Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
alt headline: one min wage employee struggles to keep up with 1000 phones
Welcome to Republican-run taxpayer-paid public services. Why provide efficient public services when billionaires are waiting for another tax break?
Trust Republicans to take a government program that was already limping along and make it a hundred times worse.
Texans who voted for these dumbasses deserve the pain. Those who didn’t, they need to get better organized and get their state sorted out. This shit isn’t going to improve and the next time is gonna be worse than the last.
Texans will never listen. They never learn. They are still blaming Biden.
Im just picturing a Republican voter with a trump flag blaming Biden while his house is washed away
So, when they try to deflect blame and say “Trump’s cuts hadn’t taken effect yet,” keep this in mind.
Like being a buncha hypocrites ever stopped them from worshiping Trump.
I really hope these people I knew of who purposely moved to Texas to support Texas politics lost their home. 🤞
Is that mean of me? No, these people constantly voted for things that hurt or even killed people around me. They pushed beliefs that actively harm other people. I would have zero remorse if my wishful thinking came true.
As for what we do next, I wish my state would stop paying federal taxes.
I also hope that people who don’t share my political views lose all their possessions in a natural disaster. Oh wait, no I don’t because I’m not a dickhead.
It isn’t about disagreeing politically, I disagree with friends of mine politically. It’s about the fact that they go out of their way to hurt others and cause suffering, and they think it’s fine.
I’m not OK with that because I’m a human being that cares - sorry you don’t understand that.
So which is it? Do you only want people to lose their homes who
go out of their way to hurt others and cause suffering
Or
purposely move[d] to Texas to support Texas politics
because it sounds like you’re moving the goalpost now.
Let me help you out friend, there is only one struggle, the class struggle. When you parrot billionaire talking points like that it’s the working class’ fault because we all chose from their rigged choices, or didn’t vote at all, or are a victim of decades of cradle to grave propaganda you help the billionaires keep us divided.
I really hope you can see beyond whatever culture war tactic is being used to divide us and stop spreading hateful messaging like working class people should lose their homes.
I don’t disagree with the necessity of a class war.
But when people like this inhibit progress towards a class war, they will be removed as a hurdle and I will absolutely be happy about it. There is nothing wrong with that.
…i wish you’d take them back: they’ve really dragged down this place over the past three decades…
Yeah, but just think, the wife’s various MLMs she keeps trying really help the community…
And the husband’s BBQ skills really help the neighborhood…
They’re probably the same people that insist on calling pigs in a blanket, a kolache. A kolache, being a pastry filled with fruit, is a food first made in TX by Czech immigrants. It’s so disappointing when places say they have kolaches and it’s actually just pigs in a blanket.
Without them, we might have been able to boot Cruz from office a few years back when Beto was running. According to an exit poll at the time, native Texans largely for Beto and those that moved here largely voted for Cruz.
The klobasniky is technically what they’re referring to with the generic ‘kolache’, but don’t get it twisted, the true kolache is Czech. If anything the false kolache klobasniky is the TX made Czech food.
The Czech Stop still fights the good fight but every Asian Donut place lists Kolache when they mean sausage roll.
I didn’t realize kolaches were actually Czech. I looked it up at some point and must’ve read some bad info.
Dang, that timeline sounds great
FEMA is dead. The states are on their own, they just weren’t given any time to prepare.
Wasn’t that county asking for a warning system for the last decade?
Biden gave them 10 million for the system and they gave it to the sheriffs department instead. This is 100% on Kerr County
No. That county was refusing to install a warning system even when Biden’s American Rescue Act would have paid for it.
To be clear, they kept all the money, they just refused to build the alert system with it.
They took the money and gave it to the Sheriff’s department.
The Sheriff in Kerr County was interviewed the day after the floods, and his first comment was about “when I woke up this morning, I could hardly believe it!…”
This fucking guy slept through the flooding all night as kids were drowning in his county he was elected to protect.
The Sheriff’s phone was on Do Not Disturb, in a major flood zone, with a monster storm underway.
For military equipment
Generally, they don’t need to pay for that military equipment other than transportation costs.
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.
Just $600,000 went to staffing and community amenities. No money was set aside for a flood alert system.
But think, now they all have new trucks and tac gear and shit so that they can look cool when they show up for those kids funerals
If the trucks weren’t wrecked in the flood
Here’s hoping. Fuck that county. They could have saved lives but they didn’t. Those kids deserved better parents
Spectacular.
No. They had the opportunity to apply for a ton of money for the system and didn’t.
No no, they got the money. They refused to use it for this and instead gave it to the sheriff.
They’re stupid and “welfare queens”.
I thought they had the opportunity to apply for a $1m grant, but they’d have to put up $72k and they decided not to.
It used to be that there were consequences for fuckery like this. Congressional hearings, firings, resignations, getting blackballed from employment, and even impeachments. Now, it’s just another day with this inept and evil administration, and everyone just shrugs their shoulders.
🤮
This been the status quo since Katrina (in terms of disaster response). Truly awful
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7%, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.
That evening, however, Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.
The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8%, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9%, the documents show.
How could they not use AI??? (/s)
That’s what they wanted. Small government. Bootstrap. All that. Feds have been widely lambasted, shit on, gutted for resources, and now those left operate in a constant state of fear and worry just trying to do a decent job for this so-called society.
Get fucked.
Edit: see the comment below pointing out precisely what I’m getting at. This county asked for it and its unsurprising.
Oh, we know exactly who killed those people trump and noem are murderers
More blood on these Nazi’s hands.
They voted for it to be abolished so to be expected.
See, government doesn’t work. /s
yeah its like what they do to the usps and the aca. Its amazing on how things don’t work that they work to make not work.
