Comment This is on Abbott and Trump (Score 3, Informative) 39
"I'm not trying to put a dollar on a life or a flood, but the fact of the matter [is] floods do happen, and we need to be prepared for them," then-Kerr County Commissioner Bob Reeves noted during a series of public meetings that began in 2016. And, his former colleague Tom Moser pointed out, "We also have more summer camps than anybody else along the Guadalupe River."
This is the same situation when over 300 people died when Texas froze a few years ago. Abbott didn't want to spend the money to winterize the lines or fossil fuel plants prior to the storm and the result was Texans dying.
Mind you, Abbott and his party have no problem handing over tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize private industry, but when lives are at stake that money is nowhere to be found.
As for the russian asset, his cuts to FEMA included firing people at the NWS who would have been involved in the storm preparation and notification. But because climate change is "woke" (whatever that means) they had to go.