This is one of the clearest, most sobering things I’ve read about this. Thank you. We’ve turned “no one could’ve known” into a catchphrase for denial. But we did know. Scientists knew. Texans on the ground knew. Anyone paying attention to the last decade of storms knew.
What we didn’t do was act.
And you’re absolutely right—calling this “an act of God” lets the people in charge off the hook. This is policy failure, negligence dressed up in prayer language.
We can’t keep rebuilding in the same danger zones and pretending it’s all random. Climate change isn’t just a global problem. It’s local. It’s here. And it’s sweeping children away while the people who could do something about it keep playing culture war politics instead.
The next flood will come. The question is: will we have finally decided to care enough to stop pretending it’s someone else’s fault?
Like you, I've been glued to news reports. Climate change is real; it's devasting and heartbreaking. Agree with everything you said. As I'm writing this, CNN just showed photos of a Mystic cabin with beds and mattresses thrown about. There are no words for how I feel.
agree 100%.......we can't go wrong if we tell the truth.......climate change is unpredictable, undesirable and dangerous.....by all means de-fund clean energy since u know more than Mother Nature
Michelle, thank you for being the adult in the room and reminding me that we should wait until I point fingers. We should wait why this happened. Like you said “GOP hasn’t really made policies that the scientists recommend back in the day so that we wouldn’t be here today. Lastly, I also want to say ditto to what Aleksander Constantinoropolous wrote about your article. ✌🏼
TT_"Taken together, KFF estimates that the megabill’s provisions will lead to 1.7 million Texans losing their coverage, adding to the nearly 5 million children and adults under 65 who currently lack health insurance."
SNAP
"Under the bill, states will have to cover a portion of SNAP benefits — which are currently paid for by the federal government in full — based on the percentage of erroneous payments made. States with an error rate under 6% will not have to share the cost, while states above that will be on the hook for escalating costs tied to their error rate.
Texas logged an error rate of 8.3% in fiscal 2024 — meaning that, had the law been in place, the state would have been responsible for 10% of the cost of SNAP benefits, or $716 million per year, according to the North Texas Food Bank."-TT
To say "no one could have known" is the perfect example of willful ignorance. If you are one of those willfully avoiding a close examination of the the repeated disasters then you are not contributing to the solution. In effect, you are one of the contributors to the problem. Please pull you head out of the sand and make a contribution to the solution. Rich S, Octogenarian and Contrarian and former Texan.
This is one of the clearest, most sobering things I’ve read about this. Thank you. We’ve turned “no one could’ve known” into a catchphrase for denial. But we did know. Scientists knew. Texans on the ground knew. Anyone paying attention to the last decade of storms knew.
What we didn’t do was act.
And you’re absolutely right—calling this “an act of God” lets the people in charge off the hook. This is policy failure, negligence dressed up in prayer language.
We can’t keep rebuilding in the same danger zones and pretending it’s all random. Climate change isn’t just a global problem. It’s local. It’s here. And it’s sweeping children away while the people who could do something about it keep playing culture war politics instead.
The next flood will come. The question is: will we have finally decided to care enough to stop pretending it’s someone else’s fault?
Like you, I've been glued to news reports. Climate change is real; it's devasting and heartbreaking. Agree with everything you said. As I'm writing this, CNN just showed photos of a Mystic cabin with beds and mattresses thrown about. There are no words for how I feel.
agree 100%.......we can't go wrong if we tell the truth.......climate change is unpredictable, undesirable and dangerous.....by all means de-fund clean energy since u know more than Mother Nature
Michelle, thank you for being the adult in the room and reminding me that we should wait until I point fingers. We should wait why this happened. Like you said “GOP hasn’t really made policies that the scientists recommend back in the day so that we wouldn’t be here today. Lastly, I also want to say ditto to what Aleksander Constantinoropolous wrote about your article. ✌🏼
I will write more later, but if people want accurate info, read the kerrcountylead.com on Facebook.
Thank you. I’m getting so angry at our side for spreading conspiracies on this, but even more for the lack of empathy from blue staters.
TT_"Taken together, KFF estimates that the megabill’s provisions will lead to 1.7 million Texans losing their coverage, adding to the nearly 5 million children and adults under 65 who currently lack health insurance."
SNAP
"Under the bill, states will have to cover a portion of SNAP benefits — which are currently paid for by the federal government in full — based on the percentage of erroneous payments made. States with an error rate under 6% will not have to share the cost, while states above that will be on the hook for escalating costs tied to their error rate.
Texas logged an error rate of 8.3% in fiscal 2024 — meaning that, had the law been in place, the state would have been responsible for 10% of the cost of SNAP benefits, or $716 million per year, according to the North Texas Food Bank."-TT
To say "no one could have known" is the perfect example of willful ignorance. If you are one of those willfully avoiding a close examination of the the repeated disasters then you are not contributing to the solution. In effect, you are one of the contributors to the problem. Please pull you head out of the sand and make a contribution to the solution. Rich S, Octogenarian and Contrarian and former Texan.