Michael Cohen: Noem Lied - People Died

As floodwaters rose and people screamed for help, warnings sat unsent; buried in red tape. Kristi Noem’s deadly requirements prove incompetence can kill just like a disaster.

On the night of July 4, while families across America fired off fireworks, the summer joy for 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic—children, some as young as eight—turned into horror. As the Guadalupe River surged nearly 30 feet in less than an hour, those girls didn’t just die in a flood; they died waiting for someone in power to push a button. To press “send” on a warning that just never came.

Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, Hadley Hanna, Eloise Peck, Lila Bonner, Mary Grace Baker—these weren’t storm casualties. They were abandoned. And the one person ultimately responsible for that failure, the one with the most powerful emergency response agency in her hands, did nothing. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, failed to act—and children died because of it. Over 120 dead and more than 160 missing. Let that sink in for a minute.

This was not a freak event. This was not an unforeseeable act of God. It was a predictable emergency that met a predictable wall of inaction. Kerr County had an emergency alert system—CodeRED. It’s been in place for years, capable of sending text and voice alerts to phones and landlines. When water was already sweeping into homes and blocking roads, a firefighter pleaded over the radio for an alert to go out to residents in Hunt. The answer from dispatch: “Stand by; we have to get that approved with our supervisor.”

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