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.
So, when they try to deflect blame and say “Trump’s cuts hadn’t taken effect yet,” keep this in mind.
Like being a buncha hypocrites ever stopped them from worshiping Trump.
FEMA is dead. The states are on their own, they just weren’t given any time to prepare.
Wasn’t that county asking for a warning system for the last decade?
No. That county was refusing to install a warning system even when Biden’s American Rescue Act would have paid for it.
To be clear, they kept all the money, they just refused to build the alert system with it.
They took the money and gave it to the Sheriff’s department.
For military equipment
Generally, they don’t need to pay for that military equipment other than transportation costs.
The Sheriff in Kerr County was interviewed the day after the floods, and his first comment was about “when I woke up this morning, I could hardly believe it!…”
This fucking guy slept through the flooding all night as kids were drowning in his county he was elected to protect.
The Sheriff’s phone was on Do Not Disturb, in a major flood zone, with a monster storm underway.
While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.
Just $600,000 went to staffing and community amenities. No money was set aside for a flood alert system.
But think, now they all have new trucks and tac gear and shit so that they can look cool when they show up for those kids funerals
If the trucks weren’t wrecked in the flood
Here’s hoping. Fuck that county. They could have saved lives but they didn’t. Those kids deserved better parents
Spectacular.
Biden gave them 10 million for the system and they gave it to the sheriffs department instead. This is 100% on Kerr County
No. They had the opportunity to apply for a ton of money for the system and didn’t.
No no, they got the money. They refused to use it for this and instead gave it to the sheriff.
They’re stupid and “welfare queens”.
I thought they had the opportunity to apply for a $1m grant, but they’d have to put up $72k and they decided not to.
It used to be that there were consequences for fuckery like this. Congressional hearings, firings, resignations, getting blackballed from employment, and even impeachments. Now, it’s just another day with this inept and evil administration, and everyone just shrugs their shoulders.
🤮
I gotta say, three guns per person is starting to sound like a strength and not a weakness.
You’re not wrong
This been the status quo since Katrina (in terms of disaster response). Truly awful
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7%, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.
That evening, however, Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.
The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8%, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9%, the documents show.
How could they not use AI??? (/s)
That’s what they wanted. Small government. Bootstrap. All that. Feds have been widely lambasted, shit on, gutted for resources, and now those left operate in a constant state of fear and worry just trying to do a decent job for this so-called society.
Get fucked.
Edit: see the comment below pointing out precisely what I’m getting at. This county asked for it and its unsurprising.
Im just picturing a Republican voter with a trump flag blaming Biden while his house is washed away
Trust Republicans to take a government program that was already limping along and make it a hundred times worse.
Texans who voted for these dumbasses deserve the pain. Those who didn’t, they need to get better organized and get their state sorted out. This shit isn’t going to improve and the next time is gonna be worse than the last.
Texans will never listen. They never learn. They are still blaming Biden.
Oh, we know exactly who killed those people trump and noem are murderers
More blood on these Nazi’s hands.
trump and noem are murderers
… again.
They voted for it to be abolished so to be expected.
alt headline: one min wage employee struggles to keep up with 1000 phones
See, government doesn’t work. /s
yeah its like what they do to the usps and the aca. Its amazing on how things don’t work that they work to make not work.
Welcome to Republican-run taxpayer-paid public services. Why provide efficient public services when billionaires are waiting for another tax break?