After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas. @loganjaffe.bsky.social
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I guess that was the one time God didn't say build an ark.
jul 17, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
246 people died in the winter storm of 2021. Experts put that number much, much higher. Yet these people who run the state government keep getting voted in.
jul 17, 2025, 2:38 am • 2 0 • view
Texas elections are rigged.
jul 17, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
officials lie, hope that helps
jul 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
The wizard of oz comes to mind.
jul 17, 2025, 8:02 am • 0 0 • view
Republicans not studying history? You don’t say
jul 16, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
🙃
jul 17, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 7:45 am • 1 0 • view
"We get those warnings all the time, and nothing ever happens." I've heard it over and over in Texas, in Louisiana, Florida, virtually every weather tragedy prone state.
jul 17, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Fully fund NOAA and FEMA and defund ICE to do it
jul 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
jul 19, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
It was a FEMA flood plain. Everyone knew. They chose inaction.
jul 17, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. Texas you knew this could happen and permitted people to build in very dangerous areas
jul 16, 2025, 9:00 pm • 2 0 • view
The lonely ⭐️ of Texas!
jul 16, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Well NOAA was decimated by Trump but surely NOAH could have warmed them?🤔
jul 17, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
If only the officials knew how to read the documents.
jul 17, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view