Just trying to keep up with the info over the past few days:
Cedric Baxter has a broken collarbone.
Sark has COVID.
Our visiting locker rooms have no AC.
Did I miss anything?
It pisses me off that the fucking tour guides had their vehicles so close to the agitated elephants and didn't try to leave. I've been on several safaris and one thing I've always appreciated are guides that have said "Don't fuck with elephants -- read their signals and immediately leave if they show signs of stress." These elephants gave plenty of warning, and I'm sure there's even more before this clip starts.
Surly Football threads embody the 5 stages of grief. I wake up and see 7-8 new pages of info on this thread and I think, "Cool, some news must have broken." Then I start reading...
page 1 (Denial): Surely this first page is just prelude to something interesting and important happening
pages 2-3 (Anger): Why in the fuck can't Sidis and Satya stop posting this fucking Debbie downer fucking bullshit??!?!? Where's the fucking 10-yard minimum offense? Who did Joey McGuire fuck or kill to get all of the media knob-slobbing?!? Why isn't there any actual goddamn football information????
pages 4-5 (Bargaining): Surely all six pages can't be this regarded. Maybe if I get a couple more pages in, the good stuff will appear.
page 5 (Depression): Welp.
pages 7-8 (Acceptance): I ain't getting shit done at work anyway, so what the hell. Time to really dig into Hudson Card's long and storied Texas career...
I worked at the Erwin Center during undergrad, and I met him several times during basketball games. He didn't have to be nice to me -- or to anyone -- but he always was to me, and to everyone. Cut from a different cloth. RIP.
At the risk of sounding like aggy, Hawaii really is a unique place that can't really be understood unless you live there. I've lived in multiple cities, states, and countries and the Hawaiian resilience and communal approach is unlike anything I've experienced anywhere else in the world.
Also, anyone spouting off their conspiracy theories can fuck right off. There's no fucking conspiracy. Any amount of time a conspiracy theorist spends spewing their bullshit on TikTok is time that they could actually be putting to use helping the situation -- organizing donations, volunteering time, etc.
All the while breathing smoke and fending off ash and embers, and 80 mph winds, and hypothermia. And night ocean terror.
People who are like "why not just jump into the ocean? Problem solved!" have absolutely no clue how horrifying that ordeal would be, or how lucky the survivors are. Many accounts of people (injured, out of shape, elderly, young) just floating out to the night sea never to be seen again.
It's posted on the first page of the thread. Hawaii Community Foundation will give 100% of all funds to victims. They will take no overhead. They are a pillar organization in Hawaii. My wife works closely with them and knows how they work with local communities (and she works with a bunch of other orgs that she is not recommending). Every amount helps and will go directly to victims:
https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong