Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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this is what its like arguing with our academic..
sturg: man, the 2025 Braves are performing terribly
nsacpi: actually, the Colorado rockies are a lot worse
sturg: erm, yeah sure. But the Braves are supposed to be good and are dreadful
nsacpi: The Braves have made the playoffs 8 straight seasons. they have the most wins of anyone in baseball. the teams from Florida cannot say the same, can they?
sturg: erm, yes but they are trending horribly down and I'm not sure next year looks better
nsacpi: the Braves won 15 straight divisions in the 90's... nobody else in the league can ever say that. let me know when the Florida teams can say the same
sturg: skip college, kiddos
sturg: man, the 2025 Braves are performing terribly
nsacpi: actually, the Colorado rockies are a lot worse
sturg: erm, yeah sure. But the Braves are supposed to be good and are dreadful
nsacpi: The Braves have made the playoffs 8 straight seasons. they have the most wins of anyone in baseball. the teams from Florida cannot say the same, can they?
sturg: erm, yes but they are trending horribly down and I'm not sure next year looks better
nsacpi: the Braves won 15 straight divisions in the 90's... nobody else in the league can ever say that. let me know when the Florida teams can say the same
sturg: skip college, kiddos
This is an area where some give and take between the two sides could lead to common sense compromises. If we stopped over-prosecuting non-violent crimes and drug offenses and moved some resources toward social services funding for things like beds in mental health facilities and non-emergency interventions, we could also maintain some of these bail reforms while cracking down on violent crime, particularly among recidivists. Hypothetically if bail had been set for some high dollar amount and he had drug money to get out, would we really be any safer? I say no, but it’s a positive for a person to not have to pay money to get out of jail for a minor offense and still go to work the next day instead of being fired.
nsacpi
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As the Guadalupe River swelled from a wall of water heading downstream, sirens blared over the tiny river community of Comfort -- a last-ditch warning to get out for those who had missed cellphone alerts and firefighters going street-to-street telling people to get out.
Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.
The sirens are a testament to the determination of a community that has experienced deadly floods in the past, warning residents of devastating floodwaters that hours earlier had killed at least 118 people in communities along the same river, including 27 campers and counselors in neighboring Kerr County. That county did not have a warning system like the one in Comfort.
Morales has been with the department for decades. He was there when flooding in 1978 killed 33 people, 15 of them in Comfort, including his grandfather. So when an opportunity arose last year to expand the community's emergency warning system, he and other residents buckled down to find the funding.
Morales said they cobbled together money from a grant, from the county commission, the department’s own budget and from the local electric utility, which also donated a siren pole. They also got help installing the flood sensor gauge in the creek.
The price tag with all the donated materials and the costs the department fronted was somewhere around $50,000 to $60,000 or “maybe a little more,” Morales said.
After the updated Comfort sirens were installed, the volunteer fire department spent months getting the community used to the siren tests that sound daily at noon, putting out messaging that if they hear a siren any other time of day, they should check local TV stations, the department’s Facebook page and elsewhere for emergency notifications.
The sirens make a specific sound for tornadoes and a long, flat tone for floods.
So on July Fourth, if people in Comfort hadn’t seen the weather alerts sent to phones or announced on radios, if they hadn't heard shouting firefighters going from street to street to evacuate, they heard the long tone and knew they had to leave their homes. A Facebook post on the department’s page noted a mandatory evacuation of all residents along the Guadalupe River.
But Comfort was also miles away from the flash flooding that overtook the camps and didn't experience the cresting of the river flooding until after the terrifying rush of water in the pitch black early morning hours hit cabins. Many Comfort residents were already awake and aware of the rising water by the time the sirens sounded. The Guadalupe's crest was among the highest ever recorded at Comfort, rising from hip-height to three stories tall in over just two hours.
Morales doesn't know if sirens would have changed things in Kerr County. But he knows they gave Comfort residents an extra level of warning. In recent days, Morales said he has been contacted by some of the funders to talk about adding a third siren in town.
“Anything we can do to add to the safety, we’re going to sit down and try to make it work,” he said. “The way things are happening, it might be time to enhance the system even further.”
Daniel Morales, assistant chief of the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department, believes that long, flat tone the morning of July Fourth saved lives.
The sirens are a testament to the determination of a community that has experienced deadly floods in the past, warning residents of devastating floodwaters that hours earlier had killed at least 118 people in communities along the same river, including 27 campers and counselors in neighboring Kerr County. That county did not have a warning system like the one in Comfort.
Morales has been with the department for decades. He was there when flooding in 1978 killed 33 people, 15 of them in Comfort, including his grandfather. So when an opportunity arose last year to expand the community's emergency warning system, he and other residents buckled down to find the funding.
Morales said they cobbled together money from a grant, from the county commission, the department’s own budget and from the local electric utility, which also donated a siren pole. They also got help installing the flood sensor gauge in the creek.
The price tag with all the donated materials and the costs the department fronted was somewhere around $50,000 to $60,000 or “maybe a little more,” Morales said.
After the updated Comfort sirens were installed, the volunteer fire department spent months getting the community used to the siren tests that sound daily at noon, putting out messaging that if they hear a siren any other time of day, they should check local TV stations, the department’s Facebook page and elsewhere for emergency notifications.
The sirens make a specific sound for tornadoes and a long, flat tone for floods.
So on July Fourth, if people in Comfort hadn’t seen the weather alerts sent to phones or announced on radios, if they hadn't heard shouting firefighters going from street to street to evacuate, they heard the long tone and knew they had to leave their homes. A Facebook post on the department’s page noted a mandatory evacuation of all residents along the Guadalupe River.
But Comfort was also miles away from the flash flooding that overtook the camps and didn't experience the cresting of the river flooding until after the terrifying rush of water in the pitch black early morning hours hit cabins. Many Comfort residents were already awake and aware of the rising water by the time the sirens sounded. The Guadalupe's crest was among the highest ever recorded at Comfort, rising from hip-height to three stories tall in over just two hours.
Morales doesn't know if sirens would have changed things in Kerr County. But he knows they gave Comfort residents an extra level of warning. In recent days, Morales said he has been contacted by some of the funders to talk about adding a third siren in town.
“Anything we can do to add to the safety, we’re going to sit down and try to make it work,” he said. “The way things are happening, it might be time to enhance the system even further.”
sturg33
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the academic's newest obsession - potentially replacing dental records of Mississippi - will be about sirens being the difference in catastrophe of a flood that rose a river by 30 feet in an hour
He has and will continue to spend more time about sirens than he does about local officials letting violent criminals walk free to kill again, or a city allowing people to overtake 6 blocks to rape and kill people.
He is thrilled that children died in Texas. I won't be convinced otherwise
He has and will continue to spend more time about sirens than he does about local officials letting violent criminals walk free to kill again, or a city allowing people to overtake 6 blocks to rape and kill people.
He is thrilled that children died in Texas. I won't be convinced otherwise
nsacpi
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I'm missing your NY subway photos.