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The Texas Disaster

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 8:29 AM

Texas flooding rescue effort takes grimmest turn yet as death toll soars past 100
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 5:21 PM

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Kerr County asked Texas to help pay for a flood warning system for 8 years. Can it happen now?

By Neena Satija, Keri Blakinger | July 8, 2025 4:09 p.m.

https://tinyurl.com/mpw8x579 (Houston Chronicle URL)

Nearly a decade before catastrophic flash flooding killed at least 94 people in Kerr County, including 30 children, several local officials were hard at work convincing their peers to buy into a new early flood warning system.

The once “state of the art” program installed along the Guadalupe River back in the 1980s was in desperate need of an upgrade, they argued. It wasn’t good enough for Kerr County, which sits at the heart of “flash flood alley,” a portion of the Texas Hill Country whose climate and terrain make it uniquely susceptible to sudden and catastrophic floods.

“I’m not trying to put a dollar on a life or a flood, but the fact of the matter [is] floods do happen, and we need to be prepared for them,” then-Kerr County Commissioner Bob Reeves noted during a series of public meetings that began in 2016. And, his former colleague Tom Moser pointed out, “We also have more summer camps than anybody else along the Guadalupe River.”

The wide-ranging discussions back then — captured in transcripts archived online — proved to be a chilling precursor to the disaster that unfolded early on July 4. That’s when a slow-moving, massive rainstorm caused the Guadalupe River to rise by 22 feet in just three hours, catching those living and camping on its banks off-guard in the middle of the night.

But the new warning system never became reality. Though local officials agreed to spend $50,000 on an engineering study, which made specific recommendations for such a project in 2016, they never secured the $1 million they estimated would be needed to implement it – despite asking for help from state officials at least three separate times.

“We never were successful in getting that funding, or putting the matching funding with it to do anything,” said Moser, who retired in 2021, in a phone interview. He said he hopes the county can “go back to the drawing board on this, and hopefully it’ll be a model that could be used all over the United States.”

In 2017, Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority asked the state to give them federal disaster relief dollars, but their application was denied. They tried a second time after Hurricane Harvey, when more federal funds became available and Gov. Greg Abbott encouraged local entities to submit applications. They were rejected again.

Both applications would have been handled by the Texas Department of Emergency Management, whose spokesman, Wes Rapaport, said the agency could not immediately respond to specific questions because “we are in the middle of ongoing response operations.”

The governor’s office did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Abbott said in a news conference that flood response will be handled during the state’s upcoming legislative session, which starts on Monday, July 21.

The river authority, UGRA, also applied for state funding through the Texas Water Development Board. But the agency only agreed to chip in 5% of the estimated $1 million cost, according to documents from the river authority and the water board. The remaining price tag was too steep for Kerr County, whose annual budget in 2016 was about $30 million. UGRA has far fewer resources; last fall, the authority approved spending about $2.3 million.

“At that point we sort of dropped it,” said William Rector, president of the board of UGRA, which has supported the effort for years and paid for a portion of the 2016 study. Abbott appointed Rector to the board in 2016 and named him president two years ago.

In response to questions about why the river authority didn’t get more money to fund the project, the Texas Water Development Board said it was looking into the matter and would respond “as soon as possible.”

In an interview with Fox News on Monday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the county should have had siren warning systems along the river and that “the state needs to step up and pay.” He added that “we need to have these in place by the next summer,” though local officials had ultimately decided against adding sirens to their proposed flood warning system.

"The governor and I talked this morning at length about it, and he said, 'we're just gonna do it'," said Patrick.

In recent days, other local officials have bristled at the suggestion that a warning system could have made a difference, pointing out that even national weather forecasters underestimated how much rain could fall in such a short period of time. Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s highest-ranking elected official, told reporters over the weekend that “nobody saw this coming.”

Phil Bedient, who has spent decades designing flood protection and prediction systems as director of Rice University’s SSPEED Center, disagreed.

“We have radar, and we have cell phones, and we have sirens, and those three things together can be used to create a pretty good system,” he said. “It’s hundreds of thousands of dollars, but what’s that versus 80 or 100 people dying in a flash flood?”

