How many children died in all of the CA fires?
Have you lambasted CA and YOUR Gov for the ineptitude that caused all of those deaths?
Have you laid out exactly what needs to be done to prevent further atrocities???
This was a catastrophic and horrific event ... for these families and for Texas.
Go fix your own state before chiding another.
As with Cile’s family ... hundreds of other Texas families ... generations attended camps, over the decades, at Camp Mystic.
Give it a rest, Condo.
Californian conservatives do not have tribalist goggles and PRIDE blinding us to our government’s failures because all our leaders are so beyond left-leaning and incompetent, it’s far easier to point out their failings.
CHRISTIANS need to be critical including of leaders who identify with us on most things politically otherwise. There was a lot of corruption at play in Texas. A lot of exposure of misdeeds and misplaced priorities. And the consequences are being reaped.
As far as laying out what needs to be done:
“Yet periodic attempts to adopt a more modern flood-monitoring system, including one with warning sirens that might have alerted campers last week, repeatedly failed to gain traction – stalled by low budgets, some local opposition and a lack of state support.” - Curt Devine & Casey Tolan
And I posted the bullet points from Florida’s budget as a good list of priorities to follow for Emergency Preparedness and Extreme Weather:
$505 million and 15 FTE are provided to the Division of Emergency Management in the current year to ensure Florida stands ready to enforce President Trump’s Illegal Immigration policies.
$1.24 billion in federal and state funding so that Florida communities and the state can respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies and mitigate against future disasters or emergencies.
$43 million for the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Swift Current Program to reduce or eliminate repetitive flood damage to buildings insured through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to rebuild more flood-resistant buildings.
$8.2 million for the continued design, development, testing and application of the Division of Emergency Management Enterprise Solution (DEMES), a state-of-the-art information technology platform that provides seamless and expedited processing of FDEM’s emergency response and everyday business activities.
$4 million for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program to enhance and expand the ability for research-supported, proactive investment in community resilience.
$3.6 million for the continued maintenance and advancement of information technology utilized by the State Emergency Operations Center to efficiently coordinate and deploy resources when responding to an emergency.
$3.2 million to support the sustainment of the Statewide WebEOC initiative, a technological solution that allows counties, local municipalities and other entities to coordinate and respond to emergencies impacting Florida.
https://www.floridadisaster.org/news-media/news/20250204/