Posts posted by royiv
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I brought home a hitchhiker from a work trip to Wichita a number of years ago. Had to do the whole treatment where they heat your house up to kill them off and also wash all your linens, etc on high heat. Do you know how long it takes to cool a house in PHX down in the middle of summer when it has been heated to >120F? The answer is a long fucking time. I expensed the cost of the treatment plus half of my electric bill that month. My boss didn’t bat an eye and accounts payable never questioned it.
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Just now, Nicole44 said:
I went to Waldemar (plenty of friends from Amarillo went to mystic) and my brother went to Camp Stewart. This is awful. I swam in that river as a camper for years and then as a counselor taught swimming. Jesus.
My sister and niece both went to Waldemar. They’re hearing from their network that Mystic and La Junta got the worst of it, but I think that’s purely speculation since there’s so little information coming out of there right now.
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4 minutes ago, Cajun said:
Been on the phone with some pals who live in Kerrville and Ingram. They're guys who have been there their whole lives and each one used the same word - "Unbelievable".
I tried to check the Kerrville online gauge level and it's not even reporting.
This is something not seen before.
They didn’t say it was GLORIOUS?
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3 minutes ago, ZB'Tejas said:
I’ve heard Mystic is evacuating today. My daughter isn’t there this term but has friends there now. I think it’s a challenge to get in and out right now.My niece has a friend who is a counselor at Mystic right now. Her friend’s car was washed away. I’m hearing from another friend that Mystic had cabins wash away and La Junta sustained devastating damage. My friend with a son at La Junta is still waiting for news on where they evacuated the kids to this morning.
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3 minutes ago, Dewey said:
Man, lucky I picked my nephew up last weekend from LA Junta. The good news, is that camp and those people are well prepared.
I went to La Junta as a kid and there was a flood one year that I was there and they were very well prepared and that was nearly 40 years ago. As a kid, it was kind of fun and exciting. As a parent, I’m sure my parents were worried sick.
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Lots of parents with kids at summer camps along the Guadalupe waking up this morning to this news. Keep them in your thoughts this morning. I’ve been texting with a friend that has a son at La Junta right now and they reported that all of the kids are safe and accounted for, but that all roads in/out of Hunt are washed out. Lots of very stressed out parents across Texas this morning.
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5 minutes ago, Hitch said:
Speak for yourself. It would help me.
You have zero idea if that’s true unless you’ve been in that situation. I’d personally like to think that I would follow the Christian teachings and values that I was raised on even though I no longer identify with the church, but I really have no idea.
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15 minutes ago, Hitch said:
That’s hard to believe, but probably for the better. I’m pro death penalty, but I wasn’t trying to make this into a discussion about it. That would be a disservice to the victim’s families and let this moron DA off the hook.
You weren’t trying to make a discussion about a high profile death penalty case where you repeatedly cast aspersions on the prosecution for a plea deal that doesn’t result in the death penalty into a discussion about the death penalty? Okay, and fuck off with your dumb attempt at moral high ground saying it is a disservice to the victim’s families. They’re not participating in this discussion on a random message board. You’re just disingenuously trying to avoid justifying your position.
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4 minutes ago, Hitch said:
Not when you read the heinous details of this case. Especially the sickening details about him carving them up after the stabbings. Kohberger’s case is the reason the death penalty exists.
Thompson wanted that W on his résumé and he got it, families be damned.
Why does the death penalty exist?
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1 minute ago, thunderlounge said:
I figured it had to be something like that. There wasn’t anything on the radar, go figure being in the desert, so figured it had to be wind or heat related issues.
Not really. Probably the closest runway that could accommodate the aircraft and crew, while passengers were ferried up to Vegas by bus or another plane. Using a couple three charter buses would probably be quicker anyway, unless they could have got another plane and or crew to go up. Logistics of those pretty much suck, but at least PHX is close, and a hub.
A gas ‘n go in PHX would have been a lot quicker and likely cheaper in the long run. As it stands, AA stranded an aircraft at an airport they don’t serve and doesn’t even have scheduled commercial service.
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