On Thursday, the Survivors of Federal Aid said that the societies that were struck by the floods of the deadly Independence Day are facing a desperate recovery and confusion of government and federal aid.
“It has become a poisonous hole,” Anne Carr, who lives for the legislators, with no resources for the drainage of Lake Ingram.
“We talked to the divers who were there. They found vehicles. We asked them direct questions,” Are there bodies in the water? “Their answers yes.
Now, a cityKurville refuses to deplete the lakeCar said that bubbles with oil are submerged cars. With 28 billion dollars in the government rain day, she added: “I think Texas can help us clean the lake.”
Others pointed to the consequences of the catastrophic damage to the floods, which struck an area where there are no about 99 percent of the population insurance on floods.
“Many landowners are at risk of losing their lands,” said Terry Hall, a resident of Kerville, who runs a group of anti -property taxes, with up to $ 25 billion in unbelievable losses.
Hall said that the landowners lost the external buildings that the insurance or the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not pay, leaving them as easy choices for private shares. She said that the affected areas: “It has a great weakness for the presence of large companies such as Blackrock to enter and buy the beautiful river interface and convert the Kiir province into something that we will not get to know.”
The state leaders often listen and complain about the survivors. But earlier in the hearing, they were not unique in their criticism of local officials on the issue of training and warnings.
Lieutenant Dan Patrick (PBUH) told the provincial judge, Rob Kelly, that “he does not know where you were on the first day, on July 4, but you should have been here. You should have been here to add this response. This is your responsibility.”
“Everyone here was on that day working in the donkey, and it was not anywhere,” Patrick added.
“The three men in the province of Kiir who were responsible for the sound of the alarm were not effectively available. Should I hear this right?” Houston Ann Johnson (D) called on local officials. “Is there a protocol that must be placed? If the three people responsible at this moment are not available for any reason, what do we do?”
When Kelly told legislators that it would not be difficult to develop a better training program, Senator Charles Perry (R) said that the truth, although it was “sad”.
Perry said: “I don’t know how you can be good in what you are doing if you may not practice what you are supposed to.”
In addition to the need for federal and state aid, the population and survivors gathered around some consistent topics, including the official, disorganized and chaotic response, which the survivors sometimes witnessed the state’s resources that appear too late or not be sent at all – or sometimes they are sent away by the local population.
One of the volunteers in the Austin region told the committee: “We had a full range of leaflets that were donated to disappear overnight.” Another said that officials stopped providing assistance to those whose homes were swept away because a truck from the beloved government grocery store had appeared.
They said: “Well, at that point, he was giving small bags of grocery stores to people – just enough for an evening.”
“The state was almost completely absent.
In that region, Mapri said: “The state was not cleaning. The government was not helping. The citizens were. Texas was helping Texas who were doing work, and they were still doing the majority of work. It was not yet many cries and occasions to obtain assistance and coordination with myself many others from the reason that made resources in the state finally recognize what it was there.”
“No one came,” said Aubbari Gallaghar, who resides in Lrender, told the committee. There were no resources.
Another certificate focused on evacuation and warnings – or their absence. The survivors described them as besieged in deadly bottlenecks while they are racing to escape from the flood water, with highly slopes and special lands that are used on the one hand and a river on the other hand-which is a direct result of a short notice that the disaster is coming.
A woman at the committee said: “Our house was 35 to 40 feet above the normal river water level, and at 3 am, the water was already in the house – and we had no warning,” said one of the women at the committee.
She and her family raced to their cars and left the 39th highway, but “there was no place to go out, and the water was rising very quickly until it reached a higher land, so we went up to our cars and to the trees.”
She said they saw “other cars that fall the river and huge trees, and they were planned and planned for what we will do if our trees fell.”
She said she was fortunate – other friends and neighbors were drowned that night.
Many residents were absent from cell warnings, which came out late, because they had no cell service. Others who found that they did not matter.
Alicia Baker, whose father and 11 -year -old daughter died in the floods, was in a cabin on pillars when the flood water was beaten. They had a sign, but “the alert said he was looking for a higher land. We are on the pillars. Where was we supposed to go?”
Baker urged the shoulders of her blouse fighting her tears, and urged Baker to install smart flooding meters – which the boycott voted in the past.
“We must actually have sensors in our waters that will alert the sirens to go out,” she said. “If you get an alert, he said from 6 to 7 inches, you were like, this is the dock. This difference will not happen much. Now, when you speak 30 feet, this is another complete story.”
There It is not left With the high weather, allowing the construction on the flood.
“Who will talk frankly about the use of lands? I do not necessarily ask about the mandate of the division of regions, but people must be informed when building flood areas.”