• DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Texas can spend all the money in the world on disaster preparedness, but it won’t matter if Camp Staff has their cell phones and weather radios switched off.

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      11 hours ago

      You couldn’t even be bothered to read the article could you?

      Here’s a fun fact for you. Outdoor sirens can be heard by people, regardless of the status of their electronic devices.

      As the article states. Texas seems very willing to spend enormous sums of money on disaster recovery, but very little on prevention, as the mentioned siren system was shut down in the Texas Senate for the reason of “too expensive”