Oh there;s lots of new experiences in getting old: going through social security rigmarole, turning grey (or bald), finding yourself unable to do stuff you used to do, arthritis, gout, bone loss, needing a cane, getting up several times a night for the sake of your bladder...
Kerrville is too small to get cited as an example in a big national report on Texas flood issues, so my citations are meant to show this is a problem for the whole state rather than a particular town. If you go to USGS, you'll see they don't even have a flow gauge upstream of Camp Mystic. The closest is downstream at gauge:hntt2(click dot on map to see readings). Simple link without map: https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/HNTT2
We've known for decades that Texas has loose regulations allowing development to ignore flooding concerns. "Texas shoulders the most urban stormwater runoff of any state in the country ". After Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston in 2017, everyone was talking about the development issue, but alas, mostly just about Houston instead the state as a whole.
Post Harvey, The Atlantic had a big piece on how, "The combination of climate change and aggressive development made an event like this almost inevitable."
Also from that 2017 disaster, The Washington Post concluded:
Thus, to ensure acceptable stormwater-system performance, jurisdictional agencies and officials must ensure that the type, timing and amount of real estate development are in sync with the capacity and configuration of the jurisdiction’s storm system. Many communities are at risk because of overbuilding or for allowing building in areas with inadequate infrastructure.
Some argued that "Houston isn't flooded because of its land use planning" ... but while the author there is an expert in urban planning, he is not an expert in hydrology.
Of course the recent tragedy was no where near Houston. It was closer to Austin and San Antonio. On Austin: "Flash flooding is a pressing concern for Austin, so much so that it has been labeled the "Flash Flood Alley" of Texas." On San Santonio:
San Antonio is a populated area in one of the most flash-flood prone regions in North America. SARA manages a series of structural controls (dams and drainage systems) to help prevent and/or reduce flood problems. For example, the San Antonio River Tunnels (see illustration) proved invaluable as they diverted water safely underneath downtown during the 1998 and 2002 floods.
I don't want to hear "No warning at all." This was a risk known for decades where the state and municipalities decided they'd rather allow an eventual catastrophe than spend the money needed to prevent one.
That doesn't work for me because part of the issue is the number of servings I get at the end and the size of the cooking container. Example: random veggie casserole calls for 1 pound frozen broccoli, 1 pound frozen caulflower, 1 medium onion, 3 stalks celery, and a bunch of other stuff (rice, cheese, spices, breadcrumbs, etc.).
Frozen veg is now mostly bagged at 3/4 of a pound instead of a full pound (same with certain pasta). While I can theoretically use 1.5 bags or reduce other measures by 25%, I don't want a bunch of half-bags in the freezer -- and if I make a casserole that's 75% the size... well, I don't have a 75% sized casserole dish so it still has to bake in the dish I've used to decades, but now as a sad thin version of what it ought to be -- and it typically dries out while cooking (if I don't try to fix it).
I don't know if we're all in different places, but I agree with @[email protected]. In particular, every bag of onions and potatoes I've bought in the last couple years have had at least one bad veg so damaged that I couldn't use it -- like rotting on the inside kinds of bad. Lettuce seems smaller and more dirty, and everything generally seems older by the time it gets to the store. The only way I can get fruit with any flavor is by going to local farm standsand paying top dollar.
The article does not got into specifics. It only states the percentage of breeders in each sector that have had violations in the last five years, and the whole thing is basically a reprint from this source . The time spans feel wonky. For the last five years, 41% of the licenced breeders they tracked had a violation. For the last three years, the violation rates of tracked licensed breeders have been: Breeders to stores: 36%, Puppy stores: 63%. Rather than any number of years they only say 'currently' for these rates: Breeders to brokers: 34%, Online sales: 42%.
Sure, you're getting worked up about her misrepresenting the number of illegals, but I'm over here all incensed that she's saying a person is just ONE meal for an alligator? As if gators wouldn't join in and make a party of it? How dare she! An adult alligator will eat 20 pounds of food a week during warm weather but can go for weeks without eating during the winter. That means a generic 100 pound human should feed at least 3-4 gators (or up to 5 if we don't count bones as food). Suggesting a person is only one alligator meal is like suggesting a person isn't unemployed once they're run out of unemployment benefits -- and who'd be stupid enough to suggest that?
No idea what tysto is. but I wanted to warn people that it is not secure.
I just encountered this. I looked for images of "White House Rose Garden" and 90% of I got was images of it getting bulldozed for getting paved over per Trump's recent command.
So I looked for images from 1980-2010 and 90% of I got was historical stuff NOT from that time range -- like yellowed photos of how it looked before Jackie O' made it the Rose Garden, or pictures of MLK or other random gardens.
There HAVE to be images of the Rose Garden from before Melania ripped out the trees in Trump's previous term. Where did they go?
The best collection I could find was on this unsecured site: http://tysto.com/grounds/rose-garden.htm
After that, it was, sadly, two dog pics on a Daily Mail article. One with a Bush the other with Regan and Thatcher: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2440219/George-W-Bush-pays-tribute-dead-dog-13th-birthday.html
Most sites only have stuff like this current/bulldozer stuff: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a65124864/white-house-rose-garden-paved-photos/
Where did all the other photos go??????
But the point of Fermi's Paradox is that we are not seeing evidence of alien intelligence anywhere. We don't expect it here on earth, but we look out in space and see no light/radio/other waves that look like messages; no energy bursts or other anomalies that don't have better explainations (though some have no explaination at all). The Great Filter is simply a hypothesis -- like the Dark Forest -- as to why we don't see evidence of intelligent life in space.
If we went back to caves, we'd have great-filtered ourselves.
More info with lower quality image: https://alchetron.com/Live-at-the-Village-Vanguard-(Dizzy-Gillespie-album)
I would make sure the owner knows about this behavior. Napping is probably the pup's coping mechanism to deal with a potentially scary/chaotic/dangerous new environment, BUT there might be a medical issue. If the pup is sleepy/low-energy all the time or is in pain such that moving hurts, the owner will probably want to tell their veterinarian.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" -- George Orwell (book link)