Hurricane Harvey

    At first I thought "hey, lawyers can't draw!"

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    Well, that, and they certainly draw conclusions, as well as drawing a pension once they get too old and decrepit to draw those conclusions...

    I still can grab my quill and parchment to still churn out the best frivolous lawsuit you ever read :00008172:

    I might not be right but I can sure sound like it

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    Just found out our grandson's AR guard unit is leaving in the morning for Houston. His fiance is also in the guard and they are looking forward to helping any way they can.


    If possible maybe I can look them up!!!



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    My wife is also in the medical field and she doesn't take a day off for anything. I don't know you but I sure thank God for you and people just like you.


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    Thank you Sir!



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    Well folks I finally made my way home from the kind safe haven of Mr & Mrs @Spudinator s home. The trip home was fairly uneventful with the exception of being detoured twice to get across the Sabine River. Upon arrival I found God had spared me any damage and for that I am thankful. I went to see some of the lower lying areas yesterday and the damage is incredible. We are used to high water down by the Gulf during Hurricanes due to storm surge but never rainfall. Rain has flooded areas to the north and west of me that have never flooded. People are in dire straits and need any help you can give. We are going thru our closets and storage giving old clothes, cooking utensils, - just about anything we have not used in a while. Anything you have that you don't think you need - these folks are gonna need it desperately in days and weeks coming. And of course if you can spare a few bucks how could that ever hurt :) This is about as bad as it gets - let's pray Irma keeps her ass far out in the Atlantic !!

    I might not be right but I can sure sound like it

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    Well folks I finally made my way home from the kind safe haven of Mr & Mrs @Spudinator s home. The trip home was fairly uneventful with the exception of being detoured twice to get across the Sabine River. Upon arrival I found God had spared me any damage and for that I am thankful. I went to see some of the lower lying areas yesterday and the damage is incredible. We are used to high water down by the Gulf during Hurricanes due to storm surge but never rainfall. Rain has flooded areas to the north and west of me that have never flooded. People are in dire straits and need any help you can give. We are going thru our closets and storage giving old clothes, cooking utensils, - just about anything we have not used in a while. Anything you have that you don't think you need - these folks are gonna need it desperately in days and weeks coming. And of course if you can spare a few bucks how could that ever hurt :) This is about as bad as it gets - let's pray Irma keeps her ass far out in the Atlantic !!


    @Bill Martin I was in the Beaumont area yesterday...it is bad! I thought about coming to your house but I 10 East of there is still closed...We took a trailer in and unloaded the supplies. Hoping to make a similar trip weekly! The supplies were gathered by a group of Slingers and you know a couple of them!



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    Well written on how Texas will handle Hurricane Harvey.


    By Robert Dean:


    "I’m not a Texan. I don’t adore the Lone Star State. I’m a transplant who’s lived in Austin for the last four years. I can’t name the state fish, I don’t understand the thing with mums at Homecoming, and I think chicken fried steak sucks. I don’t care about Friday Night Lights.
    But I married into a Texas family. A Texas family with crazy deep roots. My wife is a direct descendant from the Texas Revolution. Through my marriage, I get a front row seat to all things that filter through the Texas lens. I’ve learned a lot about bluebonnets and Whataburger. I know the difference between casual allegiance with Texas colleges, what it really means to be a Longhorn, and the difference between good salsa and crap that came out of a jar.
    If there’s one lesson I’ve learned as an outsider looking in, it’s that there’s a sense of purpose to these people like I’ve never seen. A central passion runs through Texans unlike any other American identity. Pride percolates here. It’s something people who aren’t from Texas just can’t grasp. We may have a docile sense of civic pride for our hometowns, but nothing like this state demands of its residents.
    The Texas flag flies as high as the American flag, while the state Capitol is just a smidge taller than the U.S. Capitol, because – Texas. There are Texas flags on everything. And folks all over this huge collection of miles expect a reverential obsession from those who choose to take up this address, if only for a while.
    That sense of purpose and absolute unwillingness to bend in their pride is why Texas will only become stronger in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
    Before Texas, I spent seven years in New Orleans, a place that knows about heartbreak and flooding. To love New Orleans is to love the city. But a New Orleanian ain’t much of a Louisianan, despite them being hand in hand. They’re two different cultures. But here, even if you’re from the Panhandle or live along the Gulf of Mexico, you still adore this state and will bond together under that flag, that symbol
    Typically, cities talk smack on one another, and the outlying country towns don’t want anything to do with the big cities and their completely different personalities. There are liberals and conservatives, cowboys and city slickers, white folks, brown folks, black folks and every shade in between wearing cowboy boots. This place has many stories, many sides to the dice.
    Harvey took many lives. It dumped acres of water onto the streets of Houston, decimated Rockport, and flooded Galveston and cities and towns across southeast Texas. But Texas will lick its wounds. Texas will come back bigger and better, and brighter and with more Texas-ness than you can imagine. Texans cannot allow for their diamonds to go unpolished. The thought of a place in Texas where local culture dies just doesn’t feel right. There are no places where the roads are unfinished, or the buildings lie in ruins – that would go against everything these people have known their whole lives: This land is precious and it is our birthright.
    ........ H-E-B and Buc-ee’s, two Texas brand giants, came to the rescue, offering shelter, food, showers, and support. Mattress Mack, a Houston mattress maven, opened his warehouses so folks could get a good night’s rest. The people here know a love that moves deeper than their sense of pride – it’s a calling of purpose.
    You cannot count Texas out. There’s no other state in our union that could handle this hurricane. New York has taken its lumps. New Orleans knows what loss feels like, but this is a monster named Harvey that we’ve never seen before. Who better to challenge Harvey head-on than Texas? They’ll do it wearing an Astros cap and with a twisted smile, daring that water to take a piece of the land they love so much."


    Robert Dean is a writer and journalist living in Austin.

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    @Bill Martin I was in the Beaumont area yesterday...it is bad! I thought about coming to your house but I 10 East of there is still closed...We took a trailer in and unloaded the supplies. Hoping to make a similar trip weekly! The supplies were gathered by a group of Slingers and you know a couple of them!



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    Any of you guys need a warm bed and hot meal just gimme a call.

    I might not be right but I can sure sound like it

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    Any of you guys need a warm bed and hot meal just gimme a call.


    I promised Mr. Bill if I could've made it there last night I would've been there along with a few others! Definitely appreciate the offer and I know it's real much love to you and your bride



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