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New Egypt, cream ridge area around Great Adventure 

We did the site prep for Great Adventure 

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My kids and grandkids plus my church kids all did these camps along the river. Non this year. People are of course trying to place blame. Anyone familiar with Texas weather it’s almost impossible to p

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My type 1 diabetic daughter would attend Kerrville Texas Lions camp every year as a child. My heart goes out to the lost and the families.  Guadalupe is a flood zone for sure but that doesn’t stop t

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My heart goes out to the families of those that lost loved ones, especially the children. My thoughts and prayers go out to them. Yesterday my wife read a news article about the flash flood and loss o

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We did the site prep for Great Adventure 

Wow they have fond memories of being on the lightening loops. 

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Wow they have fond memories of being on the lightening loops. 

They took their priest and he almost had a heart attack on that ride! 

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They took their priest and he almost had a heart attack on that ride! 

The Ferris wheel was a blast. It’s was great working there developing that site. The house was only two miles away. Of course it only took about a year to do the job. But it was during when I was dating the wife and still in high school. It was a rare time when I wasn’t traveling much to get to work. Unless I had to go to Philadelphia for parts.

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The Ferris wheel was a blast. It’s was great working there developing that site. The house was only two miles away. Of course it only took about a year to do the job. But it was during when I was dating the wife and still in high school. It was a rare time when I wasn’t traveling much to get to work. Unless I had to go to Philadelphia for parts.

Small world!!

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Small world!!

About a year after moving to Texas my wife recognized a voice the next lane over. Sure enough a girl we went to high school with in New Jersey. Her husband’s whole family moved to Texas. My wife got her a job at where she worked. Later she became our secretary for 15 years. She has dinner at our house every Wednesday night.  

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Sad situation that was preventable IMO.

We live where we do because we wanted to live rural in the mountains, fires are an issue. Still worth the risk.

 

Some people never understand to not live beyond your income, some people are lazy. If you play the game right you win, simple. 

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So she should live in California and pay high taxes. But GM is should be allowed to build out of the country to save money by not using our labor or pay our taxes? 

 

False. The CEO of In N Out can choose to have her HQ wherever she wishes. The income tax in California is what it is, and has been, for a long time. For her own reasons, she's continued to claim residence and do business in CA for a long time. If she moves out, does anyone really care? I don't.

 

And yes, GM, as a publicly traded corporation, has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders. If making trucks in Mexico is in the best interest of shareholders, then that's the strategy it should follow. You may choose to buy their products, invest in their company, or not.

 

How did the tables turn so quickly? I am a bleeding heart liberal and I'm sounding like hard-line conservative these days just reiterating facts which are true.

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30 minutes ago, diyer2 said:

Sad situation that was preventable IMO.

We live where we do because we wanted to live rural in the mountains, fires are an issue. Still worth the risk.

 

Some people never understand to not live beyond your income, some people are lazy. If you play the game right you win, simple. 

Some were preventable the amount is debatable. The camp was front and center for obvious reasons. I would have all of the warnings devices available. Now the rest of the drowning could be tied to time of the event and location. Most people head for the water for holidays. Maximum damage was in about an hour. Even houses built up high were impacted. I noticed what my area was like right a way. I bought my house at a high elevation. Have a generator. Months supply of food. It took my father 15 years to win with his business. Once there he was noticed. Then came the threats. He left everything started in Texas. The whole family went with. It took about 10 years for my wife and I to see daylight. My wife did taxes for many years. Poor people with kids get lots of money from the government every year. Enough to relocate if needed where the jobs are. In reality lower middle class gets a really good return. The service she provided was free at the library back by the IRS. She had to take a test every year. Getting ahead is much easier now than when we were coming up.

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False. The CEO of In N Out can choose to have her HQ wherever she wishes. The income tax in California is what it is, and has been, for a long time. For her own reasons, she's continued to claim residence and do business in CA for a long time. If she moves out, does anyone really care? I don't.

