Rebel5soul
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Understood, but you aren't the only one reading this thread.
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How much was the prop network settlement again? I thought there were more digits there.
Can’t call the feckless leader anything eh? How many Let’s Go Brandon flags you own?
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Ok, no idea what the fuck you're.on about. I already called out the people you say I shouldn't forget. And you responded to the post that I did so.
So yes, we should acknowledge and praise both people that do the job and people who did the job without being required to.
So now that that is settled, stop replying to my posts with redundant bullshit.
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I worked in ER for 4 years - I know a lot of paramedics and cops and a few firefighters have been thru too - and those re tough tough jobs that can cause a lot of mental health issues with what you see. One of our cop buddies says the worst for him are people that die in fires. "Crispy critters". ER could be bad enough sometimes, 90% boredom and 10% pure adrenaline - I did enjoy it tho. You learn so much so fast under pressure. I did actually think about switchig to EMR but really, I can't handle the physical requirements side of it - too small and not strong enough and I hate being the weak link. But I did enjoy the adrenaline and the ER work - the downside was always the ones that didn't make it, the upside was the absolutely weird ones.
Had one guy who came in after a motorcycle crash - he'd been overtaking at speed - white-lining down the middle of the road - truck coming towards him - cut back into the traffic except the van he'd been overtaking had been slowing down without using its brakes for a line of traffic doing 20mph - he hit the brakes, chopped down the gears - and just tpuched the read of the car in front of him. It flipped him over the car - the EMR that came in with him said apparently he went over the car curled in a ball - hit the road head first and rolled down the road, still in a ball - between the car he hit and the car in front of that - with a stream of traffic coming the other way on a narrow road - rolled down the road and stood up when he stopped. Cop was coming the other way - saw - called an ambulance and they brought him in. His helmet (full face) was like a sponge and the jawpiece was up over his eyes - all he had was a black eye. His leathers weren't even scratched, his bike apparently just stopped and fell over. LOL. The guy should have been dead. The cop told him he'd used by 1 of his lives and didn't give him a ticket. Just told him if he was stupid enough to do the same thing again, that was on him. I always remember that one - the biker told me the last thing he remembered was being upside down in mid-air looking through the windscreen of the car he was going over and seeing the drivers eyes looking like tennis balls.
And a 14 year old kid who came in holding his big toe. He'd chopped it off chopping firewood. Picked it up and walked back into the house and his mom saw and fainted and whacked her head on the floor - he loaded her into her car, threw his toe in a ziplock bag and drove her into ER. She was in hospital for longer then he was. She really cracked her head.
One of our friends is a volunteer firefighter, and that's a tough one - and another does Search and Rescue for lost hikers and idiots that get half way up mountains and can't get back down - and one of my cousins does cave dive rescue work - now THAT just freaks me out. Cave-diving as a hobby is bad enough, but cave dive rescues?????? He does those deep dives too - done some deepdive body recoveries and I can't think of anything worse. Diving thru caves to get someone out - it's even freakier than caving and THAT is bad enough. I went caving once, a really easy "caving for kiddies" one, and it gave me the screaming heebie-jeebies. Never again!!!!!! Funny isn't it. I skydive, been doing it since I was 17 and that really freaks some people out - but it's such a buzz - whereas caving - nooooo waaaaaaaay. And just the thought of cave diving sends me screaming from the room.
Nothing but respect for first responders here. Those guys are real heroes, and for them they shrug it off as it's just their job.
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And as for these guys......
The training these guys do is insane. ~80% of those who try to be USCG rescue swimmers fail out.
You have to be in Olympic-tier physical shape, cold-tolerant, able to keep your cool when beginning to drown, etc.
Not only are you getting into helicopters in weather conditions so serious that not even the Navy will fly (hurricanes and so on) you're riding that helicopter into some of the most dangerous sea conditions -- breaking surf, giant swells, and crawling into sinking, burning ships to drag half-conscious 200lb victims through ice-cold water to a swinging, dangling helicopter basket in the dark. You're wearing a ton of gear, jumping out of helicopters. The helo can only stay so long at the scene before they'll need to refuel. You MUST keep your cool.
Oh, and the people you're rescuing are often in shock, meaning they might sock you in the jaw while you're trying to save their life. It's a physiological, brain-stem type response. You just gotta manhandle them into the basket and carry on, I guess.
