No. The weather service issued a warning. Texas refuses to put any monitoring on the state of the river upstream, and whatever warnings they do send out is with a trendy new text message on the cell phone. They have moved away from the old familiar siren warning.
So if you’re in one of the countless cell phone dead areas in the hill country, or a little kid asleep at summer camp, or someone who has the temerity not to sleep with their cell phone, you’re kind of out of luck.
This is piss poor planning from the emergency people in the state of Texas regarding a river well known for flash floods.
A simple seltzer located at a couple of points up the river and reporting flash flood in real time, combined with an audible warning could’ve saved countless lives. This isn’t on the weather service.
Thanks you just answered my question in post 4. Re: Texas state government and disaster preparedness.
Perhaps finding a better location for a children’s camp than a flood prone area?
Sensor…. Not seltzer!
Or perhaps the people responsible for the children should watch/listen to weather reports and understand the terrain, hazards and possible outcomes and avoid the area and come another time?
This is piss poor planning from the emergency people in the state of Texas regarding a river well known for flash floods.
A simple seltzer located at a couple of points up the river and reporting flash flood in real time, combined with an audible warning could’ve saved countless lives. This isn’t on the weather service.
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No warning plan and escape plan in place, from what I can tell. The most dangerous flash flood would occur from 3-5 am for sure.
No training for this type emergency. Very sad.
All our bureaucracies are filled with woke idiots.
When Almeda took my community, the county emergency “ woman” decided to not warn us..all senior citizens in mobile home parks... because we are old and it “might” confuse us.
We were never evacuated.
We were never warned.
I ran house to house trying to get people to leave instead of saving my belongings.
It’s a miracle all of us didn’t die.
And that stupid hag still has her job!