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We dont have a time machine or any true influence with government leadership so its all moot anyway.

Mistakes may have been made. Thats always the case with tragedies. If you can do anything to help then thats the healthiest way of dealing with this imo.

Just my 2cent

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  • BlackCat
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    I got my boy out from La Junta. As far as I can tell the whole camp got to high ground well in advance of the bad stuff and watched the camp get obliterated. My son is 8 and they took the younger kids

  • HOOKEM4
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    We are talking about CR because we have a bunch of bitch ass snowflakes that are offended by reality. The fact they cant see the reality is the problem. Also cry less pussies.  Kids died and we h

  • phdhorn
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    I'm heartbroken by this event, like many here not one of us 4 in my family doesn't know someone at most 2 Kevin Bacon steps from ourselves who is dealing with loss of human life. So much I could

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Wait, people actually believe things will change, leadership-wise, because of this? 
 

lol yeah right

Truly tragic events have unfolded and it's heartbreaking.  People are sad, and mad, and that's to be expected.

I'd like to ask everyone to please keep this thread clear of infighting and finger-pointing and especially keep it clear of cloak room stuff.  There are plenty of other forums and threads to discuss all of that.

Anyway, pouring rain again at my house, it's almost as dark as night, and every single drop here, will go straight into Lake Travis.  

1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

Even at @utee94’s house?

Ha!  Yup.  Pouring.  Over 5" since Thursday night.

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18 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

All you miserable fuckers itching your vaginas to blame someone for this need to fuck the fuck off. 

Read this: https://apple.news/A1LQmfIsOTVe7UjxAAIEdQA

Yeah, it’s probably paywalled. So if you’re too poor to afford Apple News then I can’t help you 

Placing blame is a coping mechanism.  Our brains don't like the idea of "terrible stuff happens and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it," so we rationalize it by finding fault.  It's a subconscious way of adding a "we're in control" element to a situation (implied by placing blame for the lack of control).

Others understand this and preemptively defend themselves against the blame they know is coming, which only makes matters worse.

As always, there are degrees to it, none of which are universally applicable

But calm, rational thought has gone the way of the dinosaur and wisdom/judgment left the building a long time ago.

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11 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Over 5" since Thursday night.

Congrats to the wife.

Should be enough rain to convince LCRA it'll be fine to let some more new housing developments put straws in the lake.

TravisClub golf course isn’t going to water itself…
17 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Truly tragic events have unfolded and it's heartbreaking.  People are sad, and mad, and that's to be expected.  I'd like to ask everyone to please keep this thread clear of infighting and finger-pointing and especially keep it clear of cloak room stuff.  There are plenty of other forums and threads to discuss all of that.

Anyway, pouring rain again at my house, it's almost as dark as night, and every single drop here, will go straight into Lake Travis.  

"Hear, Hear"      Please take CR stuff elsewhere...  

Prayers for all 🙏🙏🙏

 

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Just learned my nephew was in the middle of all this - out safe.  He's been working at His Hill Ranch Camp this summer.  Cousin texted me some unreal pics of the destruction - mostly massive trees that were swept downriver and piled up, helicopters in the background, ect.  

God bless all involved.  I'm just gutted thinking about those poor kids, and their families.  

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Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown.  Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.

18 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

I always remember reading that plaque next to the falls when visiting as a kid, that showed an older black and white photo of a flash flood at the falls and thinking ‘no way’.

Welp. Yes way. 
 

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown.  Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.

Damn. So sorry to hear that, man. A close friend of ours also lost a student in this. Fucking heartbreaking.

It’s pouring here. Fucking pouring.

in my view the local authorities messed up. If camp mystic had  moved all of the girls to where they later evacuated (after the littles had been swept away) the 660 plus campers and counselors we wouldn’t be sitting here waiting for names. It’s beyond heartbreaking. Sorry for the rambling. Like everyone else I’m trying to cope. And comfort those in my own family whose best friends are waiting for word of their own daughters. And I know many of you are doing the same. 
 

fuck. 

Only thing I can wrap my brain around was a scouting event I took my son to years back.   He got sick and we had to leave.   As we were driving out a massive storm hit and washed away many of the tents/campsites and parents later told us they had to hide in their vehicles.  We spent the day trying to reach dads and family members to make sure everyone was ok.  But this.   I just can’t.  

42 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Everyone saying "my radar app is saying that this will..." need to understand that radar app doesn't know shit.  Storms do what they want.  While you can say 60% chance of rain or whatever, you can't predict exactly where that rain will fall.

On a side note, aside from the 10 foot rise, forecasts are a potential 10-20 more feet in Travis.

Nevermind that they all use the same sources for their radar maps, and we have been defunding weather radar systems and deactivating data sharing systems all over the place.

Someone said up thread this is complete outlier, and I fear that these data points are going to be less and less the outlier as we lean harder into fucking the environment and climate

Brother and his family were staying with some friends at their place on the water in Barton Creek Lakeside. Just talked to 'em and they're high and dry, but he said his buddy's dock and boat are nowhere to be seen this morning.

Some close friends of ours are at their place on the other side of the river in Muleshoe Bend. House is high up on a cliff, so no danger there, but might be stuck for a bit. Also missing a dock. 

