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Quote:I blame people who are utterly evil for their evil deeds. But every evil person has a justification for being evil, twisting the situation into something about their personal freedom or their bank account or their stupidity such as "I don't want to pay" or "You cannot make me stop doing what I want to do," or "It is none of your business what I do," or "Climate change is a Chinese Hoax," or "I will not accept blame for what I did because that is the way by twisted psychology works."
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Blaming "Trumptards" doesn't really get to the heart of repeating disasters, and therefore doesn't point to a solution. It only shows that you have TDS.
Signym, you can read Why Trump blames decisions on others – a psychologist explains
By Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University | July 11, 2025 7:23am EDT
https://theconversation.com/why-trump-blames-decisions-on-others-a-psy
chologist-explains-260877
Trump is only one out of many tens of millions of Americans who blame their decisions on others.
The Risk Was Obvious
July 12, 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects.
But then Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.
Experts say Camp Mystic’s requests to amend the FEMA map could have been an attempt to avoid the requirement to carry flood insurance, to lower the camp’s insurance premiums or to pave the way for renovating or adding new structures under less costly regulations.
Syracuse University associate professor Sarah Pralle, who has extensively studied FEMA’s flood map determinations, said it was “particularly disturbing” that a camp in charge of the safety of so many young people would receive exemptions from basic flood regulation.
“It’s a mystery to me why they weren’t taking proactive steps to move structures away from the risk, let alone challenging what seems like a very reasonable map that shows these structures were in the 100-year flood zone,” she said.
Pralle said the appeals were not surprising because communities and property owners have used them successfully to shield specific properties from regulation.
Regardless of FEMA’s determinations, the risk was obvious.
More at https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investi
gation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You are evil. We've already established this and there is plenty of recorded post history from you showing as much.
Nobody takes anything you have to say seriously, especially not your hilarious judgements of your superiors.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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SECOND,
"Evil is as evil does."
"By their deeds you shall know them".
"Do evil, be evil."
There's no such thing as doing evil in the name of good.
If you do evil, you're evil, no matter how much you fancy yourself at the right hand of God.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Signym and 6ix, please know what you are writing about for once in your ignorant lives: It's like you are totally unaware of how the USA won WWII. It was not by sending in ambassadors and philosophers to gently and graciously persuade the Japanese, Nazis, and Italian Fascists to stop their mass murdering in neighboring countries. Instead, the USA killed millions and millions of Japanese, German, and Italian civilians, besides millions of their soldiers. That is how evil is fought with greater evil.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND,
"Evil is as evil does."
"By their deeds you shall know them".
"Do evil, be evil."
There's no such thing as doing evil in the name of good.
If you do evil, you're evil, no matter how much you fancy yourself at the right hand of God.
The Trump Administration Is Violating the First Rule of Disasters
Good disaster management is premised on preparation.
By Zoë Schlanger | July 15, 2025, 7:24 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/texas-flood-respon
se-preparation/683528/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-trump-administration-is-violatin
g-the-first-rule-of-disasters/ar-AA1IDFg3
In the days since the Texas flash-flood disaster, the Department of Homeland Security has had a stock response to questions about delays in the federal government’s response, or about a recent rule requiring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to personally approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000, including rescue teams. The response goes, over and over, like this: “FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens … The old processes are being replaced because they failed Americans in real emergencies for decades.”
The Trump administration has been using this line for more than a month now, in response to criticism of its plans to remake, or perhaps disband, FEMA. And many people who study emergency response agree that, to some degree, the agency needs reform. Yet now the administration’s press to quickly strip down the agency is being tested against a devastating disaster for the first time. And it is violating a basic precept of emergency management: Be prepared.
In any disaster, responding quickly can help save people and salve the harm. Protocols should be well known and well practiced before an event. An active disaster that killed more than 130 people, with more than 160 still missing, is not the occasion to switch up the norms. “This is exactly what many of us are concerned about,” Andrew Rumbach, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Urban Institute, told me. However much FEMA might benefit from change, remaking it in an ad hoc fashion will just result in more devastation, he said: “In the context of a really complicated emergency where lots of people’s lives are at stake—that’s just not where you want to see experimentation happening.”
And FEMA’s response to the Texas flash-flood disaster has not been business as usual. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of urban-search-and-rescue teams—deployed in the past within hours during similar events—until more than 72 hours after the flooding had begun, per CNN reporting. The agency failed to answer thousands of calls from flood survivors after allowing contracts for call-center workers to lapse one day after the disaster, according to The New York Times. FEMA had fewer than 100 people on the ground in Texas within four days of the disaster, and 311 by day five; within a week of Hurricane Helene, during what Donald Trump deemed a failed response to the flooding, FEMA deployed 1,500.
The situation on the ground in these immediate post-event moments can create a fog-of-war atmosphere, and no complete assessment of the federal government’s reaction will be possible until later. “Like with any really catastrophic event, it’s hard to understand what’s happening at a micro level,” Rumbach said. Several non-FEMA rescue teams from other states and
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Camp Mystic did not evacuate kids immediately when warned of 'life threatening' flood
The National Weather Service issued an urgent flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4th. Camp personnel did not start moving girls to safety until at least 46 minutes later.
