In the five years since Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to guard against destructive flooding, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in grants and loans.
That money went unused for years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kerr-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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@ProPublica Before chastising the local governments that rejected the money, you should read the article.
The state was offering money for specific projects but the amount they offered only covered a small fraction of the total cost (5% in one case). The local governments would have to come up with the remaining money on their own. They couldn’t do that so they had to reject the funding.
Blogged about it here, along with many other instances of the GOP "war on weather".
@ProPublica They rejected Fed money too! Biden was offering money via infrastructure and they refused it.
