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On 12 Jul 2025, Dumb-assed Rudy <kylgroatt@gmail.com> posted some lies:%CwcQ.119151$Z6Oc.98553@fx41.iad:

All that concern about warning systems seemed to fade over the next

Rudy's cherry picking removed, some of what he left out added.

County zeroes in on river safety in 2016
Cary Burgess, a local meteorologist whose weather reports can be found
in the Kerrville Daily Times or heard on Hill Country radio stations,
has noticed the construction all along the Guadalupe for the better part
of the last decade.

More Texans and out-of-state residents have been discovering the river’s pristine waters lined with bald cypress trees, a long-time draw for
camping, hiking and kayaking, and they have been coming in droves to
build more homes and businesses along the water’s edge. If any of the newcomers were familiar with the last deadly flood in 1987 that killed
10 evacuating teenagers, they found the river’s threat easy to dismiss.

“They’ve been building up and building up and building up and doing more and more projects along the river that were getting dangerous,” Burgess recalls. “And people are building on this river, my gosh, they don't
even know what this river's capable of.”

By the time the 1987 flood hit, the county had grown to about 35,000
people. Today, there are about 53,000 people living in Kerr County.

In 2016, Kerr County commissioners already knew they were getting
outpaced by neighboring, rapidly growing counties on installing better
flood warning systems and were looking for ways to pull ahead.

During a March 28 meeting that year, they said as much.

“Even though this is probably one of the highest flood-prone regions in
the entire state where a lot of people are involved, their systems are
state of the art,” Commissioner Tom Moser said then. He discussed how
other counties like Comal had moved to sirens and more modern flood
warning systems.

“And the current one that we have, it will give – all it does is
flashing light,” explained W.B. “Dub” Thomas, the county’s emergency management coordinator. “I mean all – that's all you get at river
crossings or wherever they're located at.”

Kerr County already had signed on with a company that allowed its
residents to opt in and get a CodeRED alert about dangerous weather
conditions. But Thomas urged the commissioners court to strive for
something more. Cell service along the headwaters of the Guadalupe near
Hunt was spotty in the western half of Kerr County, making a redundant
system of alerts even more necessary.

“I think we need a system that can be operated or controlled by a
centralized location where – whether it's the Sheriff's communication personnel, myself or whatever, and it's just a redundant system that
will complement what we currently have,” Thomas said that year.

By the next year, officials had sent off its application for a $731,413
grant to FEMA to help bring $976,000 worth of flood warning upgrades,
including 10 high water detection systems without flashers, 20 gauges,
possible outdoor sirens, and more.

“The purpose of this project is to provide Kerr County with a flood
warning system,” the county wrote in its application. “The System will
be utilized for mass notification to citizens about high water levels
and flooding conditions throughout Kerr County.”

But the Texas Division of Emergency Management, which oversees billions
of FEMA dollars designed to prevent disasters, denied the application
because they didn’t have a current hazard mitigation plan. They
resubmitted it, news outlets reported, but by then, priority was given
to counties that had suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-commissioners -flooding-warning/

I hope to *fuck* that some of those shit-minded people bullshitting
about "most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the
White House" lost family members in the floods, and I hope more bad
shit happens to them. They deserve it.

Considering the formerly living people who moved in there and built were out-of-state Bible-toting tranny-supporting Democrats, your observations
and wishes are appropriate.

Fixed your subject too.

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