Texas floods - Girls missing

I am not confident that either leopard can or will change his/her spots.

 

People have and will continue to die due to her incompetence.

 

Are you related to Joni Ernst?

 

If the Soviets only had our capitalist advances in botox and social media influencing, they could have made it work

 

Texas News Anchor Rips Kristi Noem And Greg Abbott Over Flood Press Conference

 

The reach around admin

 

The exact opposite of what I was saying. Instead of focusing on blame for something people couldn’t control Amd using it to try and settle political scores, the focus should be on the victims. But the last ten pages have been people yelling at each other.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve.../texas-flooding-alerts-kerr-county-emergency/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html

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.

The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired. FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

 

"Sometimes Mother Nature just wins" sounded to me like "We are all going to die some day." IMO, this tragedy was avoidable.

 

So exactly how would you like Too Hot to “focus on victims”? thoughts and prayers?

People can’t control nature. But people can control how we prepare for it and react to it, areas where there has been clear failure, much of it due to negligence and being miserly with resources.

In our attention economy if issues aren’t discussed at the time they have our attention, they are forgotten with the next shiny object.