Kerr County officials utterly failed by knowing they needed an early alert flash flood siren system but decided not to do it. Their claims of not having the money are bogus as the budget shows they are spending millions of dollars on animal services. They literally prioritized the lives of animals over the lives of those innocent children along the banks of the Guadalupe river in Central Texas, including dozens from Camp Mystic. They couldn’t control or predict the flood, but they could have had a siren system to wake or warn people and give them a fighting chance to survive. They knew they were in flash flood alley and knew they needed it but they chose not to do it. They made the wrong decisions and spent their money on other things, and many more lives likely died as a result of no warning. The leadership in Kerr County should resign, and this should be a warning to other officials that their actions have consequences, and money should be first spent on protecting people before being spent on less important things.
