New York Times: FEMA Let Texans Drown While Calls Went Unanswered

[Dr. Phosphorous]

How is that Trump’s fault, Simp?

Didn't say it was, lightweight MAGA lump of shit.

Learn to read, troll.

 

[Nostra]

By who, MAGA gimp?

Certainly not your worthless shit-for-brains ass.

People who were there. People who actually have names.


‘Who you got, Pervboi?

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

People who were there. People who actually have names.


‘Who you got, Pervboi?

Wrong again, dickweed.

Reporters have asked TX officials why they didn't use the IPAWS system and they still haven't explained why.

Making up your own MAGA reality again....like all Nazis do.

 

[Nostra]

Wrong again, dickweed.

Reporters have asked TX officials why they didn't use the IPAWS system and they still haven't explained why.

Making up your own MAGA reality again....like all Nazis do.

Ask them, Simp.

The Federal response was proper. More staff in hand than normal levels, and warning went out per NWS guidelines.

Your bullshit narrative has been destroyed, but keep trying to push it. This is fun.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Ask them, Simp.

The Federal response was proper. More staff in hand than normal levels, and warning went out per NWS guidelines.

Your bullshit narrative has been destroyed, but keep trying to push it. This is fun.

Wrong again, MAGA shit-for-brains.

You've got no facts, no game, and no intellect.

Kristi Noem, in her infinite wisdom, decided that she has to personally approve EVERY purchase over $100,000......which is basically EVERY ******* purchase during a natural disaster.

This slowed down the FEMA response tremendously.



From the Washington Post. --

Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make decisions” on their own.

The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.

Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.

When rapidly responding to billion-dollar disasters, that “is basically everything,” said one current official.

Other efforts by the administration to constrain spending have hampered FEMA’s operations, officials said, which is likely to make it harder for the agency to be proactive during what is predicted to be a busy disaster season.

Multiple former officials and current employees say that several contracts with companies that provide crucial services for disaster response have run out or are about to lapse and have not yet been extended. And the agency has created work-arounds to get money out the door more quickly, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the department had decentralized some of FEMA’s functions, but that these changes had not undermined its disaster response.

The delay in deploying search and rescue teams was first reported by CNN.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted his formal request for federal disaster assistance on Saturday evening, officials said. President Donald Trump signed the disaster declaration the next day. But it took an unusual amount of time for that help to arrive in Texas, the officials said.

After FEMA received approval from DHS on Monday afternoon, three search and rescue crews and task forces were deployed to the region, arriving there Tuesday, according to agency officials and documents.

“We honestly have our hands tied on a lot,” one official said. “We couldn’t move on those requests due to the $100,000 restriction.”

As a result of the spending limit, the agency had to launch a “tiger” data team to create a new disaster application that will enable them to work with the restriction and process requests more quickly, according to an email seen by The Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/10/fema-texas-flooding-dhs-search-rescue/

 

[candycorn]

Wait? So they didn’t actually ignore the calls, they were flooded with so many calls they didn’t have enough people to answer them all?

Well that’s vastly different

Ignoring was what happened under the xiden admin when they weaponized their office and intentionally avoided helping people that were not part of the demafasict party

Fema supervisor fired for ordering storm crews not to help Trump voters - BBC News

The director of the emergency agency says a supervisor has been fired for "reprehensible" actions.

www.bbc.com

Yep staff cutbacks caused calls to go unanswered.

 

[candycorn]

Progs constantly use the thoughts and prayers agenda. Yet many of them live potentially self-destructive personal lives where they need government help to pay for it.

We’re talking about rural Texas. Too many profs isn’t a concern.

 

[Nostra]

Wrong again, MAGA shit-for-brains.

You've got no facts, no game, and no intellect.

Kristi Noem, in her infinite wisdom, decided that she has to personally approve EVERY purchase over $100,000......which is basically EVERY ******* purchase during a natural disaster.

This slowed down the FEMA response tremendously.



From the Washington Post. --

Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make decisions” on their own.

The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.

Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.

When rapidly responding to billion-dollar disasters, that “is basically everything,” said one current official.

Other efforts by the administration to constrain spending have hampered FEMA’s operations, officials said, which is likely to make it harder for the agency to be proactive during what is predicted to be a busy disaster season.

Multiple former officials and current employees say that several contracts with companies that provide crucial services for disaster response have run out or are about to lapse and have not yet been extended. And the agency has created work-arounds to get money out the door more quickly, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the department had decentralized some of FEMA’s functions, but that these changes had not undermined its disaster response.

The delay in deploying search and rescue teams was first reported by CNN.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted his formal request for federal disaster assistance on Saturday evening, officials said. President Donald Trump signed the disaster declaration the next day. But it took an unusual amount of time for that help to arrive in Texas, the officials said.

