No FEMA. Severe Central Texas flooding
- Thread starter easy_b
- Start date
Central Texas and the TexasHill Country topography has a thin layer of top soil with rocks and boulders under. That area of Texas is normally pretty dry so the ground doesn't hold much water so all they have are rivers around. All them rivers drain to the Gulf of Mexico which are not close to Central Texas.
They have had way above normal rainfall this summer and this week they got hit again. 10 inches of rain in a couple hours will do damage anywhere, especially a place that doesn't get that type of rainfall.
You could have the best drainage system, but it wouldn't drain fast enough with a storm dropping heavy rainfall rates.
Last edited:
People always tell me I overvalue others and undervalue myself, it's a issue I had since I was.
my fault.
When money and power become all that is important, a person will only learn enough to acquire those things.
Quiet when they can/t blame Dei or woke policies
Always an excuse to cover up the poor planning.
R.I.P. to the victims, I can't imagine the horror in sending my kids to a summer camp and seeing this happen.
People in Texas (and elsewhere) are gonna get mad when folks (on the Left) talk about the politics that led to this tragedy but it needs to be said and heard.
Whether you believe in karma, causality or not, I feel like the actions by those in power in Texas (and in Washington) had an effect.
Just like how the Egyptians suffered through the plagues due to Pharaoh's hardened heart in not freeing the Israelites in the Book of Exodus, people in Texas and other Red States are going to suffer due to the actions of the Republicans they support.
I'm not really religious but I do believe in God, and I believe in the saying "God don't like ugly."
People in Texas (and elsewhere) are gonna get mad when folks (on the Left) talk about the politics that led to this tragedy but it needs to be said and heard.
Whether you believe in karma, causality or not, I feel like the actions by those in power in Texas (and in Washington) had an effect.
Just like how the Egyptians suffered through the plagues due to Pharaoh's hardened heart in not freeing the Israelites in the Book of Exodus, people in Texas and other Red States are going to suffer due to the actions of the Republicans they support.
I'm not really religious but I do believe in God, and I believe in the saying "God don't like ugly."
The flood warnings had been there since Thursday night. The only thing they got wrong was the amount of rain (5-7 inches predicted then) but that also can be put on budget cuts because they couldn't do 3 soundings that would have given them more information.
This is what happens when you cut people and expect AI to do their job, when in reality they were physically gathering information that enabled the accurate prediction in the first place. Expect to see this more and more over the coming years, especially as people learn to defer to AI for everything instead of checking it's prediction to see if it was actually sound.
That’s Infrastructure spending you are talking about.
The GOP is against Infrastructure spending, we saw how the opposed Biden’s Infrastructure Bill.
I hate to say it, but this is only the beginning. I'm in Houston, and the Houston-Galveston office of the National Weather Service is only operating at about 40% below normal efficiency. They simply don't have the staffing or the technological resources to provide proper forecasting anymore, and hurricane season has just started down here. You literally have to check updated forecasts every hour, all through every day now to have a chance at knowing whether rain is coming, and still that isn't enough. Twice this week, I've been caught in really heavy downpours, even though the forecasts for both days were for sunny, dry, rain-free conditions. I've been living in this area for nearly 20 years, and I've never seen this before. These Republicans are making hurricanes no different than earthquakes - you won't know they are coming until you're in the middle of it, and by then it will be way too late. People are going to die in larger and larger numbers in this state, and I'm making arrangements to get out of here as soon as I possibly can.
It was TURNED into a Third World Country ... NEW
WORLD ORDER
3rd World Country with Nukes…
it will take at least 20+ years or more to recover from this administrations policies maybe never if we keep voting people like abbot and frump in office. i dont care what party you are from you should still vote for whats right and not to please your party or some orange asshole
Typical MaGA
Yeah, MAGA is a death cult of ignorance just like White Supremacy in general.....
