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The TM article pointed out that there was quite a bit of corporate structuring going on at Mystic for tax and liability purposes. But you'd have to think the property would be at risk in any event. Also, Lee Bass is a neighbor and had offered to purchase chunks of the land to buffer his own property. Another nearby longstanding Hill Country camp, Arrowhead, just flat sold out because of the property value. From a purely "business" standpoint, it will be interesting to see what happens.
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Since grilling was out on Friday, I decided we'd have a Jaws themed evening. I picked up some Cape Cod kettle chips and made lobster rolls. We watched Jaws, Jaws 2, and Jaws 3 (which absolutely sucked compared to the first two).
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Background on past efforts to get a warning system in place. It seems to me that a regional warning system for the Hill Country makes a whole lot of sense so that the cost burden can be shared among various jurisdictions and the state, with the latter covering a substantial chunk of the tab, because the state is fucking loaded. As we all know, people from all over the state visit the area, and they may be at even greater risk than most permanent residents, since visitors are more likely to be in the lower-lying, flood-prone river valleys. Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning System Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties, cost was an issue. Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River. A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way. But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time. In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others. The rural county of a little over 50,000 people, in a part of Texas known as Flash Flood Alley, contemplated installing a flood warning system in 2017, but it was rejected as too expensive. The county, which has an annual budget of around $67 million, lost out on a bid at the time to secure a $1 million grant to fund the project, county commission meeting minutes show. As recently as a May budget meeting, county commissioners were discussing a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as something that they might be able to make use of. But in a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that local residents had been resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” he said, adding that he didn’t know if people might reconsider now.
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with the uptick in stories about "entire command units/buildings/meetings" being blown up in the last 2 months or so, I think we are going to find out in a few months that either the Russians reverted back to their un-coded cell phone use communications we saw from Feb-May of 2022, which resulted in 6-ish Generals being killed. --I know the KIU twitter page only shows 10 total killed since 2022, but there were multiple instances in that timeframe where known Generals in command have never been mentioned since May of 2022. Or Ukr somehow found a way to track high-end command units and blast them when they meet in a critical mass (4 or more Majors or higher).
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Fuck these assholes. Found on Reddit. Very interesting read. From a 2016 assessment of Kerr county's warning system. One nugget: Mr. Hewitt: Sirens did not seem to get very much support. The thought was that sirens are better for tourists than local residents. The sirens would only be beneficial for someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do. Another nugget: COMMISSIONER MOSER: The cost of that whole thing is going to be like 976 thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. All of it, and the reason we're here today and moving so quickly is that there is a FEMA grant that's available until as long as we apply by January the 20th. JUDGE POLLARD: Which is when President Obama goes out of office. (Laughter.) JUDGE POLLARD: Well, the reason I mention that is because he authorized this particular thing, and it's going to -- MS. KIRBY: It's a coincidence. COMMISSIONER MOSER: Going on the record with that it's a coincidence. And so there has to be a presidential declaration of disaster to be able to have these kinds of funds available. So it goes away just so happens to be when he leaves office.
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This story seems to cast a lot of doubt on the "there's nothing we could have done" narrative. Glad the folks at this particular camp were on top of things. Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood
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I dont think you are taking into account that the 24 hour rainfall numbers for LCRA show no fewer than 20 rain gauges that end up in Buchanan, LBJ or LT, showing over 1 inch of rain in the last 24 hours (4 of those showing more than 2 inches), plus its still raining in some parts of the drainage basin, with the ground being soaked already, a lot of that rain is going to end up in LT. I know its a metric fuckton of rain to take it from 657 to 660... but there will be runoff for at least another week (probably 2) hitting the 3 main lakes, I think 660 is almost a certainty in the next week.
