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  1. There is clip here somewhere. Texas v. TTech (last year?), Gasparino thrown out at 1st, Kash's (1B) momentum took him into the baseline behind the bag, and Gasparino clocked him. Yesterday, Gasp, as he was running back to the dugout after a flyout, allegedly said something to Kash like "I'll do it again." Nothing wrong with that, just the normal baseball chirping. Kash, turned towards Gasp and the Texas dugout, and responded in kind. It was the turning towards and barking at the dugout that got him ejected.
  2. Absolutely not. Quinn was recruited to play QB at Texas. He did that. QE started the gold rush of high profile, and high performance, HS athletes to Texas. His ROI to Texas is investing in Apple, early. He de-pantsed Alabama before the cheap shot, led the Texas destruction of Alabama and Nick Saban on their home turf, crushed defending Champion Michigan at home, and led Texas to a #1 ranking as they embarrassed OU and kicked open the door in joining the SEC. He is the only QB in college football to make the CFP semi's the last 2 years. Oops! ... and Arch. He is leaving Texas in a better place than any QB before him. Most important, his performance ensured this will always be Exhibit 1 of Texas v. A&M.
  3. I used to drive between Denver and Rock Springs, Wyoming, including the Red Desert region are the Great Divide Basin, a unique endorheic drainage basin completely surrounded by the Continental Divide. Most people in Colorado said it was the most god forsaken place on the planet. There was not a place on the entire 300+ mile drive that you couldn't see a snow capped mountains on the horizon. God forsaken place? No way. I have also driven all over west Texas, through Brownfield and Levelland and and No Trees, many times. Ground that is so flat it seems you can see the the curvature of the earth. While driving though Idaho, a forest fire closed the highway and forced us to camp in Salmon, along the Salmon River. Not much beats camping with the family next to a clear, gurgling river, under a smoke induced canopy of a brilliant bluish-salmon colored fog. Southern Idaho may be flat and dusty at times, but you would never confuse it with Lubbock. Unless you were blind with no sense of smell or touch or, you just had no sense, period.
  4. You couldn't script that any better. For Green Bay, for Matthew Golden, and for Texas!!!
  5. Hookers and football players.
  6. The Manning Camp was pretty outspoken that kids starting 25+ college games had a much better success ratio in the NFL than those starting less than 25 games. Arch will walk on Senior Day with his teammates.
  7. Before the game, they showed a graphic of Scloss’ coaching tree. Couldn’t find the graphic but found this for 2024.
  8. This. Kill Power. No lights, HVAC, doorbells, nothing that sparks. Kill Gas. No pilot lights. In dry climates, static electricity is an issue. Combing or running your hands through your hair.
  9. To be clear, the Brenham underground storage did not explode. The storage was overfilled in excess of capacity, and leaked until the product ignited. The product that leaked was a Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) "Y-Grade" mix, a combination of Ethane, Propane, Normal Butane, Iso Butane, and a "Natural Gasoline"mix, a combination of pentane (C5) and heavier hydrocarbons that are a vapor at room temperature and pressure. Propane and 'Y-Grade" are similar in that both of the vapors are heavier than air, and will tend to accumulate and lay in lower areas, until they eventually dissipate, or ignite. Natural Gas (methane) is lighter than air and dissipates rather quickly. Addressed below. If propane leaks, it will leak until the source is empty. And it will either eventually dissipate, or find an ignition source, and explode. In an open field, with a bit of wind, it will dissipate. In a closed environment, like a house, it will accumulate towards the bottom, and absent any air movement or circulation, will stay there until it ignites. The video, and absence of black smoke, is indicative of complete combustion, meaning there was sufficient oxygen to completely burn the fuel source. The residual smoke would come from whatever ignited in the blast, wood, furniture, clothing, etc. At my ranch house, item #1 on my posted "Rules", "If you smell gas, leave." Unfortunately, you have to open the door and turn on the lights and walk to read the rules. Residential propane and natural gas both have an odorant added (ethyl mercaptan, a sulfur compound that smells like rotten eggs.) I would think that smell would have been noticeable where the propane was leaking and accumulated, but it may not have been noticeable through out the house. Propane has a lower flammability limit of 2% and a higher flammability limit of 9.5%, meaning the propane concentration in air has to be between 2 and 9.5% for combustion. I had the same question... And Surly answered it ... before I could. 1 gal of propane is equivalent to 36.4 FT3 of propane. With lower and higher combustible limits of 2% and 9.5%, the combustible cloud of of a propane/air mix would be between 383 FT3 and 1820 FT3, before ignition. After ignition, watching from somewhere distant is a good place to be. Good post Chief, but Surly gotta Surly. FIFY "They had forgot to put in the valve that metered the gas flow regulator that reduced the pressure from 4.5 to 0.5 psi, so I had 4.5 psi going to the cooktop..." Propane is extremely volatile/bad ass. Very explosive and because it is heavier than air, extremely dangerous. Early in my career, I ran through ~ 150 ft wide propane cloud from a tanker truck leak during loading. Very eerie. The open 2" valve sounded like a jet engine, a cloud appeared from nowhere, and the air temperature dropped like a rock. Still can't believe I did that. Better to run away. Assess the situation from a safe vantage point. Respond accordingly.
  10. Not all High Schools have a Project Graduation. Katy started doing it 20-30 years ago, after a number of kids were killed in a Graduation night car accident. I'm good with keeping 90% of the kids safe and off the streets on the night they graduate.
  11. Please, don't ever confuse Katy with Aledo & Westlake and other single school football factories. KA+y ISD had 8 PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS when we moved away, 10 years ago (2025 at 30,000+ high school age, and 97,000+ total students). They have a well established feeder system of elementary schools feeding middle schools and those feeding the High Schools. They do some arguable stuff with zoning, but it is 100% different that Westlake, Aledo, Southlake, Plano etc., the more affluent suburbs that have a single HS in their "school district." Katy ISD had many challenges. I was a parent volunteer on a HS advisory board, and president of Project Graduation at CRHS. Every month, 450 school age kids moved to Katy, the equivalent of building a new elementary school every month. CHRS did not receive the states highest HS ranking because their performance of "english as a second language" or "limited english proficiency" was deemed to be lacking. Not just bilingual in Spanish, they had to accommodate kids that spoke 27 different languages and dialects, including multiple Chinese dialects. Some kids didn't speak any english. The demographics across the district were extremely difficult to balance. Cinco Ranch sent kids to 5 different Katy ISD High Schools, and 1 private one. The newer neighborhoods were populated with energy company employees with 2 college educated parents per household. We hit our Project Graduation fundraising goal, raising $108,000+ v. $100,000 goal), in March. After discussions w/ the other HS, we stopped raising money, because other HS were not meeting their goals. (We took 600+ kids to an overnight lock-in & Dave Busters, gave away an obscene amount of prizes, and had 0 serious injuries/fatalities.) They did some stuff w/ zoning that was a bit shady, but more like 10-15% shady, not 100%. The new highs schools were massive, and had room to grow. Not so much the older ones, like Katy HS. 1,000+ acre Planned Developments were easy to account for. Dropping apartment complexes in shoe box size parcels was not. What if you buy a house in one attendance zone and it is rezoned to a different HS? CRHS will always be 6A-Div 1, and Katy HS will probably always be 6A-Div 2. A bit shady, yes, but also the realities of the demographic flux. My son went to school with and played youth sports with a kid for 8 years. His dad went to Katy HS, and it was well known they were going to move from the CRHS attendance zone to KHS when he started 9th grade. Shady? No. Not even a little bit.
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