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What is the point?

Abbott's solution is prayer? Oddly enough, it doesn't stop floods anymore than it stops bullets. Also, is posting on X and Facebook their idea of an alert system? Seems woefully inadequate.

100%. Texas gal here, have experienced a river flood in this same area (Comal County, Frio River). It was boots on the ground that saved us. Trucks and flashlights began driving around alerting campers to higher ground.

Tornado sirens should have been used as well for something as catastrophic as this... 💔

so when do the Mike Lee lol posts start happening?

Incompetent.

I just had the same thought.

It probably be Joe Biden’s fault, as it seems like everything else that goes bad or wrong is his so why not lump him with the floods?

It sounds like the only warning system in place was social media. Not everyone is on twitter and certainly not in the wee hours of the morning.

[2/2] "Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

they don't care. as long as they and their donors get paid they don't care how many of us die.

Republicans think government can be run like business. Government is expensive because it profits LIVES not shareholders.

The other question I have is how alerts are sent via cell phones. I use a number from a previous town/area code. Friends get amber/silver alerts that I don’t get and we are all sitting at the same table at the same time.

Too little too late from the feds

question, how much money does U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas take from big oil?

They failed tragically and needlessly, and those girl’s deaths rest unequivocally on republicans looting of essential services for regular citizens that aren’t billionaires. Thiel, Musk, and the Trump & Toadies killed those girls, but will never own it. They can’t even tell the truth. EAT THE RICH.

For real. I don't use Twitter or Facebook, I would have been up shit creek if I was there

All those people in Texas can thank MAGA/DOGE/Trump. They are the reason these children are dead. Don’t pull a punch. It’s because they took the tools away so they can privatize it and make money.

“Muh rights!” meets basic decency for others. How much you want to bet that Kerr Co Judge Kelly lives on top of a hill and already rationalized his lack of accountability? Absolutely gross.

Given the gvmnt appetite for clawing back funding of public media organizations these days, it kind f begs the question: If NPR doesn't do it, who will? 🤔 Serious question. @npr.org #texasfloods #socialmedia #alerts

How else do they transmit emergency alerts? Don’t they send alerts to mobile phones and landlines? Radio stations? Posts on X and Facebook are hardly an emergency alert system.

Posting alerts on Twitter is one of their many mistakes. How many people have Twitter? What about emergency alerts that go to folks'cell phones? Did they not have that? It all stinks to high heaven. Those poor children and all the people who lost their lives, their homes, everything.

Since when in the HELL do you only get notifications of weather emergencies by following accounts on X and Facebook?!?!?

NPR may you never die!!!!!!!

How is it even newsworthy when they posted to X or FB?!? @gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social Did state officials seriously think that was a way to notify people?R911? EAS?

Thoughts and tariffs.

Nice try to cover for the GOP, NPR. That's why I don't give you any donations. Even soft propaganda is still propaganda.

Conservatives and many Democrats have been running errands for fossil fuel interests for decades. Fossil fuel corporations that in turn spent millions attacking science, and continued to increase production & emissions. Add in libertarians and others that want "small gov't" - and are anti science.

No, that's just where NPR went looking. NWS alerts are constantly available over radio, everywhere in the US. We've just become, as a nation, too dumb to operate radios.

It may just be that its harder to track down text messages quickly. I'm in Austin proper, not Hill Country, but I got flash flood weather alerts on my phone. But that would have to be confirmed by individuals or agencies, where anyone can check social media.

Warnings were sent thru many avenues as this article describes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/t...

No, you're wrong.... Dead wrong. They'll find some way to blame President Biden. That's how these soulless creatures roll.

That’s what I thought when I read it, that a bunch of teen camp counselors needed to be getting freaking X alerts in the middle of the night? My phone’s weather app sends me flash flood alerts, that doesn’t happen in Texas?

I was thinking the same thing. 🙄 We get text alerts directly in emergencies in Los Angeles. If there were park rangers they should have been dispatched.

"At some point in the morning, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick later said at a press conference, the TDEM Region 6 Assistance Chief had "personally contacted the judges and mayors in that area and notified them all of potential flooding.""

That is rather unfair. They did almost nothing in Uvalde.

Look at the incompetent MAGA that is the Republican Governor! That is why Texas is so messed up!

I was thinking the same thing! We have sirens that go off during a weather emergency

This is what happens when trump and Elon forced them to use X to issue warnings.

What is really most concerning is they don’t understand what a watershed is how it functions. Just because it’s not raining here doesn’t mean it’s not raining heavily somewhere in the watershed.

Warnings were sent out thru cell phones, weather radios etc www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/t...

Who uses x???

Well to be fair, Greg Abbott says prayer always works and they don’t have to spend any money on it. How does Texas put up with him?

Thanks. So an interim report was issued. Any new gun laws or actual changes that will make a difference?

