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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Texas has a culture of ignoring safety concerns and being incredibly cheap with anything they do build so they can grift as much money from the government as possible. No surprise local officials failed their community.[/quote]

Yep. According to this, it’s been a known issue for a while and the state repeatedly denied the county the needed funding.
https://apple.news/AigV9uhyQTWuXY92Wg0o8dA

“In 2017 and again in 2018, state officials denied the county a $1 million grant to build a flood warning system that would have upgraded 20 water gauge systems, added new water level sensors and posts, and created software and a website to distribute that information to the public in real-time.
“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,” Then-County Commissioner Tom Moser said at a January 2017 meeting, days before the application deadline.”[/quote]

Amazing that after 100 Texans died in the worst floods in the USA in decades that the Texas newspaper is still asking about whether this time will make the difference so that they finally install the flood warning system.  smh[/quote]

If they can’t get timely flooding information out to the public than for the love of god move people away from the river in general.  Don’t pack all the kids camps in an area prone to flash floods.[/quote]

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