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  1. OK so we’re good. At the Dena (old Sheraton) in Pasadena. The whole hotel is full of Altadenaeans and their animals. Shit is fucking crazy. We’ve got 2 cats and a dog in our room. Cats are out of their minds. Dog is tripping. But we’re all safe. I don’t think we’ll lose the house, but we might. The winds are going to be hurricane force in a couple of hours. Fire will explode. Houses in Altadena are burning. My nerves are fucking shot. All you smell miles downwind in Pasadena is smoke. This may end up being the worst fire event in SoCal history. Fuck. And the Bruins got smoked by Michigan at Pauley. When it rains it pours. Weird how surly can sometimes be my outlet. You fuckers were the first (besides my wife) that I told I had cancer. It’s like being on a couch.
    98 points
  2. Neighborhood is devastated. Looks like our house will survive. But many friends and neighbors lost their homes. My kids elementary school is gone. Our country club is gone. Neighborhood will never be the same.
    70 points
  3. Defending my house with a hose. This is my street. Wind blowing away from our house.
    45 points
  4. “seems pretty foolish for a state to be unprepared for a worst-case scenario weather event.” -texas people as temps drop
    40 points
  5. Incredulity negging an actual firefighter just because he disagrees with some bullshit misinformation copy-pasta about fire hydrants is peak Surly Dunning-Kruger.
    34 points
  6. Dude. Just stfu. As usual, you don't know wtf you're talking about. This isn't a huge scandal, and it's not uncommon. It happens fairly often in much less extreme conditions than the ones they're facing. It happens in other places. It's happened at multiple fires I've worked in Austin over the years. Dry hydrants happen. Grow up, dumbass.
    30 points
  7. Fuck that thing. I left a little bit ago as they cut water as well as power so nothing left for me to do. That link says our house is on fire. Just called my next door neighbor who’s still there and he said no, the house is fine. Whew. I’m completely emotionally and physically exhausted.
    30 points
  8. We're now at a friend's in La Crescenta, although they've already got their bags packed in case one pops up near this mountain. I think our house is likely safe from the fire unless an ember jumps multiple blocks of homes and catches us, or the entire area burns to the ground. For Christmas my daughter was given a hand carved guardian angel that sits on her bookcase. It was one of the few things she grabbed on the way out 🥹
    30 points
  9. I really couldn’t care less. Houses within a block or two of mine are burning. I really don’t know if my neighborhood will exist. My house is 100 years old. I’m seriously stressed.
    28 points
  10. Litigate your negs in DMs. This thread doesn't need the fuckery.
    27 points
  11. ...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's why I said an Oklahoma Smokeshow can mean different things to different people. Shit.
    27 points
  12. for those asking isolated questions about how it gets like this and why it's so hard to contain, please remember that we've basically been in a drought for over 100 years and this is one of the driest seasons on record. it hasn't rained here in 8 months. so as far as scooping a bunch of non-salt water to drop on the fires, those levels are already horrifyingly low. add the winds, which are bad on their own (think hurricane without the rain), and shit spreads fast and makes life hard on first responders. winds cause trees to fall and shit to fly into power lines which fall and start fires. i'm sure some were started by lit cigs, bbq mishaps, or jewish space lasers, but huge winds always start fires. there are at least 4 independent fires going right now, which is insanely rare (typically one fire spreads but they're all connected). also remember, many of these communities, especially ones in the hills have one way in and one way out. when people are fleeing and firetrucks are trying to get in/out, it's almost impossible. anyone familiar with how la is on a map can tell you how few options you have just to get from the city to the valley and how clogged those roads get, and that's before trees/random objects are blocking roads. the news just literally said "please don't use water today if you can avoid it, even if you're nowhere near the fires". i've never heard that. i'm gonna go watch chinatown. @Sbbruin glad you're safe. let's meet up at a shitty palm springs casino. don't bring your cats.
    25 points
  13. She still has a job because she didn't get that job because she is eye candy. She actually does a good job as a reporter. Shocking in this day and age I know.
    22 points
  14. 21 points
  15. Old Guard SEC just doesn't get how little Texas cares about being in the SEC. I mean, it's fine, we're making more money and we get games against some new faces, but there's absolutely no pride or ego tied up in being associated with this conference. Texas is carrying the banner for Texas and nothing else.
