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

I am still surprised that the Country of amber alerts doesn’t have universal cell broadcasting warnings. Or at least with such huge delays.

In Germany we have a federal warningday annually since 2020 to test out the siren systems, the intercoordination and warn messages. It almost always doesn’t work perfectly, but that’s why we have it. A lot of cities also removed their siren systems following the end of the cold War.

The in 2021 we had the Ahrweiler catastrophe, where 135 people died to a flash flood in the Ahr valley, almost exactly like with camp mystic. The similarities are truly frightening and shows clearly that climate change makes these things worse.

In the aftermath a major point of contention was the lack of cell broadcasting warnings. But a delay of 45 minutes… That’s bordering on manslaughter

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/ahrtal-flut-100.html

Edit:
Here is a good site from the local public broadcaster documenting the flood
https://reportage.wdr.de/chronik-ahrtal-hochwasser-katastrophe#fruehe-warnungen

Another major point was the lack of flood protection, despite the local authorities having plans for them since the last major flood **in 1910** wich wasnt build in favour of the Nuerburgring

https://youtu.be/kWFyG0eXtZU

https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/ahrtal-starkregen-jahrestag-wiederaufbau-100.html

Given that some of these kids were related to wealthy and powerful people, who is going to resign due to this?

!ping USA-TX