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Maybe the best post I have seen about the Kerr County flooding; So Who’s to Blame? Flash floods have always been part of life in the Texas Hill Country. We get those alerts on our phones - the kind that blare like Amber Alerts - nearly every time the skies darken. For most of us, it means avoiding low-water crossings, watching the rain gauge fill, and hoping maybe, just maybe, our thirsty lakes will drink their fill. But this was different. What came in the night wasn’t just rain, it was a reckoning. A violent, rising wall of water that didn’t knock, it broke down the doors. Meteorologist Travis Herzog put it simply: flash floods are among the hardest weather events to predict. “No meteorologist could have told you with high confidence more than a few hours in advance that this much rain would fall in those exact locations,” he said. Even with double the normal staff at the monitoring station for our region, no model foresaw the worst, because what happened was beyond the worst-case scenario. The atmosphere defied the forecasts. The storms exceeded even the worst projections of the computer models both in coverage and amounts of heavy rain. Still, the National Weather Service issued warnings as the event unfolded in real time. A flood watch went out at 12:41 a.m., forecasting up to seven inches of rain. Then, at 4:03 a.m., a flash flood emergency: Evacuate immediately. Seek higher ground. But by then, in places like Kerrville, Hunt, Center Point, Streeter, and Ingram, tiny towns tucked in the folds of the Hill Country, it was already too late. The Guadalupe River rose 34 feet in two hours. Imagine that. Thirty-four feet. In darkness. While people slept. In homes tucked far from cell service, on land where neighbors are separated by acres, not fences. The water came with rage. A half foot higher every minute. Carrying trees, metal, cars, walls. It tore buildings from their foundations. It erased entire RV parks. It killed. And now, more than 100 people are gone. So who’s to blame? That question has begun to echo across social media, in hushed conversations, in angry ones. People want someone to point at. Someone to hold responsible for the unbearable weight of loss. But I urge you to pause. Because I remember a flood like this. Ten years ago, when my own hometown of Wimberley was ravaged in the night by another flash flood. Entire families swept away. Homes ripped off their slabs. Our beloved Blanco River turning into a monster. And back then, we didn’t ask who was to blame. We cried. We prayed. We showed up. We linked arms - strangers, neighbors, friends. We searched the riverbanks. We rescued pets from crumbling homes. We passed out hot meals, clean water and diapers. We took in the displaced, fed the volunteers, wrapped the grieving in blankets. We were #WimberleyStrong, not because we looked for someone to blame, but because we looked for someone to help. That’s the choice in front of you now. You can rage. Or you can reach out. You can look for fault lines, or you can look for someone to help. This flood was no one’s fault. It was a freak convergence of nature’s fury - unpredictable, unstoppable, and unforgiving. But what happens next is in our control. That’s where our power lies. So go. Volunteer with search crews combing the riverbanks. Give to organizations that are on the ground: The Community Foundation of the Hill Country, Mercy Chefs, The Cajun Army, Team Rubicon, Austin Pets Alive. Cook meals. Hold hands. Open your wallet. Open your heart. Tell your children you love them. Tell your neighbors you’re here. Tell the broken they are not alone. Tragedy has come. That part is done. What we do now - who we are now - that’s the story still being written. Let it be one of grace. Of grit. Of fierce love in the face of grief. Let it be the kind of story that proves: the Hill Country may flood, but it does not fall. Say what you will about Texas - but when the rivers rise, so do we. Not with blame. Not with bitterness. But with boots on the ground, arms around strangers, and hearts wide open. That’s the Texas I know. And that’s the America I believe in. Authored by Bex Hale
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Jake Scott, MD, Infection diseases doctor and Stanford Clinical Associate Professor, articulate and tenacious as ever, trying to educate folks on twitter about health and healthcare, in spite of the MAGA monkeys filling the timeline with standard issue garbage and disinformation. 1/n
The reason Canada has 20th century healthcare is because it's vastly cheaper. Compared to the States, we spend 1/3 less of our GDP to cover 100% of residents.
Even most Canadians don't know this today, but the Canada Health Act ultimately had nothing to do with humanitarianism. What passed it, over shrill screaming from the Conservatives, was the fiscal advantage.
Revelation 7:9: "After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands."
