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You made that up, right?

It was rocking and roing over Lake Amistad but then it fell apart.

My kids are 6+ years away, but in the back of my head I know that there is real chance my wife and I retire to where one of the kids end up, to help with grand kids and explore a bit. So I kind of hope they end up in Colorado or whatever and not RGV or Denton. But also: I don't see (unless they program) how my kids will settle in Austin. How could they afford a house?

I heard this elsewhere. There is probably a grain of truth to it. I bet there is some panic that is then driving the tons of apps, too.

Upshot of drought maybe?

https://twitter.com/emilymarierivas/status/1509403838423392263

I'll admit those are strong competitors. Crittenberg Complex is pretty lame, though.

Question as a land owner. Have < 100 ac. Mix of fields, mesquite, oak mottes, and creek bottom. If (when?) a fire came through, do I lose all my nice trees? The oaks, pecans, elms, etc?

DasGoats is the early leader for "best name" but there is a lot of game plenty to play.

Is there a Wildfire 2022 thread?

Pure speculation, but I enjoyed this: http://www.thelowdownblog.com/2022/03/is-putins-invasion-failing-because.html?m=1

If Canada beats Costa Rica tonight, does that help us?

Friend at Grimes & Logan (Round Rock, near Grimes and Gattis) with a hole in roof from tornado.

https://youtu.be/z4OZe8jqcJk

KXAN saying a twister crossed I35 and 45, without a NWS warning

Okie border

Okie border

#BigLFire not messing around

We flew into Great Falls, did a 5 day canoe trip on the Upper Missouri, and teenager rented a car and did Glacier. A fairly long drive... MT is a big state.

Big Bend is still great. Two kids (12 and 9). Rented a subdivided house in Study Butte (Chisos Mining Co, Santa Fe unit). Day 0: drive. Dinner at taco place in Terlingua. Day 1: Big Bend Ranch SP. Hiked Escondido Spring Loop. Packed lunch, ate at Saucedo. Day 2: Lost Mine (arrived at trailhead before dawn and still barely got parking). Lunch at Basin restaurant. Recreated anniversary pics (got married at the Basin Wndow Overlook trail). Afternoon hike Santa Elena. Kids love to climb boulders in the canyon shade. Old Maverick headed out. Luna's Jacal is basically my happy place. I can't exaxplain it. Day 3: Grapevine Hills am hike, lunch in Boquillas. Souvenir shopping. Burro rides. Pm hike in Boquillas Canyon for the kids to get filthy on sand dune. Day 4: rented a jeep, drove River Road east to west. Lunch and hike at Masical Mine. Ice cream at Castalon to celebrate. Old Maverick to tell Luna about finally checking off the RR. Day 5: drove home. Did both Fort Lancaster and Fort McKavett. At Fort Lancaster we were the only ones and they give you a golf cart to drive around. Lol Next time we will do: Pine Canyon (after doing the RR I'm confident we can get to the trailhead); Cattail Falls (intended to go but no parking because of road work so did the Grapevine Hills); Closed Canyon; maybe do a boomerang kayak/canoe up Santa Elena (or north of park, depending on water level); Window + Basin (or finally take the kids up South Rim if they are ready). And of course do a Boquillas side trip, but this time I want to visit the hot springs on the Mexican side. It's only a half mile upriver. Anyone done Peguis Canyon from Ojinaga? It's supposed to be cool, mostly safe, and not far at all. I'm dieing to do Pine Canyon. If I do that, I'll think I'll have done every hike but the truly nuts high desert backpacking trips. We were going to do it, but I chickened out. If RR west is "hard" then I am 100% confident in doing it.

Does recapture take into account cost of living? AISD is going to need to pay teachers much more, simply because even 45 minute out suburbs are that much more expensive.

That's why when I was in high school when I brought my piece to a debate tournament, I didn't keep one in the chamber. Maybe those TOC bigshots do, but my goal was just a mundane TFL qual.

This has been true since a couple "cheap" exocets sunk a British ship during the Falklands War. So 40 years or so.

Man, I saw a tweet pointing to an unconsciousness or dead dude and circled his bonesr, with a comment that it would be from a neck/spinal injury. I can't unsee it. It haunts me. Dead boner guy. 😞

But I think the research shows the radiation after the first 24 hours isn't so terrible. The power will probably be out. Things would be right proper fucked. But the reality is unless you are right at the target, your going to survive. Elevated risk of cancer maybe, but not Chernobyl deaths. Remember those poor souls (30?) were basically at fresh core debris. Maybe not if you live right in DC or LA or NYC or next to some base. But mostly if you are few miles away from a normal yield MIRV impact, you may live. And then... might as well be prepared? Seems awfully foolish to just give up and let your kids die because Surly is down.