Latest Texas - 109 dead and 161 missing

[malaise]

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[Bluestocking]

1. When Republicans are in charge

People die. It happens every time.

[BoRaGard]

4. Sad, but true

[Initech]

5. And then they always find someone to blame.

They always get away with it. It's time for that cycle to end. These shitbags need to be punished for this.

[JCMach1]

16. GOP systemic failure at all levels

[Warpy]

22. The timing of this storm was the worst part

since it hit while nearly everyone in the area was sound asleep.

The main problem is that somebody sent out a storm WATCH in the afternoon and it doesn't seem like it was passed along in an appropriate manner by news people, the weather service, or emergency broadcasters. People in the area needed to know they had to get to high ground before they turned in for the night. They didn't seem to know that.

I think a hell of a lot of people dropped the ball on this one, although it certainly seems like it didn't help to have senior weather officials pushed out into early retirement. While there is no guarantee they would have done a better job, it sure seems like everybody else was waiting for them to do just that and oops, they weren't there to do it.

[mcar]

2. Every MAGAT has these deaths on their hands

[maxsolomon]

3. Tragic. The missing are unlikely to show up alive.

You can't attribute that specific rainstorm to Climate Change, but you can't say it wasn't, either.

[malaise]

8. When I posted about the TS and hurricanes in Mexico last week

I did wonder how the remnants would affect Texas. They did.

[LeftInTX]

11. Good foresight. I was in Colorado.

I had my phone, but didn't bring my computer. I saw some stuff on FB and kinda figured Barry could bring rains because tropical lows, are usually what brings rain to central Texas. Our local retired TV meteorologist had posts about potential "rain bomb".

Still last Monday, I dutifully sent my sister in law to water my lawn!

My daughter in law is crushed about the flooding and loss of life for the children. Twenty years ago, my son worked at a camp for disabled kids in Comfort. She has always arranged fourth of July trips for Kerrville for the family. This year, they decided to go to Colorado. On July 3rd I said to my husband, "Why couldn't we have just gone to Kerrville like we always do. I prefer to be close to home. It's too much with five grandkids and eight adults and all this traveling. I prefer to just float down the river and swim".

I don't know what would have happened if we had gone to Kerrville, but we always rented on river front property.

[malaise]

13. Glad you weren't there

Horrible

[Traildogbob]

12. 161??

My god, that seems to have came out of no where.
I live in the middle of Helena hell. So many missing for so long. So much destruction.
Just hell on Families trying to find hope that They survive.
Those poor victims just have to depend on each other. Moses Mike’s prayers are useless. Send physical and economical help. Now!!!! Fuck the billionaires and their tax giveaway. Put that same energy in assuring that happened into helping these poor tax paying people.
Much much more of these hell on earth catastrophes coming.

[LeftInTX]

17. And they're all missing from Kerr County.

Unlike a hurricane or fire where some will evacuate and then go off the grid, no one evacuated from Kerr County!

[Traildogbob]

18. Helena came at night as well.

My phone was ringing off the hook with evacuate now warnings that night.
My daughter and all hospital people were ordered back to work the afternoon before and to plan on staying for days.
Weather updates and warnings were all over our news two to three days prior.
And we still had the losses of lives.
Then hell for days at the hospital
Without power, water, or food was hell.
Just watched a series recently about New Orleans after Katrina and the Mercy hospital disaster.
And how Corporate, abandoned them and tried to hang nurses out to take all blame. And the then president, Bush. Washington does not give a fuck as long as they get our money to cover their pay, health, retirement and vacations.(Cruz)

[purple_haze]

6. My first time seeing this

Been out of cell range for a week (it was glorious beyond comprehension).

How terribly sad. I will keep the victims and their families in my prayers this week.

[malaise]

7. Amazing how some of them survived

Sad indeed

[SheltieLover]

9. Murdered by rethugs

[Nigrum Cattus]

10. Are Texans really just gunna lay down & accept that -

their worthless government could not have greatly reduced
this mass casualty event ?

[Brenda]

14. Holy shit, that's a lot of missing people.

And the death toll is probably an undercount because they never count the "illegals." I know that from when a tornado wiped out half of my town and the death count was absurdly low when you could drive by and see how many apartments and homes were just rubble or only a foundation was left. My neighbor worked for the city and she said the coroner didn't add bodies to the count who didn't have a SSN number.

May this horrible event TURN SOME TEXANS WOKE!

[GiqueCee]

21. Even the shit-brains...

... that draw a blank when asked to define "WOKE"? Let me help them:

[To be] aware of, and actively attentive to, important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

Anyone that has a problem with being "woke" is a flaming asshole beyond redemption, and I wouldn't cross the street to piss in their faces if they were on fire.

[JCMach1]

15. Holy crap, he's breaking out cringe football metaphors

Because GOP failed people at all levels of government...

F$&,k this a$$hat (Gov. Abbott)

[kimbutgar]

19. Sadly by next week this will no longer being reported by the MSM because they don't want to blame the

Orange hitlers administration for their negligence in defunding and cutting personnel in NOAA and FEMA.

These deaths are on his hands. But Unfortunately they will twist themselves into pretzels blaming the Biden administration for their F ups!

More of these events are going to occur and we must face we are on our own now.

[pfitz59]

23. Other than prayers

have any pols demanded the installation of a flash-flood warning siren?

[malaise]

24. Of course not

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