FEMA had removed Camp Mystic buildings from flood maps as early as 2013. Was that a mistake? If so, should someone be blamed?

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Americans have grown accustomed to blaming Americans for accidents that were not the official's fault. Such eagerness to blame people for things that were not their fault is a serious flaw.

FEMA removed Camp Mystic structures from 100-year flood map years before deadly flooding: report

Severe flooding led to the death of children and counselors from the camp in Texas last week.

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Federal regulators approved numerous appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map dating back to 2013 under former President Barack Obama and 2019 under the first Trump administration, according to a report.

Severe flooding led to the death of children and counselors from the camp in Texas last week.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency designated the camp as a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which the Associated Press reported required the camp to obtain flood insurance. The designation would also subject the camp to a stricter set of regulations on future construction projects.

The AP review showed FEMA in 2013 amended the county’s flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area after an appeal. The agency removed 15 more Camp Mystic buildings from the designation in 2019 and 2020.

 

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FEMA had removed Camp Mystic buildings from flood maps as early as 2013. Was that a mistake? If so, should someone be blamed?​

FEMA removed Camp Mystic structures from 100-year flood map years before deadly flooding: report

Severe flooding led to the death of children and counselors from the camp in Texas last week.

justthenews.com

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"Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects."

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How 'BOUT that, Reverunt.....expansion....WITHOUT Federal interference....was MUCH MORE IMPORTANT to Camp Mystic!!!!
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YA' FUCKED-UP, AGAIN, REVERUNT!!!!!
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"Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects."

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How 'BOUT that, Reverunt.....expansion....WITHOUT Federal interference....was MUCH MORE IMPORTANT to Camp Mystic!!!!
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YA' FUCKED-UP, AGAIN, REVERUNT!!!!!
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Are you trying to say our current or former presidents should be blamed for weather disasters?

 

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Are you trying to say our current or former presidents should be blamed for weather disasters?

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Which "big" words were giving you the most trouble??
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Political hacks blame Trump for the flood deaths, which is srtupid. Political hacks also blamed Trump for covid deaths, which is also stupid. However, if Trump was responsible for covid deaths on his watch then was Biden responsible for deaths on his watch?

Why Isn't Biden to Blame for COVID-19 Deaths?, by David Harsanyi

One of the most morally revolting talking points taken up by Democrats in their effort to deflect attention from President Joe Biden's deadly incompetence in Afghanistan is to minimize the deaths of 13 troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, by pointing out that more people are dying from COVID-19 every...

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Why Isn't Biden to Blame for COVID-19 Deaths?​

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September 3, 2021 5 min read


One of the most morally revolting talking points taken up by Democrats in their effort to deflect attention from President Joe Biden's deadly incompetence in Afghanistan is to minimize the deaths of 13 troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, by pointing out that more people are dying from COVID-19 every day.

First of all, if we use the standards that Democrats set during the Trump years, those COVID-19 deaths are also the responsibility of Biden.

It should be said that comparing deaths caused by a faceless worldwide pandemic to the deaths of American troops who were needlessly placed in a perilous situation by an administration that handed security of Kabul to the Taliban is a special brand of cynical partisanship. Both Afghanistan and COVID-19 are tragic, but only one is man-made, an avoidable massacre that was perpetrated by enemies and made possible by our government's ineptitude and bad decisions.


You might remember that liberal pundits had taken to using similarly ugly comparisons involving 9/11. Paul Krugman once noted that the death toll of COVID-19 was already the equivalent of "60 9/11s." MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance wrote that Trump had "single handedly caused the equivalent of 67 9/11 level deaths." This was the tone of much of the coverage.

Well-adjusted human beings — those not consumed by politics — tend to treat tragic events as distinct situations. They react to a death from meningitis or a car accident with grief, while reacting to a death resulting from a first-degree murder or drunk driving with anger and grief. Most well-adjusted people also comprehend that living in a free, modern society comes with unfortunate embedded risks. We don't talk about the cumulative total of vehicular deaths as we would the Holocaust.

But, again, if the president were personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans during the summer of 2020, why isn't the president responsible for thousands of deaths in the summer of 2021?


Biden ran on stopping the pandemic. "I will not shut down the country," the then-presidential candidate promised. "I will shut down the virus," "I will beat this virus" and so on. Biden blamed COVID-19 deaths on Trump personally on numerous occasions, so one assumes he believed that the former president had the power to stop COVID-19.

Other than promising to employ his imaginary competence, Biden never informed us of how he would conduct policy any differently than Trump. Biden, in fact, had opposed Trump's China travel restrictions, calling him "xenophobic." And though Biden has benefited from, and tried to take credit for, the Trump-era Warp Speed program, his team initially worked to undermine trust in those vaccines. Since Biden's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of Americans have perished in the pandemic.

Biden's handling of COVID-19 is perhaps the last issue that he isn't upside-down on in the polls, so his allies want to change the subject and continue creating the impression that Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott are intentionally putting their constituents at risk because they refuse to adopt the authoritarian policies preferred by Democrats. Despite the perception created by histrionic media coverage, we don't yet understand why states do better or worse under pandemic conditions.


Yet, suddenly, governors, rather than the president, are at fault for spikes. Perhaps the only American politician who can credibly be blamed for causing significantly more deaths than necessary is disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom Biden once called "the gold standard" in COVID-19 leadership. New York still holds the dubious distinction of having the third highest percentage of coronavirus fatalities in the country. Cuomo's few remaining defenders point out that most of those deaths happened earlier in the pandemic, when we knew less. OK, what's Biden's excuse, then?

It speaks to the technocrat's destructive utopian conceit that some sincerely believe Americans can be protected from all the deadly vagaries of the world if only we instituted more authoritarian control or some progressive policy prescription. The reality is that neither Biden nor Trump deserves blame for COVID-19 deaths. Neither had a silver bullet. Yet the public is constantly expected to live by revolving political standards depending on who's president. You can't have it both ways.