The flood is The truth of life In Texas Hill Country, a region for a flood exposed corridor known as “Flash Flood Alley”. “
“We know that we get to know the rains. We know the river rises,” He said As a desperate search for survivors, it continued along the Guadalobi, River It rose more than 30 feet in only five hours Last week. “But no one saw this coming.”
The provincial records indicate that some CARE province officials have seen this coming and The interests raised About the time for the time of the time for the boycott in the province for nearly a decade.
Their first request was rejected to help update technology in 2017, when Kiir Province is Submit an application for about one million dollars in the aid of the program to relieve the federal risk From the Ministry of Texas for Emergency Management. District officials tried again in 2018 after Hurricane Harvey Texas invaded, killing 89 people And cause some 159 billion dollars In damage. Once again, the state rejected the demand, and directs most of the federal assistance towards the densely populated areas, including Houston.
With the investment of neighboring provinces in better emergency warning systems, Kiir Province – in the heart of Flash Flood – did not modernize an old flood warning system That lacks basic ingredients such as sirens and river standards. at least 110 peopleIncluding 27 children, who has so far died in the bloody floods that the state has witnessed since 1921. Most of them drowned in Kiir County, largely because they did not know that the water is coming. Searching for At least 161 other people Continues.
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The question of who must have been directed to the fences of the flood system in the heart Swelling In Texas. The general anger motivated the type of procedure that occurred years ago, as it saved lives. “The state needs to go up and pay,” said Lieutenant Dan Patrick on Monday of this week. “The governor and I talked about this morning, and said:” We’ll only do that. “
But even with Texas races to prepare CARE province of harsh weather in the future, the federal government is accelerating in the opposite direction. Since he took office in January, President Donald Trump has taken an ax for flexibility efforts in the country, which led to a retreat from years of progress towards helping societies to bear the consequences of climate change.
In April, the Trump administration canceled the building of the building’s flexible societies, or BRIC, which plays billions of dollars to the states, municipalities and tribal countries so that they can prepare for future disasters. Ironically, Trump signed this program in the law during his first term. But now, in the name of the elimination of “waste, fraud and assault”, the Trump administration has reduced 750 million dollars In financing new flexibility and responding to return Almost 900 million dollars In financing the grants already promised, but it has not yet been disbursed to the states to make improvements such as upgrading rainwater systems, the performance of the prescribed burns, and to build flood control systems. Fema also He canceled 600 million dollars Funding for relieving floods for societies this year, money that helps countries protect buildings from floods. Government analyzes have determined that every dollar spent in preparing for a disaster Repels $ 6 or more of the preserved costs Under the road.
Financing the Federal Risk Reducing Program requested by the governor of Texas Greg Apot as well as his request to announce a major catastrophe in the aftermath of the catastrophic floods that started on July 4 – the same amount of money that tried to boycott Kiir to benefit from the infrastructure update to warn of floods in 2017 and 2018 – It is still suspended As of Tuesday, according to the Ruler’s Office.
“Historically, if the state requests to finance the risk granting program as part of the Disaster Declaration, it has been approved,” said Anna Weber, a graduate policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But the government did not agree to this type of financing in months. “In the end, the president has the authority to announce disasters and define what is included in this announcement.”
In short, these procedures make the federal level more likely to be arrested throughout the country as climate change makes harsh weather events more intense and unpredictable. “There are many societies that, when they look at their data in the floods, disaster risk data, and their future climate expectations, they understand their risks and understand what the new natural may be,” said Victoria Salinas, who led flexibility initiatives in FEMA during the era of former President Joe Biden. “But they are unable to do things about it because they often require money, experience and the strength of people.”
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Rural and non -disadvantaged areas such as CARE Province is at a special danger. They often lack resources and know -how to obtain flexibility financing from government and federal officials. BRIC has a technology aid armory devoted to helping “low capacity” societies to develop strong applications. This has also gone. “As far as we know, technical assistance will not only be provided through this program to move forward, but there were societies there, for example, one year after a three -year technical assistance agreement through this program is not sure now about whether they are able to continue or not.”
This means that it will greatly return to the states and provinces to finance preparation projects. It is not a guarantee that countries will take measures or that societies will embrace solutions. Even a country like Texas, which has the second largest economy in the country, was hateful to help provinces pay disaster flexibility initiatives. A procedure would create a government program and grant to the reform of local disaster warning systems throughout Texas Senate failed this year.
“I can tell you it too late, and I monitor what it takes to deal with such a catastrophe, it is possible that my voting is different now,” said Wesy Field, a representative of the state, who voted against the draft law.