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Homesickhorn

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.VK-Y.JQHuXiBpk9PR&smid=url-share
     
    FEMA not answering calls from Kerr
     
    Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
    The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
    The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired.
     
    75% Kerr County voted for DOtarD
     
     

    Well, I fucking didn’t.
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  2. I’m in as well. This town is still in the shock phase of things. Kerrville itself is business as usual, until you approach the river, which is all the time. I feel like the shock is going to wear off soon, and I’m afraid of how (and for how long) that’s going to last. Supplies are abundant; clothing, dry goods, water, etc are all here, and still coming in. Those things are also being donated locally to the point where one entity will tell you to take your load to another because they’re saturated.

    Let me know what I can do, and I’ll do it.

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  3. I’ve been relatively absent from the thread today, for my own reasons. I can say that we were pulled back from where we were today (Centerpoint), because of the operational change. They’re bringing dogs in tomorrow, and they don’t want our scent to cause any confusion.

    This has been a firsthand shit show. But reading the shit talking on this thread makes me want to put my fucking fist through a wall.

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  4. Brisket, I typically agree with you. And I get your point. But I’d bet balls to a barn dance that there were a fuckton of undocumented folks out there distributing food. My point was that for a brief moment/couple of days, it didn’t matter. There was a common goal, to help, and everything else went out the window.

    At least that’s how I perceived it. Maybe I was just too fucking tired.

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  5. These are the ones I was referring to. They were found on Lane Valley Rd. If they’re Mystic girls, that’s approximately 20 miles.
    I was just turned around at Ingram Dam, driving my trailer out to Hunt. Probably already been posted, but they’re getting everyone out again due to another wall of water warning.
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