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"And I think the first thing to do is say why change anything. It worked this long and maybe we don't need to do a thing." *SCREAMING*

What I’m gathering from this is that this tragedy is less the result of staffing cuts to the weather service but more due to choices the elected representatives made.

Living in a town that has warning sirens, the only time they go off in the night is when there’s a threat. So his sleep is so precious he doesn’t want his family and the community to be warned if there’s a threat?

If the idea of a warning system with the purpose of protecting people living in and visiting the area threaten your sobriety it is time to resign. You are clearly not fit to hold any sort of office.

These men are fucking ghouls. A tourist is a guest. Under the honor system they pay lip service to you protect a guest who you have provided hospitality to. I know, I come from one. Risking your guests (who you owe your livelihood to) over ego is monstrous even in their thought system.

"Instead of relying on some municipal warning system, why not just rely on getting a text from the fire chief like I do?"

In their defense, the radio situation as they described it could have killed somebody too.

Here’s video of the Kerr County, Texas meeting where they discussed the ARPA funds they could have used to pay for a flood warning system: www.reddit.com/r/texas/comm...

look at the story closely and you'll see that even in this newspaper story they attack Joe Biden for causing inflation

"Texas really said we’re going to send you alerts over the same channel we use for flood evacuations and tornado warnings every time a policeman is sad and so everyone stopped listening to them" bsky.app/profile/samt... "when copaganda kills"

Is the sidewalk underwater?

"someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do." Like say, a child from some other area who is there for camp?

That doesn't mean they are useless though, that means they are "not annoying". I certainly pay attention at night.

Those fucking bastards managed to get those little girls killed because they thought sirens weren’t needed.

For sure, it’s an unimaginable tragedy that could’ve been prevented.

Just a reminder: when Texas passed the 6 week abortion law, Abbott stated that he was going to end rape in the state when asked why the state had no exemption for rape. So what happened?

They don't care about those people. Most of them probably don't even care about people in their community who attend a different church than they do.

And that quote is from the 2016 debate on using one million dollars of Kerr County taxpayer money, so it’s pretty clear that being good stewards of public funds was never actually the issue.

Like visiting campers in the middle of the night? Those people? These are the leaders in the county? Ahhhh, move!

You mean every first Tuesday of the month. Assume different systems/localities are tested differently? In regions of Illinois I’ve lived in I think it was always first Tuesday. Now genuinely curious what others are used to.

They probably did manual integration tests less frequently with the full tone sequence, but the daily “Noon Whistle” was just a single tone to mark the time and make sure the sirens worked (unit test).

My Nebraska hometown had that system. The siren was audible 7 miles away at the family farm

Seriously! They're tested once a week here, and for an instant my brain still goes "oh no hit the deck" and then I remember: it's Wednesday, just the test. I have not tuned it out or become blasé!

I wonder if Mr. Hewitt is still alive and has been reminded of his words and his vote.

Well I don't think they'll be getting many tourists for awhile so I guess they can be glad for that. /shudder

Yeah screw the tourists, they can just leave their money with us and die. We ain't spendin' a red cent on nothin!

"We don't want sirens to warn us that our kids might be about to die." -These stupid fucks

If we make noise to warn people who are about to drown, it might wake me up. So no audible warnings, please.

Good lord, these people are huffing their own farts in a really, really, reallllyyyy bad way

Those damn sirens would only go off at that hour if there was a dire emergency, and he knows that.

He seems nice. And smart! Holy fuk.

Murderous stupid Red hat brain syndrome

“Our beautiful county should be wracked by death first before we ever install some damned sirens!” – a totally normal human thing to say

Only the most incompetent buffoons imaginable. This has been the Republican party for most of my adult life.