Get a good system to alert, wake, get the attention of all the people at risk and on the way out'a there right away for $0?

(1) The weather center develops a warning directed graph of persons who spread the word to get the PAS at their work. You ask what is the PAS?

(2) PAS -- People's Alert System: Everyone in the weather center, fire, police, and everyone else ready and willing to help, etc. who has access to a car, better, a firetruck or ambulance, gets in and turns on the horn and/or siren and drives all the vulnerable streets and makes sure all the buildings are awake and know about the threat. Then the PAS people, with others as passengers, drive the heck out of the area of the threat. Should also work for hurricanes, etc.

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They can, they just don't want to, and as long as it's someone else's kids in the flood, who cares?

Because we need more billionaires first!

Step 1. More billionaires

Step 2. ???

Step 3. Functional society!

The infrastructure was built with borrowed federal money that was likely never paid off. Then you need to maintain that infrastructure with local taxes. There isn't enough tax revenue to maintain all of it. Run the numbers.

When we built that infra the workers didn't have health insurance and they didn't need it because they could afford their own healthcare out of pocket. Some things have changed.

A cell phone warning did go out, but only ~1/3 of phones in the flash flood area were warned. It seems really haphazard. Friends who had no warning had other friends call them in the middle of the night to ask about borrowing trucks/trailers. They were lucky!

The NWS issued a flash flood watch, upgraded minutes later to a flash flood warning, just after 1am. At 4am, the NWS Austin office issues an emergency bulletin saying "This is a FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for South-central Kerr County, including Hunt. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!"[0] These warnings would have triggered an alert on people's cell phones, however the timing makes it unlikely that campers or counselors would have been awake to notice. If someone was tasked with monitoring the weather, they either didn't get that warning or didn't act in time for it to make a difference. There were not sirens installed to warn campers of flooding. There was a warning system installed in the late 80s, but it was shut down in 1999 after falling into disrepair due to a lack of maintenance. Efforts to install a new system with warning sirens failed to gain traction.[1] [0] https://www.statesman.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/08/texas... [1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings...

...of parts of America.

there are still states that take care of their people. weirdly they tend to vote Democratic. but y'know, correlation doesn't equal causation /s