    21 points
  16. We've evacuated in Pasadena. At a friend's house. Getting from the back door to the garage was like walking through a campfire. Never been in smoke that thick. Our house is over 100 years old and has some pretty poor seals on the windows. House full of smoke
    21 points
  17. Had to go into work today while my family holed up at our friend's house. Afterwards, Was able to get back into the neighborhood to make it to our house and looks like it's gonna be ok. Inside of house is covered in soot. Guess those winds just blasted it through the cracks in our old ass windows and doors. @Sbbruin so sorry. Heard St Mark's, ACC, and Waldorf are gone. We know 4 Altadena families who've lost everything. Drove into this cloud this morning before work to try and get back home to check the status but turned around bc smoke was so thick
    20 points
  18. wife just packed our go-bags but we should be ok to stay. cousin’s house in palisades is “gone”. friends in pasadena, la canada, malibu are without power and have bailed out east. we’re watching a friend’s puppy that is brothers with our puppy and his place in mdr is empty so we thought of heading there. local news confirms there is nothing can be done to fight the fire until sunrise, and the next 6-8 hours are expected to be the worst yet. i will either hit the throttle on the bourbon or take the 10 to the 15 to caesar’s. maybe all of the above.
    20 points
  19. SBBruin had to evacuate, but he got a photo posted from his driveway in the Winter Weather thread (last page) before bugging out. Send him and his family all the good vibes you've got.
    19 points
  20. Thank god they still have you to thank for defending their honor on Surlyhorns.com. I'm sure that will help them out immensely. You're a fucking hero. And a patriot. Now what exactly are you upset about? That Incredulity is a f'n idiot? Thats been common knowledge for years.
    17 points
  21. It's amusing that even the ones that recognize that they're not Texas or Georgia or Notre Dame, believe that the cause, is because they're just too nice and don't cheat. We're talking about a program that objectively is among the most NCAA-sanctioned teams of all time, and just recently bought an entire recruiting class with funds the head coach himself clearly stated were not NIL. Buy yeah, they struggle because they're just the nicest cleanest program in all of college football. Sure, Jan.
    17 points
  22. What a disgusting, piece of shit group of people. Fuck the entire family to hell.
    16 points
  23. 16 points
  24. Ohio State is the Death Star and Ryan Day is the thermal exhaust port.
    16 points
  25. 16 points
  26. From today's ESPN+ article on the game: "In general, the Longhorns are the most likely of the semifinalists to suffer a negative play and the most likely to make up for it with a third-and-long conversion." And that is why Longhorn fans' life expectancy is lower than most.
    15 points
  27. Man you're gonna not enjoy what the next president has to say then when it comes time to rebuild. I'm terribly sorry for you and your friends and family loss. I thought it was important to point out and link to the data that showed it wasn't a failure of enough water, and not a "scandal" but a tragedy of historic scale. I know your feelings are extreme because of the ongoing disaster, but c'mon man. No need to be dropping slurs
    15 points
  28. To boil it down--water out of the hydrant has fuck-all to do with how much water is in the reservoir. California has plenty of water in its reservoirs. I mean, maybe not "plenty" for long-term planning purposes. But for purposes of combatting these fires, California has plenty of water in the reservoirs. But the water that comes out of the hydrants is treated city water. And treated city water has to get uphill to storage tanks. And once those storage tanks run dry, there's no water for the hydrants no matter how much water may be in the reservoirs, the ocean, or anywhere else. And by the way--this is not just an issue in California. This is an issue throughout the areas west of Austin. For instance, Lost Creek has enough water in its storage tanks for 1.5 house fires. Not two. And damned sure as shit not three. One-and-a-half. So if a fire ever came up from the greenbelt, that entire subdivision is right fucked. But even without a greenbelt wildfire, it also means that if you live in Lost Creek and your house catches fire, the fire department is just going to watch it burn and save their water to make sure it doesn't spread to neighboring houses.
    15 points
  29. or you could take 5 minutes and research why that might be instead of screaming "hurr-durr-SCANDAL". So I guess you can argue that they should have infinity capacity to prevent such an instance, or you could just acknowledge that the system was probably not designed to handle "worst case scenario" and that is what they got. And you will gladly pay for the infrastructure improvements to handle worst case scenario with infinite capacity in every municipality in the US. Is it unfortunate? Certainly. Is it a scandal? Only to elderly grandmas glued to facebook.
