Posted on 07/05/2025 5:11:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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It was still storming. Thunder, lightning no electricity, pitch black except for the lightning. Hell on earth for these people. Happened in an instant.
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Exactly.
Sensors, interpretation, pre-planning and training would have had to have been done for an event that happens only once in 40 years. Not very likely.
where did reagan go to fill those slots on such a short notice?
Marine Corps was one group, I was an Air Traffic Controller, some of the more experienced got some good duty stations.
I was looking at the hydrological data for the South Fork of the Guadalupe River where the camp is. There is none listed on the NOAA website. A sensor was just added to the North Fork in 2018. There is a sensor at Hunt, Texas where the 2 forks converge. So we don’t really know the water level at the camp. There maybe historical measurements taken by eyeball, but the data isn’t on the NOAA website for the South Fork. The South Fork is only about 10 miles in length until it converges with the North Fork at Hunt. That is a lot water draining off those hillsides.
heads up Paladin2:
“where did reagan go to fill those slots on such a short notice”
And the answer is?
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from Jolla:
where did reagan go to fill those slots on such a short notice?
Marine Corps was one group, I was an Air Traffic Controller, some of the more experienced got some good duty stations.
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thanx for adding the color Jolla.
How can anyone predict almost a foot of rain falling in such a short tim This is not on the weather service. Maybe on Texas warning systems and communications, but not DOGE.
I heard there are few towers near there and a lack of towers in Texas, generally speaking. Reception very poor. Local officials should have been on the ball.
I’ve yet to see anything made better by an excess of government employees.
NO!
What kind of idiocy and disturbed thinking came up with this premise? The supporters of former government employee parasites has taken a new low.
Which has NOTHING to do with the state itself.
The geography of the US is what allows for those kinds of events to happen in that area.
And what happened was weather, not climate.
Governors from fire and quake prone states like CA and other severe weather pattern states can take a page out of DeSantis’ book. The latter (no, was not my choice for President) but has done an exemplary job hurricane after hurricane…and even his handling of Covid* should he noted as well.
He knows how to prepare budgets, mobilize his state and resources at every level and every stage (including navigating around the deadweight federal hindrances like FEMA) and the recovery is so streamlined due to thorough planning that he ends up having “leftover” contingencies and forces that get sent out to other states to aid in THEIR recovery.
* Power outages are a personal expertise of DeSantis due to his having worked as an electrician’s assistant when young.
Meanwhile Newsom is sitting pretty as CA year after year, fire after fire, as forests are overgrown, hazardous electrical infrastructure languishes and ages, water reserves are drained, fire hydrants are empty, you get the drift…
And you see some of these patterns at work in Texas as well. For starters, apparently on the local level: people thought it’d be too expensive to install a Siren flood warning system among the river…and to just rely on text message instead even though cell phone service is spotty in parts of hill country.
We have very poor cell coverage here in NH and VT, and no doubt most of ME.
Geography is a large part of it, along with population density.
WOW I envy you! You live in the Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine area?!
(but yes the lack of density can also be a risk.)
This is relevant to note as a case study:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/15/texas-power-grid-winter-storm-2021/
NH.
This area is NOT the flooded swamps and flat mud near the Bayous of east Texas and the Big Thicket. The Texas Hill Country has 2 inches of clay (caliche) over bare rock, with elevation changing every three feet into another gully or ravine.
You can only grow scattered cedar trees and low brush, barely enough water most years to even grow a few Johnson grass (weeds) between the brush and catii.
No, if anyone is responsible it’s the citizens of that community that balked at the cost of a early warning system with sirens like they have for tornadoes.
Agreed. It’s a fair question. But the answer is already known: NO
The NWS issued a flash flood WARNING, not ‘watch’, two hours before. That’s their job and they did it.
The people let go were primarily tasked with faking data to further the climate alarmist scam.
That’s a very good point. The out-of-towners have no idea what the local conditions can be or what precautions might be in order. I’m just heartbroken about those girls. Damn.
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