Posted on 07/05/2025 5:11:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Peruse through the rest of the thread. Flash floods are common in the area, and the Texas government hasn’t done their part to prepare or mitigate the looming threat. There are manmade measures that can be taken…Installing siren alerts along the river, restoring forests to act as buffers, etc…
Unfortunately many people don’t have cell service in this part of hill country. And apparently Sirens were deliberately voted against being installed.
To clarify, this is not on the National Weather Service to do…but Texas.
I’m in Texas, and I have gotten the warnings. Right now, the weather app in my phone says that there is a flood watch until 1 pm Sunday, July 6. Earlier today, I received an emergency alert on my phone about flash flood conditions.
I’ve not noticed that the area around Kerrville, where the drownings happened, has inadequate cell coverage. True, I don’t go that way often... but I assume they would have received warnings, as well.
You think it takes six hundred people to issue a flash flood warning?
Law Not in effect until October 2025.
It is a legitimate question. But based on the responses I’ve seen from people who are probably a lot more familiar with the situation than I am, it doesn’t appear the cuts had an impact on the response. But it’s absolutely a fair question.
Actually - the “sensor” could be as simple as an Alka Seltzer wafer. I placed them in the basement in between two strips of a beer can and wired to a battery hooked to a buzzer. The wafer dissolves in the flooded basement (water leak) and the alarm goes off! Luckily my patches to the old galvanized pipes lasted until I got the plastic pipes in.
What garbage. The 2015 Wimberley flash flood killed a bunch of people too. Where was the sainted NWS then? Oh, and guess who was president in 2015?
sigh. it’s not the Weather service but TX can afford to do better to prepare for these scenarios.
I just watched a drone flyover of the camp. The camp is situated on a hillside with cabins and barracks that extend down towards the river. I am guessing a couple hundred girls or so were in the flood zone. If they would have had a warning, higher ground was not that far away..
Ha, my phone does texts and calls. Everything else is my ol’ laptop. :-D
That’s all the warning the government needs to give you, but you need the infrastructure in order to give those kinds of warnings.
Kids are dead, sir.
I’m not such an ideologue, if kids are going to die that I’m going to stick with my ideology.
I don’t think that it goes against my libertarian sensibilities to have the infrastructure to allow people to know when they might be at risk of disaster. Even just a text message.
I do think the adults erred if they didn’t have somebody who took the nightshift in order to be in position to be aware of any possible disasters.
Kristi Noem, at a conference, today, with Governor Abbott, said that the U.S. Weather Service is using very antiquated equipment. It cannot detect weather changes that would have gave the alarm that something was happening that was very deadly.
I live in Kerr County. As to an alert/siren system I vaguely remember that coming up here years ago. It was likely in the nineties.
It was more about low water crossings than the river, IIRC. I think some company set up some sample ones. Here in Kerrville/Kerr County they used to let citizens vote on these things. Now, even if citizens vote no, our City Council/County Commissioners wait awhile, and then do whatever they want.
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Good post.
I disagree with some of the DOGE cuts, such as the cuts to NWS.
But NWS sent out warnings. Unfortunately, most people don’t hear or pay much attention to cell phone text warnings in the middle of the night.
But a loud siren would get everyone’s attention.
Also, maybe children’s summer camps shouldn’t be located in a spot known as “Flash Flood Alley,” a place where other lives have been taken by floods.
This is a terrible tragedy.
You’re really pushing this. Article after article.
Transparent agenda
Thank you. Saved me some keyboarding.
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