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Texas flood warnings

2025-07-08 01:38:13.506409+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Reddit /r/texas — We have floods all the time and small town politics

COMMISSIONER MOSER: I think -- I think this and that's what the committee is going to look at and how to do it. I think the going in position is that we don't need to change anything, and is there a need to improve what we have. And if there's a need to improve how much is improved. And what the options for doing that and what it would cost. And I think the first thing to do is say why change anything. It worked this long and maybe we don't need to do a thing. And then it gets into the thing we talk about earlier today, and that's risk mitigation. And you know there's still people drowned and you know --

COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: And I hope you ask the question like who are we notifying, or who are we trying to get the message to? Are they these crazy people from Houston that build homes right down on the water?

Basically, if you're not a local in the phone tree, they don't give a shit.

Via Dreamboat Annie ‪@soulwithoutaking.bsky.social‬ who notes:

They really do explicitly say—several times—that they are specifically not interested in warning "the crazy people", the people from Houston that build houses right on the river, the people they don't know, the people who aren't part of the phone tree: they explicitly don't want those people warned.

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