Austin – at a press conference on Friday, the Kiir Rob Kelly Provincial Judge said that he “cannot answer” why the camps were not evacuated but they confessed: “We do not have a warning system.”
“We did not know that this flood was coming,” Kelly told reporters. “Be reassuring, no one knew that this type of flood was coming. We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous valley of a river in the United States, and we are dealing with floods regularly. When it rains, we have no reason to believe that this would be like what happened here. Nothing at all.”
Nicole Wilson, 42, watched the press conference from her home in San Antonio and was “in the vast”. Wilson KXAN told two friends who have girls who were in mystic camp and have a son in La Junta camp. The three children are calculated. She said that one of the cousins of the girl is still missing.
“Only these plans are not crazy to think,” she said. “They will not have to reduce the risk in place when they are surrounded by water.”
While the national weather service issued a flashing warning, and warned Facebook in the city of Kerville from “moving to a land above immediately,” the camp in Camp Mystic has not seen that since mobile phones, smart watches, iPad devices and anything with Wi -Fi the ability to be unacceptable “to bring and” not allowed, “according to what he said, according to what he said, according to what he said, according to what he said List of instructions.
Wilson was born and brought up in Kentucky, where she said outdoor sirens – which were primarily used in hurricanes – were common. On July 5, a Change.org is broad online “Urgent” calls to Kerrville and Kerr County to implement an outdoor outdoor alarm system for life -threatening emergency situations, such as floods. She said so far she had received “a lot of positive reactions about it.”
Wilson wrote: “The tragic events in the Mystic camp and destroyed floods along the Guadalpe River, which occurred in July, are blatant reminders that harsh weather can be hit without a small notice,” Wilson wrote. “The siren system will provide a good, decisive minutes for families, schools, camps, companies and visitors to search for shelter and evacuation when needed. This is not just a desire-it is a necessary investment in public safety.”
In fact, outdoor weather alert systems are not required by any federal or state law. The option is left even local leaders. On Friday morning, less than 20 miles from Kerrville, emergency alarm sirens exploded in the unlisted Kendall County community, according to Published reportIt indicates “emergency conditions and mandatory evacuation” as the Guadalobi River continues to rise. Alarms are usually activated by city or boycott officials, according to NWS.
“I only think if they have five minutes [of warning time from a siren] For a longer period, from five to 10 minutes, and this is what these sirens give you …. And you know that the advisers would have led them arduous … I do not think that we will be in the scenario now where we are looking for these girls, ”Wilson said.
Cities that use sirens, such as San Marcus – that have 14 outdoors to warn floods, hurricanes and forest fires – Outdoor warning systems have already been described as A “vital tool” To prepare for emergency. Alarm sirens, called the outdoor warning system, are designed to notify a high society and a high voice of public safety threats, including harsh weather. Critics have indicated that the sirens can be expensive, require regular maintenance and are primarily designed to hear outdoors. It can cost a single warning sirens It is estimated between $ 10.00 to $ 50,000 Sometimes multiple needed.
Austin has no system of outdoor warning at the city level. In 2022, a city spokesman KXAN told that the fastest way to get information is “technology that we have today” and there was concern that sirens may “cause confusion”.
This last legislative session, Legislators submitted a draft law It would have established a council to operate a grant program to help local governments obtain emergency communication equipment. One of its tasks, if the draft law passed, would develop a strategic plan at the state level that included “using outdoor warning sirens.”
“We are trying to obtain a new flood warning system here.”
In 2018, the CARE Province, along with the Gawadalabi Upper River, submitted a request for a $ 1 million grant for a flood warning system.
“This request has not been chosen, well, this is the bad news,” said one of the commissioners, according to the CAR County Commission Commissioner.
Two years later, in 2020, according to the CARE County County minutes, this commissioner himself said: “We are trying to obtain a new flood warning system here.”
The Commissioner 2020 meeting is when CARE province is implemented IPAWS, or the integrated general warning system and warning through FemaIt is a free program that is presented by the current CARE province with CodingA system currently uses it for the already registered mass emergency messages, according to Care County website. Programmer It is also used in Kurville With the warning that depends on white pages, it should not be “supposed to be listed.”
As of 2023, the Kiir County Court meetings are still discussing grant options for flood reduction assistance to include research on engineering and infrastructure for flood prevention measures.