Kerr County officials waited 90 minutes to send emergency alert after requested, dispatch audio shows.

At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas’ Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office to alert nearby residents, according to audio obtained by ABC affiliate KSAT. But Kerr County officials took nearly six hours to heed this call.

The first alert didn’t come through Kerr County’s CodeRED system until 90 minutes later. Some messages didn’t arrive until after 10 a.m. By then, hundreds of people had been swept away by the floodwaters.

  • Zephorah@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    What is wrong with Texas’ public services? First that electricity debacle, now they can’t send an alert?

    I’m standing by my theory that the powers that be in this country want to prune We The People down, passively.

    • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      3 days ago

      It isn’t a theory, they’ve told you this to your face. How are people still not getting this ?

      Some of his own proposals go further. On his blog, he once joked about converting San Francisco’s underclasses into biodiesel to power the city’s buses. Then he suggested another idea: putting them in solitary confinement, hooked up to a virtual-reality interface. Whatever the exact solution, he has written, it is crucial to find “a humane alternative to genocide,” an outcome that “achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society) but without any of the moral stigma.”

      yarvin and theil are your biggest problems, trump is just the diaper wrapped moron they slapped on the front of the bus. Waving signs at nazis is ineffective.