After FEMA received approval from DHS on Monday afternoon, three search and rescue crews and task forces were deployed to the region, arriving there Tuesday, according to agency officials and documents.

“We honestly have our hands tied on a lot,” one official said. “We couldn’t move on those requests due to the $100,000 restriction.”

As a result of the spending limit, the agency had to launch a “tiger” data team to create a new disaster application that will enable them to work with the restriction and process requests more quickly, according to an email seen by The Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/10/fema-texas-flooding-dhs-search-rescue/

More fake news.

The response was 100 times better than anything your Vegetabke Messiah did.

Keep losing. Loser. It’s what you do best.

 

[Nostra]

Wrong again, MAGA shit-for-brains.

You've got no facts, no game, and no intellect.

Kristi Noem, in her infinite wisdom, decided that she has to personally approve EVERY purchase over $100,000......which is basically EVERY ******* purchase during a natural disaster.

This slowed down the FEMA response tremendously.



From the Washington Post. --

Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make decisions” on their own.

The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.

Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.

When rapidly responding to billion-dollar disasters, that “is basically everything,” said one current official.

Other efforts by the administration to constrain spending have hampered FEMA’s operations, officials said, which is likely to make it harder for the agency to be proactive during what is predicted to be a busy disaster season.

Multiple former officials and current employees say that several contracts with companies that provide crucial services for disaster response have run out or are about to lapse and have not yet been extended. And the agency has created work-arounds to get money out the door more quickly, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the department had decentralized some of FEMA’s functions, but that these changes had not undermined its disaster response.

The delay in deploying search and rescue teams was first reported by CNN.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted his formal request for federal disaster assistance on Saturday evening, officials said. President Donald Trump signed the disaster declaration the next day. But it took an unusual amount of time for that help to arrive in Texas, the officials said.

After FEMA received approval from DHS on Monday afternoon, three search and rescue crews and task forces were deployed to the region, arriving there Tuesday, according to agency officials and documents.

“We honestly have our hands tied on a lot,” one official said. “We couldn’t move on those requests due to the $100,000 restriction.”

As a result of the spending limit, the agency had to launch a “tiger” data team to create a new disaster application that will enable them to work with the restriction and process requests more quickly, according to an email seen by The Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/10/fema-texas-flooding-dhs-search-rescue/

Who is their source?

Give us some names, Simpboi.

Why do you keep posting links to lefttard sites with zero sources?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

More fake news.

The response was 100 times better than anything your Vegetabke Messiah did.

Keep losing. Loser. It’s what you do best.

Poor MAGA *****....he has no facts, no game, and no intellect.

So all he can do is cry like a little MAGA ***** about "FAKE NEWS!!".

******* lightweight.

 

[Nostra]

Poor MAGA *****....he has no facts, no game, and no intellect.

So all he can do is cry like a little MAGA ***** about "FAKE NEWS!!".

******* lightweight.

Your lies have been debunked, dozens of times. But you stupid enough to keep spewing them.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Who is their source?

The Washington Post, gimp.

Give us some names, Simpboi.

Why do you keep posting links to lefttard sites with zero sources?

Why don't you post any sources at all, MAGA *****?

No facts, no game, and no intellect.

 

[Nostra]

Read the article and do your own homework, gimp.


Why don't you post any sources at all, MAGA *****?

No facts, no game, and no intellect.

I read it. No sources.

Next?

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Your lies have been debunked, dozens of times. But you stupid enough to keep spewing them.

But they have not, MAGA simp......no matter how many times you cry like a little MAGA ***** about "FAKE NEWS!!"

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I read it. No sources.

Next?

Washington Post.....you lose.

Come up with something to refute it....other than your MAGA ***** proclamation of "FAKE NEWS!!"....or just shut the **** up, lightweight.

 

[Nostra]

The Washington Post, gimp.


Why don't you post any sources at all, MAGA *****?

No facts, no game, and no intellect.

Give us your sources names, titles, and hours they were in the Texas NWS office during the flood.

GO!

Watch Tardboi squirm……

 

[Nostra]

Washington Post.....you lose.

Come up with something to refute it....other than your MAGA ***** proclamation of "FAKE NEWS!!"....or just shut the **** up, lightweight.

Come up with something to refute, Simpboi.

You have no source.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Come up with something to refute, Simpboi.

You have no source.

Washington Post, MAGA *****.

Sorry if your little ***** ass can't handle it.

 

[Nostra]

Washington Post, MAGA *****.

Sorry if your little ***** ass can't handle it.

So an inanimate website made claims?