The rape chip Roy (R-Texas) said on Sunday that the “real story” of fatal floods in Texas is the bravery of those who showed to help “, as convicted.
“I think the real story is not going to point to all finger, which the media wants to indicate. It is the valor of those who showed the valor of Ian, who was with the Coast Guard, who I met with the President, when we used to talk about his feelings as a father,” Roy Told the anchor Shannon Breame on “Fox News Sunday”.
He said, “Another young man in the coast guard was talking about how he holds a jolly rancher in his pocket, and he was handing over the Jolly Ranchers to the younger girls who were on a helicopter with him,” he said. “This is the bravery of all of the first respondents in Kerville.”
Roy later stated that as soon as you drive in Kerville, Texas, which was at the center of flood, is a big cross on a hill.
“And if you ask me what is the story of this whole tragedy, it is a cross. And it is the power of the cross,” he said.
At least 129 people were killed in the floods starting on July 4 with the Guadalupa River in Central Texas, with around 170 people still missing as search operations in a second week.
The federal, state and local authorities have faced questions as to why initial warning systems were not established in the known flood areas, and why a summer camp was allowed to expand into a dangerous floodplain.
Homeland Security Secretary is Christie NoM Report deprived of report Federal assistance for Texas was delayed by a new rule, requiring all the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant or signs on contracts of more than $ 100,000.
Texas village. Greg Abbott (R) used a football analogy to criticize those who were trying to assign blame for the tragedy, drawing Criticism from Democrats,
“Every football team makes mistakes,” Abbott said. “The losing teams are those who try to tell who is blamed. The championship teams say ‘Don’t worry about it, man. We have found it. We are going to make sure that we score again and then we are going to win the game.”
President Trump and first female Melania Trump went to Texas Hill country earlier this week.
After visiting the region, President Trump said in a round table of local, state and federal officials, “I have gone for a lot of storms and tornadoes and I have not seen anything like that.”
Tusrap Also appreciated NOEM on federal response to Texas floods, while administration has It changed its tune Following FEMA completely after the disaster.
Nom said that his department was on the ground in Texas soon after the flood started on Sunday.
On NBC’s “Meat the Press”, he said, “One or two hours after the flood, we had resources from the Homeland Security Department who helped individuals in Texas,” he said on NBC’s “Meat the Press”.
“It was a heartbreaking scene. And I think it has been well covered what the coast guard did, how he was immediately deployed and helped to save so many persons from those flood waters.”
