Texas flood - What we have here is a failure to communicate

[dutch777]

5. How about the resources (and smarts) to go warn people rather than wait until a tragic response is needed?

We can argue about how bad climate change will affect us, but seems clear so many places in the US just are ill prepared for even the most obvious threats. Whether it is New Orleans, TX or Hawaii, we have seen so many events of the most simple nature manage to unfold on predictable timelines and ways and yet the needed response is unpracticed, missing entirely or way too late. I had the terrifying responsibility overseeing a hospital's emergency response team for my last few years before retiring. Having been in the military I knew the first thing that gets shredded is THE PLAN when the bad breaks. We were in a major earthquake zone and THE PLAN was all predicated on us managing on our own for 72 hours but then for the cavalry to arrive and save the day. Without even the cuts now being enacted by the Feds, we would not have been able to handle the 72 hours on our own, lucky to have made it 24. The state was supposedly going to be the immediate help for past the 3 days on our own with the thoughts Fed/FEMA resources would flood in after a week. So many issues simply were "we'll figure it out" and many of those were critical to the operation to the point that when they arose, we would cease to be able to be a functioning hospital. And this was in a rich suburb of a major metropolitan area in a blue state where folks were at least well intentioned so I really pity the rural red areas where spending or focusing on anything that is not here and now just is not done.