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Texas bills increasing youth camp safety face long odds, even after Hill Country floods Competing legislative priorities and an industry that has pushed against certain regulations could challenge a suite of camp safety bills this special legislative session.

this is interesting www.texastribune.org/2025/08/01/t...

for sure. I doubt we'll see anything like the Roger's commission. I think this hearing was about as close as we'll get.

real ones know about his partnership with 44 farms

I mean now it's no different than speculative investing backed mostly on a&m fans like me thinking that this is the year we finally get to 9 fucking wins

but unfortunately it devolves into Dan Patrick blaming the judge when given the current culture and delineation of roles you could put 99 other people in that same system and have the same output. The system itself needs to change.

just circling back to this and the challenger comparison is so spot on. there's a cultural barrier in place here as well that resulted in none of the three decision makers being onsite until well into the morning.

the other part to this point is that it very much became a boy who cried wolf thing even the officials said we got plenty of warnings but we get plenty of warnings at all times. the city manager said he turned off the warnings on his phone.

how do we separate routine warnings from catastrophic ones

and like when you look at the maps and the policies there's the flood plain but also elevations and the elevations are just high enough to where it could be construed as within policies to build there but it's just not a good idea

the flood maps thing is huge. we poured over those fema maps and like you said exceptions were made to avoid the rules/laws instead of understanding the spirit of why the laws were there in the first place

Oh heck yeah gonna read now

right. my wife was a city manager in our small town and it ended pretty poorly due to 2 bad council members. local politics are just so messy at times.

would love to hear your thoughts!

sheriff, city manager qualifications, county judge -- all of those positions

having been at a&m during the bonfire collapse and the subsequent investigation and essentially grown up as an admin in that risk management era this page from the bonfire report is seared into my memory and is so applicable here

agree. im reacting to our nature to finger point and man there was failure at so many levels of this response that the only way to look at it is from a systems theory lens but i dont know if we have that capacity

it's the parable of the boiled frog here and it's true this was a once in a lifetime storm but it did not require a superhuman effort to respond. it did require a sound process and we didn't realize we didn't have one until we needed one.

I don't know if accountability is what I'm looking for I just want autopsy without blame. this was a monumental failure. I don't give a shit about someone being at fault. forget fault. it's our responsibility to ensure that we learn from this and fault is getting in the way.

yeah. people abdicating local influence for fear of some national influence boogie man

it's just a curious thing what skillsets are necessary to be selected to the roles of county judge city manager etc and then whether those are the actual skillsets necessary to perform the job well.

and then you get the folks who talk about not politicizing it but much of it comes down to why things were or weren't funded which is inherently political because it's politicians who decide those things

so much man. inefficiencies of communication. no real skillset necessary to be a city wide emergency administrator. lack of trust in national warning systems. no motivation to create local ones. camps with their own culture of communication. ethos of self reliance.

today in between meetings I watched the hearing about the kerrville floods because the entire case study of it all resides in this odd wheelhouse I have of having camp related experience, org development, and the challenges of state and local government so if anyone wants to talk about pls @ me

The number of family caregivers is surging A new report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving shows that more than 63 million Americans are serving as family caregivers — and they’re managing financial risks, poor health and isola...

A report from @aarp.org and the National Alliance for Caregiving shows that more than 63 million Americans are serving as family caregivers — and they’re managing financial risks, poor health and isolation.

the lack of a dedicated laptop sleeve is throwing me off

it's a little big for me. I've thought about grabbing a north face base camp as a travel bag but 34L seems big for everyday carry

ughhh I had convinced myself that the aer was the go to but that looks super sharp too

yeah it definitely has the best aesthetic appeal to me

Jeff i mean this it takes over my life completely

i had a timbuk2 that i also loved and passed down to a kid for a laptop bag!