Everything posted by Homesickhorn
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2025 Thread of the Rains
That’s UGRA Dam. The water treatment plant in the center of Kerrville.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
One of my best friend’s daughters are there with their grandmother. They, along with others, are on the second floor, and safe. Waiting for evacuation
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Let’s call it a general, yes. And call it even.
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God damnit. God damnit.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Hawks are back up. I’m reaching out to everyone I know (trustworthy third party) folks to see if I can get any information. I’m not going to reach out to the Mystic family, because, they’re doing any and everything in their power to make sure that everyone is safe. Trust me. My sources are firefighters and sheriffs that I know personally, who are boots on the ground. I had to leave because I’d done all I technically could. But they thanked me for trying/helping. They’re talking to me from Hunt, Ingram, and Kerrville proper. I can’t promise anything other than to try and get info.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
I thought I cropped myself out of the pic. Fuck. Now everyone knows that I’m Adonis. Another C-130 just went in on final. I’m not sure if it’s not the same airplane. The ceiling is still extremely low, and I’ve heard other fixed wing planes coming in for the last hour on the reg.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
You and I probably know each other. Or at least fought at Crider’s once.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
It’s a dam. And it broke. UGRA dam, in the center of town is the only dam down river, and that’s where the water treatment plant is. The dam after that, is the one within eyeshot from my house. And yes, sliding down Ingram Dam is a past time. If you couldn’t do it all the way down on your feet, you were a fucking tourist.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
It’s finally stopped raining in Kerrville. Unfortunately, now you can really hear choppers and sirens. C-130 landing at Mooney Airport.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Drinking now. Here’s a pic of homesick jr and myself escaping Harvey. We’re standing on a “mini-dam, on the river property where the two houses out of view are now no longer standing. If this picture was taken right now, we’d be an easy 18-22 feet under water. The entrance to Camp La Junta is literally about 500 yards behind us.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Do you not get it? I get that you’re trying to be informative. But this is a bit of an anomaly, weather wise.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
I can’t post vids. But these guys have been at it for an hour, easy. This is from my back porch. I know it looks like the same bird, but there are two, rolling tandem.
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Let me know if you need anything.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Waiting to find out more. What I’ve heard, is that she was attempting to get to some stranded counselors, and didn’t make it to them. A lot is being said. It’s also been stated that Deen found her. Again, I’m skeptical of everything. But people very close to her/us have verified that she had passed.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
It’s true. Lower left vid is a DPS bird.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
She and her late husband have been family friends since my dad moved us here in ‘88. I left here when I graduated high school, and never looked back. Until I moved back here a year and a half ago. This is a wonderful place (politics excluded), to raise a child as a family, or a single dad like myself. I went to sleep last night and it was sprinkling. I woke up periodically throughout the night to a torrential downpour. At 8am this morning, my backyard was underwater. That’s when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I reached out to my firefighter friend, and questioned the three flash flood alerts I’d received starting at 3am. I wasn’t able to do shit, other than load and unload stuff for the first responders. I had to stand down when it came to getting into the fray. I’m having a lot of trouble with what’s going on. I was able to watch a woman rescued via helicopter, from a tree. It reminded me of the footage from 87. People who I’ve known all my life, and consider family, have lost their homes. If these Mystic kids are gone, I’m going to lose my shit. I don’t really pray anymore, but I’ll do whatever it takes to just get some good news. I absolutely hate feeling helpless, and that’s how I feel right now. I woke up today, and planned on a day of drinking. Man, that changed. Sorry for the rant, but it’s been a fucking day.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
We’ve migrated back to Kerrville, actually my side of town (south). Birds are doing slow, low level passes. I’m back at my house. But the flight pattern, and the non-urgency of the helicopters, make me sick at what they’re now looking for.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
I can confirm this.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
My sister rode quadrille. My niece is a Comanche. Connie was a legend. She was a drill sergeant. I just got confirmation that Jane Ragsdale, the operator/owner of Heart of the Hills drowned.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Depending on when you were there, you might have known my sister and cousins. She was a Tejas.
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Same from a friend of mine who’s married to a Texas Theta. Not their child, but one of her sorority sisters. This is rough.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Still pouring here in Ingram. Blackhawk and other whirley bird pilots earning their pay.
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Looking back at the radar, this storm exploded and dropped an unprecedented amount of rain at an unprecedented rate at 2am. Sometimes it’s just bad luck and nature.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
There are some swift water teams from San Antonio here. And I hear helicopters, but can’t see them given the weather ceiling. We’re going to do what we can from the ground. There’s plenty for us to do, but, unless I have a Zodiac or a helicopter, my hands are tied.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Britt and I graduated together. I used to go to Texas games in high school with the entire Eastland family. Edward is the youngest of the brothers. He and his wife are on the list of people unaccounted for. God damnit.