A Texas official said “there wasn’t a lot of time” to alert camps of the flood risk. But AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist said warnings gave “plenty of time to evacuate people to higher ground.” “The question is, Why did that not happen?” he said. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
Trump said they were alerted DAYS ahead of the floods. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
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I call bullshit. In Arizona we get emergency alerts on our phones for dust that MAY end up in strong rain warning us the dangers of flash flooding possibilities and what to do. I just got one about a week or so ago.
"The local sheriff said he wasn’t made aware of the flooding until 4 to 5 a.m. He has declined to say whether the local emergency manager, who is responsible for alerting the public to approaching storms, was awake when the flash flood warnings went out starting at 1 a.m." He was laid off by DOGE.
Finally!!! Someone in the press picked this up. This streamgage far up the Guadaupe River warned of the flash flood amost 1.5 hours before it hit those little girls at the Mystic camp. bsky.app/profile/blab...
I’d ask the USGS what they know about who watches that streamgage.
Look no farther than the group responsible for Kerr County flood monitoring and communications. Monitoring Supervisor for the past 30 years: laid off by DOGE Monitoring technicians: laid off by DOGE USGS manages the system, counties get the data off the Internet. www.usgs.gov/mission-area...
There we go.
It didn't happen bcz Cosplay Barbie had to find just the right cute little outfit to go on fox news to sound the warning. That takes time, dammit!
Evil accessories sold separately.
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This is what happens when years of anti-government political disinformation filter down to people who then disregard flood warnings. Whittled down adherence to FEMA flood plain regs through lobbied exemptions for certain people & businesses created a paradox of trust in science while disregarding it
Death and greed is their porn
I’m left wondering about the network of NWS and ER MNGMT alerts & how alerts are supposed to reach citizens. Do we have to be on 🐦 or 📺 or FB or opt in to phone alerts?
Seems there was also a state wide power outage caused by a predicted storm, too.
Texas GOP leadership is incompetent.
Uvalde 2.0. Incompetence in governing, and cosplaying rather than taking decisive action, have consequences.
I never thought I'd see the day someone from AccuWeather was the good guy, given their CEO wants to privatize US government provided weather data, yet here we are.
Incompetent government officials
Incompetence is a completely different thing than not giving shit
They don’t give a shit! They are also very incompetent!
Cruz says Greece is beautiful. Would be great if he was recognized and had every person who met him spit in his face.
Accuweather? Really?
Gubmint Bad!
TEXAS you need to elect people( that you pay) to represent you, until then this isn’t even the beginning of this disaster.
It was 1 am. The loser officials were too lazy to get out of bed !
Trump's fascist donor Dr. Joel N. Myers owns AccuWeather and lobbies to monetize weather forecasting....to him. What an un American rat fink oligarch. We gave him everything and he wants fucking more. His greed and ambition kill those little girls to make this point after Trump gutted NOAA for him.
tRump did this.
FEMA didn’t answer thousands of calls
Putting incompetents in charge doesn't help.
A mistake can be acknowledged, and perhaps forgiven. Malign negligence cannot. It requires a person to admit their awful motives and prepare to face the consequences. We know into which bin Texas “leaders” fall.
I mean one of their elected officials has taken vacations more than once during disasters. Fuck them.
the rancid crowd in the orbit of the stench, thought it would be a good way to further dishearten people and make them less likely to care about the nasty shit they are doing - tariffs, crappy bills, EPSTEIN and Pedofelon, the liar, rapist, and thief. Noem didn't want to is the real reason... CUNT
Because Texas fatheads would rather have kids die to own the libs.
Shitty cell service. Shitty electric grid. Shitty infrastructure. Shitty Governor. Too busy fighting "woke" & stripping away women's rights to fund his own state's actual survival.
Local officials addressed this on day one. The forecast said inches of rain, not 20+ feet!
You clearly don't understand how flood works. Inches of rain fell, exactly as forecasted.
Speak to the local officials asshat.
You think 20 feet of rain fell? Are you seriously that dumb?
Mike Johnson's answer: "We can only pray now." Ted Cruz's answer: "Maybe God wanted to take those people." Super-glad we have awesome leaders like those 2! (not)
They need to be voted out!!!!! When are their terms up?😩🤔😡
Is that what Cruz said 🤔? What a despicable thing to say 😪
Plus it wasn't an "act of god" that cut the funding for the early warning systems -- it was Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson and all the Republicans who voted to defund them.
He should be next in line. He's been around too long. Time to go!
Wasn’t he also abroad when this happened? Just like the last time there was a major crisis? I think it was the winter freeze/power outage? Dude is never in the country when shit hits the fan
Yes and that time Cruz lied about why he was there, and the lie was exposed bigly. How he gets elected is a mystery. Beto O'Rourke would have been infinitely better for the people of Texas, and for the country. Hard to unseat someone once they're in, no matter how bad they are.
