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  1. What were yall throwing?
  2. Im fine playing Arkansas but with the caveat that theyre the only school we show no class or consideration towards. Every chance we get we run up the score on them in every way imaginable. We show them hostility at our home games similar to what they show us. They're disgusting hill people and we should treat them like barbarians. The treatment ive received in Fayeteville transcends the need to be cordial ever again. We should curb stomp them and piss down the open wound into their neck. To the point that they genuinely dont want to play us anymore.
  3. Anyone ever used Marker 54 shrimp lures in Galveston Bay? Heard they're the bees knees but havent heard which color, glide vs jerk, shrimplet vs full size etc.
  4. That’s to say that Mystic knew about the weather, was monitoring the situation, and in a huge storm had a plan that said campers should remain in their cabins instead of having them leave for higher ground. I think all of that is based on decades of experience, and they just completely underestimated this situation. Based on the conversation I had tonight, I think they stuck with their plan, and that was a fatal mistake. So much so, they realized it mid event, did what they could to get the girls out, and were just too late. Dick lost his life and his son Ed barely saved the girls that he could. Ed ended up in a tree with a bunch of the girls who all survived, except for one who was holding on for dear life to another girl. She lost grip and Ed (and I’m assuming some of the girls) watched her get swept away. What I haven’t heard is if that girl is the one who found a log to float on and got fished out by a Good Samaritan right next to La junta. That little girl was at church this Sunday playing king of the hill with about 30 other kids like nothing ever happened. My son was one of the ones being too rough with her and he had absolutely no idea that she was the little girl that his whole camp watched get evacuated by a Blackhawk helicopter from the La junta athletic field. I really am having trouble keeping up with the reality of all of it.
  5. Based on that post and what I’ve been told, what Texas Fight is saying seems accurate to me. There’s a lot of confusion about where the cabins are and where the mystic flood plan says to focus first. I think we need to let all parties report their pre flood plans, their actions during the event, and their post event thoughts about why they made the decisions they did.
  6. I dont know whats being said, but that is most certainly not their emergency plan. Im not directing this at you, but I feel confident the Eastlands and their staff took significant care when it comes to flood planning. Its going to take some time for the details to come out. That being said, I had dinner tonight with someone very close to the situation, and she tearfully stated to me that she thinks they could've been more on top of it. It doesnt sound like they were off by some egregious amount, but the scoreboard is the scoreboard. Its a brutal situation.
  7. That or place dudes that like to go hard at strategic locations along the river.
  8. Theres a story of a dude that stayed up drinking and watching the storm at an rv park. At this point I dont even remember where its from. Around 1:30 he noticed the water had risen a lot and decided to go in and check the weather. He saw there were a bunch of alerts, came back outside, and the water had risen a shit ton in just minutes. He raised drunken hell banging on everyones rv doors and telling the men he came across to do the same. Everyone got out in time to watch their RVs get swept away. Im sure this story will come out more publicly because it sounds both amazing and completely insane. Unless you were there, Im guessing theres just no way to understand how fast it all happened. It was like a tsunami.
  9. Do not give that twerp the satisfaction of being referred to as a meathead. He wishes.
  10. Why isn't Judge on my tv screen?
  11. I wanna start buying the opposing teams QB the week we play them.
  12. I really like this staff's strategy of signing the #1 player at their position.
  13. Also they were enthusiastic about saying if Heart of the Hills was in session it would've been way way worse. I've heard that many times now and am curious whats going to happen to that camp now that Jane has been lost. Sounds like it got it the worst.
  14. Talked to multiple La Junta counselors. Pretty shocking stuff. They had somewhere between 50-60 kids up in the rafters of their cabins. Couldnt get out in time. They said it was impossible to see below the water line in the dark and with the deep brown color of the water. They were speaking very slow and in a serious tone, and said they thought that was it and told the kids to start praying. Exact same story I heard about the girls on the cat walk at the playhouse in Mystic. They said it was really looking bad and then the water stopped rising at the rafters, and maybe 20 minutes later it start going down. These dudes really went through something. I didn't think it got nearly that bad there. People way across the river could hear the kids crying for help. One of the cabins had multiple 6 year olds in it including one of my buddies kid from UT who showed me some insane videos of the cabins. Its actually super nice I didnt know any of this until now.
  15. I'll be at two of them. Have several related events all week. Im exhausted.
  16. Honestly at this point I think the legacy pool has grown so wide that even some girls whose mothers attended arent getting in. As you might imagine these people completely lose their shit.
  17. Nothing has changed. The day many of these girls are born you call and put them on the list for summer camp and if you want them to go to Texas you put them on the list for Hardin House. Been this way for a long long time.
  18. To expand on that, I think thats what is so gut wrenching for these parents. THEY placed this huge emphasis on sending their daughters to this camp. Lots of these little girls were scared to go and leave their parents. Its a big part of it, cutting the cord. I can't imagine the feeling some of them are having looking back on the conversations with their daughters about how great it will be once they get there, about how a month really isn't that long and it will go by much faster than they realize, about how making friends with other girls who were scared to leave home for the first time too will forge life long friendships. I'm sure the guilt is a huge part of their despair.
  19. I know we aren't getting our tuition back. Frankly, I'm hearing good things about how La Junta handled the flood and I'm just so happy with Scott and the rest of the staff I couldn't care less. Fwiw, it stretches me financially just to send one kid. I have two others on deck. Yes, these camps are filled with our best NIL donors kids. But there's also a significant portion whose parents send their kids to camp instead of something else. I know from my own life how important it was getting away from my parents for an extended period of time, and I want to give that to my kids. Seems to me kids are tougher, more resilient, and better adjusted after going to camp. I view it as a direct investment in their character and development, similar to playing sports and learning those lessons. I wish it was cheaper but the demand is through the roof which speaks to the value. The girls camps are even moreso. Most people I know get their daughters on the list for Mystic or Waldemar the day they are born. They have the call tee'd up and everything. Just like much of the sports stuff or school stuff, I find a lot of it insane, but I do it anyways because the benefits outweigh how ridiculous it is.
  20. Dude thats really cool and I bet that goes farther than you think with those guys.
  21. In my book preachers shouldn’t have business practices of any kind.
  22. I take my faith seriously, as in it’s the most important thing in my life. I really do feel that way, but as I get older I realize what an absolute disaster of a Christian I am. If you use golf as an analogy, I’m struggling every day to break 100. But I sure do know a lot of people who think they’re scratch golfers and I never even see them pick up a club.
  23. Nicole Im having similar thoughts but Im leaving the door open for unique circumstances. Its sounding to me like debris got caught up in some trees or something and created dual prong fingers of very directed rushing water, and the left part of that water went straight into Bubble Inn. On the right side they lost one of the twins cabins but the other right next to it wasnt in the direct laser path of rushing water.
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