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  1. Frank Wade is absolutely a dumb piece of shit, but Susan Deininger of 103 Turnberry Cir, Kerrville, TX seems multiple degrees more unhinged and appears to show up to most of the Kerrville board meetings even though she's not on the board. Now, the ultimate decision was made by commmissioners (not Frank or Susan), and to their credit they didn't seem to be reciting the same far right talking points as those two. Still made a brain dead decision that cost a multitude of unnecessary deaths, though, so they can get fucked too.
  2. Agreed - this seems like one of those situations where the AFA president was more than happy to bitch about whatever decision the fire chief made. I mean - can you imagine the shit storm that these same folks would have kicked up if a handful of folks in Austin had drowned because too many AFD resources were sent to Kerr County?
  3. Jesus christ - this is really going to be their play??? Such obvious bullshit. All it takes, though, is the AFA president to sling some accusations at a black man, and here comes the entire right-wing echo chamber to chant it into "truth" for 40% of the country.
  4. So should we be going to the shooting range weekly at this point? It kinda feels like we should, the way things are going.
  5. Directionally, that's great, but comparing this to 2024 paints a limited picture given the last couple of year SSTs were pretty much off-the-charts high compared to historical data. Hopefully, it translates to fewer and less intense hurricanes this season, though.
  6. Jesus fucking Christ, Texas.
  7. In Imma's defense, the passive aggressive "???" infuriates me also.
  8. Just in time, you wonk-eyed piece of shit.
  9. Umm ... this is ridiculous. Will all of these rivers flood at some point? Sure. For 80% of them, you'll have lots of lead time. The siren idea is only really necessary for the Hill Country and other areas where there is extreme flash flooding. Trying to make this out as a problem that requires a $300m solution is a bit insane.
  10. This right here. Re-posting the pic that I found from the north bank of the Guadalupe: It just seems crazy to me that this hasn't been an issue a number of times before for those lowest cabins.
  11. I don't think anyone here is really pointing fingers because the victims were rich white Christians. I think that was just a side conversation. The fingers are being pointed at the local officials and camp management for knowing the risks (as people who live in the hill country) and, in the first case, choosing to waive off reasonable safety mechanisms (river gauges + sirens) and, in the second place, not having in place and/or following an emergency plan for how to get 100+ (?) under-10-yos out of a flood plain when the worst case scenario happened.
  12. Don't think so - Camp Mystic Guadalupe is right on the Guadalupe, and my understanding was that picture is of the younger girl cabins from the north bank. Happy to be corrected if I got that wrong, though.
  13. I ran across the picture of the Camp Mystic cabin locations, and I have to admit that I was shocked that they'd put young kids at this location on a river subject to flash flooding. I guess it hasn't been a problem before now, that just doesn't seem like much elevation. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/camp-mystic-texas-hill-country-flooding-rescue/
  14. Yup - the video of this rescue was from Friday morning. I suspect it's responsible for a lot of confusion.
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