We have sirens here in Chicagoland. Even for severe thunder storms. I don't get this social media stuff in TX.

You seem to be implying that the Texas government really, really sucks. Abbot threatened to retaliate about what Canada does to Texas, then Canadian tourism in Texas drops by $500 million, and Texas starts advertising online "Canadians, please come visit Texas!!"

There were people helping, doing a lot of work to rescue….And I’m very thankful, but after the fact. Where was adequate warning? Official systems in place? Prevention? Just asking.

Right. I don’t use those propaganda mediums. It’s a failure on governments’ part not to utilize all sources of media🤨

Oh, my god! An easily thwarted disaster, save for incompetence at the highest level. Fuuuuuck!

I can't speak for the local officials, but I'm certain the local NWS office used multiple outlets for communication. I'm guessing this was just a limitation of research for this article.

Social media? Please, if you can, follow up with some real journalism that asks local people if: a) they received Wireless Emergency Alerts (cell phone network push alerts) b) local authorities directly calling or visiting them.

So it turns out it is up to local authorities to activate reverse 911 NWS sends alert to IPAWS for local authorities, who decide whether to issue a reverse 911

That was my first thought. How weird is that?!?

And people left particularly FB and Xitter

Or they turned off emergency notifications.

In San Antonio here and I feel like maybe I've seen blue alerts a couple of times? Maybe? What goes off the most in my area seems to be Amber Alerts 🫤 I have legit anxiety about hail storms so I have close to 10 weather apps going off all the time with any weather event.

Sounds like nws forecasted heavy rain days in advance and flooding just after midnight. But it wasn't until 7am the police department issued a warning while the city said the rain was much needed. Nws did their job. The county is just incompetent.

I know right? Weather radio? Is that still a thing? Or if I turn on my weather radio right now will I find it off the air?

They also send out WEA/EAS alerts. Radio, TV, and automated phone system. Those went out normally. No ides why they weren't listed here. As for the sirens... Be honest, do people you know actually take shelter for a tornado? What makes you think they'd remember and follow a flood siren?

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Wow, so they've got Musk in charge of emergency alerts. Go figure.

Why were they posting updates on X?? I don't have X so I guess I would have been screwed in this situation? Were alerts pushed to the weather apps like AccuWeather or WeatherBug?

It is not remarkable but still stunning to me that people down river don't understand that a severe storm up river will be sending lots of flood waters their way. Flash floods happen because of what is happening up river.

Tx needed miracle not prayers.

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Especially considering there are 25 summer camps in this region with 2500-4000 kids present on any given summer day.

have them call the felon he can Sharpie the flooding away

When the disaster authorities pre-position boats and other flash flood emergency assets, maybe that is the time to remind people that they should have an active escape plan, stay alert to water speed and level, and move to higher ground when the water advances. And check the kid camps early!

And predictably, they will blame the Biden administration.

It's like they say: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when life gives you an ice storm, make a timeline of government responses."

NWS local/Severe Thunderstorm/Tornado are the only reason I keep Twixxer. I also keep NWS open on my computer. I like Weatherbug for its storm tracks, but I hate that it doesn't auto update. I should prob sign up for an alert, tho, at least when we are traveling.

Prayers? Fuck Abbott.

Prayer! 🤣🤣🤣

So you are only entitled to warnings if you live in the Zuckerberg/Musk world? Many of us either never lived there or have walked away from those hateful toxic platforms.

Thank dog FEMA is there to help during this natural disaster...oh, wait.... Texas: You fuckers really shot yourselves in the foot. Blood on your hands Flood

Texas is so anti-government that people run for public office to do less, not more.

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Trump was "embarrassed" by the NWS and NOAA with his hurricane sharpie incident, so it must be destroyed. (and repubs want to privatize it)

So, am I correct that they primarily used X and Facebook as their methods to alert people?

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

The plan was instituted under Reagan. Shrink the government down to a size to drown it in a bathtub. They’re succeeding beyond expectations. Unfortunately the suffering isn’t as severe as it will get.

That's my question. What other alerts were utilized? How many residents are on X and/or FB?

I live in the area and we were being told 12 hours prior. A flood event is going to happen. You can look it up on X @ChrisSuchanWOAI. No I didn’t take the forecast seriously either

Kristi Noem:

It’s outstanding factual reporting like this that drives taco and his fascist minions nuts. Can you imagine for one minute the nazi news network doing this?

Prayer works to absolve responsibility, so there's that.

Nothing fails like prayer.

Or why he’s governor?

What a horrific message for the families of the 27 kids missing from a Christian camp. Absolute monster.

This is why I love NPR. Thank you.

How many weather catastrophes must occur in Texas before Texans realize their governor is the real and recurring disaster?

It would also be good to include on the timeline when past federal government agencies Would have posted warnings...

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Rice will be the scapegoat, someone has to fall on a sword.

Mediocre white men are killing you