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


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

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    1. DramaticBush on

      If this happened in California we would have endless congressional hearings and podcast bro outrage. 

    2. TheOnlyFallenCookie on

      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

    4. SleeplessInPlano on

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

      !ping USA-TX

    5. Shirley-Eugest on

      I have no idea who ultimately is to blame. At the moment, we’re less than a week from this unspeakable tragedy, and I’m not interested in getting to the finger pointing yet, though a time for that will come.

      All I will say is, I do know that MAGA state and local officials haven’t exactly earned any benefit of the doubt in my mind, over the last 10 years. I practically assume that they most likely cut corners and let populist politics take priority over common sense and public safety spending, as another poster said already.

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