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AustinTink said:
We just drove down to the college campus to drop something off and there was not a mask in sight among the college kids. This will be bad.
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That is what I am afraid of. DD's university will require masks on campus, but that is just a few hours of the day. I truly do not believe most students will wear them to the grocery stores, etc. Why? Because when they went back this summer (those apartments are paid up for 12 months, with no summer break, so let's go party!) the COVID-19 cases skyrocketed. And that was with just a fraction of the students returning. When August rolls around and tens of thousands of them return, there will be another surge.
 
We were originally planning to have a huge pool/cookout party on July 3rd with small ground-level fireworks and sparklers like we always did. On July 4th we were going to drive the kids to sleepaway camp but that was canceled. We are instead going to have a cookout for just us and swim. We ordered some new pool toys as a treat and I ordered a special outfit for the dog. I miss the party though. We decorated with bunting and got to see people we hadn't seen all summer.
 
tcufrog said:
We were originally planning to have a huge pool/cookout party on July 3rd with small ground-level fireworks and sparklers like we always did. On July 4th we were going to drive the kids to sleepaway camp but that was canceled. We are instead going to have a cookout for just us and swim. We ordered some new pool toys as a treat and I ordered a special outfit for the dog. I miss the party though. We decorated with bunting and got to see people we hadn't seen all summer.
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We always did big July 4th party, as well. Those days are over for now.
 
tcufrog said:
What did y'all usually do at your party?
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Our neighborhood does a big fireworks display over the golf course, so we would have people over for that. We can see it perfectly from our backyard. It runs between 20-30 minutes depending on the year. We have food and games before and after the show. And lots of margaritas.
 
AustinTink said:
Well, Austin just got its first emergency text alert telling us to stay home. I doubt anyone will listen at this point. I've given up on my city.
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Just wondering, was that your first text alert? Here in our county we got our first text alert the other day. Kinda wondered if any other county had ever done it. It came in with the alert tone that we've only ever gotten for Amber alerts-first time for us.
 
Good gracious. It's really not going to be pretty here very soon.

We have 4 key workers going to Lake Charles to a casino for the long weekend. We're a doctor's office. Sadly, I can't do anything to keep them from going or change what they do when they get back, other than pay them to stay at home for 2 weeks, which I can't do since they make up 3/4 of my front desk staff and we're already short staffed.

On the TripAdvisor Texas forum there's all kinds of posts asking "I'm going to Austin/SA/Padre/etc. What's open and what can I do?" The replies range from "stay home!" to "pm me and I'll give you the scoop. Live free or die!"
 
Simba's Mom said:
Just wondering, was that your first text alert? Here in our county we got our first text alert the other day. Kinda wondered if any other county had ever done it. It came in with the alert tone that we've only ever gotten for Amber alerts-first time for us.
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Yes, it was our first alert. Houston has had many according to my family.
 
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