Disaster declarations have been issued for parts of central Texas after heavy rains produced “a catastrophic flooding event” and killed an as yet unconfirmed number of people.
The National Weather Service issued multiple flash flood warnings followed by a flash flood emergency early on Friday morning for Gillespie and Mason counties, after more than a foot of rainfall fell in just a few hours in the hill country west of Austin.
The local news outlet KXAN warned that “life-threatening flooding is imminent or occurring. Leave low-lying or flood-prone areas immediately, but do not drive over water-covered roads.”
Local here too. For the longest time I used to blame it on gerrymandering, but the Governor, Lt. Governor and President are all straight votes with no gerrymandering and we still lost. I know some of it can be chalked up to disenfranchised people, but it still should be something we could flip.
a ton of republicans moved to texas during the pandemic, that made it worst.