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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously. I am sure that he will.blame Bidenif he hasn't already done so [/quote]

Well, that a good point.

Joe Biden was Vice President for 8 years and President for 4 years. That’s 12 years at the very top leadership positions in the nation.

And in that whole time, he never fixed the flooding problem in Texas hill country. [/quote]

Republicans in flood prone districts (including the Congressman for the area where Camp Mystic is) voted against flood warning systems in Congress that Democrats supported. Darwinism at work.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5388538-texas-floods-flash-flooding-camp-mystic-dhs-nws-warnings/
[quote]On Sunday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told reporters that he would urge state lawmakers to focus on a better system of state warnings in the upcoming July special legislative session.

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.
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FEMA should have denied this request. This is a state problem and part of disaster preparedness. States need to take some responsibility somewhere. However, it's much cheaper to just do nothing and expect FEMA to come in after the disaster and fix things. Free federal money, hooray![/quote]

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