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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and - as last week showed - deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood

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Many states, including Texas, have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other disasters

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-- Scientific American (@sciam.bsky.social) Jul 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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For Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, this repeating cycle of environmental disaster followed by scant preparation for future events is not coincidental. "Texas will spend a lot of money recovering from disasters, but they'll spend very little trying to avoid the next disaster," he said.

The GQP is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 11:07 AM | Reply

They suck at it because they elect ghoulish s(*&bags who live in safe places and have resources available for them if they need it while everyone else gets hung out to dry.

It's really not hard to see why the approach to governance and societal cohesion in Texas would be a problem where the further you are down the economic pyramid the bigger the problem is.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-14 11:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Someone said Trump is planning on giving Texas back the name it had before a bunch of slave-owning yanquis lied their way onto foreign soil: Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas. Ready for the Sharpie any day now. Oh, almost forgot: Mexico will pay for it.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-14 04:46 PM | Reply

he GQP is a death cult.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

what number is this on your SFS auto post ?

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:29 PM | Reply

#2 | Posted by jpw

that's right c sucker...that's why NO BODY IS

moving to Texas....( sarcasm nit wit )

--will be more if the commie muslim professional college application lying sack of schhhhte is elected mayor of nyc

people will be coming from all over the world.

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:38 PM | Reply

-------------, don't forget to add 300 drowned to the child-raping orange jizzfart's body count.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 06:41 PM | Reply

I just got video of 3 of the 5 chief meteorologists in Dallas talking about flash floods.

not gonna tell you cesspool goons what they said other than those are most difficult
predictions they face....but you suckers
won't understand / believe professionals
anyway

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-14 06:51 PM | Reply

-------------, did you see that your orange pedo hero is now drowning relatives of the Kansas City Chiefs owner?

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-14 06:56 PM | Reply

Maybe if they they had a real man as a governor, instead of a pathetic cripple.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-14 09:06 PM | Reply

Why?

They don't care about you. They are rabid narcissists. If it does not benefit them personally they don't care.

That's why.

Stop electing people who don't care if you live or die.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-15 01:05 PM | Reply

"Texas will spend a lot of money recovering from disasters, but they'll spend very little trying to avoid the next disaster,"

I saw the video of the people at the Kerr County meeting calling Biden a corrupt communist and how taking the $10,000,000 grant to buy flood monitoring equipment and a warning system was going to force them into a socialist hellscape.

I wonder how many of them had relatives who died in the flood. I wonder if they regret their actions. I doubt it. Self reflection seems to be lost on people that rabid.

By the way they did keep the money and spent $7 million on new emergency radio system for law enforcement and fire personnel, $1 million on bonuses to sheriff deputies, and a new walking path.

Do you think they regret that now?

I am thinking they don't.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-07-15 01:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why Texas Sucks So Bad at Handling Disasters

Because they outsourced it to G-d.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 03:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

It's terrible here in Texas. Trust me bro, please don't come here.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-15 06:09 PM | Reply

... But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood ...

Especially in an area nick-named Flash Flood Alley.

Do You Live In Flash Flood Alley?
twri.tamu.edu

... For many Texans, the Hill Country is not just a region but a way of life: beautiful vistas of rocky hillsides, small towns with live music and quaint festivals, and, of course, hot summer days spent diving into spring-fed swimming holes or floating down iconic rivers.

Those same rivers can tell another story about the Hill Country, however. Those rivers run through Flash Flood Alley, one of the most flood-prone regions on the continent. Following the curve of the Balcones Escarpment through Texas' middle -- from Waco south to Uvalde -- Flash Flood Alley's weather and landscape distinctively work together to produce rapid flood events. ...



#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 09:10 PM | Reply

I just got video of 3 of the 5 chief meteorologists in Dallas talking about flash floods.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You're right. This was more of a local level Republican failure than a Federal level Republican failure.

#15 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-15 09:13 PM | Reply

@#11 ... I saw the video of the people at the Kerr County meeting calling Biden a corrupt communist and how taking the $10,000,000 grant to buy flood monitoring equipment and a warning system was going to force them into a socialist hellscape. ...

Wow.

Found this ...

Here's what happened in Kerr County meeting now under flood scrutiny
www.nbcdfw.com

... Texans continue to ask questions about what happened before the deadly Central Texas floods. Some pinpoint a 2021 Kerr County Commissioners Court meeting where county leaders debated whether to take $10 million from the Biden administration.

What people claim online is not exactly what happened. So here's what did go on.

In November 2021, Kerr County commissioners debated whether to use the $10.1 million from the American Rescue Plan, the Biden administration's priority legislation to fight COVID-19.

A video of the meeting was posted on YouTube. You can verify the video for yourself by comparing it to the meeting transcripts posted on the Kerr County website.

"That's a lot of money. That's over a million dollars, probably to Kerr County. I'm not ready to give that away," said County Judge Rob Kelly.

During the public comment period, some people showed up to ask their leaders not to take the money, fearing it would require the county to implement a vaccine mandate, a masking mandate, and take other public health measures to fight COVID-19. ...

"I am completely disagreeing with taking this money. The strings attached to the situation, we don't want it," said Ronald Campbell, one of the speakers.

"If you vote to keep Biden's money, I will hold you personally responsible and personally liable," said Shari Snyder, another speaker.

Other speakers were more colorful and insulting, calling former President Biden a "communist" and a "devil." ...



Wow.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
- - - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 09:17 PM | Reply

"That's a lot of money. That's over a million dollars, probably to Kerr County. I'm not ready to give that away," said County Judge Rob Kelly.

Won't spend it for its intended purpose, which was to have "bells ... or something, go off."
Won't give it back.
These are the same people currently running the country, just at the local level.
It's Joever.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 09:35 PM | Reply

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