Camp Mystic expanded on FEMA-designated floodplain, refused to buy insurance, had 100-year flood at age 99

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

[Anonymous]

Nope. If you are rejecting federal money for an early warning system for flooding that happens with some regularity, you are MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

They only seem politically balanced by comparison to the insanity that is the rest of Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

YOU ARR 100% WRONG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

They only seem politically balanced by comparison to the insanity that is the rest of Texas.

Exactly. The city manager sat straight faced while telling the news he didn’t/doesn’t have weather alerts turned in, on his phone. He doesn’t need them because he has people who will tell him if there’s a weather emergency. This is epic level stupidity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

YOU ARR 100% WRONG.

Except that I have friends and family in Texas who are not what anyone would refer to as MAGA. Is politicizing a tragedy when at the core you really don't know what you're talking about really the hill you want to die on? If so, you may as well join the MAGA cult you fruit loop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

YOU ARR 100% WRONG.

Except that I have friends and family in Texas who are not what anyone would refer to as MAGA. Is politicizing a tragedy when at the core you really don't know what you're talking about really the hill you want to die on? If so, you may as well join the MAGA cult you fruit loop.

What exactly is your argument, they were science denying, can't bother to spend money on technology that can save lives because noise might bother them. OK so they aren't racist MAGA types? What exactly makes them not MAGA? Indulge us.

[Anonymous]

Your statement is icky and gross. Everyone charge in Texas failed due to stupidity and rallying against science and Intelligence aka being republican. 27 children are dead. Hope that feels good to you and the other fruit loop cultists. Thoughts and prayers. MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your statement is icky and gross. Everyone charge in Texas failed due to stupidity and rallying against science and Intelligence aka being republican. 27 children are dead. Hope that feels good to you and the other fruit loop cultists. Thoughts and prayers. MAGA.

Go back to your MAGA poop hole and worship your orange God you toothless hillbilly. Just kidding, I forgive you. Next time, just think and have empathy for victims and their families before spewing a bunch of garbage about a tragedy you know nothing about.

We can get through these times with love, compassion, and empathy.

[Anonymous]

I am from South Texas. Sigh. So now people on the outside are seeing how Texas runs or does not run. They do things their own way down there. It might be backwards, wrong, archaic, etc. but it is fine until it’s not. Then they give it to Jesus, shrug, or move on. It is a weird phenomenon but life moves on and those tragedies are frozen in time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

YOU ARR 100% WRONG.

Except that I have friends and family in Texas who are not what anyone would refer to as MAGA. Is politicizing a tragedy when at the core you really don't know what you're talking about really the hill you want to die on? If so, you may as well join the MAGA cult you fruit loop.

+1 Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

No, they are not politically balanced. Kerr County where the tragedy and most of the deaths happened voted 77.71% Trump. I find it truly weird and perhaps icky in itself that your idea of "politically balanced" is nearly 80% MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

YOU ARR 100% WRONG.

Except that I have friends and family in Texas who are not what anyone would refer to as MAGA. Is politicizing a tragedy when at the core you really don't know what you're talking about really the hill you want to die on? If so, you may as well join the MAGA cult you fruit loop.

Yes yes yes we all have a friend or some family in Austin or one of the other cities that have blue voters. But those are nothing at all like the red counties of Texas which are very very conservative, lacking much political balance or diversity whatsoever. You are telling me without telling me that you don't really know Texas despite having friends and family in Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

No, they are not politically balanced. Kerr County where the tragedy and most of the deaths happened voted 77.71% Trump. I find it truly weird and perhaps icky in itself that your idea of "politically balanced" is nearly 80% MAGA.

But you're okay with a nearly 80% very very liberal area? Is that kind of "politically balanced" area just fine with you, and you only politicize tragedies that occur in conservative voting areas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was predicted - through 1. long term climate models as an inevitable eventuality, with increasing statistical frequency due to human-caused climate change, as well as 2. immediate storm risk from the weather service, in the days and hours ahead of the actual storm event.

They were given every opportunity to prepare, through FEMA flood maps that told them the area was risky, which they shrugged off and dismissed as dumb liberal red tape, what's the harm, it's just a summer camp for kids - EXACTLY the issue, that it is a summer camp for kids - kids who would have a hard time being able to evacuate themselves from a flood.

They were offered funding to improve notification systems, but declined to spend it, because warning sirens are woke, or pansy nanny state crap for gays, or commie big government meant to control us, or whatever other inane garbage that rattles through the heads of Texas MAGAs.

Stop defending them. Stop shrugging this off. This was not "god's will" or "nobody could have forseen this" or "nobody could have prevented it" - it was totally preventable and is entirely the fault of irresponsible people making irresponsible decisions. And that needs to be made known, and it needs to change. Not just in Texas Hill Country, but all of America.

I may agree with you to some extent but that area of Texas and the folks making those decisions are actually politically balanced and far from what we refer to as MAGA country and that fact makes your entire statement feel icky and gross.

No, they are not politically balanced. Kerr County where the tragedy and most of the deaths happened voted 77.71% Trump. I find it truly weird and perhaps icky in itself that your idea of "politically balanced" is nearly 80% MAGA.

But you're okay with a nearly 80% very very liberal area? Is that kind of "politically balanced" area just fine with you, and you only politicize tragedies that occur in conservative voting areas?

Ummm... Find me a nearly 80% liberal area where they don't believe in weather service forecasts, where they ignore flood warnings, were they want to defund NOAA, where they don't believe in climate change or FEMA flood maps, and where if a preventable disaster kills 130 people they just shrug and say "it's God's will" and maybe you might have a point to make here?