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I was thinking about how law enforcement and safety is handled in other situations where there are large groups of people gathered. Texas Football, concert venues, Texas Stars, HS football, graduations, etc. Those businesses and school districts call on (and pay OT to) state, county, local officers to be present and keep people safe. Can't swing a toothless Sooner without hitting DPD, Dallas County deputy, DPS, etc. at the RRS. Yes, it's a different scale - bigger area, less cell coverage, longer period of time - but it's hard to believe those camps and/or county can't pay OT to sheriff, DPS, BP a few nights a year to keep watch over several thousand young campers and families that are bringing in millions (10s of millions?) to local businesses. Hell, even if it's just one patrolman per camp, at least you can have urgent communication going out to those onsite or nearby officers, they can wake counselors and coordinate evacs to high ground or to better shelter if tornadoes hit.
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The jury for your trial is going to need about 15 minutes to find you guilty if you keep this up.
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Say what? The amount of effort, money, attention, etc… that went into searching and helping New Orleans during Katrina is unprecedented. Even after the fact. This is what she believes though: Perkins added, "It's not to say that we don't want the girls to be found, whatever girls that are missing… but you best believe, especially in today's political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls….this would not be getting this type of coverage that they're getting. No one would give a f--k." "They want you to have sympathy for these people. They want to get out of your bed and to come out of your home and to go find these people and to donate your money to go to find these people," Perkins said in the video.
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Rewatched 28 Days Later over the weekend and it doesn’t hold up super well. The lo-fi video is tough to watch on a 4K screen. I think what made it novel was the “fast zombies” which we had never seen before. The cast and acting is pretty good. Gonna rewatch 28 Weeks as well.
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Brian Campbell has 2 wins this year and no other top 30 finishes.
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My wife and I were privately talking about that yesterday. There might be some truth to it. But I recall just as much, if not more, heartbreak and outrage over the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, where most of the victims were Hispanic. And I think the fact that there were no real consequences from that school shooting had little to do with the demographic of the victims, and more because as a nation we've demonstrated time and again that we don't care enough about dead kids to seriously consider halfway reasonable gun regulations.
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As has been pointed out, that was not an uncommon sentiment about Katrina, going the other way, but geezus.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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The position I am least concerned with in high school recruiting is WR. Bummer we missed Finley, but we have a stacked room and there is always quality in the portal. -
@Bob Lives! Thanks for that financial contribution! @Born to Run Thats a great list and input you provided. Sadly, having just dealt with similar issues in Eastern Kentucky and Wester North Carolina about 5 months ago I'll add some ideas of items folks can pull together below. I have no idea where exactly they can be taken at this point but if people are willing to buy and drive here are some ideas. Edit 6 - people are really needed. If you can get time off, load up with any of the items below and go. -need a trailer and someone to organize -cleaning wipes. More general wipes that can be used all over the body. -Liquid IV, dry packet Pedialite or any similar easy portable sort of electrolytes. -Socks lots of dry socks in various sizes. -Underwear, womens tend to be more important in various sizes. -Diapers. -Baby food/formula -Warm up type clothing for women and men in larger sizes is usually the best bet. -Shoes, these are tricky, but hiking/work shoes of various sizes in really good shape or new. I put clothes early because they really do matter most. Clean up products are great and very needed but people having clean dry socks, underwear and decent clean clothes provides a massive psychological boost to them. After that food for children. There is a massive mental aspect that is extremely critical, and clothes really do help. If you've ever had to walk around in wet socks/shoes/underwear and dirty clothes for ANY length of time, you'll understand. -Rubber gloves. Heavy duty industrial work gloves are best, kitchen cleaning are next, then something like the description below. Medical rip too easy in cleanup efforts but have use in broader terms if nothing else is available. Venom Steel Industrial Nitrile Gloves, 6 mil, 2 Layer Rip Resistant -Mops, squeegees, brooms, paper towels. There are 2 aspects. The heavier industrial ones are needed, but the dollar store ones can also be given out. It aligns to your ability to provide. Home Depot type heavy brooms and mops are best buy again all are needed. Heavy duty shop towel/paper towels are best and they go further than typical paper towel. -Masks of various sorts. Left over covid, and any type you can provide @Born to Run noted it, buy I'll say it again. Trash bags. Industrial are best, but at least heavy duty. The amount of waste is difficult