By Peggy O’Hare, Staff writer | July 15, 2025 12:47 p.m.
https://tinyurl.com/yedrp2nz Shortened link to the Houston Chronicle
The owner of Camp Mystic received a National Weather Service alert on his phone warning of imminent “life threatening flash flooding," but camp personnel did not begin evacuating children until at least 46 minutes later, the family that runs the camp said through a spokesman.
Twenty-five campers and two counselors died early on the morning of July 4th when floodwaters barreled through the Christian girls' camp, a beloved, 99-year-old retreat in Kerr County. The camp's owner and executive director, Dick Eastland, 70, died trying to rescue campers.
The weather service sent the flash flood warning at 1:14 a.m. that morning as torrential rains pummeled the Texas Hill Country. Counselors and other camp personnel began evacuating campers between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., said Jeff Carr, a spokesman for the Eastland family, whose members have operated the camp for generations.
Carr said the time frame is an estimate offered by family members who were at the camp as the disaster unfolded.
RELATED NEWS: Camp Mystic was in nation's most dangerous river valley. Did parents know?
In the NWS lexicon, a warning means dangerous weather is happening or is extremely likely to happen soon. Warnings are delivered on social media, by email and directly to cellphones enabled to receive them.
The Washington Post was first to report on the gap between the flood warning and the evacuation.
Carr said camp officials are still putting together a precise, detailed timeline of how the catastrophe unfolded.
'Actively assessing'
Dick Eastland did not sit idle after receiving the NWS warning, Carr said.
“He got that alarm. He went out on to the property to assess. He called the rest of the family on the walkie talkies,” Carr told the San Antonio Express-News. “He was actively assessing conditions across the camp ... and things sort of ensued from there.”
More than 15 inches of rain fell on south and central Kerr County during the dark, early morning hours of July 4th. The deluge caused the Guadalupe River to rise 30 feet in 3½ hours.
At 1:40 a.m. that morning, the Guadalupe stood at 7.75 feet, its normal level. By 5:10 a.m., the river had crested at 37.52 feet — an all-time high.
The downpour far exceeded the NWS forecast for widespread rainfall of 1 to 3 inches, with isolated pockets getting 5 to 7 inches.
Camp Mystic sits on a bend in the south fork of the Guadalupe River, a few miles southwest of the town of Hunt and 18 miles west of Kerrville. Children were asleep in cabins when the emergency began. The campsite lost power, and cellphone and Wi-Fi signals were unreliable.
Eastland’s wife, Tweety Eastland, 72, and other family members were at Camp Mystic along with Dick Eastland, Carr said.
Hundreds of other children staying at the campsite were evacuated. Some waded through the floodwaters to climb to higher ground and waited with counselors until help arrived.
An aerial view of two cabins at Camp Mystic on July 8, four days after a catastrophic flood killed 25 campers, two counselors and the camp's owner.
'I can't be the only one'
A San Antonio probate attorney whose two daughters were rescued from their cabins at Camp Mystic said she has unanswered questions about how camp personnel responded to the crisis.
“The more that comes out, the more questions I have every day,” said Serena Aldrich, 41, who said she has received vitriolic messages from strangers since she began voicing her concerns publicly.
Her daughters, ages 9 and 12, escaped the rising waters and moved to higher ground with their counselors. The younger girl escaped through a cabin win
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The OP:
Quote:Clearly our resident illiterates have discovered that Texans are freezing to death on July 4th.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Some may think this is about the weather which visited Texas the past week or so, but their disaster has been ongoing for years.
Texas has claimed to be at the leading forefront of Tech power, replacing reliable Power sources with Renewable Power, such as Solar Power and Wind Power.
Solar Power output was 0% in the past week, just like in Yurp.
Wind power failed as well. Just like in Yurp.
They have been practicing rolling blackouts for years now, knowing their Renewable Energies wer4e a failure, but just ignoring the problem.
Without energy, pumps could not fuel the trucks. Loaded semis sat idling at the edge of the Texas blackout zone, while store shelves remained empty. Milk had to be dumped, as well as eggs, and livestock died without energy.
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Back on topic:
https://www.ft.com/content/e6e1fe13-36f7-4fe5-84ba-77717dca68a8
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/06/green-energy-experiment-by-spa
in-and-portugal-fails-with-power-grid-collapse-and-blackout/
https://www.dw.com/en/spain-portugal-blackout-renewables-wind-solar-en
ergy-grid-v2/a-72606531
And illiterates found that the largest Wind and Solar Farm in Texas is called "Camp Mystic"
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So many didn’t have to die. Texas must fix the failures the Hill Country floods exposed
For years, local leaders knew the risks of flooding along the Guadalupe. Warnings went unheeded, protections unfunded — and more than 130 Texans died.
By Lisa Falkenberg, Senior Columnist – Texas | July 16, 2025
https://tinyurl.com/y5ecrk8s Shortened link from the Houston Chronicle
A haunting quote from Camp Mystic’s late patriarch, Richard “Dick” Eastland, has resurfaced in news coverage since the devastating July 4 flood along the Guadalupe.