These guys read all about it, devote 100% of their free time to training their bodies into freakishly-fit swimming machines, sign up, do boot camp, crush the swimmer training, watch most of their classmates fail out, and then go and do the job.
And when it comes time to rank up, it's often one of the slower jobs in the CG for making rank. The pay sucks. You'll probably do time in Alaska. It's not a directly transferable skill to any civilian industry so post-service job opportunities aren't that great. Their bodies are often broken by the end of it. They see people die -- sometimes kids, sometimes in a bloody mess, sometimes missing a chance at rescue by one second. They make mistakes, and people die. They have to live with it.
They're heroes, plain and simple.
VERY few could do what these people do
The training these guys do is insane. ~80% of those who try to be USCG rescue swimmers fail out.
You have to be in Olympic-tier physical shape, cold-tolerant, able to keep your cool when beginning to drown, etc.
Not only are you getting into helicopters in weather conditions so serious that not even the Navy will fly (hurricanes and so on) you're riding that helicopter into some of the most dangerous sea conditions -- breaking surf, giant swells, and crawling into sinking, burning ships to drag half-conscious 200lb victims through ice-cold water to a swinging, dangling helicopter basket in the dark. You're wearing a ton of gear, jumping out of helicopters. The helo can only stay so long at the scene before they'll need to refuel. You MUST keep your cool.
Oh, and the people you're rescuing are often in shock, meaning they might sock you in the jaw while you're trying to save their life. It's a physiological, brain-stem type response. You just gotta manhandle them into the basket and carry on, I guess.
These guys read all about it, devote 100% of their free time to training their bodies into freakishly-fit swimming machines, sign up, do boot camp, crush the swimmer training, watch most of their classmates fail out, and then go and do the job.
And when it comes time to rank up, it's often one of the slower jobs in the CG for making rank. The pay sucks. You'll probably do time in Alaska. It's not a directly transferable skill to any civilian industry so post-service job opportunities aren't that great. Their bodies are often broken by the end of it. They see people die -- sometimes kids, sometimes in a bloody mess, sometimes missing a chance at rescue by one second. They make mistakes, and people die. They have to live with it.
They're heroes, plain and simple.
VERY few could do what these people do
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Politicians don't go into rescue mode, they leave it to the experts. I didn't see Hakeem out there in his alligator shoes helping out. On the other hand there are people behind the scenes doing an after action report and I'm sure there will be remedies forwarded.
People can pray and work at the same time.
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No word yet on whether ICE showed up to deport them
Firefighters from Mexico join response efforts to catastrophic Texas floods
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Duplicate.
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No, the federal and state government couldn't have done more. Perhaps the locals could have done more, time will tell.
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Says you? Lol.
Racist5soul should (if they’re capable) read & comprehend the content of this report:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
DonOld & the MAGAt republicans (local, state, AND FEDERAL) directly contributed to the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths); full stop.
Hope that ^ helps.
We. Told. Them. So.
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They had meetings with local government at 11pm. Sent watch out at 5pm, warnings out at 130, 530 and 730
Racist5soul should (if they’re capable) read & comprehend the content of this report:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
DonOld & the MAGAt republicans (local, state, AND FEDERAL) directly contributed to the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths); full stop.
Hope that ^ helps.
We. Told. Them. So.
They had double the staff all night because of the risks
Your continued ignorant repetition is wrong headed and stupid. The local Government failed to take the warnings seriously even when told it was an emergency. They shoulve reacted better.
"Some people" are OBVIOUSLY too stupid and myopic to comprehend the full implications of the information provided.
The indictable acts related to DonOld and the MAGAt republicans (local, state, AND FEDERAL) culpability for the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths) is in the report I provided; full stop:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
"Some people" should try reading and comprehending the provided information AGAIN.
Hope that ^ helps.
We. Told. Them. So.
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They were adequately staffed and they provided sufficient warnings when needed.
"Some people" are OBVIOUSLY too stupid and myopic to comprehend the full implicate the information provided.
The indictable acts related to DonOld and the MAGAt republicans (local, state, AND FEDERAL) is in the report I provided; full stop:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
"Some people" should try reading and comprehending the provided information AGAIN.
Hope that ^ helps.
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Your continued horseshit is horseshit
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“Some people” can’t seem to formulate a persuasive, (and non-repetitive) “refuttal” to the damning evidence pointing to DonOld & the MAGAts republicans’ (local, state, AND FEDERAL) culpability for the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths) that was provided in this report:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
"Some people" seem to think repeatedly posting “NUH-UHHHH” qualifies as a “refuttal”.