to process. I would suggest collection efforts locally and finding someone with a single trailer or vehicle that can haul them all to a good distribution location. This collection method helps reduce traffic to the hurting area and allows relief vehicles better movement. I do not know the right distribution center but hope people on the ground can point those wanting to help in the right direction. Edit- I've asked someone headed to the area to volunteer for feedback on good donation distribution locations. If in Surly members want to donate efforts into local collection and/or anyone wants to volunteer a trailer for hauling goods it can be a way to contribute beyond money donations. I will provide info I get back on alterations to my list above and locations if I am told so. -Edit 3 - All staging efforts are in Comfort. If any Surly folks are trying to put goods together locally/regionally PM me and I will work to coordinate delivery location. I would do more, but as most know I live in TN and this is the best I can offer. Edit 2 -I thought I would add how I would organize were I there. This is my way, just a way, no the way, but I hope it helps. I reached out to a friend with a larger lockable trailer. If you have someone that has one ask them. If there is someone ask them to drop it to a local church where there is space that's willing. Ask the church for volunteers and ask your friends to take in donations and organize the trailer. Get it as full as fast as you can and then once a good local distribution location in the area is known have the trailer towed there... start the process over aligning to needs of the communities hit. Edit 4 - Ive asked multiple friends for a lockable trailer, location to park said trailer for collection efforts and someone who has a vehicle and can drive to my friend volunteering in comfort. Edit 5 - I now know the drop off location for items. Still looking for local Surly folks to help locally organize collection efforts, please. If any Surly members have any of these items or want to run with it please PM me. Edit - Priority updating
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“She” could just as easily be Marjorie Taylor Greene. That rhetoric is no different from what we hear from sitting Republicans in Congress.
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Heavy rain firing back up in the highland lakes basin, north and west of Austin. Lake Travis now up 19.3 feet since 8 AM Friday to a level of 656.9, and Lake Buchanan up 8.6 feet to a level of 1,011.17. I'd predicted around a 20' rise for Travis but I was really hoping it'd get all the way to 660. It could still go up a few inches or a foot over the next few days, but I don't think it'll quite hit 660 now.
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I think a little better description of it is that it's swimming, and sailing, and fishing, and horseback riding, and all sorts of other fun things for kids to do. So a lot of the kids go back for years until they are in high school, at which point, some transition to being counselors at the camp. But these camps are very expensive. So, as @C-Man mentioned, later, when some of these kids end up at large Texas universities like UT, some of them know each other and end up in fraternities or sororities together or get recommended for bids to these organizations because they knew each other from years of going to summer camp together. I wouldn't call it weird for what it is at its base. It's just fun shit for kids to do during the summer. But because it's expensive and there are limited spots available (and because people have been attending for generations, it is exclusive and because of that, it feeds into the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities later.
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But is he going to stop listening to him? No, no he is not.
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It's Monday morning and heads should start rolling but we all know they won't.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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It's a risk vs. reward issue for the recruit. He gains nothing from that theatrics. There is nothing wrong with choosing another school over us and I don't think many people were expecting him to come here. When they go out of their way to slap us on the face unprovoked, you don't turn the other cheek. You slap back. This asshat will be hated in Texas forever just like the brocks. Fuck the brocks and the finleys. -
It’s natural tendency to assume that everyone has it under control. If you’re a new-ish official for a small county, are you going to start telling 80-year old businesses that they have unsafe practices or need to evacuate their campers right this minute? I would also bet the sheriff’s office is probably sized for the permanent population and not increased for temporary visitors especially the children of well-off parents. in a developing natural disaster, no county official (elected or law enforcement) can adequately address the needs of all residents. It’s like when a hurricane hits the coast, and law enforcement tells you that you’re pretty much on your own during the height of the storm. (I realize hurricanes are not flash floods.) lessons will be learned from this flood and eventually forgotten.
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So I switched my plan (keeping my number) but have the old shitbox still running on wifi. Rando people's texts still go there (and not to my new Android.) Two guys have completely deleted my my contact in their phones and re-entered w/just my number. No joy. Do I need to fry my Apple account? What's the deal here.
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