#flash flooding

This will be the last time I post about the flooding here in Texas, but I wanted to share something that’s been weighing on me.

Tonight, my heart is heavy. My family member—one of the rescue workers—called to check in, his voice kept breaking as he tried to describe the loss of life & devastation he'd witnessed.

My soul aches for the mothers and fathers of the little girls who are still missing… and for those who have already faced the unimaginable. But even in the heartbreak, I’ve seen the faces of heroes.

💔A camp director who rescued five girls being swept away by the river—he made sure they were safe, then passed away in the flood.

💔Teen camp counselors diving beneath floodwaters to save young boys as their cabin filled—lifting them to the rafters, then out through the roof.

💔A neighbor who spotted two elderly people trapped in a car as the waters rose—and got them to safety.

💔Rescue crews working tirelessly, pushing aside their own grief and fear to save as many lives as possible.

Tragedy can shatter us. It can bring us to our knees. But even in the darkest moments, the light of humanity still shines through.

It’s still here—kindness, bravery, and love. People rising up to help strangers while everything else is falling apart.

So, tonight, I choose to focus on that. On the good. Hope. On loving each other more fiercely. Holding each other tighter. And remembering what really matters.

Also, the reason fema too so long to deploy was because of kristi noem

I went from starting the year with major physical health decline, to almost starting nomad life in spring rather than fall but it was delayed for various reasons after packing up my entire apartment and moving everything into storage, to dealing with major grief and shock, crying all day every single day for over a month, to the air conditioning in my empty apartment breaking during the hottest part of the year in one of the hottest parts of the US, to finally moving out and starting nomad life and being so happy living my trailer park princess dream life, to surviving a flash flood being saved by search & rescue and losing most of my gear, daily belongings, and potentially vehicle (but miraculously no people or dogs were injured)🫠

Kerr County is the Texas county most affected by the deadly flash floods last week.

Texas has been run by Republicans for 30 years. The state's emergency agency rejected a plan which the county submitted.

“I think we need a system that can be operated or controlled by a centralized location where – whether it's the Sheriff's communication personnel, myself or whatever, and it's just a redundant system that will complement what we currently have,” (W.B. "Dub") Thomas (Kerr County’s emergency management coordinator) said that year. By the next year, officials had sent off its application for a $731,413 grant to FEMA to help bring $976,000 worth of flood warning upgrades, including 10 high water detection systems without flashers, 20 gauges, possible outdoor sirens, and more. “The purpose of this project is to provide Kerr County with a flood warning system,” the county wrote in its application. “The System will be utilized for mass notification to citizens about high water levels and flooding conditions throughout Kerr County.” But the Texas Division of Emergency Management, which oversees billions of FEMA dollars designed to prevent disasters, denied the application because they didn’t have a current hazard mitigation plan. They resubmitted it, news outlets reported, but by then, priority was given to counties that had suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey.

And then the heavily MAGA county shot itself in the foot by rejecting aid from the Biden administration. (emphasis added)

In 2021, Kerr County was awarded a $10.2 million windfall from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, which Congress passed that same year to support local governments impacted by the pandemic. Cities and counties were given flexibility to use the money on a variety of expenses, including those related to storm-related infrastructure. Corpus Christi, for example, allocated $15 million of its ARPA funding to “rehabilitate and/or replace aging storm water infrastructure.” Waco’s McLennan County spent $868,000 on low water crossings. Kerr County did not opt for ARPA to fund flood warning systems despite commissioners discussing such projects nearly two dozen times since 2016. In fact, a survey sent to residents about ARPA spending showed that 42% of the 180 responses wanted to reject the $10 million bonus altogether, largely on political grounds. “I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.

In the eyes of some politically hyperventilating Kerr County residents, it's better to have flooding than money from the "most criminal treasonous communist government". FYI: "communist" = anybody to the left of "Lyin' Ted" Cruz.

According to preliminary information, there have been no reports of casualties or damage to property so far. The administration has urged people to stay away from rivers, streams, and landslide-prone areas, and to heed warnings issued by the Meteorological Department.

Please exercise extra caution while traveling in hilly regions during the monsoon season and rely only on official weather updates.

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