FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors

Here's some local and national reporting I found interesting.

1. Kerr county balked at the cost of flood sirens. [0]

2. Kerr county didn't alert all cell phones of the emergency. [1]

3. Kerr county repeatedly asked the State of Texas for flood help and the state said no. [2]

4. Kerr county was in the bottom half of property taxes in the state of Texas in 2017. [3]

[0] https://www.wowt.com/2025/07/11/small-texas-community-where-...

[1] https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/fema-records-kerr-coun...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-a...

[3] https://www.uttyler.edu/academics/colleges-schools/business/...

Kerr county didn't balk at the cost of flood sirens. Biden sent them 10 million dollars for this exact purpose, and they refused to spend it, because it would have let the federal Democrats do something useful for their constituents. [1]

> "Accepting the ARPA money and putting our County under existing and future executive orders would federalize us and make us all slaves."

These people are certifiably insane.

The 10 million did eventually get spent on new police radios and bonuses for the sheriff's department. [2]

[1] https://www.chron.com/news/article/kerr-county-flood-funds-2...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-co...