Live updates: Rescuers search for over 20 girls from Texas camp as flooding death toll rises to 27
Live updates: Rescuers search for over 20 girls from Texas camp as flooding death toll rises to 27
Parts of central Texas saw a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours, prompting multiple flash flood emergencies. Follow for live updates on the rescue effort, including the search for more than 20 girls from a summer camp in the region.
Authorities say more than 20 girls are still unaccounted for at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, where the Guadalupe River rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours during torrential rains that triggered flash flooding in parts of the state yesterday.
At least 27 people, including nine children, have died in the flooding, according to local officials. The families of three campers have confirmed their deaths to CNN.
Article says the camp has been there for a century, and the water washed away the cabin while the girls were asleep... Sounds like climate change to me. Even though the building is surely newer, they'd know where the river had risen to in the past.
What I notice in the comments of the county officials: some of them claimed "it could not have been prevented, even with radar".
Here in Eastern Europe, a weather radar makes a full turn in 5 minutes and I think that faster ones exist in fancier places. An SMS takes at most 15 minutes to deliver, with some arriving in seconds and some trailing behind if the network is under load.
Also, I'm sure some US states get even tornados, and are damn quick at sending out alerts about those things... so the diagnosis is "as usual, people ignored a considerable risk". They had not set up automation. People could have been alerted, tech for that exists already for a decade or more.
Republicans be like:
Womp womp you got what you voted for..
Ah yes, all the 9-year-old girls who voted for Trump…
Texas had more votes for Kamala than New York; Texas had 4.8M democrat voters, while New York only had 4.6M. Believe it or not, most states are fairly purple, and the elections largely depend on a small amount (less than 10%) of swing voters. Republican states have also largely relied on voter suppression to disenfranchise blue voters, rather than trying to grab the swing votes.
It's more like gerrymandering. Eh, if they dont want to do anything about it, then they get what they deserve. There's a reason it's the One-Star State.
Also, Texas population is 32~ million to New York 20~ million.
https://progresstexas.org/blog/redistricting-update-what-do-new-gerrymandered-texas-maps-look
You are a real asshole if you think anyone deserves to have their children drown to death.
While Mango Mussolini is roaming around a golf course and Johnson is praying.