Posted on 09/05/2020 4:17:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Travis County officials are investigating multiple reports of ’boats in distress’ on Lake Travis during a Trump boat parade.
According to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, they were first notified of the incidents around 12:15 p.m., Saturday.
The image below was tweeted by Austin American-Statesman photojournalist of the boat parade.
Rough waters on Lake Travis as hundreds of boats in Trump boat parade. Several swamped. #Statesman @bobphoto pic.twitter.com/DPpKKhgljF — bobphoto (@bobphoto) September 5, 2020
Several boats were in distress all along the parade route, according to officials. There are currently no reports of injuries.
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Austin is not Trump country......
....unfortunately I know folks there who would laugh over this
There is a remnant of good, Christian folks there...
,,but for the most part it is dangerously liberal
Slow news day?
Yes but I laugh at them. The idiots that they are. Looks like to many boats and some were swamped by the bigger boat wakes.
Gotta remember to install the drain plug before launching the boat.
But, how many lost firearms?
Might alcohol have been involved?
“You scratched my anchor!”
When I water skied earlier in life, a ice chest of beer was required.
I’d chalk it up to a lot of people being unfamiliar with how boats work on water. They know boats float and that’s about it. They don’t know that they can sink other boats or be sunk by other boats if they get too close to each other.
It’s like using a gun, without ever having taken lesson on how to use a gun. You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
Glad no one was hurt.
About 12 years ago, the jerk tech manager “Mr. Macho” and a few of the upper inner circle got a refresher on drain plugs.
Mr. Macho forgot to put his back and got a lesson in boat operations. It was very funny.
“Slow news day”?
You must be having a slow, boring day.
The funny part of that is all he had to do was fire that sucker up and full trottle and it will siphon the water out. But somebody has got to close the plug.
None of us working people had a lot of sympathy for the guy.
From what little I have picked up on from a few others, none whatsoever nowadays. Me included.
I heard he was on disability. Severe Chrohn’s disease.
Precisely what I was thinking. Happens a lot more often than many folks think. Have seen it happen quite a few times myself after fishing for trophy black bass in the many lakes all around Texas over the years.
Often people don’t notice it because a moving boat drains water through an open boat plug. Then they tie up to a dock for a day and blub, blub blub. No boat.
Or when they pull up and sit on their favorite fishing hole and put their hooks in the water and then wonder why there is water in the bottom of the boat and then it’ll dawn on one them “hey didn’t you put the plug in?”.
I wonder how many boats were distressed due to a few bullet holes from the land.
Trump overcomes the Arena bans with magnificence. Airport Hangar Rallies, Flotillas and Motorcycle Parades. Thousands of folks in and out of the hangars, thousands of folks in thousands of boats on the water and, Thousands of Bikers parading across America!!! Bravo...Trumpers!!!
As for Biden/Harris...nothing!!! No rallies, no supporters, no nothing!!! Go figure!!! Oh....I forgot...Sorry Democrat low life, I apologize, Biden and Harris are 100% basement dwellers and “underground” SATAN worshipers.
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