Rector said UGRA is continuing to move forward with a flood warning system plan. Documents show the river authority agreed to pay an environmental firm about $73,000 to once again assess what new infrastructure Kerr County might need to implement an early flood warning system – though that’s likely a tiny fraction of the total cost of putting one in place.

“This storm has told us we just can’t wait anymore,” he said.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 5:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Could have paid for it. Too busy giving that money to Democrat illegal invaders though.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 9:03 PM

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Could have paid for it. Too busy giving that money to Democrat illegal invaders though.

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Kerr County is run by Trumptards. Texas Trumptards are the stingiest and most selfish semi-humans in America. If each Trumptard had donated $10 for the flood warning system, those hundred people won't had died, but $10 is a million times more valuable to a Trumptard than saving a hundred from death.

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Thursday, July 10, 2025 6:56 AM

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Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely (because Trumptards’ stinginess and stupidity killed those kids)

When it comes to disasters, accountability delayed is accountability denied

By Paul Krugman | Jul 10, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/should-we-politicize-the-texas-floo
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Whenever natural disaster — like the flash flood that just killed large numbers of people, many of them children, in Texas — strikes, we can count on a quick response from officials, both federal and state, who arguably could or should have done something to avert or minimize the disaster. Namely, there will be self-righteous denunciations of anyone trying to assign responsibility: “Now is not the time to politicize this tragedy.”

In fact, now is exactly the time to put officials on the spot and ask how much responsibility they bear for the horror. Because the reality of America today is that if we don’t make an issue of how this happened within the next few days, nothing will be learned and nothing will change.

OK, you could make a case for putting off hard questions if you believed two things. First, you would have to believe that the relevant officials are well-intentioned and open-minded, that they will make a good faith effort to learn from the disaster. Second, you would have to believe that the news media will stay on the story, as opposed to quickly dropping it in favor of more pressing topics like Zohran Mandami’s college application.

And you might believe these two things if you’ve spent the past 40 years in suspended animation.

The reality is that the people now on the spot are right-wing hard-liners, who are the opposite of open-minded. Their mindset was perfectly captured by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who denounced efforts to politicize the disaster, then suggested that the problem may be that we have too many federal bureaucrats.

It also more or less goes without saying that there’s massive hypocrisy involved. Trump officials are reacting with rage to any suggestion that their policies may have contributed to the Texas disaster, but Trump was quick to make completely false attacks on the Biden administration’s responses to natural disasters on its watch.

So let me offer some suggestions about the lesson we should be learning from the Texas tragedy.

The specifics are still coming into focus. We know that thanks to payroll cuts, the National Weather Service was short-staffed. Its forecasting was fine, but the official in charge of “warning coordination” — basically, getting the message from the forecasts to the relevant local officials — had taken the DOGE buyout and hadn’t been replaced.

We also know that local officials had been told repeatedly over the years that the affected area needed a better warning system, including sirens, but refused to raise taxes to pay for it and were denied a grant from the state.

We’ll probably learn more about failures to prepare for floods in a river plain that was known to present major risks, and perhaps about the failures in officials’ real-time response. We may never know how many lives might have been saved if Elon Musk hadn’t taken his chainsaw to the National Weather Service or if local officials had been more responsible. But we don’t need specific numbers to understand that this kind of tragedy is only to be expected after politicians have spent decades denigrating government and degrading its effectiveness.

There was a crucial turning point in both attitudes toward government and the resources devoted to public goods — basically, goods we can’t expect the private sector to provide, like, say, weather prediction and flood protection — in 1980. That was when Ronald Reagan, who insisted that government is always the problem, never the solution, took office, and this attitude has been pervasive in U.S. politics ever since.

Overall government spending continued to rise despite political hostility, because federal civilian spending is dominated by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the combination of an aging population with rising health care costs made these programs ever more expensive. But other forms of government spending were cut back sharply under Reagan, and much of our government was understaffed and underfunded, in effect held together with paper clips and rubber bands, even before Elon Musk came along with his chainsaw.