“The river is beautiful,” Eastland told the Austin American-Statesman in 1990. “But you have to respect it.”
It’s sage advice — and, in a way, it also applies to how political leaders should engage with Texans today.
It’s fine to marvel at the beauty of Texans’ strength, generosity and resilience amid inexplicable tragedy. In recent weeks, more than 13,000 volunteers have given their time, treasure and perhaps even their own mental wellness to clear debris, work in shelters and join countless law enforcement officers and military personnel in search of missing flood victims.
In a news conference Friday in the hard-hit Kerr County hamlet of Hunt, President Donald Trump noted the “unity and competence” he’d seen on his tour of the area. No doubt, grief and pride have walked side by side in the days since the raging Guadalupe took more than 130 lives, with at least 100 still missing.
But our leaders, from the president to the governor on down to local officials in Kerr County, need to have some respect as well – for Texans’ right to know what happened and what didn’t happen, for the right to understand why hundreds of friends, family members, and fellow Texans are dead, for the right to insist that when the special Legislative session starts in just a few days, lawmakers will ensure that river communities will never again be so vulnerable.
At Friday’s news conference, Gov. Greg Abbott did vow to consider the myriad ideas being proposed to keep Texans safe, including warning alerts and sirens: “We’re going to work on alerts, we’re going to work on every single solution to make sure things like this don’t happen again, not just in this community but in other river basins across the state,” Abbott said. “We will work to get it right.”
This is exactly what concerned citizens want to hear. But days earlier, the governor dismissed those demanding accountability as “losers” playing the blame game. He used a convoluted football analogy to say that team players don't fault each other for a fumbled play. But, governor, don’t they study the tape on Monday to learn some lessons before the next game?
Likewise, isn't it fair for Texans to look at this tragedy and ask what could have prevented at least some of the deaths? To ask why an area known as "flash flood alley" could be caught so off guard by a flash flood? To ask why the 230-mile Guadalupe River has only four working flood gauges while the dammed-up, 87-mile Blanco River has 14? One answer to that last question is that, after flooding along the Blanco killed 13 in the Wimberley area in 2015, local leaders asked the hard questions and acted to better protect people.
And yet, when a reporter with CBS Texas asked Trump during the news conference about families who were upset about delayed warnings, the president lashed out: “I don’t know who you are but only a very evil person would ask a question like that," he told her, then told the public officials and first responders in the room, "I think it’s been heroism, the job you’ve all done."
No one denies the heroism, from Coast Guard rescue swimmers who saved hundreds of girls to Dick Eastland, who died after trying to drive three campers to safety.
But heroism after the fact has nothing to do with decisions made in the hours, or even years, before the raging floods began to swallow cars and cabins and entire families whole.
Decisions and consequences
Eastland himself was inconsistent in following his word of caution
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Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming.
Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.
By Logan Jaffe | July 16, 2025
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-floods-oral-histories
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decades-long effort by the Kerr County Historical Commission to document the community’s history, Secor had a lot to say about the area’s floods.
“It always seems to happen at night too,” Secor said of local floods he and his family had experienced. “Can’t see most of it.”
Secor said he remembered a time in the spring of 1959 when his father tried to warn one new-to-town woman about building a house so close to the river.
“‘Oh,’ she says, ‘that will never happen again,’” Secor recalled. He said her body was found in a tree a few months later after a flood swept her and the roof she stood on away.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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River managers in Kerr County had the money to improve flood detection. Here's what they did with it instead.
By Andrew Moore | 8:16 PM CDT July 24, 2025
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/state/texas-news/texas-flood/kerr-c
ounty-flood-money-river-texas-hearings/273-804d3d8d-771d-432e-af41-0d9c3da1875e
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Texas lawmakers blast river authority for 'pathetic decision' not to upgrade flood warning system
By Bayliss Wagner, Neena Satija, Keri Blakinger, Staff writers | July 23, 2025
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/kerr-county-flo
od-warning-system-20783314.php
The Chronicle report found that the Upper Guadalupe River Authority was willing to spend only about $100,000 to upgrade its flood warning system after a 2016 engineering study found that a $1 million overhaul was urgently needed, even as it built up $3.4 million in reserves for an unrelated project. It later abandoned that project and began using the extra money to lower its property tax rate.
Over two hours of questioning that stretched into the evening, legislators expressed disbelief that the UGRA not only passed on providing substantial funds for the project but also later declined to accept an interest-free loan from the Texas Water Development Board. The agency offered to pay $50,000 and loan the remaining $950,000 at 0% interest, with repayment stretched out over 30 years.
State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, who was instrumental in the Legislature’s push this year to cut $51 billion in property taxes over the coming biennium, criticized Bushnoe for the decision not to accept the roughly $31,600 annual expenditure on the warning system over the lifetime of the proposed loan.
“As the property tax guy in the family, this decision is just pathetic,” he said. “Because we’re talking about an incremental some-odd $30,000.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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