Mastodon bots which mirror the NWS warnings back them up
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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Most states know how. Just not Texas.
You know whats big about texas?? Death tolls due to natural disasters they can’t prepare for
And death tolls due to school shootings the cops wait outside for.
Well they can, they choose not to.
But they can everyone in Brownsville know that someone shot a cop in the panhandle.
Almost like people flee to Mexico after committing a crime.
People in Texarkana get the same alerts. They’re statewide. It has nothing to do with Brownsville particularly. I just picked someplace far away from the panhandle.