Posted on 08/20/2025 4:06:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Eastland not only* lost
It’s really heartbreaking. There’s human failing here, of course. But the big lesson is: nature doesn’t care about you, even if you are the most adorable child in the world. That is always scary to realize.
So why did almost 20,000 people die even with Japan's world class tsunami warning system.
Geography.
Geography? A tsunami usually at least has a 1/2 hour before it reaches shore and Japan has the best tsunami warning system in the world and still close to 20,000 people died.
You have the spirit of those individuals who mocked Noah while he was building the Ark.
As with the Texas power freeze of 2021, which revealed the corruptions and shortcomings surrounding the TX power grid — your refusal to accept any responsibility and accountability on behalf of your state is illuminating and explains a lot.
In addition to “Gaslighting” you should look up the Soviet psychological tactic “What-aboutism” which you seem to employ with utmost ease.
Huh? I am not mocking anybody. Noah had months and years to prepare.
Still doesn't explain how the Japanese had months and years to build a tsunami warning system and still nearly 20,000 people died and you are hell bent in blaming Texas for what is a 1 in 40 year flood. I stand corrected it was not a 1 in 100 year flood.
Let one of the little girl’s fathers, speak for himself. He is no sap. Even in grief, he has logic.
https://youtu.be/cmU6ZunVLFU?feature=shared
I remember a place you could get a brat and s beer in your kayak.
Organizing, getting set up for a costly lawsuit. Wearing nice commercially produced campaign buttons. You can hear the personal injury lawyers’ voices echoed in the phrases used by the testifiers.
Organizing, getting set up for a costly lawsuit. Wearing nice commercially produced campaign buttons. You can hear the personal injury lawyers’ voices echoed in the phrases used by the testifiers.
100-yr flood doesn’t mean it happens every 100 years, it means that the probability of it happening in a given year adds up to once every hundred years.
Like if you roll a 100-sided die 100 times, statistically each number is rolled once, but in reality any single given number (your flood) will be rolled multiple times before each number shows up at least once.
[This was a 1 in 100 year flood.
1987 and 2025]
I wish people would stop saying 1 in 100 year that’s not scientifically correct at all. It’s 1:100 probability in any given year. As in a 1% probability in ANY year of occurrence.
It’s the same as roulette with a 1:37 probability of any number coming up. I have seen 27 red hit 4 times in a row and made 10 grand on letting the winnings ride each of the times up to the table max limits by the third roll... 35:1 = $175 first hit, $100 table max bet 35:1 = $3500 pay out, third hit $3500 never ever move a winning bet. Fourth hit $3500 ..let it ride fifth roll 11 black had a nickel on it for $175 but lost the $100 on 27.
People would incorrectly say the odds of four 27 red in a row is 37^4 or 1.8 million to one and they would be wrong. It’s always 1:37 odds every single spin. Needless to say steak dinner was on me that night in Vegas.
Gonna be hard when Camp Mystic had just passed their safety inspection in the days before which included their flash flood plans. There was no way to get out of the way of a 20+ foot wall of water that rose in a few minutes time. Warning sirens would have helped but even then not everyone would have made it out of the path given how fast the water rose. They don’t call it flash flood alley for nothing.
My wife is also a fourth generation Mystic girl she knows the children of the High land Park families lost most multi generational Parkies know each other they all went to school together , camp together and socialize as adults together its a close wealthy bubble. She remembers how close the cabins were to the river bank the closest ones would have not had minutes of time they had seconds in the middle of the night in the dark from sound asleep. Unless you totally ban any structure inside the 1:100 flood zone no amount of sirens will eliminate risk.
1:38 unless you found a place in LV with just one green
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