Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that authorities will work around the clock and said new areas were being searched as the water receded. He declared Sunday a day of prayer for the state.
AccuWeather said the private forecasting company and the National Weather Service sent warnings about potential flash flooding hours beforehand.
Authorities and elected officials have said they did not expect such an intense downpour, the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.
The county had considered a flood warning system on the river similar to a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, but Kelly said the idea never got off the ground and the cost would have been an issue.
Can’t be spending money on citizen safety, takes away from our overlords profits too much…
There is a reason it is ilegal (at least in Spain) to have campings in historically active ravines. This happened after the much similar incident in Biescas almost 30 years ago.
Sorry but you can’t depend on forecasting for everything. The earth has showed us again and again that if it gets the shits you better not be in the way.
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Ah, hold up, can’t get a hold of anyone, busy defunding FEMA
they aren’t stupid, they value the crumbs they get in less taxes by slashing vital hurracine warning services way more than human lives.
This lack of empathy should be diagnoseable as psychopathology.
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they murdered countless people for their greed.
they need to be stopped
They’re as stupid as the people who elect them.