At least 32 dead in central Texas in devastating flash floods, over two dozens remain missing, officials say
Death toll in devastating central Texas flash floods climbs to 82, dozens still missing
This is a tragedy, and unfortunately the general sentiment I've seen online from trumpers is that "this is not natural" and "this was an intentional geoengineering attack by the democrats". MTG has already introduced a bill that:
prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense.
This is the worst timeline.
So the combined efforts of 8 billion people can't change the climate, but the democrat party can? Do they think it's full of supervillains or something? Oh fuck. They probably do, don't they?
As a progressive, I would LOVE to have these mythical powers that Turdpublicans think me to have. Sadly, I can't turn off wildfires or make mosquitos stop sucking.
The left are simultaneously super villains and weak lazy useless moochers. It’s a fascist mainstay.
Do they think it's full of supervillains or something?
Remember, with these types, every accusation is a confession.
EDIT - clarification: They're attributing nasty supervillain weather-control powers to the "Libs" because, were they themselves in possession of such abilities, they'd gladly use them in such terrible ways.
That is a shit policy. That wording means that planes can't be used to pour fire retardants onto blazes, and likely many other useful practices that I don't know about.
Made worse by the hijacking of the Magic: The Gathering acronym by Marjorie Taylor Green.
Their behavior is such a disservice to the victims.They simply couldn’t admit to being wrong about climate change. It’s painfully disingenuous. And will create more victims in the future as magical thinking and conspiratorial voices are elevated
Climate denial should be seen as the same as being a Nazi. People are actually being harmed and biomes are being destroyed.
Wasn't that introduced to counter ideas about geoengineering against climate change?
Like solar engineering and stuff like that? It makes sense from the perspective of somebody who denies man-made climate change to not have people tamper with this.
I don't think the claim of this resent event beeing an geoengineering attack and the bill you refer too are connected. At least not as far as I understand it.
At least 43 fatalities have been reported so far, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference Saturday evening. The dead include 28 adults and 15 children. Twelve of the adults and five children are unidentified, Leitha said. At least 27 campers were missing, Dalton Rice, Kerryville city manager, said.
This is such a tragedy, so many of the dead and missing are kids.
Innocent people, mostly poor, were the victims. Politics and election results aside, this is awful and not the time to be gleefully vindictive.
My mind has been so poisoned by the vindictiveness of US culture since 2016, that I genuinely read a headline like this and a big part of me is happy it's the other side that got hurt. Like wtf happened to me.
Hurt people hurt people. (The cycle of abuse)
Get offline. Hate is one of the emotions people use to increase click rate and engagement. Imagine being so full of hate that you're glad that the children who died are the children of people you don't like. And you don't even know who those children were, you just assumed who their parents are because of their geographic location. That is what being online for too long will do to you. Do yourself a favor and unplug before you can't go back.
Are the Trump cuts to NOAA and FEMA helping or not?
imagine voting for trump and then he directly causes the death of your child
i guess at least we don't have DEI anymore... fucking /s
didn't you hear, democrats have a weather machine and are making this for... reasons
Note that many impacted are in blue areas of Texas.
Remember TX , climate change is a myth and you should worry about the scary immigrants instead of looking at your infrastructure.
the Guadalupe River had risen about 26 feet in 45 minutes.
Goddamn...
There will still be Texans that won't believe in climate change. Drill baby, drill, as they say
Is FEMA helping, or is the melting mango fart withholding money like he did for Sarah Huckasand's state? Maybe if Greg Abbott were a little hotter and let creepotus fondle his bussy he'd get some funding.
I’m sure the cuts at NOAA and NWS didn’t have anything to do with worsening the tragedy.
Great job Texas you are a nice warm up for how much of a disaster this year will be.
If you voted for mango Mussolini, YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.
For those that didn’t, I’m truly saddened and sorry. Hopefully enough of the racist trash died for Texans to successfully vote in their own self interest in the mid terms.
Global climate change is a HOOOOOCKSE!
You get what you vote for.
Kids can't vote. You are one degree away from advocating collective punishment.
The tragedy is that most of the time, the vast majority of people who vote for that shit doesn't suffer the consequences immediately or at all.
Eh, Texas isn't a real place.
I do feel bad for anyone who was affected by this who did not support Trump and his dismantling of the weather services that could have prevented this.
However, for anyone who was affected who voted for Trump and supported his dismantling of said programs? Fuck around, find out.
Unfortunately, even with better forecasting, it wouldn't have been possible to predict exactly how much rain was going to fall or where in a storm like this, but just two days before all this started, they were literally predicting sunshine this weekend in Central Texas.
There's a huge element of randomness in this kind of storm, where one area gets 15+" of rain while 30 miles away they only get 3", but a warning that excessive localized rainfall was a possibility would've been helpful.
I also blame the local government. Central Texas is flash flood central due to our geography, and all local governments should have emergency preparedness plans to send out push notifications to people in their areas. This all went down in the middle of the night and happened so fast that the local government got caught totally off guard though
I agree with your points but it is extremely frustrating that they also are killing the science to try and have better predictions and not even bothering with managing climate change which will make these kind of events more frequent and more devastating. I am sure you already know but it is so damn frustrating. People are dying and it only is going to get worse.
The federal government has been dismantling weather systems left and right. Those systems could have given valuable minutes of warning. Flash floods do happen, but even 10 minutes of warning can pretty much save everyone.
The reason they did not have this warning is because of Donald Trump, And then after him every single republican politician.
Silly human, push notifications are for hunting cop killers, not saving lives from floods!
/s.
fascist govt will do nothing to help, blame it all on brown people, and call it a day.
then maga will say "mexicans did this to us!!" and increase their hate further
it sounds stupid and absurd, and it is.
welcome to amerikkka
Don't think the children voted for Tump.
And literally the first sentence in my comment addressed that chucklefuck you're not being clever you're just being a gotcha-seeking asshole.
You sound like a preacher who says that natural disasters hit us because of homosexuality.
Good people help communities, no matter who they are. Good people don't cheer or act smug when had things happen to a community. There are dozens of young girls missing after their summer camp got swept away. It is very possible most, of not all of their parents were trump supporters... none of the children voted for trump. This isn't a point for your team, these are lives destroyed.
Yes, if this happened in California term trump would make it clear he doesn't care, and his supporters wouldn't flinch. But those are despicable people, pity them and show them how we should respond to tragedy.
Texas Trumpers/Republicans strongly voted for a president & governor they knew would:
Homosexuals:
That person: the Trump voters involved got what they voted for, I feel sorry for everyone else.
You: you sound like those preachers that say gays cause earthquakes.
What a terrible analogy. People are allowed to vent frustrations, especially when 'taking the high road' has proven to be completely ineffective in changing the opinions of conservatives, and especially ineffective against fascists.
Feel sorry for the victims and their families no matter who they are. However, do not pity any of them if they come out and blame anyone who isn’t part of the Trump administration or Republican Party because they stripped a vital service of resources that could have potentially saved some of these lives.
They don't sound like that at all. The Trump admin has been dismantling and defunding NOAA and FEMA. FAFO.
Is the Trump admin a good community you are so desperately preaching about?