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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read on twitter somewhere (don't have a link) that the county opted out of federal alerts. Don't know how true that it, but I did read it yesterday. I also read that campers along that same river, from different camps, died in 1979 and 1987...they even made a movie about one of the incidents. This is the third time it's happened in 50 years....I'm surprised these camps have not moved to a safer location. My own son went to a camp where his cabin was pretty much on a river bank. I shudder to think about it now. Cabins should never be located so close to rivers, especially when the counselors themselves are usually young themselves and inexperienced with weather events like these. Just a shame all the way around.[/quote]

This is what happens when you don’t invest or fund infrastructure warning systems.[/quote]

And funny how the Republicans/MAGAs do not want to discuss these problems and want to make it analyzing what the he$$ went wrong an offensive act. [/quote]

It’s the republican playbook.  When they were cutting funding, they denied there would be any impacts.  They claimed democrats were hysterical when they warned people would die.  And then when the predictable consequences happen, they deny they are connected to their decisions.

They are running the same playbook with Medicaid.  They’re claiming the cuts will have no effects.  No one will lose healthcare!  And then when they do, they’ll deny there’s any connection.[/quote]

Right- and they WANT to weaken NOAA. That’s part of the whole plan, so they can paint the agency as incompetent and use as an excuse to privatize weather forecasting.

The weather forecasting and warnings aside, I hope there are some real conversations about whether it makes sense to rebuild all these children’s camps in such a flood prone area.  Really risky even if the warnings had come earlier.[/quote]

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