Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
FEMA is dead. The states are on their own, they just weren’t given any time to prepare.
Wasn’t that county asking for a warning system for the last decade?
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They took the money and gave it to the Sheriff’s department.
For military equipment
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The Sheriff in Kerr County was interviewed the day after the floods, and his first comment was about “when I woke up this morning, I could hardly believe it!…”
This fucking guy slept through the flooding all night as kids were drowning in his county he was elected to protect.
The Sheriff’s phone was on Do Not Disturb, in a major flood zone, with a monster storm underway.
But think, now they all have new trucks and tac gear and shit so that they can look cool when they show up for those kids funerals
If the trucks weren’t wrecked in the flood
Here’s hoping. Fuck that county. They could have saved lives but they didn’t. Those kids deserved better parents
Spectacular.
Biden gave them 10 million for the system and they gave it to the sheriffs department instead. This is 100% on Kerr County
No. They had the opportunity to apply for a ton of money for the system and didn’t.
No no, they got the money. They refused to use it for this and instead gave it to the sheriff.
They’re stupid and “welfare queens”.
I thought they had the opportunity to apply for a $1m grant, but they’d have to put up $72k and they decided not to.