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Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-alarm-system.html
40•Jimmc414•4h ago

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__d•3h ago
https://archive.is/IVIUd
madhacker•3h ago
Welcome to Greg Abbott's Texas microcosm of America.
pfannkuchen•3h ago
I thought there was actually an alarm in this case? I read that the camp staff had over an hour notice from the automated flood warning system but nobody was paying attention. Unless what I read is false, it seems like a lot of political opportunism is happening here (no surprise).
kurthr•3h ago
A cell phone warning did go out, but only ~1/3 of phones in the flash flood area were warned. It seems really haphazard. Friends who had no warning had other friends call them in the middle of the night to ask about borrowing trucks/trailers. They were lucky!
brendoelfrendo•3h ago
The NWS issued a flash flood watch, upgraded minutes later to a flash flood warning, just after 1am. At 4am, the NWS Austin office issues an emergency bulletin saying "This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for South-central Kerr County, including Hunt. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!"[0] These warnings would have triggered an alert on people's cell phones, however the timing makes it unlikely that campers or counselors would have been awake to notice. If someone was tasked with monitoring the weather, they either didn't get that warning or didn't act in time for it to make a difference. There were not sirens installed to warn campers of flooding. There was a warning system installed in the late 80s, but it was shut down in 1999 after falling into disrepair due to a lack of maintenance. Efforts to install a new system with warning sirens failed to gain traction.[1] [0] https://www.statesman.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/08/texas... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings...
burnt-resistor•3h ago
County officials paid themselves first, diverting $10M to salaries, and delayed spending $80k on a flash flood siren in Flash Flood Alley 19 times.

NOAA pushed out 2 senior flood forecasters in the Austin office.

911 dispatcher gatekept the Amber Alert/EBS system on approval process grounds in the middle of an emergency.

Camp grounds and other occupied structures were allowed in a known flood zone.

This is always what happens in rural counties with small towns Texas. The politicians maintain their small club of lazy incompetence.

PS: I'm around 1 mile away from the Guadalupe and blocks from Geronimo Creek, on high ground

mumbisChungo•3h ago
Even if it was a lie, I miss the version of America I grew up believing in.

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