Was just talking about something along those lines earlier today… if there’s no way to enforce accountability &/or remove those that aren’t… nothing will ever change bsky.app/profile/wtfb...
Because Americans have been taught they are smarter than scientists. And they believe it.
Bingo
Conservative voters have been brainwashed into believing the educated are the "elite" and therefore shouldn't be trusted.
They ignored the warnings because they were playing children's games with peoples' lives like Texas always does.
Yes, and a Kerr County official said "there wasn't a drop of rain" on his 3am jog that same morning. The only thing Texas officials care about is staying in office. Your well-being only matters on election day. 💯 Source: #WindyApp
Kristi Noem has blood on her hands.Children drowned because she took 3 whole days to activate FEMA search and rescue.Clearly her focus was on more important things like dressing up, making up lies, threatening Americans, sucking up to Trump, and hurting anyone with brown skin.
Did Texans vote for budget cuts in the GOV?
Fuck accuweather. They always wanted in on privatizing NWS.
Because the one in charge is incompetent and was too worried about how its pictures looked to care about people. The whole orange turd administration is corrupt and useless. They don’t care about anyone but themselves. I don’t think they even give a shit about each other.
So that’s why Gov Abbott wants no investigation
Cabins were BUILT in the floodplain. I can't get over the needless deaths and needless trauma of survivors. This is a known flood zone So many things went wrong here. So many
I believe Governor Abbott responded on this very clearly: Because Texans are winners, not losers. And football.
MAGA answer : “God’s will” REAL answer: MAGA partisan refusal to use money appropriated for such needs under Dem administrations; anti-science ideology; corruption; stupidity: incompetence
interesting, i wonder if 25/k per yr codered might not be the best solution. some ppl seem to have gotten it at 1am and others at 5 am. good software cost milions... www.kxan.com/investigatio...
Everyone had to sign up for CodeRed. WEA notes go out to anyone with a phone on, unless they've disabled them. Kerr has an alert system and didn't use it.
Because “don’t tell me what to do” toddlerism. They smart dontcha know…can handle it themselves with god.
Answer: because republicans can’t govern
Also @propublica.org I'd say their mute response is due to the fact that they spent FEMA readiness money on their cops. They could've had water height monitors and early alert systems, but instead they got fancy radios and an assault vehicle. Oh, and a walking path. That's now unusable.
That up coming lege session will be full of nothing but thoughts, prayers, and weed referendums. Dead kids, present and future, don't matter, but we gotta debate the super fine points of CBD content. Can't have people getting high ya know!
Short answer, Kristi "puppy killer" Noem. She didn't give approval until the following MONDAY. Disgraceful.
Are you not familiar with the business aspirations of a "Death Cult?"
RFK brings disease. ICE brings war. Kristi brings famine and disasters. Trump brings death to everything he touches.
If you think im being outrageously extreme, then holy shit its going to happen to you and nothing can stop it.
The Turner Diaries anyone?
Step 3.
www.britannica.com/topic/The-Tu... I had no real idea. Bless you for sharing knowledge.
Yeah, the dark shadows of the Pacific Northwest are real. I recently had to beg a Jewish friend from letting her hubs talk her into moving up near Sandpoint Idaho or NW of there (Metaline Falls, WA), one time hotbeds of ChristoFascists Nazis that still harbor bad seeds. They killed Alan Berg.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... When I was a teen, I stumbled across a Nazi cottage in my city. It was an otherworldly experience. For years, I literally thought I had imagined it. That was the terror, talking.
I remember that place — swastika burning Outback hit national news decade ago!
Trump regime has blood on their hands. Who knew cutting off all essential services would cost lives? Or they knew, and they think it's just working out just as project 2025 intended. Eugenics at work
Warnings on fucking Facebook, in the middle of the night, don’t count.
This happened because of accuweather. Irony is dead lol
The reason they didn't respond is because, like their evil governor, they're MAGAT monsters who don't give a shit about anyone, including fellow MAGATS.
If you ask that question you are 'evil', according to the Dear Leader.
Accountability will only come if we never forget.
Living in Texas under Republican rule is a threat to human life, whether adult or child, but mostly for women and children. 100% don’t recommend.
Well said 👍
Because the Republicans want us to die. Look at the BBB and DOGE neither saved any money. All they did was remove protections and safety nets from Americans. A lot more of us are going to die as we experience weather catastrophes!
Gee, when's the last time a Texas official lied about something when caught up in their own incompetence? Daily, hourly?
Exactly. :/
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Surely Camp Mystic had a PA system. Why wasn't it used to wake up the campers and tell them to run up the hill behind them, immediately?
They did. It was not working on the day of the storm.