BBC -Donald Trump has formally accepted an invitation from King Charles III to join him and Queen Camilla for an unprecedented second state visit, set to take place Sept. 17-19. The US president will be hosted at Windsor Castle. bbc.com/news/articles/c4g25ne7…
WSJ - China's state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after Trump’s order to dismantle US government-funded outlets, including the Voice of America. wsj.com/world/china/voice-of-a… #SaveVOA
What if vaccines do not increase or decrease autism rates but there is a correlation between the personality or genetics of the type of parents that accept or refuse vaccines and that personality influences the choice of whether or not the child is vaccinated but also influences whether or not the child gets a autism diagnosis. And whether or not the child gets a diagnosis depends on the parents attitude towards autism testing.
Pro vaccine parents do not tolerate unique children as often?
So if they are trying to eliminate diseases then why don't they give everyone pills to eliminate parasites like intestinal worms or pin worms or tape worms or hook worms
If worms are so rare they do not need to test for them then they should be easier to eliminate from the world
But I ask you, how easy would it be to spread poop based worms in India or for Indian visitors to spread them?
#Flaming Ember flashback My Pa is with his moonshine friends Drinkin Deacon Jones' bathtub gin Deacon Jones (L.A. Ram lineman back then) preachin' about savin' souls Yellin' out how the whole town is full of sin But like Pa and all the rest He tries to look down Bobbie Sue's low-cut dress ...............Westbound number 8 youtu.be/vO0v8p6rSTU?si=XbDg3h…
ah. Mastodon don't have any MRF's which make administration easier. For search, you need to also install elasticsearch which is just more maintenance and bloat. Akkoma/Pleroma search good
Eyewitness to History: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
Author note: This article contains the memory of my great-grandfather Charles Mulvey who was working on the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington when Mount St. Helens erupted. A few days after the eruption, he wrote this short essay about his experience. It was recently found by my aunt Diane Izzo when she was looking through family effects. The text provided below has no alterations from the original.
May 20, 1980
Well, the Spirit Mountain did as the Indians have been telling us it would do. It spoke real loud and was heard as far as Spokane anyway. It seems Mount St. Helens still has a lot of life left.
So I guess I’ll make an attempt to give some of the sights, impressions, and feelings which I observed and felt during and after the eruption which occurred this past Sunday, May 18, 1980.
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Mount St. Helens has been gradually changing from its former inactive status to active with mostly relatively mild eruptions and steam, ash emissions. The officials concerned and those persons observing the volcano have repeatedly given warning of the serious potential of a major eruption.
Sunday morning at approximately 0830 a.m. Mount St. Helens erupted with an explosion which blew the top 1300 feet off of the mountain and formed a horseshoe shaped crater. A huge cloud of ash and debris was reportedly blown to an altitude of 60,000 feet.
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I was at work and doing my job assignment this day. I heard the blast and thought that that was no sonic boom but possibly a large dynamite explosion. The time is not definite but seemed to be just before 0900 a.m.
There was earth movement reportedly felt by others, however I felt no movement of which I was aware.
I continued with my work routines and sometime near 1000 I noticed the western sky getting dark and appeared smoky as if the fruit growers in the Yakima Valley were fogging to save the fruit crop. Of course, the day had started out clear, sunny and warm. Fruit fogging was out of the question.
The sky continued to darken rapidly and a radio transmission was heard telling all listeners that Mount St. Helens had erupted. More information would be transmitted as it was received.
By 1030 the sky was rapidly being covered with a huge, flat bottomed cloud which eventually covered all visible horizons completely blacking out the sun.
My job assignment was partly the responsibility of watching a pumping operation and the recording of operational data. At the 1100 time for a check of the pump and data the cloud had covered the sun and the northern and southern horizons and all except the east portions.
The westward facing field lamps were being activated. These field lamps light up with detection by a photo cell of approaching dark conditions.
By the time I had completed my periodic check of the pump operation and returned to the building, full darkness had occurred and the fallout of volcanic ash was underway. The darkness was equal to that of a moonless, starless, possibly cloudy stormy night.
During the next two hours the ash fall continued, with an appearance of a dry rain, if such were possible. The particles of ash ranged from a fine powder to a coarse sand. The coarse, sandy material was heavy, and the fine powdery material is extremely light, almost a talcum powder.