Anyone who has worked in American government or has friends there knows how much of a shoestring operation it has become. Here’s one measure, nondefense discretionary spending as a percentage of GDP, which bumped up briefly after the 2008 financial crisis and Covid, but has remained low and gradually declining otherwise:

Source: Congressional Budget Office

In a way, Musk’s disastrous attempt to eliminate government waste proved that the government is in fact underfunded. He assumed that the budget was full of fat that could be cut away without doing any harm but immediately found himself cutting deep into muscle. As the Washington Post reported,

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

So what is a thinly stretched government, asked to do too much with too little, going to do? It’s going to make more mistakes than it would if it had adequate resources. Mistakes will always happen, of course, and it may be impossible to prove that any given mistake was the result of reduced spending and staffing. But there will be more and bigger mistakes than would have happened if anti-government ideology hadn’t taken its toll.

Actually, the relationship between under-resourced government and natural disasters is a lot like the relationship between climate change and such disasters. You can’t prove that climate change “caused” any particular disaster — extreme weather and hundred-year floods have always happened. At most you can say that a warming planet made that disaster more likely. But climate change is raising the risks of disaster — a fact acknowledged by the insurance industry, whatever politicians may say.

Which brings us back to why we absolutely should politicize the tragedy in Texas. It illustrates the kind of disaster that will happen with increasing frequency if we keep depriving government of the resources and respect it needs to do its job.

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Thursday, July 10, 2025 2:24 PM

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Democrats Should Say Who’s Really to Blame for the Flooding in Texas

Republican lawmakers have Texan children’s blood on their hands. Democrats shouldn’t let anyone forget it.

In just 45 minutes, early Friday morning, intense rain caused sections of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas to rise by nearly 26 feet. Four months’ worth of rain dropped within hours. By late Monday afternoon, more than 100 people had been confirmed dead, including more than two dozen campers and counselors at a riverside Christian summer camp. As the search for victims and survivors continues, more heavy rain is expected this week.

When a tragedy of such proportions occurs, the temptation to point fingers is strong. Some Republican officials in Texas have found their scapegoat in the National Weather Service, which they’ve accused of failing to predict the storm’s full intensity. They’ve got the wrong guys; despite grappling with deep cuts imposed by the Trump administration, the NWS put out early and increasingly urgent warnings about the coming deluge. There’s plenty of blame to go around, though. Democrats, accordingly, should do a lot more than merely call for investigations into how White House attacks on the NWS might have hampered preparedness efforts. They should connect the dots, again and again, between Republican policy and its lethal consequences. Democrats should hammer Republicans not just for undermining Texas’s and America’s disaster preparedness and response infrastructure but for having spent decades blocking efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. GOP lawmakers have Texan children’s blood on their hands. The more say that the Republican Party has over governing a climate-changed world, the more people will die.

More at https://newrepublic.com/article/197662/democrats-should-say-who-really
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Thursday, July 10, 2025 9:32 PM

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Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely (because Trumptards’ stinginess and stupidity killed those kids)

And nobody is listening to any of you.

Awwwwwww...

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Friday, July 11, 2025 2:57 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

102 people died in the Lahaina Hawaii fire. The governor is a Democrat, both Senators are Democrats and the mayor was a Democrat.

The Camp Fire in California burned more than 150,000 acres and killed 85 people. The governor was Democrat and Butte County leans Democrat.

Not to mention the recent and very expensive LA fire: Democrat "woke" mayor, Democrat governor (county supervisors are nonpartisan but LA voters are overwhelmingly Democrat).

The point is, lack of foresight is a non-partisan issue.

If the flood disaster are "Trumptard's" fault, the fires and deaths are "libtard's" fault.

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Friday, July 11, 2025 2:17 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
102 people died in the Lahaina Hawaii fire. The governor is a Democrat, both Senators are Democrats and the mayor was a Democrat.

The Camp Fire in California burned more than 150,000 acres and killed 85 people. The governor was Democrat and Butte County leans Democrat.

