The lack of cell service out there always bothered me when my kids were at Waldemar.
  22. I’m getting updates from a group actively looking for a loved one that there may be up to 200 people who are being transported out of Hunt to the reunification center in Ingram. The process is very slow. Fingers crossed that this is accurate. Hoping for the best as this is just devastating for the family that I know.
  23. what is overlooked in all these discussions is that the bad shit that will happen due to Medicare cuts, will not occur until after the midterms next year because that’s when they go into effect.
  24. You are acting like it’s an either/or proposition. We had a sensible bi-partisan president pan to re-vamp our immigration. Your guy killed it in the interest of his election. We could have sensible changes to our system, deport criminals, deal with the remainder, but do so with the dignity they deserve as fellow humans. It could all be done without eroding our due process rights, sending people to foreign prisons whose only crime was that they came here for a better life, and not creating a thug police force to run our streets in masks and refuse to identify themselves. We could also do it without rounding up US citizens who happen to be brown just because we are trying to meet a quota. We could do it without terrifying children, putting people in cages, splitting up families and acting like these people are subhuman. Instead, your guys want to dehumanize and blame those who have the least power for all your failings in life. Like you guys could be billionaires and life would be like Mayberry USA if it wasn’t for all those dirty illegals taking our jobs, living in housing you wouldn’t dream of living in, and living off the government tit (which they aren’t). Of course, there is all the white entitlement you feel which is wrapped up in God, flag, and guns. My biggest disappointment is going to be that there is not a God to look you people in the eye and ask you what the fuck was wrong with you. Your post clearly proves that you have resolved the dissonance in all this by believing that these people are responsible for whatever problems we have that we have kicked the can down the road on for decades. Meanwhile, you still expect our economy to hum, people to do the worst but necessary jobs like picking your produce, mowing your lawn, building your houses, clean up your shit in hotels and cook your food, all for next to nothing in cost to you. But, instead, you have chosen to support being cruel, stupid and generally uninformed and bigoted.
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