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Just now, Dnaguy said:

I always remember reading that plaque next to the falls when visiting as a kid, that showed an older black and white photo of a flash flood at the falls and thinking ‘no way’.

Welp. Yes way. 
 

Yeah I thought of that plaque as well.  We camp at Ped Falls at least once per year.  The past several it's been sad, barely any water.  But I've seen it flooding like this before, too.  Water moving so fast and heavy you can't even see the falls, it just looks like a small bump-down in the river level.

4 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Damn. So sorry to hear that, man. A close friend of ours also lost a student in this. Fucking heartbreaking.

I have a feeling a lot of Austin area residents are going to know someone involved.  

Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I have a feeling a lot of Austin area residents are going to know someone involved.  

Sorry man. Hug your grandson. 

 

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Llano River right now

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You have phenomenal mirror game. 

9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown.  Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.

I was with the parents yesterday at the reunification site. They were still clinging on to hope when I left. They all were. 

Any updates on flows into Canyon Lake??

Also @Cajun since you live there, any news at Canyon Lake??

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The thing about climate change, and this is no CR, but think of it like loaded dice, and you want to prepare for the worst case scenario being both worse than historical standards and more often.  Whatever the worst case is: flash floods, hurricane winds, tidal surge, drought, heat death, lake effect snow, etc. 

To stick with the gambling metaphor: if in the past you’d roll a snake eyes occasionally and lost your original stake, now you roll it much more often, and your stake and house is on the line. And you don’t roll a 9 nearly as often to make money/have a good time.

So for central Texas, you’ll have both more drought and, given how heat affects atmospheric dynamics, more catastrophic flooding.


 

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Pouring in 78759 right now, and as irrational as it is to ascribe human traits to Mother Nature, this all feels so cruel.

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Alarms going off in San Marcos. Means the river is starting to flood. Rain all night and more coming. 

5 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Yeah I thought of that plaque as well.  We camp at Ped Falls at least once per year.  The past several it's been sad, barely any water.  But I've seen it flooding like this before, too.  Water moving so fast and heavy you can't even see the falls, it just looks like a small bump-down in the river level.

When young and dumb, I camped in Enchanted Park and it rained overnight. 
Some heavy rain when dark.

But coming from Houston I didn’t think much of it. I was ‘used to the rain’.

Morning it’s still raining. 
Friend and I get a, no other way to describe it but ‘I think we need to gtfo feeling.

We start booking it. 
We almost got trapped in the park. 
I have a snipit in my head of being cut off at more than a couple locations due to high water and that dry creek bed on the eastern side of the park swollen with angry water and full on logs / trees being swept away. 

Haven’t thought about that in years.
PTSD activated!

7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

When's the next press conference?

@10 I think.

Starting pouring again in 78750 3 mins ago (9:50a 5 July).  

Edit: LCRA Hydromet shows Bertram has 15" of rain in the past 12 hours.  Holy crap.

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It feels like Austin television outlets have gone way downhill.  I can only find some hacks on KVUE reporting on this.  Are there any official websites that are updating on rescues, etc.?

All of these media resources and it's apparently amateur hour across the board.

3 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

@10 I think.

Fox 7 Austin has been carrying all of the press conferences. Start to finish. 

10 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Any updates on flows into Canyon Lake??

Also @Cajun since you live there, any news at Canyon Lake??

 News just said lake up 2’

1 minute ago, Dnaguy said:

When young and dumb, I camped in Enchanted Park and it rained overnight. 
Some heavy rain when dark.

But coming from Houston I didn’t think much of it. I was ‘used to the rain’.

Morning it’s still raining. 
Friend and I get a, no other way to describe it but ‘I think we need to gtfo feeling.

We start booking it. 
We almost got trapped in the park. 
I have a snipit in my head of being cut off at more than a couple locations due to high water and that dry creek bed on the eastern side of the park swollen with angry water and full on logs / trees being swept away. 

Haven’t thought about that in years.
PTSD activated!

I have a vivid memory as a young scout of an assistant scout master forcing us to break camp in the middle of the night in Perdernales during a pop up storms, with more than a bit of panic and urgency. I was tired and annoyed at the time, but thankful today.

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

It feels like Austin television outlets have gone way downhill.  I can only find some hacks on KVUE reporting on this.  Are there any official websites that are updating on rescues, etc.?

All of these media resources and it's apparently amateur hour across the board.

I’m sure it’s the timing.

Memorial Day weekend, sure.

but I’m sure none of the TV stations have folks on standby for weather coverage on 4th of July weekend

If storms drop into Austin, Shoal Creek is gonna flood onto Lamar again...  

 

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Damn typo

1 minute ago, leaf said:

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It is getting higher. And a strong smell of natural gas 

Why would anyone drive over that bridge except in extreme situations?  It may be robust and capable of sustaining those hydraulic forces, but I wouldn't bet my life on it.

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As soon as I opened my eyes I came to this thread.  I’ve been crying all morning reading this.  As a girl dad i promptly went into my daughters room and laid down with her. Hugged her and like a good teenage kid she pushed me away and moody.  A blessing I take for granted.  I’m so deeply and painfully sorry to those hurting right now 

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