At the 1300 time check of the pump, the ground and all horizontal exposed surfaces were covered with ash to a depth range from one-eighth to one-quarter inch deep. The ash was evenly distributed and created considerable dust when vehicles were driven.
Light conditions at 1300 required use of a flashlight to observe numbers and dials. The pump incidentally was stopped at 1315 hours due to the hazardous conditions.
The ash fall continued heavy until approximately 1430 when the sky lightened again to daylight. A light dust ash fall continued. A dusty haze filled the air and it was necessary to don dust filters or face masks for working outside. Some samples of ash were taken for souvenirs at this time.
The light ash fall continued for the remainder of the day and possibly throughout the night. A souvenir ash sample of this light ash fall was taken the following morning from a surface which was clean at the time the initial ash fall samples were taken.
The volcanic ash fall covered a large area of eastern Washington. Roads and highways were closed due to extremely dusty conditions which made driving very difficult. People were warned to stay off the roads and to stay indoors.
The severity of the ash fall was relevant to the depth of the ground cover. This ranged from a trace to several inches. Towns and cities within the fallout area have encountered difficulty with removal of the volcanic ash.
The bus which picked us up at work and transported us home was a casualty of the dusty conditions. Dust clogged the filters and was pulled into the motor which failed due to the abrasive ash. Only the front part of the bus was visible as it approached. It was lost in dust back from the front wheels.
A light ash fall continued the following day with extremely dusty air conditions. Only essential work was being done, and usually only necessary stores (grocery, etc.) were open.
High winds have swept the area since the eruption which continually creates more dust conditions.
The featured image is of the eruption column from Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. (USFS)
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Something kind of interesting is that the commercial nuke plant out there carries a MASSIVE stockpile of air filters now, in case there's a similar eruption, so that they can keep the emergency diesel generators running should they simultaneously have a disaster.
These are not fringe views but shared widely amongst Jews worldwide, even more so in that Nazi colony
Others may have different words (far more deceptive & fraudulent words to justify the same shit) but nevertheless peddle same Nazi shit & support these Nazi crimes—by & large
Jewish community needs to be called out, not just so called "Zionists"
There is massive Nazi culpability amongst Western Jews who are allowed to get away with shit.
@merchantHelios I beat it and it does stay good through to the end. I would run this again before Dark Souls 1 or 3 or Demon Souls but I would rate it a slight step down from Lies of P but that is praise by faint damnation.
My winning save says around 25.5 hrs so shave a bit off that for alt-tabbing to say nigger on fedi and that should get you close. It's Souls-paced too so that's basically 100% gameplay, and probably quicker on replay once you are accustomed to the game's choice of secrets and boss design.
Only thing I wish it had was boss refight like in nu-LotF and Lies of P.
#Flaming Ember #55 years Give my mind to you with a love that'll never grow old You are my smiles the last tears You are my days, my weeks, my years You are the flowers beneath my window sill You are everything beautiful everything that's real I give my love to you all my body and soul youtu.be/5M91JHi3gZc?si=rjpNOL…
@24tv48 From the Upbeat TV Show.The Flaming Ember was an American blue-eyed soul band from Detroit, Michigan, who scored hits with "Mind, Body and Soul" in 1...
Johan Messely20/02/1953 Johan Messely crée des peintures à l’huile débordant de couleurs, des tableaux provençaux qui attirent le spectateur et l’invitent à y entrer, s’y installer dans le calme pour y profiter du soleil, de l’ombre et surtout de la …
The original "Bridge to Nowhere" in New Mexico is an iconic destination that you may recognize from famous film sets, near an artsy town you should visit.
I'm pro-union and pro-international workers associations for better conditions or anticapitalist antifascist activism, this government deliberately trying to gaslight workers at fault for something caused by bosses/ceos/governments internationally, riots are a language of the unheard and downtrodden.
My aunt is currently in the middle of a major sundown" episode due to a relief caregiver not giving her her meds at the right time.
I am home in Fort Worth and am in contact with the caregiver and a really good neighbor who are with her. There is nothing we can really do until she settles down (law will not allow anyone to force medication on her).
If you have the time, please pray for the caregiver and the neighbor friend as they deal with this.
Unfortunately, she is under home hospice care and it will be tomorrow before a doctor can visit to evaluate her.
