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troph

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  1. Best dinner so far, not even close… Smokey mezcals were so good, basil drink was fun too. Octopus, corn truffle, cauliflower and short rib tostadas wow.
  2. For those of you who wait for our cistern updates … July 4 after about an inch had fallen and as of yesterday….
  3. I always round up or down to the nearest whole number.
  4. Even if only 20% are your kinda people thats still a substantial number. You can find your people. Birds of a feather and all of that.
  5. not a place for a tranny to call home that I can assure you. kidding aside (or maybe that's not kidding, I dunno I digress), I love it there, and with a hospital and enough going on, it's a place I once had an eye on for retirement. loftier goals and now politics have me thinking out of state, but if you like the out doors (like I do), you love Texas (like I do), you can co-exist with sane conservatives (like I can) then with the exception of summer heat it's could be a great place to slow down. I'd rank it over Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay for sure, I might over Fredericksburg too but that's debatable based on what you want. It's wildly different than the communities close to town like Lake Travis. For me, whatever my love may have been for the hill country it's been replaced by a need to leave. So it's Colorado, California, or Mexico as the top three right now (no particular order).
  6. I‘m shocked sending unsolicited, long cat, fund raising text messages that start with a deceptively familiar greeting like “hi troph, how are you?” wasn’t on the list of things constituents want from Dems.
  7. Stalled out over the Llano. 3-4 inches in the bullseye.
  8. It’s moving south and dumping water along the way
  9. Damn hydromet shows 3 inches in the Llano basin already on the ground, wow.
  10. I was originally 20-25 rise. but new rain doesn't make our predictions more accurate because today's rain wasn't part of the equation, still 559 and predicting 661 means you need to work for LCRA!
  11. Buchanan watershed getting it right now. if it holds together Llano river and LBJ watershed are next, could make it's way into Travis after that. long line, horizontal across the highland lakes region. should all be runoff at this point. wow.
  12. the State apparently started the admin process to reimburse jurisdictions who rendered aid on July 2nd. That's the whole ruckus caused by the Austin Firefighters Association saying the AFD Chief should be fired. So the State WAS doing something to prepare.
  13. dang, those are some nice titties. edit - damn does this mean robert plant doesn't have titties?
  14. here are some of the top deadliest disasters... Galveston hurricane 1900 - 8-12K dead 1906 SF earthquake - 3K dead Hurricane Maria 2017 - 3k dead Central US Heatwave 1980 - 1700 dead Hurricane Katrina 2005 - 1800 dead Johnstown Flood (PA) 1889 - 2200 dead Floods only... Johnstown Flood (PA) 1889 - 2,200 dead Ohio River Flood 1937 - 385 dead Central Texas Flood 1921 - 215 dead Rapid City, SD Flood 1972 - 238 dead Big Thompson Canyon Flood, CO 1976 - 144 dead The Guadalupe River Flood of 2025 is most certainly an outlier... most recent in the top 6 (all those above plus the Guad Flood) other than this one was 1976. Pretty fucking damning given modern comms and weather predicting. makes me ragey.
  15. they can hide it and they are resilient to a point, but this kind of trauma isn't going away. as someone who suffered garden variety emotional trauma from shitbag parents during my entire childhood, it wasn't until my late 40s that I realized it impacts my every day and will never go away. I've done a lot to get better and I am not passing it on, but for example, I'm hyper, hyper vigilant and I can't sit still. I'm always worried about something, and I always feel a low grade bad when times are good. I'll die with those traits. These kids need help and they will need it for a long, long time.
  16. assuming 300 souls perish, my quick searching and chatGPT-ing suggests the following: 1. top 25-30 deadliest natural disaster in US history 2. top 3 deadliest floods in US history 3. deadliest flood in Texas history (apparently a flood in 1921 (Williamson county / CenTex) killed 215)
  17. that is unbelievably awful. I can't even imagine being woken up, told to leave, and then told those screams are from people actively dying. mother of god.
  18. you can get my boat for $70-85K. no one is selling (or buying) a 7 year old boat that was originally under $100K for $150K. it's not really depreciating at all though which is fantastic.
  19. And cost of boats and houses? 1997 first house, central Austin, $71,500. Axis 24 cost us $97,000 in 2018.
  20. You’re not wrong but it’s one good thing about teenagers. My 17 year old son is too busy for a job and so you can call it a glorified allowance but I put him on payroll and told him school, band and work, work can come third but you have plenty of time to meet all three mandatory responsibilities. He cleans our boat, makes sure it’s covered, wiped down, he’s got 2 cars and he handles all our difficult recycling too (foam, textiles, goodwill, plastic wrapping, non single stream recyclables, hazmat, electronics, batteries, etc). So on topic, our boat (and cars) always look great.
  21. The other thing I’m going to say and this is political but fuck guys and gals we can’t be partisan on this, a special session is being called for other stupid reasons but the public welfare and flash flood warning systems will take all the air, we absolutely need these fucking assholes to make real change. The good news is their people died so we have a legit shot at real, good, and lasting change. Let’s get on board and see to it that it happens.
  22. Y'all need to chill out. Snowflakes aren’t going to listen or change (DT MAGA). So it doesn’t matter. Furthermore, when “we” briskettexan a DT thread it does detract. Yeah, the state passing mystic’s license a week ago, Kerr county/kerrville minutes and more are absolutely fucking damning news and they get very little traction in DT - so what? Yelling at dumbfucks isn’t going to remove their moral cataracts. The reality is “they” politicize everything and then “we” rail on them for it and everyone is miserable. There’s no need for it. I’ll also say there are threads on DT that are safe havens for liberals, there’s a fair amount of DJT criticism on the Ukraine thread, the Elon thread is scathing at times, LA thread, Covid thread and others. so anyway, fuck the snowflakes and their feelings but cut imma some slack and you want to go full briskettexan do it in the CR it’s a fair ask.
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