TX flood and climate change
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Anonymous
Exactly. Cue the “inconceivable!” scene from Princess Bride. You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. |
Anonymous
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It is what it is now.
The US only has three more years to get with the program or massive climate change will be guaranteed. Since Republicans are undoing everything that was done to help in previous years, it is what it is. If you live or vacation in a flood plain, it would be best not to do so any longer. People who voted Republican wanted personal responsibility, now they have it, just like in the "good old days" when people just die without a national response. At least Mexico is coming to the aid of Texans. |
Anonymous
Joe Biden was president for 4 years. He had FOUR years to fix the flooding problem in Texas. But he didn’t. The blood of these children is on his hands. |
Anonymous
Uh, NO. |
Anonymous
Have you ever slept at a Boy Scout Camp?? We're talking canvas tents and latrines with open walls and no running water. Totally different thing. |
Anonymous
They chose their fate. They considered a local flood alert system with sirens and voted against it. What was Biden going to do? Override the local government like Trump and NYC tolls? |
Anonymous
That’s no excuse! |
Anonymous
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I've been following stories about the unprecedented warming of the Caribbean Sea that has been occurring since 2023. For example, this WPost article is from January 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/04/caribbean-has-been-unusually-warm-thats-not-good-thing/ It is plausible to me that the severity of the Texas storm is related to the increased volume of Caribbean water vapor. I've seen several news stories hint at this, but I would love to see detailed calculations as to how the Texas storm strength relates to the Caribbean (and global) warming. |
Anonymous
You have no excuse You voted for Trump. If we are flinging around blood, I think your hands are pretty bloody |
Anonymous
You apparently don't look at anything other than FOX News. Mexican fire fighters aid in Texas recovery https://www.sacurrent.com/news/firefighters-travel-from-mexico-to-aid-texas-flood-recovery-37930016 Climate warning from two years ago https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/ the end of that conference, they said global warming represented a threat to humanity, second only to global nuclear war. If the world had followed the conclusions from that conference, we would not have the problem we face today and we would have saved trillions of dollars and millions of lives. Now, it is too late. I’ve never said this before to the media, but it’s too late. I say that because I go by science and Johan Rockström, the Swedish scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute, has defined nine planetary boundaries. These are constraints on how we live. As long as humans, like any other animal, live within those nine constraints, we can do it forever, and that includes the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, the pH of the oceans, the amount of available fresh water, the nitrogen cycle, etc. There are nine planetary boundaries and we’ve only dealt with one of them — the ozone layer — and we think we’ve saved ourselves from that threat. But we passed the seventh boundary this year, and we’re in the extreme danger zone. Rockström says we have five years to get out of the danger zone. If we pass one boundary, we should be shitting our pants. We’ve passed seven! |
Anonymous
You are quite stupid. Republicans voted against additional funding for flood warning systems, including the Republican rep for this Texas flood alley area where Camp Mystic is (was) located. They’d rather have money for tax cuts for billionaires than for public safety. https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5388538-texas-floods-flash-flooding-camp-mystic-dhs-nws-warnings/amp/ One such system exists in other flood-prone basins, where gauges in a cresting river automatically send alerts to a network of river sirens, which sound alarms across the area. That’s technology that Kerrville officials say they have needed for years. But locals “reeled at the cost” of a county program, Kelly told PBS’s “Frontline,” and attempts to pay for it with state or federal funds failed. In 2018, during the first Trump administration, Kerr County and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority applied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for about $1 million to build a flood warning system — and were denied, KXAN reported. This year, a bill that would have spent $500 million on a modern system of disaster warnings across the state passed the House but died in the Senate. One House member who voted against it, first-term state Rep. Wes Virdell (R), represents Kerr County. “I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now,” Virdell told The Texas Tribune on Sunday, adding that he had objected to the measure’s price tag. |
Anonymous
Right? Never mind that this camp was built on a dry river bed in a flood zone. Texas authorities clearly don't give a damn where you build anything because God will protect the faithful. Obviously the solution is that the President of the United States should decide where to build summer camps. Why wasn't Trump on top of this? |
Anonymous
They thought Moses would come down from the sky and part the Guadalupe. |
Anonymous
Texans are thick as bricks. |
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This was not “unprecedented” at all.
Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning Systems https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River. A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way. But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time. In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others. |