    15 points
  30. Here me out, gents. We need to pitch the idea to the current owners of Hole in the Wall. Gonna make a satellite location in Collie Station in this entertainment district they brag about. It will honor one of the greatest aggy traditions on record. And we shall call this place:
    15 points
  31. Well, it's been a good run during the 2024 CFB season for Texas. A year of mostly highs, with only a shitty home game versus GA and an OT loss to GA standing in the way of what's been perfect. I'm thankful for the memories and experiences, personally. Unfortunately, all of that comes to an end this weekend on Friday night in the bowels of the DFW metroplex. Watching this season die at the stale, beer-soaked, cheese curd-smelling fat fingers of the sweating, mouthbreathing giant Ohio State football team is an inevitability. It's going to be demoralizing to witness, but we should continue to hold our heads high irrespective as Texas fans. "But closetojumping, this same Ohio State team lost less than 6 weeks ago to a mediocre Michigan team at home. We blew those same assholes out, while they still had Will Johnson, in Ann Arbor even, earlier this year!" I realize that Texas and Ohio State have actually played the same opponent this year and the results might be revealing in some ways, but that is apparently irrelevant to the current situation. I've yet to hear or read any analysis in the public domain of that situation mattering. Apparently both rosters have completely turned over and it no longer matters. Or maybe the notion is that Ohio State takes pleasure in getting publicly buttfucked every year by their arch nemesis, but will not play the bottom in any other match-up. I don't know, but I've been told that we've got to throw it all out. I wish Texas would petition to play OSU this weekend in their famous alt-unis colored maize and blue, but they're apparently not doing that. "But CTJ, Will Howard has the tendency to become a turnover machine in big games and he's never beaten Texas!?" I get it. I realize that Will Howard appears to be a spare to Texas fans as we've watched him on numerous occasions attempt to lose ball games on his own at KSU and even this year against Oregon and Michigan. However, Texas fans are the fucking blind morons here. The fatass, jort-wearing, gravy-splattered experts from the Ohio State fanbase and the talking heads in the media have seen a different Will Howard. Things have gotten so distorted compared to what we've experienced that draft ranking services now have Howard listed above Ewers on the boards. So, yeah, we're the idiots here, folks. There's simply no way to envision a scenario in which one of the nation's leading turnover defenses could force a turnover prone QB with a history of choking under pressure to go on a turnover spree. Bucknuts has convinced me so. "closetojumping, this Ohio State OL has lost 3 OLs, is playing true freshman, playing their star guard at OT, and barely fields a two deep. Texas has one of the best front 7's in all of college football with elite LBs, OLBs/Edges, and DTs. Ohio State hasn't faced a front like this all year!" I'm sorry to inform you guys, but none of that matters. Ohio State is hot! They've got the hot hand and those OL have magically transformed from their November embarrassments to looking like a Joe Moore trophy-winning unit. Plus, Ohio State has the aforementioned Will Howard, who has obviously turned a corner in his play, and has like 5 or more elite skill players guaranteed to go to the NFL in Henderson, Judkins, Egbuka, Tate, and, of course, Jeremiah Smith. Texas can try to play sound gap integrity on the early downs while bracketing Smith all they want, this OL is apparently too robust. "Texas has elite skill guys, a Joe Moore finalist OL group, and a resurgent Quinn Ewers, who always shows his best in big games on the road, ctj. Ohio State's D doesn't know what's coming!" Listen, by all national accounts and according to the room temp IQ wizards at Eleven Warriors, the Ohio State defense has "elite" players at every level of the defense. Ohio State sports multiple potential 1st rounders (whenever they're eligible to declare) on defense, for sure. JT Tuimoloua is a projected early round guy and he's usually a terror about twice a season. Maybe he shows up against Texas and does something? We'll let Kelvin Banks figure that out, I guess. The guy has been playing lately for a contract, but he was irrelevant against Michigan and Oregon the first time. Tyleik Williams is well regarded inside but he's got all of 12 tackles on the year. Jack Sawyer can prevent an opponent's flag from being planted at the 50 yard line like a motherfucker, and no one can talk more Ohio State meatheaded shit than this blowhard, so maybe that leads to something game-changing on Friday? Denzel Burke has blown harder this year than