Some of the camps were prepared and evacuated. Others clearly were not prepared and did not evacuate. CLEARLY not. So stop trying to assert there was no human failure. |
Very very few things in life happen in absolutes. Black and white is something invented by humans who can't manage complexity. Likely this flood tragedy is a result of many things that went wrong beyond just the camp was built in a bad location or Trump is to blame for FEMA and NOAA cuts contributing to the lack of warnings. It's always a combo of human error and fateful events - the worst that could go wrong did - that causes many tragedies in life.
Keep this in mind as it applies to not just this but almost all human undertakings and situations. There's very rarely one evil or saint but someone with a propensity of doing bad and wrong or right and good things but nobody is the saint nor the devil. |
We're damaging our important climate systems and we're completely screwing over our children and future generations. |
Short term financial gain for a handful of fossil fuel elites in exchange for long term pain for the remainder of humanity. That is exactly what we are dealing with here. |
Where? Certainly not in Texas. People like to talk about how it’s more efficient to have strong local governments but sometimes the people local governments elect are not very competent. |
Cite? |
I’m not the PP but there’s plenty of human failure to go around: the Mystic camp who had its youngest campers so close to a river that regularly flash floods, the Kerr County citizens who didn’t want to pay the $1 million for an flood warning system, and the Texas pols who voted for 51$bn in property tax cuts rather than approve the grant that Kerr county asked for to pay for the early warning system. Dumb pols and cheap Texans who rather pay 100$ for a cure rather than 1$ for prevention. |
I know there people personally..They think they are "blessed" and no natural disasters will ever happen to them. ![]() They also don't "believe" in climate change. |
Well, I live here and you can f off. |
+1 And always wearing a cowboy hat while they vote down safety measures and a warning system. Now expecting billions in aid. |
clearly it wasn't effective... perhaps on paper but not in real life or death |
+1 |
Then why are people voting for the fattest/most stupid/least prepared? |