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Texas flash floods kill more than 100 people as more victims expected
(www.theguardian.com)
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i will not hear about a 4am flood warning unless my phone went crazy. isn't there a system in place to cause the phones to warm people about emergencies?
Yes, but in Texas they only use it for dumb shit like waking up the entire state at 4am to warn them that a cop was shot the previous day in some podunk town 500 miles away.
https://www.404media.co/texas-blue-alert-emergency-notification/
There is and the national weather service alerts that night for the area should have triggered such alerts twice, according to another article I read.
The problem seems to have been that the region where the floods were most dangerous has very spotty cell service. That combined with the fact that some people apparently turn their phones off at night prevented those alerts from reaching a lot of people. Also, the kids at Camp Mystic were not allowed to have phones with them during their stay.