a meth-ed out OSU sorority girl, but maybe he can hang with Matthew Golden unlike anyone else this season. Sonny Stiles has run past more tackles this season than Danny Stutsman, but I've heard he's also super good. Caleb Downs is actually the real deal, so hopefully Ewers is decisive in the pocket this week. The rest of the secondary has been beaten more this season than Zach Smith's wife, but never mind that. I realize that even the adjusted stats love the OSU defense. That said, don't look at who they've played in posting the numbers they've posted. Don't consider that IU was a paper tiger or that Oregon did what they wanted in the first game, or that PSU pissed down its leg when it saw the Scarlet and Grey or that they played no one else worth a fuck on offense all year. No, those things don't matter, their defense is an unrivaled beast and the Texas offense stands no chance. "Fine. We get it, closetojumping, you're giving us no shot. But what about Ryan Day folding in big games as though he's being grilled under a heat lamp by suspecting police officers of his role in numerous pedophile rings?" I realize that Ryan Day appears to be a violently aggressive groomer of catamites and that he probably feeds off the blood of small children to maintain a solid coif and a 68-10 career record, but you can't argue with success. I don't care if the guy had his pants pulled down on national tv by Steve Sarkisian in the 2020 title game. Day going into the fetal position and sucking his thumb while crying for mommy against Michigan shouldn't matter to us. The guy is 4-4 in the postseason with the wins coming against: -a Utah team that lost their QB to a devastating knee injury early in the game -a good Clemson team in 2020 -a 2024 coelenterate in Tennessee -a revenge game against Oregon in 2024 I don't know, maybe he's able to find something new to fire up his team this week against the underdog Longhorns. There's no way that Texas will find motivation from being counted out all week and being told they have no chance. Hell, I don't think they've got a chance myself, and I know I'm notoriously one of Longhorn netdom's biggest Pollyannas. So give me Ohio State in a runaway, 55-14. Thoughts? Hook'em
    14 points
  32. @immamac can you just give @Incredulitya timeout from this thread? Jesus christ. Now he is arguing with actual firefighters in a fucking fire thread.
    14 points
  33. The conspiracy has worked! Academy in Corpus
    14 points
  34. Someone explain to me how the fuck they're a "young school" while also perpetually whining and bitching that they were founded before UT? Also, LOL at Daddy proclaiming that it was Texas who brought down Briles and Baylor. Not the raping, the lawsuits, the coverup, but Texas.
    14 points
  35. Look, I'd consider letting Mack take over for Rodney Terry if it would keep him away from the football team.
    14 points
  36. 13 points
  37. Every single one of you hideous idiots would hammer that woman like you were in carpentry. I’ve met some of you and I know a few of you well. Get a fucking grip. That broad isn’t a 10, but she’d do just fine. You posted pics. Apologize for nothing.
    13 points
  38. I have often thought of our offense like a finely tuned Ferrari, runs like a dream when it’s well-maintained but frequently breaks down and is in the shop. Speaking of Finebaum, the ESPN morning show was on one of the TV’s while I was at the gym this morning and Mike Greenberg asked Finebaum and Heather Dinich which coach had the most pressure on them this game. Dinich said it was “100% on Sark” because the SEC has been bad in the playoffs and Texas is carrying the banner of the conference. To his credit, Finebaum respectfully disagreed with that ridiculous assessment.
    13 points
  39. Texas is kind of good. They won 13 games this year, basically playing 2.5 quarters of football in each game. If they play 4. watch out
    13 points
  40. Heard a dude on Finebaum (I know, I hate myself for tuning in) describe Texas' offense as similar watching someone who used to drive stick shift, but hasn't for years and is back on the road trying to get back into the groove. One second it's grind the gears herky jerky and the next they find it and smooth acceleration. Then right back to gear grinding and WTF cursing. For what I have seen this year it was quite the apt metaphor. /csb
    13 points
  41. Just line a bunch of aggys and sooners along the road and replay the Texas games for them.
    13 points
  42. Played? How and by who? Trump was never bashful about being very pro-Israel.
    13 points
  43. Aggy will hope we win on Friday so their "2nd best loss" grows ever greater in glory. Aggy will pray for our demise and utter destruction on Friday cause they hate us with the power of a thousand suns. Discuss.
    13 points
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