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CycleTex87

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  1. Here’s the Mo Ranch story:

    It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain.

    Aroldo Barrera notified his boss, who had been monitoring reports of the storms approaching Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a recreation destination where an intercultural youth conference had been called off early just hours earlier.

    Despite an absence of warning by local authorities, camp officials acted quickly on their own, relocating about 70 children and adults staying overnight in a building near the river. With the kids safe, camp leaders including President and CEO Tim Huchton were able to avoid the catastrophe that hit at least one other camp near Hunt, where the 500-acre Mo-Ranch is located.

    “They helped them pack up,” Lisa Winters, communications director for Mo-Ranch, told The Associated Press on Sunday. “They got them up, they got them out, put them up on higher ground.”
     

    They had a plan and executed it.  In another report I heard they actually moved a bunch of kayaks and canoes to higher ground also.  The same thought process probably went on at La Junta as well.  To @troph’s point all the camps should have an emergency plan and drill on it before any kids show up. It’s government’s job to require they have it in place and provide adequate warning. 
     

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  2. 6 minutes ago, troph said:

    Are you kidding ? A flood prone river with cabins literally feet from the banks. If I owned that camp I’d take EVERY rain event seriously and I’d be up making sure those campers were safe. Government is the fail safe and should come in to help but management and ownership did NOTHING until it was too late. They didn’t wake them up, they didn’t call first responders asking for help, NOTHING.

    Both of these things are correct. 

  3. Just now, ChiTownDoc said:

    First RIP to all these poor victims.  I can’t imagine what their families are going through.  
     

    Then I have to address the stupidity at the end of your post.  There’s 0.0% chance those clowns leave unless someone worse is on deck.  
     

    We should have a debate about renaming that Guadalupe river soon enough though.  So there’s that…

    And that’s the problem 

  4. 5 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    In theory, sure, but I assume there's some sort of containment around the radioactive, corrosive, and chemotoxic material.  

    Of course that's tongue in cheek.  The US built Hanford WA and Oak Ridge TN facilities at the cost of billions of today's dollars to create less fissile material than that for the two bombs used in WWII.  

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  5. 2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

    I don’t disagree with that. Just the narrative that the Iran’s just straight trucked a bunch of 60-90% enriched uranium out and nobody in combined intelligence community said “hmm, I wonder what’s in those 18 wheelers?”

    The amount I've heard the amount of enriched uranium they had is 400 kg give or take.  You could haul that in the back of your 1-ton dually.

  6. On 5/30/2025 at 10:38 PM, Anastasis said:

    How you digging the XL?

    Couple out of the Koda 16. 

    First got a little too aggressive with the moz, but underneath had a fresh pizza sauce built on cherry and early girls from the garden. Next level fresh sauce. 

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    Too much moz is just enough. 

  7. 1 hour ago, blacklab said:

    For some reason I was craving an egg salad sandwich from Thundercloud so I ordered it online and asked my wife to pick it up on the way home. I included "I ordered it from the one behind Cane's off Bee Cave road"

    I get a frantic call "you ordered from the wrong store, they don't have your order but if you send me the receipt they will make it"

    So I email her the receipt. 

    About 10 seconds later I hear a man say in the background "Ma'am this is Jersey Mikes"

    This is funny.  Jersey Mikes is awesome but so is Thundercloud 

  8. More likely a human error cause than a latent defect in the aircraft. Though you can't rule out some bizarre combination of events that line up to cause both engines to shut down.

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