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  • Re: Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning Sys

    From Gronk@21:1/5 to Scout on Wed Jul 16 00:41:48 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.democrats.d, or.politics

    Scout wrote:
    Kerr County had discussed buying such things as water gauges and sirens
    after previous flood disasters. But as with many rural Texas counties,
    cost was an issue.

    By Jesus Jiménez, Margarita Birnbaum, Danny Hakim and Mike Baker

    Published July 6, 2025 | Updated July 7, 2025, 10:37 a.m. ET

    Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the
    Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed
    to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe
    River.

    A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with
    children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned
    those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

    But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools.
    “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is
    not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.

    In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged
    through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some
    residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

    Officials in red shithole states *always* do the wrong thing.

    Those families would pay anything now to have
    their kids back...

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  • From chine.bleu@21:1/5 to Gronk on Wed Jul 16 00:43:49 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.democrats.d, or.politics

    Gronk wrote:
    A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with
    children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a
    word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp
    leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

    But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system
    with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications
    tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we
    don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this
    whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County
    commissioner at the time.

    In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged
    through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding
    monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some
    residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

    Officials in red shithole states *always* do the wrong thing.

    Those families would pay anything now to have
    their kids back...

    Why cannot the county get a grant from the state?

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