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  1. They only had TRUTHSOCIAL on their phones
  2. Will Elon Musk fund an independent investigation?
  3. The more people believe it's nothing but sideshows, knockout, and flaming barrels, the slower the gentrification
  4. I use public transit and rideshare.
  5. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/youth-camp-program The laws I found from there: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.141.htm https://texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com/rules-and-meetings?chapter=265&interface=VIEW_TAC&part=1&subchapter=B&title=25 https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/youthcamp/pdf/TAC_25-1-265 JM 10242024.pdf I poked around but didn't see anything about weather or evacuations Actually: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/youthcamp/pdf/TAC_25-1-265 JM 10242024.pdf So in theory they needed to have something written down to get their license. I'd love to know what it says and if the plan was followed.
  6. The thing I was responding to was the union facebook page trying to throw Austin's (Black) fire chief under the bus, but I agree with you that the real story is the July 2 part.
  7. Okay but did you think of all the facebook likes these departmental pages got for each picture they post of their badass new tacticool toys? You wouldn't want those funds to be spent on soy DEI health departments or weather alarms.
  8. this was probably the same money Durant OK used to build its own doppler radar. Party line vote in Congress by the way.
  9. I'm remembering Harvey differently then. I thought it had hit the Corpus area then pushed back out into the Gulf where it parked itself for about three days. Houston saw rain for longer than those three days of course but I don't think it was parked the whole time
  10. I cannot remember any tropical system that parked itself in the same place for so long. Not even Harvey.
  11. If it's something they believe is good that happened on Trump's watch, then Trump personally and directly is responsible for it and nobody else. If it's something they believe is bad that happened on Trump's watch, then the all-powerful Deep State is responsible for it despite the brave efforts of Trump and all like-minded Real American Patriots. If it's something they believe is bad that happened on a democrat's watch, then Trump alone would have prevented it just by being in office. If it's something they believe is good that happened on a democrat's watch, it's the delayed effects of Trump's policies and it would have been an even bigger, better success if Trump had been in office.
  12. I recently learned there's a town in Oklahoma that recently bought and maintains its own doppler radar, Durant OK, since its located on the periphery of the two or so nearest NWS radars and they felt they needed better data for emergency preparedness. Whoops, turns out Durant used federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which was introduced by a demonRat and signed into law by Brandon https://www.kxii.com/2023/03/08/city-durant-installs-new-weather-radar/
  13. I agree with you, partially. I don't think that the two owners (RIP) alone were to blame. It will come out that there were survivors, or even folks who don't live on the campsite or who were out of town for the holiday weekend, that played a role in the camp's lax approach to severe weather. Whoever wants "accountability" will find living people to throw the book at. And Twice said that there are companies, corporations, or whatever, that could have the deep pockets, or the "estates" of the owners that are now dead.
  14. Probably won't stop the lawsuits.
  15. The camp was private right? not sure how deep those pockets are, probably not deep enough, but everything I've seen screams big fat lawsuit
  16. Even 8th graders have their standards
  17. They didn't let her stay in the dorms? Was it a nice tree at least?
  18. lots of room for "luggage" no doubt
  19. I think these are blasted out from towers to everything in range, based on alerts I've received in other states
  20. That part of Texas and most of South Texas is completely dependent on oilfield and law enforcement jobs. Very low percentage of people with college education
  21. They won't settle for just half a mil. Not even close, imo they already picked the black fire chief from the big scary city
  22. at least two counselors were Mexican nationals
  23. And, look, I love EMT and firefighters and all first responders as much as everyone else. These brave public servants are heroes, but five nerds sitting in a shitty office in New Braunfels with supercomputers who have probably saved hundreds more lives deserve just as much celebration.
  24. Eventually we will learn that most of the dead were not people who would have survived if the rescue operations had been better staffed. These deaths were 99% drownings or blunt force injuries, not starvation or dehydrations caused by delayed rescues. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. However, when we say someone was "swept away" they are pretty much guaranteed not to survive that even when it's a small urban stream. This was a huge river of dirty water full of trees and debris flowing at highway speeds.
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