Lester Holt
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first heard Jun 2021
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As some lawyers have described, it could be months, it could be years.
So that's creating another level of friction, if you will, about, you know, is this family taking full responsibility and are they doing the right thing in the face of this tragedy?
Yeah, because obviously when you have a lawsuit, you get discovery.
And so you get some more answers to some of your questions.
Our understanding is now all this ceases for a time.
And so I'm just guessing here that it's going to be much more difficult and that polarization we talked about is going to become deeper as people realize that things may slow to a crawl.
Yeah, to some extent.
I mean, I think what he was making the point was he believes that the state of Texas bears a lot of responsibility for what happened.
And by that, he says, you know, a long time ago, there had been approval of a system, a flood warning system that would sound off an alarm.
But he says the state legislature never went forward with it, never funded it.
Right.
Therefore, he was shifting a lot of the blame to the state for not moving more quickly on a system that would sound an alarm that could be heard for a long period of time and send people into action.
But he also, on the other hand, was a proponent of this idea of shelter in place, in which others have questioned whether that was a good thing, because we know that many of those who did evacuate were able to evacuate successfully.
But the problem was there was no plan per se.
He was very interesting because he had worked on this, you know, some years ago, this whole idea of a warning system.
Remember, the floods aren't new to that part of Texas, the hill country there.
It's just in this case it was larger and quicker and swifter than anyone remembered.
But it certainly – the conversation moved very quickly to this idea.
Is there a way to warn folks and get them into higher ground in time?
Would a flood warning system, in your view, have saved lives on July 4th, had it been in place?
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