Mystic, unlike another camp in Hunt did not have anyone awake and monitoring the situation.
They had a night watchman. He ended up in one cabin where they floated the girls on mattresses. Not sure what he was doing before that.
Texas refuses to protect children
I have to also say that like gun violence afflicting schools with loss of life over decades nothing will happen for the better. Life is cheap to rich cons politicians with their fat bank accounts, best benefits, months vacation. They are glutinous mfers. They don’t care and want to pray it away.
They didn’t respond because they’ve been conditioned by Abbot to be anti govt. The floodwater isn’t going to stop coming BTW. Extreme weather here to say. Sorry God, I hate some people beyond measure.
Texas is a horrible state
I hope Texas residents don’t let this go! It will prevent from future tragedies.They should tell Abbott, Trump, Cruz, and the puppy killer to all stick it where the 🌞 doesn’t shine and quit campaigning with their lies! It could have been prevented and saved so many lives!
They will either forget by the next election or be too brainwashed to vote anything other than R. I lived through the 2021 freeze and electrical grid crisis and watched the online outrage against Abbott and ERCOT unfold, knowing full well not a single thing would change. It hasn't. I left.
Texas sucks
Wow, why aren't these alerts automated? It shouldn't be up to some guy to do it.
Because Texas. Kerr county voters & leaders refused to approve an automated system. Didn't want to accept money from Obama & Biden to pay for it www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
Oh FFS
Propublica knows how to write an article. If a politician says they didn’t think it would be that bad is not true. They know we were in Paris agreement. We failed. Scientist said extreme weather would be more frequent and severe. It’s obvious they probably ignored the scientists. Deniers
💙💙💙 The loss of life is so sad, especially when it was so preventable. I am barely in the 21st-century when it comes to technology and when we have weather alerts. It comes through on my cell phone and my landline. There’s no excuse that they were not properly warned
Because doing that would be “too woke”.
It's all about failures of disaster warning communications networks. Identifiable, named people are answerable, culbable, liable for those failures. Let's make them pay. And iteratively, deter future failures of communication. Anything else is wilfully creating a situation of moral hazard.
According to Trump, it’s evil to even ask that question. I’m pretty sure it’s evil to endanger children’s lives.
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I attended Church Camp in the same valley this horrific, Tragedy. We had cabins close to water. Had we had an alarm, it'd have taken 10-12 min to get 400 campers out & up 50 feet to higher ground. I taught for 40yrs. For FIRE DRILLS, we routinely cleared our huge bldg of 3,000 kids in 12 minutes‼️
Just like the police in Uvalde, Texas law enforcement can’t be bothered actually helping people.
To let people die, including children, over partisanship, is monstrous. But it’s what Republicans do all the time. They really don’t care about kids. Pro-life is a such a crock of shit.
Of course, Accuweather's founder/owner has been pushing to privatize weather services for decades and a huge Trump donor. It might be safe to infer that he has a vested interest in deflecting blame from his overlord's administration.
Not saying there's not plenty of blame to go around, just that Myers's version of finger-pointing might be particularly self-serving.
It takes 10 minutes to walk a group of kids up a hill. There are zero reasons for anyone in the United States to die a preventable death. Zero. We have the technology and the money. Power hungry egos demanding to be the sole decision makers are quite literally killing us.
Complacency.
Why? Because of micromanagement.. The system has been destroyed. I cry for the loss of life.. Its could have beeen prevented.
The Republican playbook 2025: Lie, lie, lie, outrage, outrage, outrage at being asked about the lies.
Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight
…because it is Texas, where only the rich white men matter. Abbott is the worse governor ever.
I heard from someone who works at NOAA and they said the local NWS offices always have a person who's responsible for making sure warnings issued in a county is known by the county emergency manager. They follow up with them. But the NWS employee who did that was laid off by DOGE.
Caution and warnings are for blue states…
Sadly, it is clear that it was possible:
When you don't believe government does any good, and you elect people to government that have those beliefs, this is exactly what happens.
For the same reason all those cops stood outside Uvalde, they're not going to put their lives on the line potentially.
Are public officials in the Lone Star state too busy following their own ⭐s to give a rip about public welfare?
Because it's every man, or child, for themselves. Sad and horrific to live like this when we dont have to. We have the technology to counter this stuff. My heart breaks for all of those people.
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Texans are used to saying the government is corrupt. So when a Texan gets a position in safety, they don’t do their job because the government is corrupt. Texans never seem to be adult and acknowledge errors. they just dig the hole there in deeper and blame somebody else.
That's the definition of Republican governance...don't do anything and point the finger at minorities.
It sure seems like they want certain people to die
I actually believe the local officials were asleep until it was too late.
The videos of people vehemently opposed to accepting money for improving their infrastructure back in 2023 (I think) is so ridiculous almost comical before but so painful to watch after the floods.
