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  1. Went outside this morning for a quick walk and it was 69 degrees in SW Austin. On July 10th. Nice! Was 75 last night at 8:30.
  2. One of you is about to win a fabulous prize for guessing the final number!!!
  3. Apparently my hood and the immediate area is getting peppered with lightning pew pew pew
  4. Had dinner at Banger's last night. Did not die. We cracked jokes about the Rainey Street Killer because the whole phenomenon is so stupid.
  5. I'm very much looking forward to the update
  6. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's not even the current drought monitor
  7. A lot needs to fuck off in east Texas
  8. I watched that track every single day, all day. That storm JUST WOULD NOT LEAVE. It was brutal.
  9. I place blame at leadership across the board, not parents or counselors
  10. According to this source he got up at 3:11 AM... https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/KEG6mNwJnv
  11. I don't think anyone will point to the counselors and find them at fault. They acted heroically. Unlike Mo-Ranch, their leadership was not awake earlier and actively monitoring the situation. They can't claim they had no idea when Mo Ranch clearly knew that things were an issue at 1 AM.
  12. ...but too late. THIS is how it was done right. It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain. Aroldo Barrera notified his boss, who had been monitoring reports of the storms approaching Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a recreation destination where an intercultural youth conference had been called off early just hours earlier. https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/texas-flooding-camp-evacuations/amp/
  13. Here's what is annoying about the "well, we didn't know about/forgot about the 1987 flood" argument (BTW @South Austin I'm not referring to you)... had local camp directors and locals in "flash flood alley" not heard about what happened in Wimberley in 2015? What about the Llano in 2018? What about this in 2002 (https://cceo.org/flood/flood2002). Maybe this in 1998? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1998_Central_Texas_floods). What about the Guadalupe in 2010? (https://www.mysanantonio.com/slideshows/news/slideshow/june-9-2010-flooding-slams-the-guadalupe-15399.php) Can you imagine hearing about those tragic losses and not having two brain cells fire up and say, "hey, maybe we should have some kind of emergency plans for our camp/city/county since so many people hang out by the river?"
  14. Allison says, "hay giirrlll" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison
  15. C'mon c'mon... nice and easy rain into the rivers... just keep it flowing to the lakes without getting out of control. Rain since midnight...
  16. State has a good track record of certifications... https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/11/texas-foster-care-shelter-abuse/
  17. I poked around some of the web pages (not just Mystic but HOH, Waldemar, Stevens, Mo-Ranch) and couldn't really find any stated policies on emergency procedures. I will say, some of those camps are in really beautiful locations.
  18. Exactly... how do you run a camp with small children housed in cabins in the regulatory floodway without having all kinds of warning systems? I mean, WTF are there cabins there anyway? Source: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search?AddressQuery=camp mystic way%2C hunt%2C tx
  19. That blob has mostly parked around that general area all day long.
  20. That Texas Monthly article made it sound like there might still be multiple family members involved. Actually looks like the Stacy family is no longer involved... https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/camp-mystic-survives-six-year-family-feud-4113020.php They're going to go after someone and the land will most likely get sold to cover what happens. https://www.campmystic.com/directors-staff/ I see direct family members part of leadership other than Dick and Tweety. I'm not clear but did Tweety pass, as well? The whole thing is a mess. Despite all the finger pointing, Dick died trying to save those girls.
  21. Yeah look I was a craptacular student at UT. I always said that the most valuable lessons I learned in college had to do with socializing, meeting people, communication, networking, etc. I learned those lessons in the Greek system and I'm still friends with many of those people although my political thought processes have changed over time.
  22. https://hydromet.lcra.org/floodstatus
  23. Admittedly I do see redheads
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