General Discussion

1. Very high value placed on "the way things have always been done" - ie, local people calling one another.

2. No care whatsoever for non-local people who might get caught in a flood. They are dismissed as "those crazy people from Houston" and nobody cares about the children in riverside camps.

3. The sheriff mentions that past floods drowned people, including children, but nobody cares and he doesn't press the point.

4. More outrage over the thought of sirens ruining their "beautiful Kerr County" than anything else. Emotion is expended on retaining the rose-colored glasses past, where "people called one another" and there was no nasty technology. No emotion expended on the past drowning victims mentioned by the sheriff.

5. Absolute outrage and fear at anything Obama or Biden might offer.

This is the toxic American "I do it myself" myth. It's not going to age well in the face of climate change.