Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local flood warning systems this year

[hatrack]

1. That's nice. He's "reconsidering" his vote against funding to let local govs create warning networks . . .

But don't worry. I'm sure he'll have plenty of time to decide to vote against the next such measure, in the unlikely event that it ever comes to the floor for a vote.

On edit - oh, and it gets better:

EDIT

“I don't think there was enough evidence to even suspect something like this was going to happen,” he said. ”I think even if you had a warning system there, this came in so fast and early in the morning it's very unlikely the warning system would have had much effect.”

Virdell said he doesn’t recall the specifics of the bill or why he opposed it, though he guessed ”it had to do with how much funding” was tied to the measure.

Ed. - Except for little things like massive flash floods being a thing in the region, of course - like the one that killed ten people less than 40 years ago . . . .