In 2016 local Republicans leadership rejected high-water sensors, rejected automated alerts

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

— California Prunes👊🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🔥 (@prunepicker.bsky.social) 2025-07-06T23:35:27.659Z

You voted for this, Texas.

In 2016, Hewitt Engineering warned that Kerr County faced a high risk of a devastating flood. They recommended a network of high-water sensors, river gauges, and automated alerts to protect lives. FEMA and NOAA offered funding pathways, but local Republican leadership rejected those recommendations—choosing instead a bare-bones SMS-only alert system, without the sensors, without automation, and without full coordination.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLvWT2NpY91/

[FadedMullet]

1. Ah, these are those "low tax, no new tax" Republicans that I've read about. Quelle suprise.

[vanlassie]

2. Careless People.

They’re in a class by themselves.

[FadedMullet]

4. Frugal, too. Think of all the money they saved over the last nine years.

[tanyev]

3. TX lawmakers failed to pass a bill improving flood warning systems earlier this year:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220465218



And their next scheduled session isn't until January 2027. Yes, our state legislature meets once every two years.

[summer_in_TX]

9. The governor has announced a special session starting in mid-July.

It could, if he chooses, be added to the call as one of his priorities. So it doesn't have to wait until 2027.

The Texas Legislature meets for just 140 days every odd-numbered year in regular session. Very hard to get everything agreed to in that amount of time. It's a bad system. But considering how much harm the Lege is capable of doing, it's a trade-off when things we badly want don't make it by the deadline.

Of course, then there's the stuff that makes it out but gets vetoed by Abbott and we don't have a chance to try again for two years.

[LilElf70]

5. Why am I NOT surprised?

All of the stupid shit the GOP changed and supported because the King told them so, will pay for their misconceptions.

[gopiscrap]

6. fucking ignorant repuke assholes

for them it's always money over people

[NBachers]

7. Puke Death Cult

[Mountainguy]

8. A bunch of girls deaths were set into motion

by TX republicans before they were even born.