"Some people" 
We. Told. Them. So.
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You keep posting copy pasta from a website and argue that others can't be non-repetitve... Lol
“Some people” can’t seem to formulate a persuasive, (and non-repetitive) “refuttal” to the damning evidence pointing to DonOld & the MAGAts republicans’ (local, state, AND FEDERAL) culpability for the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths) that was provided in this report:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
"Some people" seem to think repeatedly posting “NUH-UHHHH” qualifies as a “refuttal”.
We. Told. Them. So.
You're wrong. No matter how many times you copy pasta the same shit. Hope this helps
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Also, since your plagiarized your post, I thought I'd properly cite it for you
“Some people” can’t seem to formulate a persuasive, (and non-repetitive) “refuttal” to the damning evidence pointing to DonOld & the MAGAts republicans’ (local, state, AND FEDERAL) culpability for the magnitude of the tragedy (number of deaths) that was provided in this report:
In April, Paul Yura, THE WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST for the NWS Austin/San Antonio office, retired early after 32 years in the field. According to NOAA, this role is second only to the meteorologist-in-charge and is critical for translating forecasts into community alerts, managing spotter networks, and coordinating with local emergency teams. The position remains unfilled due to a hiring freeze caused by federal cuts to NOAA under the Trump administration.
Around the same time, the Houston NWS office lost its meteorologist-in-charge and now has a 44% vacancy rate. These cutstriggered a wave of early retirements and left local offices scrambling to maintain coverage—often relying on virtual support or temporarily reassigned staff. That’s a real loss of local expertise and institutional memory.
And here’s the thing: even the best weather models don’t matter if the warnings don’t reach people or don’t convey urgency. That depends on communication infrastructure and relationships on the ground—which in turn depend on staffing and experience.
I’ve seen a lot of comments saying “the NWS did their job,” and that they did issue a flood watch. But if the information didn’t get to the right people in time—or in a way that made the risk clear enough to act on—then something broke down. I also understand there were cell service issues in the area, which only underscores how urgent it is to improve how we reach people quickly and reliably in rural or high-risk zones during emergencies. That breakdown might not be one person’s fault, and maybe this disaster could not have been prevented at all—only time and investigation will tell. But it’s still worth asking whether federal staffing decisions weakened the very systems meant to support local emergency managers, especially in high-risk regions like the Texas Hill Country.
"Some people" seem to think repeatedly posting “NUH-UHHHH” qualifies as a “refuttal”.
We. Told. Them. So.
"Some people" OBVIOUSLY FAILED to recognize that the original source WAS cited earlier in the thread (See: POSTS #52 & #57).
"Some people" also OBVIOUSLY FAIL to recognize their own hypocrisy / idiocy when it comes to repetitiveness AND the satirization of that repetitiveness by their betters.
Hope that ^ helps.
"Some people"
We. Told. Them. So.
"Some people" also OBVIOUSLY FAIL to recognize their own hypocrisy / idiocy when it comes to repetitiveness AND the satirization of that repetitiveness by their betters.
Hope that ^ helps.
"Some people" We. Told. Them. So.
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Look at all this " non repetitive " arguing here"Some people" OBVIOUSLY FAILED to recognize that the original source WAS cited earlier in the thread (See: POSTS #52 & #57).
"Some people" also OBVIOUSLY FAIL to recognize their own hypocrisy / idiocy when it comes to repetitiveness AND the satirization of that repetitiveness by their betters.
Hope that ^ helps.
We. Told. Them. So.
If you post a source again, cite the source again.
Not difficult. I'm not looking up your previous same post from three pages ago.
"Some people" should better inform themselves before making unfounded accusations.
And there would be zero need to repeat relevant information if myopic imbeciles could / would read & comprehend that information THE FIRST TIME.
Also:
The most repetitive “last word spaz” on the PB (II74) has zero room to talk…
"Some People" (II74) We. Told. Them. So.
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Non repetitive arguments.....brought to you by Lax.
"Some people" should better inform themselves before making unfounded accusations.
And there would be zero need to repeat relevant information if myopic imbeciles could / would read & comprehend that information THE FIRST TIME.
Also:
The most repetitive “last word spaz” on the PB (II74) has zero room to talk…
We. Told. Them. So.
