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catastrophic flood swept through central Texas and the fingerpointing has already
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begun. They've considered warning systems and they did not put these sirens in because of the cost. Relying
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on a system of texting seems crazy to me, especially in a rural area, right? Like that's how you warn people,
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especially if people aren't paying attention to their phones in the middle of the night. So, it seems like they
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probably should have sirens here. We're supposed to slow down and look at structural change and what are the
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things leading up to this crisis that potentially could have helped avoid it. media defaults to drama. Democrats want
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to say this is all about climate change. And then Republicans go really [ __ ] crazy and claim it's evidence of some
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sort of deep state conspiracy to control the weather. I know. And the reality is with the the two
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weather services that are charged with a response and prevention and then communications, they are dramatically
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understaffed. These jobs are what I call invisible until you [ __ ] up. The TSA,
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lifeguards, the CDC, we don't know how many pandemics the CDC has stopped because they did this boring hard work.
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And unfortunately, that doesn't make for good TV. Prevention gets no credit. Must
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see TV is never like the family planning clinic. I mean, it just that doesn't make for good trauma.
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Another plane landed safely. In other words, that that's not news. [Music]