Texas Floods

[Nina]

We're all going to die sometime
(Edit: that was in response to rontuner's request for typical MAGA responses, not my personal thoughts!)

[Piano*Dad]

I suspect Republicans will care, since most of the victims looked like them...

[rustyfingers]

NPR 's timeline: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5457759/texas-floods-timeline

[AndyD]

The area is known as
Flashflood Alley.

Seems like 80 dead, half of those children.
Must be incredibly dangerous for rescuers working in that refuse & pollution filled water.

[wtg]

A camp that evacuated.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-summer-camp-evacuation-a1cbf5cfa768b0869e5e299b8f7dfccf

[wtg]

Team from Mexico helping.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/mexico-firefighters-texas-flooding-search-rescue

[AndyD]

BBC reports flood waters are now receding.
More than 160 people still missing, 111 dead
Awful. Devastating.

Would some sort of warning siren system along the river area be feasible?

[wtg]

@AndyD said in Texas Floods:

Would some sort of warning siren system along the river area be feasible?

It was discussed as long ago as 2016. It didn't happen.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deadly-texas-floods-one-town-warning-siren-rcna217202

[Rontuner]

Responsible business should probably have weather radios which would serve the same purpose as sirens. Requiring such things and/or sirens in Republican strongholds has proven difficult to pass through government.

https://www.nbc4i.com/weather/noaa-weather-radios-an-essential-way-to-get-every-type-of-weather-alert/

[Mik]

The political comments here are appalling.

[AndyD]

Personally I'd add siren warning system to the jobs of Fire & Police services. Would it really cost a million dollars?

[wtg]

Not sure how the various law enforcement and fire protection agencies work in a rural area like this one in Texas.

It does seem like some of the government entities in that area have figured out cost effective ways to build a warning system without having to spend a million dollars.

[wtg]

@AndyD - here's an overview of the situation. Explains a lot.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/09/texas-floods-growth-kerr-county-camp-mystic/

[RealPlayer]

My wife’s from Texas and attended one of those camps as a girl (not Mystic). At the one she attended, the housing was up a hill and substantially built. Only recreational activities took place near the water.

[Steve Miller]

Sounds very sensible.

[wtg]

At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff's Office to alert nearby residents, according to audio obtained by ABC affiliate KSAT. But Kerr County officials took nearly six hours to heed this call.

"The Guadalupe Schumacher sign is underwater on State Highway 39," the firefighter said in the dispatch audio. "Is there any way we can send a CodeRED out to our Hunt residents, asking them to find higher ground or stay home?"

"Stand by, we have to get that approved with our supervisor," a Kerr County Sheriff's Office dispatcher replied.

The first alert didn't come through Kerr County's CodeRED system until 90 minutes later. Some messages didn't arrive until after 10 a.m. By then, hundreds of people had been swept away by the floodwaters.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kerr-county-officials-waited-90-minutes-send-emergency/story?id=123631023

[wtg]

Camp Mystic’s owner warned of floods for decades. Then the river killed himm

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings-texas-flooding-invs