Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

serving the dogma will always be more important than serving the people

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Anonymous #3 9w

yeah they accepted the funds. then used it for something else

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Anonymous #2 9w

And a radio system so police firefighters and paramedics isn’t important?

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Anonymous #3 9w

They accepted the money, then used it to fund the sheriffs department. In those officials comments, they talk about how they don’t want to support the “devil in the White House” and take money from Biden, specifically. They didn’t use the money for its intended purpose, and now we’re seeing the consequences of that.

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Anonymous #3 9w

It is important, but I would argue much less so than having immediate alert systems that are accessible to citizens themselves so they can properly evacuate. Currently, we’re seeing the impact that comes with not having that set in place. The toll of the dead and missing speaks for itself.

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Anonymous #3 9w

paramedics and firefighters yes, but police are over funded. but that’s not what those funds were intended for. now people are dead that could have been saved if it was used as intended.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

There was an alert system in place. I received flood warnings (I live in central Texas) two days before the flood even happened and had so many notifications sent to me phone. The problem was there was so many notifications that people didn’t believe them (boy who cries wolf)

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Anonymous #3 9w

Do you live in Kerr County?

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

I live in Boerne

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Anonymous #3 9w

so your comments on warnings you received are irrelevant.

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Anonymous #2 9w

I live 30 minutes away…

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Anonymous #2 9w

Literally went to high school with dudes from kerrville 😭

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Anonymous #2 9w

(I went to a private school)

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Because idk if you realize this, but emergency response and alert systems differ from county to county. While some may have well funded emergency alert systems and make that a priority, others won’t because it’s not made a priority by their leadership/commissioners. I’m lucky to live in a county with good emergency alert systems because we’re susceptible to wildfires. it’s unfortunate that Kerr didn’t have the same because the resources were mismanaged.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

They got the same notis we did lol

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Anonymous #3 9w

Do you have proof of that or is this just an assumption you’re running with, because again, if they even live 30 minutes away and technically in a separate county, they may not have access to those same resources. Where I live, you get emergency alerts if you’re a resident of the county, based on where you live.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Cool that’s where you live don’t apply the standards of where you live to where I live.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Like I said I literally know people from Kerrville I have their phone numbers and talk with them

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Anonymous #3 9w

For context, I live in a rural county in the PNW, where wildfires are our most natural disaster to deal with. While our county has a pretty good alert system following several disasters in the past where we didn’t, other counties roughly an hour away don’t have those same resources and tend to get hit even harder because those services don’t transfer county to county. Your access to these things is not always universal

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Anonymous #3 9w

And did these people tell you they were getting consistent alerts over and over?

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Wait PNW is meaning pacific northwest right? Sorry I just haven’t seen that abbreviation used before

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Anonymous #3 9w

people in the immediate vicinity of the river didn’t receive adequate warning. the NWS even sent info to state officials which wasn’t related to the population

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Anonymous #3 9w

Yes, it means Pacific Northwest. Also, in not denying your experience here, you lived it, I just hope you understand that this kind of thing is way more political than people realize and that the most rural areas are what gets hit the hardest, usually outside of towns.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

I only called one family and it was the guy who I went to high school with and I said something along the lines of I’ve been receiving alerts about flooding sending my prayers from austin (staying at college for the summer) and they said they’ve received the warnings too but weren’t sure if they wanted to leave

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

No yes I agree there is definitely some political issues that needed to be addressed but fully blaming politics for the reason this happened is so wrong

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Ok yea that’s what I thought I love it up there

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Anonymous #3 9w

Our town actually was hit by a very heavy flood recently following an unusually heavy rainfall that destroyed several homes and ruined people’s lives. While those living in cities, with better access to emergency response systems, got out relatively unscathed, those living out of town and who are more isolated lost everything. It seems the same is happening in Texas rn.

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Anonymous #3 9w

I love it up here too, when it’s not burning to the ground and I have to evacuate my home. Here’s an actual, unedited photo of what my area looked like years ago when a fire got to it.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

I can pretty confidently say that’s not happening in Texas. There was adequate warnings given out

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Wait wtf how tf

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

That’s so crazy oh my god

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

This was meant for me right? Kinda glitched

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Anonymous #3 9w

And yeah, wildfires are genuinely like watching Hell itself creep up around you and it’s scary as fuck. Fortunately, they are one of the more obvious disasters to see coming and get out of the way for so we didn’t end up losing anything.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Yes, meant for you

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Camp mystic received alerts as early as 1:14 am. The camp itself has spotty cell service along with a rule that campers need to hand their phones in.

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/camp-mystic-alerts-texas-floods/ And use removepaywall.com

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Anonymous #3 9w

I can’t click on links on here, send a screenshot please

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Copy and paste it because it’s like a long ahh article

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Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 9w

Or search up camp mystic flood warnings Washington post it should be the first one with “life threatening” in it

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Anonymous #3 9w

ehh in central texas we are constantly inundated with flash floods warnings so there definitely should have been a better way to inform people that flooding was happening

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