Disaster declarations have been issued for parts of central Texas after heavy rains produced “a catastrophic flooding event” and killed an as yet unconfirmed number of people.
The National Weather Service issued multiple flash flood warnings followed by a flash flood emergency early on Friday morning for Gillespie and Mason counties, after more than a foot of rainfall fell in just a few hours in the hill country west of Austin.
The local news outlet KXAN warned that “life-threatening flooding is imminent or occurring. Leave low-lying or flood-prone areas immediately, but do not drive over water-covered roads.”
The negativity here really goes to show that even much of the left isn’t class conscious yet.
You got it all wrong. The left is sick of being stoic in the face of the right’s evil. So the niceness is over.
The amount of assholery in this thread is hilarious.
Thoughts and prayers. It stopped gun violence in schools right?
Ted Cruz frantically trying to book a flight to anywhere outside of the states.
Ask some private businesses to save you. “Sure, it’ll be $1000/hr to extract your family (max 3 people). $500/dog. If you join our platinum rescue service we’ll grab your tv and provide snacks.”
Sorry FEMA can’t help you
It’s all a part of gods plan. God hates yankees
They can pick themselves up by their bootstraps. Small government and all that.
They should call for federal aid.
Number’s been disconnected
*government handouts
Well, if the state wasn’t bought by the fossil fuel industry this wouldn’t be happening on this scale, would it? How’s the lone star state feeling now? Punished by plague (Measles), Floods, and instead of locusts they have the massive proliferation of ticks and the spreading of them far outside the state. Life imitating Art.
Time for the first borns to die and then it’s complete.
As someone from San Antonio, hearing that over 30 children 7 and up got washed away and likely died in a flash flood is heartbreaking.
There are lots of people who are liberal as fuck who live in Texas. We have to deal with gerrymandered districts and a shit ton of rural people who have more voting powers than us.
Also in TX. Seeing loads of heartless comments here. Hopefully we can come together as Texans and make some positive change.
Agreed. The negativity here is astounding
Knowing america has written you off is disheartening, but at least you have your fellow texans to rally together.
Local here too. For the longest time I used to blame it on gerrymandering, but the Governor, Lt. Governor and President are all straight votes with no gerrymandering and we still lost. I know some of it can be chalked up to disenfranchised people, but it still should be something we could flip.
a ton of republicans moved to texas during the pandemic, that made it worst.
This is good Christian Texas, they all believe in arcs so I’m sure that each, individually, with personal funds, and by the sweat of their own brows, have built themselves private arcs. They’ll be fine.
An ark is a boat, an arc is a curve
I’m sure they have two of each animal onboard.
Thank you. Fixed.
Build a wall around the water.
Just shoot it in the face
And make Texas pay for it.
If only we could’ve predicted this. Oh well
