Kerr county discusions on a flood warning system

[Jirel]

10. It's like talking to a wall.

There WERE multiple levels of warnings, from text alerts to sirens to door knocks to squad cars using loudspeakers.

Visitors, or even some residents who know the risk, don’t always heed those at 4 AM. They may not even hear them at 4 AM, with the value placed on blocking out sound and light for better sleep. Sirens are not made for rousing people in their homes -they are meant as a loud warning for people caught outdoors.


So many armchair quarterbacks want to expound that “if only this one magical thing had been done, the tragedy wouldn’t have happened.” There is no such thing. We are learning about some really awful points of failure in human decisions. We’ll find out more in coming days. And in the midst of all this Chip Roy is yapping that this just goes to show we need less government. Assh*le, small government - the choice of a single city manager with nobody else to counsel him or tell him he’s being a penny pinching moron - may have caused 50% of those deaths.