So we ride it out until then. She will most likely run out of energy and fall asleep and in the morning have no recollection of the event and will take her meds as prescribed.
Been through this before, but this is the worst episode to date.
She is off the charts and we are working to have her transported to a facility to stabilize her. Unfortunately I am doing this remotely and working multiple parties by phone.
i'm poor and i come from a long line of poors. i can't relate to your complaints that your parents or grandparents were rich and now you can't live the same lifestyle you're accustomed to. i guess i'm sorry you were a rich kid and now you're afraid to be poor like me. it's not that bad.
Idk She works there and leaves a box of cans, beans, and rice every few weeks, along with rotting meat and fruit. I have a huge pile of boxes of spoiled canned food that I'm too busy to haul out t...
Yeah, the food is put in the can, the can is sealed, and then its heated to both cook the food in the can and to kill off any bacteria. As long as the can doesn't lose its air-tight seal, they can last a long time.
A few months ago, I opened a 10-year-old can of corn and another of sweet peas, just to prove it to my GF. They were just fine.
Just be careful with pop-top lids cause they can lose their seal easily. And be careful with stuff like fruit cocktail cause the acid in citrus juice can corrode the aluminum can after a while.
i got thru 6/8 of the yakuza movie series i've been watching. fun stuff and makes me want kakubin whiskey, which the japs won't export since they consider it bottom shelf swill. i'll have to fill a bag with it from the duty free next time i stop on the eleventh district
no the yakuza are interesting and i've enjoyed reading their autobiographies but those make it clear that much like every other industrialized country their crime families were aa bunch of violent retarded niggers even if they dressed it up in honor based traditionalist jap colors even the dudes in kabukicho in the suits around their bars are larpers these days, the old men who are still "legitimate" yakuza are frozen out from finances and infrastructure while the money fled to north korea and SE asia
the traditional family based yakuza got crowded out at the end of the 20th century. the Yamaguchi-gumi still exist but they were always less tradition based than the other families and are more globally integrated if that makes sense. yakuza membership is way waay down due to both much more stringent law enforcement and the general prosperity of japanese society allowing people to reject the traditional, non-official lifestyles. organized crime still exists there of course but its not nearly what it was decades ago
organized crime still very much exists in the us. possibly at a high point. everyone thinks of a bunch of guineas in the us during the cosa nostra glory days as the peak here, but they were generally kind of small time. their more legit ventures got eaten up by corps and their less legit ventures like prostitution and drug trafficking got outsourced to mexican and american gangs which while they might operate on ethnic lines at a local level very much do not give a shit at a larger level. look at the mexican mafia linking up with white skinhead prison gangs to move meth, it's all about the money. and since we're on fedi we can talk about jewish influence but at the end of the day these criminals are niggers
@Paultron-3030 it’s interesting you say prosperity caused the downfall of the yakuza, because by most metrics Japan has been stagnant since the 90’s. It makes me wonder if the real cause is something else, like maybe the internationalization or globalization of organized crime, like you point out in your second paragraph.
it's stagnant, but people can live. even the poor in japan can rely on a generally highly professional and non corrupt police force to not entirely screw em over, which is huger. in the 60's and 70's this was not the case. the GHQ cast a long shadow through jap society even after the student riots and reorganization of the japanese civilian gov but back in the day poorer people living on the fringes in maybe not exactly legitimate roles could not rely on the police for anything, so the yakuza moved into that vacuum. small loans, keeping the streets free of petty crime (that wasn't yakuza sanctioned), and disaster relief bought them a role such that the government turned a blind eye. the jap government is strong enough that they don't need to do that and people can choose to ignore the violent nigger criminal man i don't think the yakuza, or the mafia, or triads or even the cartels exist along the strictly racial lines anymore. everyone's there for money. who cares if the murderer you've thrown your lot in with is pale or dark anyways if you have a real long haul flight or hours to kill the original yakuza papers or "battles without honor or huimanity" are great. 5 films, all very well directed, based off irl yakuza niggatry. there's also a good book i read that lays out the latter days of the old yakuza from the eyes of a foot soldier to officer guy, called the Last Yakuza. it's ghost written by a jew but there is only one aside about the holocaust in there
absolutely. its easy to romanticize the 5% of gang actions that weren't openly anti-social but they are at the end of the day criminal organizations like i hate the US government and their secret police the FBI, but you'll never catch me talking bad at their total eradication of the italian mafia from the late 60s to the late 80s. probably the best thing they've ever done
@Paultron-3030 I disagree personally, if it just created a bigger, higher form of mob. A more corporatized, international, globalized, totalitarian mob. Although I’d probably agree with you if I came face to face with them.
