The good news is that water isn’t frigid. It’s actually pretty warm (80 or so). But yeah it’s unsanitary and there’s living things in it. Like this guy who caught a fish in his house.

Poor folks! That’s not just frigid water, it’s frigid *unsanitary* water. If any of those elders have open sores... :-(

Yeah, I’m all for scrutinizing the shit out of the media we consume, but far too many people are too quick to cry #FAKENEWS and move on without actually investigating or doing the most basic research.

Exactly, it does seem rather odd that the Coast Guard was either not informed of this sooner or did not act until the tweet came out. In any case, I’m glad the nursing home patients were saved from that precarious position in time. Also, probably not the best time to cut the Coast Guard’s budget by 2.4 percent, or…

Okay, first of all I laughed.

The original pic was shared in a public Facebook post from the daughter of the nursing home owner/manager. She was pleading for help. And what were half of the comments? People insisting that the picture was fake.

One thing to consider is that local authorities in Houston, including the mayor, were telling people to shelter in place...seriously.

I’m so glad that they’re safe but it feels weird to think a viral tweet is the way to get emergency crew to come quickly.

As someone who just watched his closest loved one spend years declining in a nursing home, my first reaction to this was to wonder where the hell the families were. But then reality came crushing down on me: having your loved ones in a nursing home isn’t like dropping them off at camp. You can’t just pick your…

Jesus. I’m glad they were rescued. That is awful.

This is the worst pic I’ve seen come across my FB feed. Fortunately, they have reportedly been rescued.

Screenshots from local news...

Oh, I hated school athletics. I had come to the same conclusion too—that I just “wasn’t a sports person”—but it turns out I’m really quite at home in a gym/fitness center environment. That sure doesn’t win medals and accolades, but if fitness and fun were the goals instead of competitiveness, perhaps we’d have fewer…

Yup, there’s way too much emphasis on some sports at the cost of the health of ALL kids. I sucked at sports & so no one really bothered to try to do something that would help make something fun about physical activity. I actually really enjoy things like biking, walking & yoga. I had to discover that as an adult since…

Hello birthday twin! We had a Dec 2 deadline in CA back when I was a kid (why Dec 2 and not Nov 31 or Dec 1 I do not know). This was long before the redshirting craze so my parents enrolled me in private school for k at age 4 3/4. Once I had passed kindergarten I was able to go to public school for first.

It’s definitely not a new problem, either. I was into a lot of athletics as a teenage girl (basketball, baseball, football, field hockey, track & field, etc.), and one of those coaches back then injured me for life. Like, thanks to the muscle tear I sustained under his “coaching” (I can’t call “running a child who…

I think Sourdoh meant that, if rich parents start their kid in, say, gymnastics at age 4, because they can afford it and have enrolled their young child in several extracurricular sports/activities, then when a poorer kid realises they love love LOVE gymnastics and are naturally talented at it, age 8, when they happen…

And the younger (rich) people start their kids, the less support there is for older kids since “they should be farther along”.

This is sports culture. I had a couch make me do drills until I was vomiting and ultimately passed out. I have played with broken bones (I once broke my wrist and didn’t even realise because the pain was just something we were told to work through). And in ballet (which I did for 15 years), this EXACT SAME THING WAS…

I have t say, living in NZ is great for this.