Not to mention the recent and very expensive LA fire: Democrat "woke" mayor, Democrat governor (county supervisors are nonpartisan but LA voters are overwhelmingly Democrat).

The point is, lack of foresight is a non-partisan issue.

If the flood disaster are "Trumptard's" fault, the fires and deaths are "libtard's" fault.

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely (because Trumptards’ stinginess and stupidity killed those kids)

And nobody is listening to any of you.

Awwwwwww...

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6ix and Signym, you two have no idea that both of you are absolutely evil. And you will never understand why being evil is why your lives are full of well deserved drama, hardship and suffering. In glaring contrast, this is how good people react:

Sirens alone won’t save us from floods. Texas needs a culture shift. | Editorial

By The Editorial Board, Opinions from the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board | July 11, 2025

https://tinyurl.com/mpcsmpza (Shortened URL from Houston Chronicle)

Is Texas cursed? Are we being punished?

Our state is so beset by drought, flood, fire, disease and violence, we can’t help but ask: Why us?

The stories coming from the Texas Hill Country after the July 4 floods shake us to our core.

Sisters who died with their hands locked together. A wife who perished trying to drive to safety but who made sure her husband escaped. Parents found dead, their two young sons missing. When last seen, the father was clinging to the boys as the Guadalupe River surged through the RV park where they were vacationing. Only their young daughter was found safe.

Rescue efforts are now focused on recovering bodies entangled in miles of downed trees and metal debris. The death toll has surpassed that of Hurricane Harvey. And still, it keeps rising.

What’s most difficult to process is that these deaths were largely preventable. If Texas is cursed, it is because over generations our leaders have not just abandoned us to tempests, but have enabled man-made catastrophes.

Biblical weather events are out of our control, but repeated and catastrophic loss of life is of our own making. We choose where to build. Whether to install warning systems. And how we respond to urgent alerts. Our politicians choose to ignore the same calls to action after each unprecedented flood, each devastating hurricane.

Yes, it’s true that other factors contributed to the lethality of the July 4 floods. It was a holiday weekend. The rains came in the middle of night. The rocky and steep hills unleashed a fast-moving wall of water.

And yet, no one had to die. Not children at camps. Not families in a RV. Not the couple attending their law school reunion. If these people had realized the floodwaters were coming, they’d have been somewhere else, somewhere safe.

This week editorial board writers asked what can be done to prevent the next tragedy like this one. A range of experts — forecasters, engineering professors, industry consultants — gave us the same message again and again: Technology alone will not save us. Texas needs a culture shift.

Local officials in the hardest hit areas, including Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, have said that no one predicted the speed and force of the floods. It is true that forecasters often cannot pinpoint where the heaviest rains will hit, but in this case, there was advanced warning.

At 1:18 p.m. Thursday, the National Weather Service announced a flood watch. That should have been a high-alert signal to county officials, RV park owners and summer camp operators — anyone with responsibility for residents and visitors in flood-prone areas.

Then, at 1:14 a.m. on Friday, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning. That should have triggered emergency protocols: Texts and alerts telling people to seek higher ground. Mobilization of first responders. Evacuation plans put in action.

Flooding began at Camp Mystic between 2 and 3 a.m. It wasn’t until about 4 a.m. that the deadly wall of water crashed down the Guadalupe River.

So what happened during the hours between the warning and the flood? Families of the victims and the people of Texas deserve a thorough investigation. Why weren’t more people warned? Why did officials, residents and visitors not heed the alerts they did receive? What evacuation plans were in place, and why weren’t they followed?

We should also learn from those who were prepared and acted with life-saving urgency.

At Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a 500-acre Christian camp and retreat center on the North Fork of the Guadalupe River, facilities manager Aroldo Barrera noticed the water rising at 1 a.m. Friday. According to reporting by the Associated Press, he alerted his boss, who was monitoring the weather. Even without having received warnings from local officials, Mo-Ranch relocated roughly 70 children and adults from a building near the river. Most of the camp’s facilities were already on higher ground. By 7 a.m., staff was notifying parents that their children were safe.