at the end of the day criminal mob and government can be reduced to the exact same principles of social organization, since both are based around centralizing the power of violence to enforce a codified social order but governments at least can be organized to prioritize goals higher than individual wealth and power of various members, given a minimum of human capital. japan and parts of the west in better days prove this but the way things are going this may just be reminiscing about the good ol days and how things may have gone if they were different
@Paultron-3030 I get the sinking feeling, with all the black and grey activity that goes on in the US, that the FBI was basically in a turf war on behalf of the Jewish mob. The ethnic mobs were at least local. They were *your* criminal organizations. It entailed a certain power being held by the ethnic groups. Now they’re gone, and there’s a huge underground economy in the US, and it’s not just agriculture. Makes me wonder if we weren’t better off with the ethnic mobs, but maybe I’m merely associating the good ole days with them.
as to what the FBI was doin i don't know. getting rid of the big international gangs (that the US WW2 government had a strong hand in establishing) was a good thing regardless of motive. it was not the end of the road into fixing the US but obviously that was not their motive they were never your criminal org, if you weren't in them. the first and most important factor of such a group is that they dig a gulf between themselves and normal people- a sense of unique identity is a bonding factor for members and a weapon to be wielded over 'civilians'. ultimately non members were objects to be abused for money. the route to the most money did not always involve harming these civilians, but they weren't holding back out of the kindness of their hearts it ultimately boils down to how you view power relationships- any relation between people will have a power aspect, but do you think there is a role of concentrated power from groups of people to utilize that power for greater ends without making it miserable for everyone its happened a few times before but idk if it can be legislated into consistency and time is short for this planet
@relentless_eduardo you can just cut it in the kitchen and then take the cut pizza in your room why take the cutter in your room? and then why not bring it back out?
If you can find one from any of these places and it's a shippable size, I could go and pick it up and ship it to you. You can definitely find it here. They run a plant sale once a year to the publ...
Truly heartbreaking: A man called into Alex Jones' Infowars on June 16 to say: "I married an illegal and I want to know if there's any proactive step we can take to maybe get on a list of 'leave this one alone' or whatever. We've been in the system. We've got two lawyers, we've spent thousands of dollars..." at which point Alex Jones cuts him off and says basically if the country doesn't remove immigrants than the democrats will win so they need to "hurt some people who aren't bad."
These people are so stupid they don't realize that illegal immigrants not only can't vote, but they don't even try to vote. They've convinced themselves of a problem that doesn't exist.
Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardment killed at least 92 people across the #Gaza Strip on Sunday, with at least 42 killed in Gaza City alone, Arab sources say.
Edward Tomasz, a FreeBSD contributor for over 18 years, advocates for the "hunting" of Jews and used the FreeBSD Wiki to spread hate. The FreeBSD Core Team h...
I can't remember the exact details, but the Plymouth Fury from these years was an option on top of the Belvedere, and they all came in a specific paint scheme that was NOT red with white trim. (one year it was gold with aluminum trim, and another year it was buckskin white with gold trim) The Fury in "Christine" was shown as a special order (which I don't think Plymouth would actually do) but it definitely made it stand out in the beginning scene where she is the only red car on the line of light colored Furies.
Stephen King wrote Christine as a 1957 Fury because he wanted to use a car that wasn't "popular" like the 1957 Chevy Bel Air. But he did almost zero research and originally wrote Christine as a 1957 Fury 4-door, which did NOT exist.
In the year 1957, Chrysler rocked the automotive industry by revamping it's entire line (and every badge Plymouth, Dodge, Imperial) with all new revolutionary styling. These forward stance lines and fins were adopted by all other manufacturers on their next 5 year design cycle refresh.
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In the year 1957, Chrysler rocked the automotive industry by revamping it's entire line (and every badge Plymouth, Dodge, Imperial) with all new revolutionary styling. These forward stance lines and fins were adopted by all other manufacturers on their next 5 year design cycle refresh.
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