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TN is at GA in 3 weeks.

You’re terrible at calls. The ball was long out before his arm came forward. I also don’t see you commenting on the holds on 3 straight plays by the Texas RT. This game isn’t my about the refs at this point.

Between overthrows and drops, this TN offense looks like garbage.

Have you been to a college football game/tailgate lately? It’s like High Noon has become the alcohol sponsor for college football instead of just the preferred drink of 19 year old sorority girls. I’m not sure I saw an actual beer anywhere last weekend. High Noons and Hard Teas made up the vast majority of what people had.

Cleared history, deleted cookies, etc and it’s been fine all morning on Chrome on iPhone.

GA has what, 8 straight top 3 recruiting classes? Talent isn’t the problem. They are undiscliplined and high on their own past success which shows in their off field issues and their coaching issues. They also have a Beck problem where he keeps putting the D in bad positions. Anyone looking at the MS St game score as some sort of reason for thinking TX will roll didn’t watch the game. Beck gave away field position on their first possession and then gave them 7 more points off a score with his INT in the 3rd. It wasn’t near as close as the final scoreboard. His play in the AL game was similar. If Beck shows up and doesn’t turn the ball over, this will be a game. If he does what he’s been doing lately and starts slow or throws INT’s then TX could roll. There was a lot of concern in the fans this past weekend at the tailgates/games. The fan base isn’t that confident in the game this weekend or their overall chances this year, but most of that is centered around Beck and Kirby. There is a significant level of dislike for Kirby within the fan base.

Depends on the school, but it’s definitely worth a look especially with the state schools. You tend to get better dorm selection, priority class registration, better intern/study abroad opportunities, etc. Daughter gets to register before the seniors for classes due to honors college enrollment.

Chicago was always the interesting one for our oldest. They wore her out with mail which I never quite got with their acceptance rates. We toured, but college campuses up North just aren’t like the campuses in the south and she wanted the big, SEC, undergrad experience. She is pretty set on applying there for law school, but she ended up passing on applying for undergrad which I was surprised by.

Realistically, $200k would be a good start. Maybe they end up in state with money, maybe they go small school and get scholarships, but I would plan for the not so great side of it. $50k-$60k a year gets pretty close at most places eliminating the Wake Forests and Northeast schools of the world. I didn’t plan very well for our oldest because we always assumed she would be covered. She picked the one school giving no money and charging out of state, so $55k a year later she is living her best life where she wants to be while also putting in the work to be running near the top of her class.

Are you on Sanibel or one of the other islands?

You do realize that the “raining for days” aspect combined with Helene plus yesterday’s totals is actually worse for everyone, right? There was already significant standing water in most of these places. You’re free to be an idiot and say idiotic things. What really gets under my skin though is when someone puts “lol” on the end of a statement related to weather. There is nothing “lol” about any of it.

They do at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

Cajun Navy does great work, but man they are eaten up with the conspiracy theories and politics. The NC NG has taken responsibility for the helicopter incident. Maybe that conspiracy can be put to bed now.

Depends on what you want to save I suppose. South puts the dirty side on a collision course with a number of islands and low lying areas that are flooded from Helene and still recovering from Ian.

Nothing more “fun” than widespread destruction with a little death mixed in I suppose. However, I’m on the Troph side of this one, it fucking sucks. I’ve spent a large portion of my life on the West Coast of FL and the last couple of years have been a real kick in the nuts to a lot of people we know.

The ones we looked at had standard insulation, it was just separate sections at the break line in external material so it could easily be removed and replaced. Kind of a weird thought to be building them with basically easily replaceable materials 12-14 feet off the ground, but that’s the world we currently live in.

Some of the recent construction houses we looked at had removable panels up to about 4 feet throughout the lower/mid levels. It had the look of wainscoting but you unscrewed the panels and removed them to air out the walls. Electrical was all higher up the walls and studs did not have traditional nails on the floor. Bottom levels had storm drains and blow out sections on walls to try and and alleviate a complete wash out of the lower levels. People are definitely rethinking construction along the coasts, but there are a ton of older houses and more recent construction that aren’t going to make it long-term. Then you have some communities with more stringent building requirements like we were that should have been fine until the recent weather changes.

There has been a lot to love about being in FL. The weather, the water, etc all made it worth the risk especially on the West Coast. These places that are getting hit now are places where people have lived their entire lives without the kind of damage you are seeing lately. My house that we sold was built in the 60’s and had never had more than a small amount of water in the lower level. With Ian it was at 8-10 feet. The weather pattern has shifted and now you have storms coming directly into areas with no water depth and very flat, marshy, land areas. Milton is a good example coming on the back of Helene. You just don’t see them spin up like this and go directly East. Most come from the Caribbean, make the corner, and occasionally cut back like Ian did. This one is going to go from TD to hurricane in a straight line pushing water in front of it. If it hits Tampa Bay it is going to be a disaster like FL hasn’t seen in a long time.

If you want to see some really crazy footage, check out Blue Gabe’s latest video on YouTube. He toured Steinhatchee with a friend that lived there. The neighborhoods are nothing but pilings left, the houses were completely washed away. It’s nuts driving through and it’s just pilings sticking up out of the ground and debris spread out everywhere. It’s also amazing that there weren’t more coastal deaths with the houses/neighborhoods just completely gone.

I would assume most of their employees live in the region and might have trouble getting to work or having time for work for at least the foreseeable future.

Down to one family we know that I haven’t heard from that ran a rafting operation on the Nantahala. One of my senior people’s husband was with a group staying at Lake Lure for their annual golf outing. They finally got in contact with them, but they are stuck there while higher priority things take place. Operation Airdrop and the Cajun Navy have been putting in work on flying in supplies and medicine as well as helping evacuations from the sound of it. It’s always good to see people stepping up and helping other people.

They have been flying since Friday. Blackhawks were used in the hospital rescue and at least the TN National Guard has had helicopters up all weekend in search and rescue, delivering supplies, and assisting with reconnaissance. I would assume NC has as well but I’m only going off of what I’ve heard from family that are in the TN Guard. They have also had multiple units providing ground assistance including the swift water rescue team and engineering teams.

Could also be the Augusta area, between the wind/rain and the Savannah River flooding they took a beating too it sounds like. The East side of this particular storm was a bitch. As far as the water level issues, you just had a major system come through and dump a lot of rain the 16/17 of September. It pushed north through VA so that water was still flowing when this system came through.

The path shifted significantly east once it made landfall which put the worst of the rain in the exact wrong place. I’m not sure there was any significant warning for some of those communities. I could have easily missed it, but I don’t remember seeing evacuation notices for Asheville for instance. Most of these communities have been through plenty of inland hurricanes paths, this one was a lot different. Wind and tornados are usually the concern, not the rain levels experienced.

Massive flood damage from around the Siesta Key area through the Big Bend. This one is going to be expensive. Siesta Key to Anna Maria washed over like Sanibel did 2 years ago, St Pete/Clearwater have significant water damage, Steinhachee has been wiped out completely again, but much worse than the last time. Reports are that water damage into Steinhatchee was into second floors. Wind wasn’t the issue, storm surge was significant along the entire west coast. We were looking at properties on AMI and St George in a couple of weeks along with the Dunedin area. After selling on Sanibel right before Ian and having the house we had under contract go under water during Ian and now this, think I may give up on buying again.