What stands out about Mo-Ranch is not only the quick thinking that night but the advance planning. The culture of preparedness. The long-term investment in infrastructure, people and procedures that kept their guests safe.

In contrast, when Camp Mystic carried out a $5 million dollar expansion in 2019, it did not move historic cabins out of the floodway — the highest-risk area closest to the river — and Kerr County did not require the camp to do so. By all accounts, the co-owner and director of Camp Mystic, Richard “Dick” Eastland, was extraordinarily dedicated to his campers. He had long ago advocated for better alert systems and died attempting to save campers.

What accounts for the difference between those two camps? And even if Camp Mystic didn’t initiate an evacuation on its own, should authorities have done more to protect the campers?

By asking those questions, we don’t aim to cast doubt on the core values or motivations of Eastland or anyone else. We hope to prevent future tragedies.

Gov. Greg Abbott has taken the first step by adding flood recovery and preparedness to the Legislature’s special session agenda. We urge lawmakers to treat those items as their top priority. For Texas’ sake, it’s crucial not to let them get lost in partisan battles over issues such as redistricting.

Here’s what we’re watching.

1. Install modern emergency sirens: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has called on the state to “step up” and pay for emergency sirens. “Had we had sirens along this area,” he said, “that would have saved some of these lives.” Patrick should follow through, and not just for the Guadalupe River. Warning systems aren’t cheap. Reporting by Houston Chronicle reporters Neena Satija and Keri Blakinger found that Kerr County asked the state for 8 years without success to fund a new warning system. Texas should expand grants to deploy them in all highly vulnerable areas that are densely populated — including parts of Houston. As Bob McLaughlin at Acoustic Technologies explained to us, the latest outdoor alert systems use speakers that can blast short instructions that name the emergency: Seek higher ground in case of a flood. Shelter in a safe spot for a tornado. Why install World War II-era sirens in 2025? The last thing Texans need are more incomprehensible alerts.

2. Improve phone alerts: Texas needs a tailored and user-friendly approach to mobile phone alerts. If everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency. Alice Claiborne told us that she and her family went back to sleep after receiving a 1:13 a.m. flood warning on July 4 while in Kerr County because they thought it was an Amber Alert. In Harris County, you can sign up for flood alerts based on nearby flood gauges. That’s great for those who are plugged in and super knowledgeable, but everyday Texans need a user experience that’s dead simple to understand. In the direst kinds of emergencies, the language should be idiot-proof and location-specific: You’re in extreme danger. You need to act NOW. Here’s what to do.

3. Bolster flood data collection: Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, is on the right track when it comes to improving the quality of the data used to decide when to send alerts. He tweeted Tuesday, “The Texas House will work with leading experts like @RiceUniversity’s SSPEED Center” and linked to an op-ed that Phil Bedient published in the Houston Chronicle. That piece calls for more river gauges, updated flood mapping and better radar systems like those successfully used along Brays Bayou to protect the Texas Medical Center. Another expert, Mark Rose, a former general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority, urges an integrated approach that includes gauges to measure rising water levels in the whole water shed, so that real-time alerts would arrive before the river is dangerously high. Let’s listen to these smart people. Let’s fix the problem.

4. Strengthen land use rules: If counties do not have the capacity or political will to prevent developers from building in flood zones, the state should empower regional or statewide entities. Flood waters don’t respect county lines.

5. Provide emergency training: If local emergency managers can’t adequately respond to disasters, the state should step in to issue training, resources and accountability.

6. Educate the people: Finally, the public needs to have a better understanding about the dangers we face. We should respect flood warnings the way we do fire alarms. Even if buildings don’t burn down when most fire alarms go off, we still heed them. It should be muscle memory. The blunt “Turn Around, Don’t Drown” campaign is a good model. James Doss-Gollin, a Rice engineering professor, explained, “Warnings work really well if people know what to do, where to evacuate to, and know where there's high ground.”

Everyone should be sick of Texans dying. Fearful that we have come to accept life as disposable. Heartbroken that mass casualties are now routine.

