People who lost everything describe leaving homes and express anger at poor preparedness and officials who seemed to shirk responsibility
As Texas marshals a formidable response to the flash floods that have already killed dozens, questions are now being posed about warnings that were given on Thursday and early Friday about the severity of the approaching storm and the co-ordination between local officials and the National Weather Service.
New flood alerts were issued for Texas “hill country” on Sunday, prompting rescue services to suspend the search for missing people, including at least 11 from Camp Mystic, the summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River hard hit by Friday’s flash flood.
At an early evening press briefing, Kerr county authorities said they were suspending the search and evacuating first responders from the river valley. They confirmed that 68 had died there, including 28 children. Not all have been identified, with officials still examining the bodies of 18 adults and 10 children.
This is what happens when vital weather data is kept from forecasters and the weather service gets its funding shredded
No, warnings were sent out by forecasters. It was hours before officials passed the word along.
The officials who let people die are saying it’s because funding was cut. Trump cut funding, so that’s why they waited 4 hours before posting the warnings to Facebook? Ok.
Yes but NO ONE could have PREDICTED that
You could say a lack of funds wasn’t in the… forecast.
Harumph. That was because something something Biden and “old technology”, obvs.
Team Taco is only trying to make things more “efficient” and get rid of the (repeat after me, in a mindless drone), “waste, fraud, and abuse”! Team Taco is only trying to clean up the mess of the Biden administration who was letting this go on for far too long and was the worst President in history with the worst economy ever [1], yadda yadda. We should all be thanking Taco right now for his glorious plans for our future…
[1] Which Taco is going to keep repeating forever even if we could see the economic data ourselves under Biden. It’s about repeating the big lie over and over and over. Sadly, many on the left help him in this…
saving so much damn $$$ you’ll be sick of saving so much damn $$$…