Thanks to trump firings; expect up to 160 DEATHS Due to lack of Severe Weather Warnings
What could be more fucking simple than to issue a Severe Weather Alert Warning; to Evacuate Early; but trump EMASCULATED the Weather Services
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There was a horrifying post uploaded a few days ago (I think it might have been in General Discussion) highlighting the proceedings in the Kerr County Commissioners’ Court back in 2016 (That was Kerr County, Texas, where so many lives were lost last week). The commissioners were offered a big grant to install a siren and other components for use in case of flooding and other natural disasters. They turned it down, saying that it cost too much money. (They kept the funds, though, but didn’t spend it on a warning system).
Kerr County’s leaders did wise up slightly and applied to the Republican-controlled Texas state government, but the application process got stalled within the wheels of the Republican-controlled Texas state government and the Republican-controlled Texas state legislature.
Another proposal for early-warning systems was made during this year’s legislative session. It never got anywhere, and even if it had, there probably wouldn’t have been a warning system in place by July 1st to save the lives of so many Kerr county residents and visitors who drowned last week.
I hesitate to put the horrendous loss of life sole on the heads of Washington, DC based MAGAs. There’s more than enough blame to spread to small-Town Texas Republicanism and state-level indifference,
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Puts another perspective on that Republican’s quip that he wanted to make government so small that he could drown it in a bath tub, doesn’t it?
