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Over a dozen vessels swamped, capsized, and sank during a Trump boat parade on Lake Travis near Austin, Texas on Saturday.
Hundreds of people, dressed in their finest American flag swim trunks and bikinis, turned out for the event, which resulted in several boats resting at the bottom of the lake.
Lake Travis Trump boat parade…. pic.twitter.com/dPmxooX30p
— BlackJack! (@champagneprobLG) September 5, 2020
The Statesman reports:
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The Travis County sheriff’s office said it received 15 distress calls about boats taking on water, stalled engines, capsized boats and boats sinking. The sheriff’s office also received three additional reports of boats taking on water from a local towing company, according to a news release Sunday. Three boats were towed out and two remain submerged, the sheriff’s office said.
Rough waters on Lake Travis as hundreds of boats in Trump boat parade. Several swaamped. #Statesman @bobphoto pic.twitter.com/DPpKKhgljF
— bobphoto (@bobphoto) September 5, 2020
The parade kicked off Saturday afternoon around noon. The water was calm, but because people were carelessly tearing around in their motor boats, several large wakes were created, making the water choppy and unsafe.
“Weather conditions on Lake Travis were calm,” the sheriff’s office, which received the first distress call around 12:15 p.m., said in a news release.
“When the large number of boats began moving together, the wakes generated large waves in areas where participating boats were dense.”
Poseidon when he saw the boat parade for trump pic.twitter.com/cNobcQ3gCV
— Tall Dark and Gay (@jumbo_colombo) September 6, 2020
No injuries were reported. But this isn’t the first time a Trump boat parade has resulted in a vessel sinking. Just a couple of weeks ago, a parade in Portland, Oregon sank a small boat on the Willamette River.
Related: This sinking boat at a Trump boat parade is another perfect metaphor for 2020
Cam
Fair to say, everything associated with Trump fails.
Also, Republicans ALWAYS scream about rules and regulations and how we need to get rid of them. Hey geniuses, guess what, you broke the “no Wake” rules and guess what happened?
Mister P
Yeah. Pull those boats up by their bootstraps.
WSnyder
This is NOTHING compared to the sinking of the Trumptanic in November. Better still, will be the utter lack of lifeboats for McConnell and the rest of the GOP.
dhmonarch89
Lake Travis is outside Austin- one of the few Liberal bastions in Texas- SAD to see that many Trumpers there.
Liquid Silver
They can’t boat by mail. Doesn’t that lead to massive fraud? 🙂
Larry
Lake Travis is an Austin owned city park that is also nudist.
Tim
I think you really mean Hippie Hollow Park on Lake Travis. Lake Travis is one of several Highland Lakes along the Colorado River. It’s located in NW Travis County, and Austin City proper does touch some eastern portions of the lake. But the lake, being a flood control reservoir along a windy river, is ~64 miles long, and has over 270 mi. of shoreline spanning at least two counties. Hippie Hollow is, supposedly, the only legally established public nude beach in Texas, and is a Travis County park. The park’s shoreline is just under 1 mi. But oh, how we wish all of Lake Travis were clothing optional. It would make our party barges and boat cruising a lot more fun.
NateOcean
(stop me if you’ve heard this one before)
Q: What do you call 100 Trump supporters at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start!
exgoalie
Hillary was right and these trumpers prove they’re deplorable.. like their “stable genius” orange buffoon. Bunch of assholes.
nm4047
no one drowned so other than a good chuckle it still means another voter for Trump & they will vote unlike many of the liberals that are outrage but don’t vote because it’s not Bernie or whomever so I’m not going to vote.