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.
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.
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.