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What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How is it every time a silver single gets lost everyone's phone turns into a siren yet they can't figure out how to use it for a deadly flood.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Most states know how. Just not Texas.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know whats big about texas?? Death tolls due to natural disasters they can't prepare for

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But they can everyone in Brownsville know that someone shot a cop in the panhandle.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    The first part is the reason for the second part: the alert system isn’t targeted enough so people disable it due to the majority of the alerts being disruptive but not applicable.

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