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    Hurricane Helene

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, boyst said:

    some notes from here.

     

    the national guard has set up a boundary - no one is allowed in around the mountains. this sounds great until you realize it is the hill people going to help themselves. if no one can get it than no one can get out. the people need help getting out and they cannot the pockets of communities that dot the valleys are entirely stranded and there are truly 1,000's of people missing. 

     

    lawlessness and looting is happening just to survive places that are open but the problem is the lack of cash - no credit cards, no internet/cell.

     

    a friend from Old Fort, NC said the entire town is gone. the closest power, fuel, and food is 2 hours away. they were able to flee and got to michigan this morning at 4am. FEMA and other resources are not existent. There is no one there helping. no one can get in. the plane drops and helicopters just can't be getting to enough places to help people.

     

    local people with helicopters have been flying in and still work rescuing people but fuel is running low. nascar driver is flying his own chopper to help. response teams from all over being held off by national guard, including PD's and FD's. there is no one spearheading the ops. that's an issue. there is no command post on this. friends have been sharing testimony of bodies washed around, seeing people floating in raging waters, entire families in houses and trailers being swept away watching them standing in the windows. a mother and newborn child trapped upon a trailer.

     

    to make matters worse - rain and storms are starting to roll in.

     

    https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/1967 - one of the harder hit areas. still radio abuzz.

     

    i'm not here to tell you what could have been done. i'm not here to tell anyone screwed up. 11-13" of rain was predicted. 20+ inches fell. 

     

    just found out a friend is alive - didn't think he'd be a casualty but had not heard from him / them. he and his girlfriend do whitewater rafting, climbing, mountaineering. he is doing as much as he can to help. hill country people are different.

    Glad to hear about your friend. 

     

    I have a friend who lives in Asheville with his girlfriend. His family hadn't heard from him for a day or two but they finally got in contact with him. He sounds similar to your friend and that he's an outdoorsman, Whitewater rafter, and farmer. The worst he got was a flooded basement but it sounds like he got lucky compared to a lot of others.

    Hurricane Helene

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Gene Frenkle said:

    This is some biblical schitt. I had no idea it was this bad. 

    That's kinda the point.

     

    It's about as bad as Katrina (hard to compare natural disasters but I'd contend these are on the same order of magnitude) and yet the coverage seems to pale in comparison and the executive branch seems AWOL.

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    Paging Mr. Hisbollah......

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, SCBills said:

    I’m definitely on Israel’s side vs Hamas & Hezbollah terrorists, but indiscriminately blowing up stuff when you know it will happen around innocent civilians is a terror attack, not an act of war. 
     

     

    Very small payload on a very specific target (no regular civilian is walking around with a Hezbollah issued pager) is the very opposite of "indiscriminate".

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    Paging Mr. Hisbollah......

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

    Better than bombing children I guess 

     

     

    Never mind, still a crime. 

    Nah not really.

     

    Communication devices used by terrorists aren't "harmless". They aren't toys or food - it's their equipment which makes it a perfectly acceptable target.

     

    Once again, Israel does something to target terrorists and minimize collateral damage, and people call them the bad guys.

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    Paging Mr. Hisbollah......

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by yall

    28 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

    Escalation for sure. Bibi wants more war, that's obvious 

    Yeah he should just totally be cool with everyone around him openly scheming for their death and destruction and take no action. 

     

    Pretty sure if Israel said they'd stop attacking Hamas, Hezbollah and all of the other Islamist nut bags, the Islamist nut bags wouldn't stop trying to destroy Israel.

     

    But if they actually stopped trying to destroy Israel, the Israelis would be content to live in peace.

     

    People like you just don't seem to get that. 

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    Smiley must go

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, Freddie's Dead said:

    No.  The TD was the result of an uncalled block in the back at the point of attack.  Not much the Bills can do if the refs are just going to ignore that *****.

    That and three people completely whiffing on what should have been a tackle.

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    Diggs' Drama

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, NewEra said:

    I don’t know if that’s necessarily the case but to each their own.  
     

    I think it’s better stated that they didn’t have a plan that most people would agree is a good plan.  Me included.  I was hoping to somehow replace Diggs with an upper echelon WR, which is easier said than done considering our cap sitch.  I didn’t think the chiefs had a good plan for replacing Tyreek either.  

     

    I think the plan on offense is to run more 12 personnel and become more difficult to defend by disguising the run and pass.  Having the ability to run multiple designs with different combinations of players using their skillets. Not so much the meta x,y,z- rather lots of bunch and play action to keep the d off balance.  Having WRs with the ability to run block (which they all have).  
     

    Brady had access to an elite WR last season and didn’t utilize him very much.   Certainly didn’t get the best out of him.  Cap/age transition offseason can be devastating for some teams.  I don’t see us being one of those teams.  We play a lot of very good teams this year, I see our season being similar to last year-  making the playoffs/winning the division will excruciating and down to the wire.  If that turns out to be the case, the plan couldn’t be that bad.  We’d be right back where we were last season 

     

    Considering Diggs forced the trade, how could we reasonably expect the Bills to have a solid plan in place? I mean I'm all for having continuity planning and contingencies, but in this case he really painted them into a corner. 

     

    If I came home today and my wife asked me for a divorce out of the blue, I might not have a plan either. 

     

    Oh hell who am I kidding, I'd empty our bank account and go straight to Pharaoh's. 

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    Diggs' Drama

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

     

    Diggs "camp" did not want him to be portrayed as uncontrollable or out of control (lowers his stock with potential other teams), as doing what he wants to do at the expense of team or captain responsibilities (ditto, also bad for his brand) or as saying "***** you" to a pretty blonde team employee (again, bad for his brand)

    Don't get me wrong; I get why some people were unhappy about it. But nothing she said warranted the reaction and certainly not the apology. It was pretty milquetoast as far as hot mics go.

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    Diggs' Drama

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted

    1 minute ago, boater said:

    I never had a doubt about what Maddy said. Not for one minute.

     

    Having said that, I will give Stefon a pass for being a curmudgeon with the press. I think I would be also if I were a star athlete. Some people don't like the limelight, they aren't built for that. Not everyone can be as friendly as Josh Allen.

    I am still struggling to this day to understand how what she said was even remotely controversial or bad.

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