Update on Texas Hill Country Flooding

Good post but not sure that last part is entirely true. Texas has a multibillion dollar
rainy day fund around $24 billion. It’s a matter of priorities and vision and will.

Still, Hegar said lawmakers will have yet another large surplus, to start from this session: an estimated $23.8 billion that includes $4.5 billion that was set aside last session for public education funding tied to Governor Greg Abbott’s priority school vouchers bill.

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I’ll need the political rating for The Texas Observer, before I can disagree with it.

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Even when it’s straight from the horses mouth, the brainwashed can’t see past their confirmation bias.

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When what is from the horse’s mouth? That Texas didn’t have $75k?

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They could have covered all of the camps and most of the RV parks for probably less money than it takes to put lights up on a baseball field.

Both Kerr Co. and the state had the money - they just chose to spend it elsewhere. Now that this foolishness is being exposed and has resulted in a lot of needless deaths, there will be plenty of money available.

In 2016, one year after the deadly flash flood in Wimberley, the city of Kerrville committed to spend about $10MM on a sports complex. It ended up costing over $14MM. This narrative about not having the money is just not true. Granted, this is a city initiative rather than a county one, but there aren’t any sirens in the city of Kerrville, either.

If you want to see what funds Kerr County has to work with, just take a look at their budget. They had $19MM in reserve and $36MM in total revenues.
https://legacy.co.kerr.tx.us/notices/docs/2024-08-30--KerrCounty-FY2024-25AdoptedBudget.pdf

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That’s all you got from that long post?

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Just wasn’t sure what part of that “long” post you said the brainwashed couldn’t see.

Esp after one of the “brainwashed” responded with good post, and only questioned the part about the $75k?

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One other point about this is that it wouldn’t have done anything to help the camps, because the the stations are all downstream, with the furthest upstream being on the North Fork of the Guadalupe above Hunt. The camps are mostly on the South Fork, which doesn’t have any monitors. But the data from Hunt stations should have alerted every downstream RV park to GTFO immediately.

Camp Mystic is about where the red square is.

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Here’s a heart breaking story, from Houston…

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:frowning:

Norman Oklahoma’s planned flood warning system is on hold due to FEMA canceling BRIC grant money.

FEMA says the BRIC program is inefficient and focused on climate change. The BRIC program was created in 2018 under the presidential administration that was in office at that time. 🫩

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No words. :broken_heart:

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The government sucks folks. These people run up the debt while other countries build. All our infrastructure is run down.

Our highway in Texas are always under construction yet barely anything gets done.

What’s the alternative?

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Punctuation?

:upside_down_face:

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Will take a revolution eventually but currently leave if u can imo.The bread don’t mold.

Maybe a good increase in voter registration, turnout and participation will work too.

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Yeah, that sentence means something very different. :joy:

Won’t work. There are a lot of issues besides social issues and people mostly don’t care.

There some evidence of Americans going abroad eating what ever they want and still losing weight for instance.

The bread doesn’t mold.

Can you provide us with some links of the evidence you have found ?

As for the bread thing, are you speaking literally, figuratively, or what ?
I’m not getting what you are saying.

Thanks

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No, store bought bread literally doesn’t mold now. It’s filled with preserves. Probably more preserves than flour.

Decent article

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