 

And yes, GM, as a publicly traded corporation, has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders. If making trucks in Mexico is in the best interest of shareholders, then that's the strategy it should follow. You may choose to buy their products, invest in their company, or not.

 

How did the tables turn so quickly? I am a bleeding heart liberal and I'm sounding like hard-line conservative these days just reiterating facts which are true.

Maybe she had hoped people would wise up and vote in a person who was fiscally responsible not woke.

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Maybe she had hoped people would wise up and vote in a person who was fiscally responsible not woke.

I’m a bleeding heart conservative. I’ll give you a fish and a pole. I only got the poll, was happy for it.

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How did the tables turn so quickly? I am a bleeding heart liberal and I'm sounding like hard-line conservative these days just reiterating facts which are true.

I’m moderate right and ANYONE who isn’t a cult member can see Re-electing a convicted felon POTUS and thinking it’s gonna get better is living a lie. HE is HIS retribution and he’s deconstructing our government while the majority in Congress flags him

on faster. 
Losers lose and our country is at risk. 
 

Jeffery Epstein was his best bud and Trumps doing ANYTHING to keep his minions to ignore it. 
 

You that believed he was an answer will find he’s our undoing. 

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I’m moderate right and ANYONE who isn’t a cult member can see Re-electing a convicted felon POTUS and thinking it’s gonna get better is living a lie. HE is HIS retribution and he’s deconstructing our government while the majority in Congress flags him

on faster. 
Losers lose and our country is at risk. 
 

Jeffery Epstein was his best bud and Trumps doing ANYTHING to keep his minions to ignore it. 
 

You that believed he was an answer will find he’s our undoing. 

 

Yep, and this is the problem. Going back to the original thread topic, of course the incident had to be politicized, because that's what people do. But it's also not unwarranted. There was a camp in a floodplain. They had previous interactions with FEMA and their buildings being in a flood plain. There was definitely more than an ounce of prevention - as there typically is with these types of incidents - but look how far the 'right' went off the rails. The excuses, the pandering, and even their lazy state senator decided to stay a few extra days on his personal vacation while all this went down. But hey, who cares, right?

 

That was the week when destroying FEMA might need to be put on hold, because the broke constituents need federal assistance. Put a pin in that, for a moment.

 

I'm fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and none of that has changed since I've been a young adult. I stand for my principles while always championing for the poor and vulnerable, even when it costs money. There's ALWAYS something to be learned from an incident, and I find it absolutely disgusting how the right is trying to wiggle out of this and how they're so mired in their own controversy of screwing the vulnerable while trying to make excuses for a pedophile in the white house.

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Maybe she had hoped people would wise up and vote in a person who was fiscally responsible not woke.

 

I'm woke AF, btw. And I'm proud of it. Woke isn't the insult you think it is. Wokeism is evidence of thinking and feeling people who care for those around them and don't always put money first over people. Sometimes justice must come first. Sometimes equality must come first. Woke is the OG Jesus without all the religious BS

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I'm woke AF, btw. And I'm proud of it. Woke isn't the insult you think it is. Wokeism is evidence of thinking and feeling people who care for those around them and don't always put money first over people. Sometimes justice must come first. Sometimes equality must come first. Woke is the OG Jesus without all the religious BS

I’m a realist. What works, works. It’s self evident if people choose to see it. I believe in talent, period. I just don’t look at a person, I look at a family. Funny story. My son while dating. If his date lite up or badmouth her mother he took her back home. He married a young lady who had a 3 month old little girl. She was engaged to her high school sweetheart who cheated. She gets along really well with the x and his family. The little girl now 16 says she’s lucky she has two dads. She prefers my son. She says the bio dad took the short bus to school because he cheated. I know what works pretending doesn’t. California is a good example. Woke to me isn’t an insult. They came up with it. We just can’t afford it. 

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