This comes on the heels of the first public hearing over last summer's Fourth of July floods that killed more than 100 people across the Hill Country, including 27 girls at Camp Mystic.
The thing that absolutely infuriates me about this is that [?one of the fire chiefs? ?the county emergency manager? Someone] had been advocating for like 20 years to get a flood warning system in place, but it would have cost about a million dollars - less than $20 per person in the county. Except the county residents repeatedly refused to pay for it. Then the county got a bunch of pandemic funds which they could’ve spent on emergency infrastructure upgrades, but they decided to spend it on other stuff. And now they want the state of Texas to pay for it. Pay for your own damn infrastructure, assholes, and stop killing your kids.
my county (in MD and already very wealthy) was offered funds for warning devices, and jumped on it. The first responders and emergency planners LOVE LOVE LOVE these things. They can get up to another hour’s notice of rising water levels and pre-stage equipment or close roads or start evacuating people.
The thing that absolutely infuriates me about this is that [?one of the fire chiefs? ?the county emergency manager? Someone] had been advocating for like 20 years to get a flood warning system in place, but it would have cost about a million dollars - less than $20 per person in the county. Except the county residents repeatedly refused to pay for it. Then the county got a bunch of pandemic funds which they could’ve spent on emergency infrastructure upgrades, but they decided to spend it on other stuff. And now they want the state of Texas to pay for it. Pay for your own damn infrastructure, assholes, and stop killing your kids.
my county (in MD and already very wealthy) was offered funds for warning devices, and jumped on it. The first responders and emergency planners LOVE LOVE LOVE these things. They can get up to another hour’s notice of rising water levels and pre-stage equipment or close roads or start evacuating people.