RIP to the victims and solace and prayers to their families.
Flame away.
Texas dropped the ball — locally and statewide— and already has in other disasters. They have a lot of blind spots infrastructurally and disaster preparedness wise, as many states do. But TX in particular expends all their energy on things like corporate oil and energy deals, and not on the day to day well being of communities. Sorry it’s just the facts.
Regardless of what you think of him, DeSantis has managed Florida’s precarious hurricane vulnerabilities beautifully and ends up sending HIS resources to other states when THEY’RE in need.
Just turn the Guadalupe into a concrete ditch like Los Angeles did to the Los Angeles River.
That will make it safe.
Safety first.
Florida’s Budget for the Year in this area:
$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/
Losing your child is the biggest punch in the nose that life can offer. There is just no getting over such a tragedy. God bless those children who were taken, their parents and their families and all of those who searched so hard to find them.
Well, this IS ABC ‘news’ reporting!
If someone isn’t suffering or crying or bleeding or being blown away in a storm or raging at god, then they won’t get the ratings. ;)
This woman has every right to rail against Life right now. I would never deny her that.
Bad Things happen to Good People every day of the week. It’s always much worse when innocent little kids are the victims. :(
There are surefire and inexpensive ways to monitor river gpm, way up river, mostly red tape to get it done.
Lots of money generated on the Guad. Lots.
What’s a few deaths every so.e odd years? /s
It’s really heartbreaking. There’s human failing here, of course. But the big lesson is: nature doesn’t care about you, even if you are the most adorable child in the world. That is always scary to realize.
Organizing, getting set up for a costly lawsuit. Wearing nice commercially produced campaign buttons. You can hear the personal injury lawyers’ voices echoed in the phrases used by the testifiers.
Organizing, getting set up for a costly lawsuit. Wearing nice commercially produced campaign buttons. You can hear the personal injury lawyers’ voices echoed in the phrases used by the testifiers.