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2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

We dont have a time machine or any true influence with government leadership so its all moot anyway.

Mistakes may have been made. Thats always the case with tragedies. If you can do anything to help then thats the healthiest way of dealing with this imo.

Just my 2cent

 

without seeing updated reports from other camps, 18 camps were hit and one has the huge majority of missing kids / deaths. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

SIAP

his videos and knowledge of the area help show another pov of the scope and scale of this unfathomable tragic nature event. 

Having literally driven that stretch of 39 last weekend to get my kids at HoH, I can’t even wrap my head around just how high that water was. 
My gawd.

 

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I’m sorry for the painful conversation you’ll have with your daughter. I just can’t imagine.

Yes, my daughter is pretty upset that her mystic term will likely be cancelled. But we have not talked yet about the next few weeks and friends that won’t return to school. Heartbreaking for so many.
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Just now, Dnaguy said:

Having literally driven that stretch of 39 last weekend to get my kids at HoH, I can’t even wrap my head around just how high that water was. 
My gawd.

 

I cannot either. When I was a camper for 8 years at Waldemar (I went first session so all of June) and we rarely had rain. So to see all this devastation and destruction is difficult to comprehend. I cannot fathom how the residents feel. I was just a summer camper and one time counselor. There for a couple of weeks and then gone. All of their stuff is gone. 

this ain’t a joke cuz I see what the rebuilding efforts in North Carolina. They need to get some Amish in Kerrville once it’s safe to start the demolition process, I cannot wrap my head around this loss of life along with the utter decimation of both Hunt and Kerrville and other places we aren’t posting about much or focusing on. Damn.

so our bitch ass lakes better show some appreciation and get their asses full. 

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I’m sure it won’t make a difference but I hope this changes how people react to officials putting weather related precautions in place, especially in central Texas. Schools superintendents get bitched out every time they cancel school and it doesn’t turn out to be a massive weather event. 

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

OK, now I know this is an historic event.  My wife just started cranking SRV "Texas Flood".  I wasn't sure she even knew who he was.

Really should have made sure of that before proposing, but glad it worked out.

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5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Hold on . . . are you telling us your wife doesn’t know who Stevie Ray Vaughan was ?!?!?!?!

Obviously she knows who he was, she picked the song.  I was being facetious.  Her main listens are Clapton, Petty, Kelly Willis and younger artists like Kasey Chambers.  She's just not that much of a blues person.  (Or so I thought.)

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2 minutes ago, Chopper said:

fwiw for anyone who doesn't have a xitter account - changing https://x.com/humerus6cents/status/1941347154884542795

to https://xcancel.com/humerus6cents/status/1941347154884542795 will show you the full tweet

 

 

Thanks. Didn't know about that site.

I cannot wrap my head around people driving over those bridges like it's nothing as water and trees slam into it. What on the other side of that bridge is worth risking your life?

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Obviously she knows who he was, she picked the song.  I was being facetious.  Her main listens are Clapton, Petty, Kelly Willis and younger artists like Kasey Chambers.  She's just not that much of a blues person.  (Or so I thought.)

I’ve always had a little bit of a crush on Kelly Willis. When my daughter was a freshman on the McCallum basketball team Kelly’s daughter was a senior. I was  on a booster club Zoom call with her and made a joke that got a laugh out of her. #csb

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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

I’ve always had a little bit of a crush on Kelly Willis. When my daughter was a freshman in the McCallum basketball team Kelly’s daughter was a senior. I was  on a booster club Zoom call with her and made a joke that got a laugh out of her. #csb

Yup, our kids all went to McCallum and I used to see Kelly and (for a while) Bruce at track meets, etc.  I probably spent too much time staring at Kelly and not enough time watching my kid run.  Priorities, it's not like he was bound for the Olympiics.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yup, our kids all went to McCallum and I used to see Kelly and (for a while) Bruce at track meets, etc.  I probably spent too much time staring at Kelly and not enough time watching my kid run.  Priorities, it's not like he was bound for the Olympiics.

This was after my divorce, and if I hadn’t started dating my current wife at the time, I would’ve made a move on Kelly. 

Who am I kidding. No I wouldn’t have.

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Reading  about this from afar, and hearing some things from friends and family back in the Austin area.  Was out of the loop on it until this morning.  What a horrible tragedy in Kerrville and my sympathies to anyone affected.  And as areas continue to flood my best wishes to all of you to stay safe. 

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8 minutes ago, Machinator said:

 

When we lived in SA, a tropical storm blew in and stalled over the city and dumped like 15 inches.  What I remember was that five inches fell in one hour and it was unlikely anything I'd ever seen.  Literally couldn't see across the street at one point.  

That's what these hourly totals are like and it's mind bottling.  

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53 minutes ago, C-Man said:


I don’t think Mystic will ever reopen.

That’s my suspicion, or it will be open under new owners a decade from now.  I don’t know how you run a camp without putting some significant time post tragedy,  

Posted
1 minute ago, Jiggy-Z said:

User name checks out.

Nueces River runs way west of San Antonio.  So far it’s sitting this flood out although it would be a good thing to get some to help fill Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi    

User name would need to be San Antonio River Rat of Cibolo Creek Rat.  Usually it’s the creek that brings the worse flooding to San Antonio.  

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Just now, Dnaguy said:

One of the Holts posted that their kids are safe… one was at Mystic.

Can you elaborate as to who these people are?  We have neighbors by that name down the street with kids ~ that age.

Posted
12 hours ago, MirrOlure said:

This is a very well written and well thought out post. Thank you. And fuck TJH. Shame he wasn’t one of the casualties 

Lol wtf does Tom Henry have to do with any of this?

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