Texans must respect our own lives enough to demand more from our elected officials — and of ourselves.

July 11, 2025

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Friday, July 11, 2025 3:57 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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102 people died in the Lahaina Hawaii fire. The governor is a Democrat, both Senators are Democrats and the mayor was a Democrat.

The Camp Fire in California burned more than 150,000 acres and killed 85 people. The governor was Democrat and Butte County leans Democrat.

Not to mention the recent and very expensive LA fire: Democrat "woke" mayor, Democrat governor (county supervisors are nonpartisan but LA voters are overwhelmingly Democrat).
The point is, lack of foresight is a non-partisan issue.
If the flood disaster are "Trumptard's" fault, the fires and deaths are "libtard's" fault.

SECOND: 6ix and Signym, you two have no idea that both of you are absolutely evil. And you will never understand why being evil is why your lives are full of well deserved drama, hardship and suffering. In glaring contrast, this is how good people react:

Sirens alone won’t save us from ~~floods.~~fire. ~~Texas~~ California needs a culture shift. | Editorial

By The Editorial Board, Opinions from the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board | July 11, 2025

https://tinyurl.com/mpcsmpza (Shortened URL from Houston Chronicle)

Is ~~Texas~~ California cursed? Are we being punished?

Our state is so beset by drought, flood, fire, disease and violence, DRUG ADDICTION AND HOMELESSNESS we can’t help but ask: Why us?

Just substitute California (or Hawaii) and fire and it's the same story.
Or New Orleans and floods.

Why build there?
Why only one evacuation route?
Why was door to door notification required? (Or in Hawaii's case, why no notification at all.)
Why was infrastructure not built to mitigate risk?

Every time a preventable disaster happens, there's A LOT of justified blame to go around. Many pointed questions to ask, and changes that SHOULD be made.
BUT THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE.

Blaming "Trumptards" doesn't really get to the heart of repeating disasters, and therefore doesn't point to a solution. It only shows that you have TDS.

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 7:52 PM

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Blaming "Trumptards" doesn't really get to the heart of repeating disasters, and therefore doesn't point to a solution. It only shows that you have TDS.

I blame people who are utterly evil for their evil deeds. But every evil person has a justification for being evil, twisting the situation into something about their personal freedom or their bank account or their stupidity such as "I don't want to pay" or "You cannot make me stop doing what I want to do," or "It is none of your business what I do," or "Climate change is a Chinese Hoax," or "I will not accept blame for what I did because that is the way by twisted psychology works."

Signym, you can read Why Trump blames decisions on others – a psychologist explains

By Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University | July 11, 2025 7:23am EDT

https://theconversation.com/why-trump-blames-decisions-on-others-a-psy
chologist-explains-260877

Trump is only one out of many tens of millions of Americans who blame their decisions on others.

The Risk Was Obvious

July 12, 2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects.

But then Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

Experts say Camp Mystic’s requests to amend the FEMA map could have been an attempt to avoid the requirement to carry flood insurance, to lower the camp’s insurance premiums or to pave the way for renovating or adding new structures under less costly regulations.

Syracuse University associate professor Sarah Pralle, who has extensively studied FEMA’s flood map determinations, said it was “particularly disturbing” that a camp in charge of the safety of so many young people would receive exemptions from basic flood regulation.

“It’s a mystery to me why they weren’t taking proactive steps to move structures away from the risk, let alone challenging what seems like a very reasonable map that shows these structures were in the 100-year flood zone,” she said.

Pralle said the appeals were not surprising because communities and property owners have used them successfully to shield specific properties from regulation.

Regardless of FEMA’s determinations, the risk was obvious.

More at https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investi
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 8:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

You are evil. We've already established this and there is plenty of recorded post history from you showing as much.

Nobody takes anything you have to say seriously, especially not your hilarious judgements of your superiors.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 11:55 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

SECOND,

"Evil is as evil does."

"By their deeds you shall know them".

"Do evil, be evil."

There's no such thing as doing evil in the name of good.

If you do evil, you're evil, no matter how much you fancy yourself at the right hand of God.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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