If you know that there’s a campground with a bunch of innocent little kids sleeping by the river, if you only have time to warn one group of people, you warn them.
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Wild West.
Probably because many were tourists and didn’t realize the amount of danger they were in. If you have never experienced a flash flood, you’re not likely to take a warning as seriously. We get these warnings all the time in the south & many ignore them unless you live in a flood zone.
If the warnings were sent out and received the camp owners would have realized it.
The warnings were sent out. The owners either didn’t hear them or they didn’t heed the warning. It happens. Happened here in Arkansas in 2010 at a campground. I forget how many were lost. It was bad.
My point is, these alerts are so common in this part of the county. Seems like every time it rains a flash flood watch/warning is issued, & rarely does it actually flood like that. People don’t usually seek higher ground because a lot of times nothing happens. We’re accustomed to ignoring them.
Does Kerr County, TX have a Sheriff and/or a fire department? When the NWS issued a flash flood warning, telling people to go to higher ground, why weren't any of their units dispatched to tell people? Those units all have sirens and loud speakers!
There are a LOT of helicopters with bright lights, sirens, and loud speakers in TX that could have flown the river warning people to get to higher ground. But then someone might have snuck across the border. The ability to warn and evacuate was there.
And echoes of Uvalde. Texas officials need to be cleaned out and new and effective leaders “for the people” need to be voted in!!
They'll avoid ever admitting it, but they got where they are because they are sadomasochist sociopaths. It's not that they don't care if you die, THESE FUCKERS ENJOY THE THOUGHT OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE DROWNING. WAKE UP.
propublica is going to ask the tough questions I already have the answer. The government fucked up.
Comfort, TX found the time to push one button. No residents of Comfort perished. Texas has spent well over $11b ginning up hate for immigrants, but, more importantly, keeping the GOP as rulers. There are zero excuses for this.
Sure, but someone had to sound the alarm. That's where Kerr CO failed.
If I lost a loved one in that flood I’d get together with all the other families who lost their loved ones and sue the hell out of Texas, FEMA and DOGE. I might even try to sue Noem, Musk and Trump.
Mark me. I have been saying it...This is part of the plan to eliminate the surplus population.. The fewer people, the more jobs, you become surfs for the Oligarchy, forced to worship Trump. He is killing people by proxy. It's good these orders came directly from him; You will be able to hang him.
Do tel me how those campers qualify as surplus.
The thing you have to understand is that they literally do not care who they kill, as long as they're killing as many people as possible. They're fine with killing their own supporters and their own people, and killing children does not bother them.
Also. Why are the camps still there? There have been three massive floods in the past few decades in the same place. Why didn't the government provide safeguards, or why didn't they move the camps? Because the government doesn't care about the individual...just the vote. RED STATE. Go research.
You posted about Noem holding off on FEMA. Why? Why, if it was important to them that these people live, would they do that? It seems to be too much for Americans to process. The rest of the world sees this but I understand how hard it might be to accept what we see.
How do they not? If they'd been important to the GOP or to Trump, they wouldn't have cut the funding for the warning systems and fired meteorologists. You don't seem to get it. This is not about what people look like. It's Policy Violence. It's not overt because they wouldn't be able to justify it.
They don't know what their jobs are, don't care about doing those jobs, know they can get away with anything by lying 🤥🤥
Because it took dog killer Noem 3 business days to give approval
How about the firefighter that called Kerr County SD and warned them by phone 90min before water started rising?
Well, when you don't believe in a climate crisis, vaccinés, or science in general, these are the chances you take. Vote for those who are trying to look out for you. #believeinscience
They say they didn't have time to warn but they defund the very programs that would have made them able to do so. Fuck Republicans and fuck Red state government assholes
Everyone has to stop passing the buck. I am so tired of people who complain, point fingers and do not admit fault. Grow UP
It's on Kerr County. Other counties responded.
There seems to be a pattern here - red states get slammed by weather disasters, their government officials consistently fail them, people die and this causes widespread suffering which their governments, now the Feds, as well, ignore. Why these states still vote Republican, I can’t understand.
Their actions seem more like Uvalde to me. Those guys weren't really punished for standing around while children perished either, were they?
NWS posted flood alerts on Thursday, given the amount of precipitation predicted was at that time less it still means everyone should have been aware of the possibility of flooding long before Saturday and have made contingency plans. Criminal incompetence at every level.
Why would anyone have a school camp set amongst one of the most flood prone river systems in the United States? Who is running this shit show? #amerikkka
Because AccuWeather is a for-profit company that has been donating to Donald Trump for over a decade. Their entire business model is eroding the trust of NOAA and convincing Trump to give them exclusive satellite access.
Fortunately there's a word to describe what led to the failure to alert and evacuate. The word is NEGLIGENCE.
