Jeff,

Where I live there are only two ways out. Of course people look at the Barracades and
sometimes you have to look at the situation. I had to wait till noon yesterday before I could
get out to go to work. Everyone thought the storm was over, than we got hit again last
night. I knew about the rain but this guy probably did not live in the area. I think the rain was rather localized. He probably crossed the night before, just like I did and it was not flowing across the roadway. I think your comment was a tad flippent.

Regards p930man

I hate PC. Really, I do. You're a fool. You only get one life and you choose to live in Oklahoma. A place that even Texans look down on. HAHAHAHAHA...:D

We've been down this boring path before but the fact is that most people would gladly pay triple to live in California over cowschit Oklahoma or some other god-forsaken place. You could give me the biggest cow palace in your state with a fleet of new PU trucks for free and I'd say no thanks.

Jesus, what a jackass...and your Phd friend must be an idiot. :)

Actually, I really don't care about the tu / uo game held every year. Wife are an Aggie (TAMU) and Sis-in-Lar are a Cowboy (OSU).

Besides, the other skools are a bit too, liberal ;-)


James,

Yep, but I remember the time when Austin was wierd with rednecks, longnecks, cowboys, and hippies. Now it just feels like KA LA LA land to me.


Denis,

As a buddy of mine (who grew up in Compton) used to say: I can't wait for the BIG QUAKE!! That way the rest of you guys will fall into the Atlantic and California will have TWO coasts!

He needs to meet one of our local congress critters. She is more liberal than Nancy Pelosi...

I give you.... Sheila Jackson Lee

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Let's see . . . for starters, it wasn't a mandate or an official emergency warning, it was a pair of minimum wage DJs looking at weather.com and telling listeners it was going to storm. I've somehow made it this far in life by not jumping everytime a stranger tells me to and will continue to do so.

Secondly, I drive the conditions and make decisions dependent upon such- I apologize if I have somehow offended you by thinking for myself instead of parking in the rain and baaaaa-ing.

Red,

I lived +/- 18 years in Houston and Sheila Jackson Lee, is a real POS. Ie where,s the flag on
Mars and most recently North and South Vietnam are living in harmony. She has to be the
dumbest of all the Dem's and that,s saying something.

Preston

I consider earthquakes to be one of the positives of living here. We need more of them. :cool:

If you honestly cannot discern any difference between DJ's on a number of radio stations admonishing folks to get off the roads because of an approaching storm and a DJ telling you to vote for Hillary, then you are clearly too stupid to understand why what he did was wrong.

This only reinforces what I said above.


Your disdain for these DJ's not withstanding (although it does give a bit more insight into the superiority complex you are projecting), they often provide such public service announcements at the behest of local authorities. Especially if the same warning is broadcast on more than one station, the more perceptive among us would gather that had been the case. While the formal Emergency Broadcast System is very rarely used, it is quite common for authorities to enlist the help of local TV and radio to get the word out when conditions such as this arise.

Your attitude displays nothing but disdain and loathing for anyone other than yourself. Hooray for you, to hell with everyone else. It was clear that many had not made it through - you saw some and commented on them yourself. It should have been equally clear that the conditions that led to their troubles could very well result in the same for you, and that if they had, you would be looking to the very same emergency personel that were already being dispatched to help others. You admit you are not from around there, yet somehow you know better than the locals. You had no way of knowing how bad it could get, yet you blow off warnings from some "pair of minimum wage DJ's", making all kinds of assumptions in the process.

You are exactly the kind of self centered ass hole that gets emergency crews up at night and puts them at unnecessary risk. The fact that you made it through this time only encourages like minded ass holes to try it themselves, or for guys like Tervuren to think it was somehow alright.

Are you fools aware that you have turned a basic innocent post about a storm into a pissing match, including people actually getting mad at each other?

WTF is wrong with this board lately?

apparently there is PARF spill-over into OT

very well-put post, Mike

I went to Texas A&M and dad went to Oklahoma A&M (now OSU)...

What years were you there? I was thar '83-'86 - Jackie Sherrill days...before he got caught...

Yeah, Austin is still weird, just a different kind of weird now...

Nope. Cynthia McKinney from Atlanta and the id10t Hank Johnson who replaced her (the one worried about Guam capsizing from the addition of 6000 Marines) both exceed her stupidity.

I was just making the point that we are not just rednecks and pickups. That's Dallas...

Sorry, Mike, but maybe you don't get many travelers' advisories broadcast on your radio and television stations. Here in the Pugent Sound area, we hear a lot of them. Either the DOT advising folks stay off the mountain passes over the Cascades due to snow, avalanche, mud slide, or other dangers, or we get the Coast Guard issuing small craft advisories out on the Sound, up in the Straights, or off the coast. All are forwarded by "minimum wage DJ's" as a public service. They do not use "official" channels, whatever that may mean.

And sure as hell, every time such warnings are issued, there are folks who either did not receive them or folks who did and chose to ignore them. Granted, I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone who would travel our mountains in the winter or our waters at any time without checking for such advisories first, but I really run out of patience for the jerks that hear them and decide they are above them. They put emergency crews at risk that are already overwhelmed with the clueless who didn't check. They certainly don't need the added burden of the arrogant that didn't listen, that didn't think it applies to them.

So, no, this wasn't some "basic innocent post about a storm". This is about a prick who ignored warnings, driving into a storm of unkown severity and, in doing so, putting others at risk. We have rescue personel that die periodically going out to help ass holes like this.

It is because Sniper left, Denis lost the focus for his bile and now has to find a new outlet.


Denis, have you considered maybe smoking dope? You need to mellow out man.

No, Jeff, tell us how you REALLY feel! ;)

if texas really tried to KILL YOU you would be dead already :)

We have tropical storms here all the time, we even set up a stormwatch 2010 for them. But they usually amount to much less than a tenth of an inch of rain.

I guess they get a tad stronger than that in Baja Oklahoma ;)

Texas is barely afraid of Chuck Norris.

But don't they have them things there? you know, those things where the air goes in tight circles really really fast?

Yep we have them thar tornadoes. The top bad tornado is an EF-5. Only one of them has ever been measured at over 300 MPH. It ripped right across OKC metro area. Some houses were cleaned right off down to the concrete foundation. But just a few blocks away the houses were fine. We did not even loose electricity in my part of town. We watched it for several HOURS and knew exactly where it was heading. They don't sneak up on us. We have tons of warnings. The last one to hit the metro area was forecast DAYS before it hit, really!

Now them thar earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires are scary. They wipe out large areas with no warning. I guess your big race riots are contained to large metro areas after big sports games.

And just for speeder, Kalifornia is the land of fruits & nuts! :D

But it is a nice place to go on vacation.