Kristi Noem Did Not Deploy FEMA To Texas For 72 Hours After Flooding Began

[hecatmoggie]

From the link in the OP:

The issues are not limited to the federal government, with Joe Herring, the mayor of the hard-hit city of Kerrville, saying that the area had been asking for state grants to install a flash flood siren system along the Guadalupe River since at least 2017, and that they had been denied.

The Texas state legislature is dominated by Republicans. As such it is no surprise that they are not interested in grants that would save lives, they are focused instead on a $10 billion tax cut.

we stayed at a river place and they had a system with an alarm/float mechanism ......... they can be bought for a few hundred dollars

they are not 100% fail safe/full proof .... but then nothing is at 4am in the morning.

I'm surprised with that many kids and they all knew the weather warnings why nobody did a night shift and stayed up to watch the river

 

[Chomsky]

The National Weather Service doesn't trump the counties.

Disaster warnings are the purview of the counties.


Again...local authorities have precedence.

From your article...

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for DHS, told CNN: “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.”​

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One Texas state official told CNN that the Texas emergency management division has been interacting with FEMA “in the way we always do for disasters like this.” The official added that Texas has “quite a bit of capabilities” related to disaster management on its own.​

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Other aspects of the federal government have assisted, including the US Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection.​

Try reading past the headline and first two paragraphs. This is CNN, after all.

Then why did you stop your excerpt short of the very next and proceeding paragraphs?

But the additional red tape required at FEMA added another hurdle to getting critical federal resources deployed when hours counted.

Texas did request aerial imagery from FEMA to aid search and rescue operations, a source told CNN, but that was delayed as it awaited Noem’s approval for the necessary contract.

FEMA staff have also been answering phones at a disaster call center, where, according to one agency official, callers have faced longer wait times as the agency awaited Noem’s approval for a contract to bring in additional support staff.

By Monday night, only 86 FEMA staffers had been deployed, according to internal FEMA data seen by CNN — a fraction of the typical response for a disaster of this scale.

But I suppose there is one excerpt bolstering your point:

Trump said: “You had people there as fast as anybody’s ever seen.”

There we go. We can rest assured, now!

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[ncguy]

Of course, the exact question that should be asked of her, but never will by fox, is "exactly what day did you approve assistance to texas"

 

[CaughtInThe]