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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, seven fifty. Now, as promised, let's welcome Congressman ship
Roy to the program. We tried to connect yesterday, had
some technical problems with the phones, but Congressmen and we
hope you have you loud and clear this morning. How
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, sorry about that. Yesterday I was on another call,
went late and then I lost signal and I apologize.
God bless you appreciate being on this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No apologies, We appreciate you making the time. So obviously
we're still in a very desperate time. One hundred and seventy,
one hundred and twenty confirmed deaths. I understand one hundred
and seventy or so or so are still missing. Can
you speak, sir, to not only the tragedy for the families,
but obviously what everybody is focusing on right now is
preventative strategies. What have we learned from what has happened
(00:40):
in the last five days, because people are you know,
anytime there's a tragedy or a disaster, people are looking
for fingers or places to point their fingers of blame.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah. Well, first of all, I mean, we're obviously, you know,
proud to have the President come join today. Come to Kerville.
I look forward to seeing him, seeing the personal lady, visiting,
you know, more with families and with people on the ground.
I've been down on the ground most of the last week.
And you know, I mean we're talking about people.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was sitting at a house where Samaritan's purse was
doing some work, getting mud out, cleaning it up, sitting
way up on a cliff. And this is going to
get to your question. This cliff was way way up
over the river. I don't have any feet, but they're
walking me through what happened that night and the water
coming up, and he came up so fast and it
was like fifteen feet below the level they're watching it.
(01:31):
They go get ready to think about needing to leave,
and by the time they just got their stuff put
together in a few minutes, the water was already lapping
at the door. And then they got out. But then
the house next door was swept away, and there was
a father sitting over there who still hasn't found the
body of his son, who had called him at four
o'clock in the morning as the water was rushing in
and he was trying to help two girls, and then
(01:51):
a massive tree came in and hit the house and
I think took them out. And that was the last
time that father talked to him. And I visited with
that dad, and God bless him, was prayerful and thoughtful.
And that's what we're dealing with, a once in a
century type event. These are trees that were huge and massive,
that have been there for a long time for a reason,
because they hadn't had this kind of a flood that
(02:11):
came in back quickly. All of the finger pointing is
absurd and it's political, and I appreciate the governor saying
that blame game is for losers. We're winners in Texas
and we're going to figure out how to move forward
and get this all addressed and fixed. Can there be
a better alert system? I mean probably possibly. We'll go
talk about that. We'll work on that, particularly the state
and local officials. But let's also remember that it was
(02:33):
four o'clock in the morning. In fact, one of my
friends that has kids that go to my kid's school,
they were there, a bunch of them. There was about
thirty people between kids and parents there and they had
to ride out the storm on the top of a
one room schoolhouse from the hunt for three hours because
they barely were able to get everybody awaken up. And
(02:53):
they were awake, they saw the water. They saw the
water fifteen or twenty feet below, and it rushed in
so quickly that they had to mobilize just to save
their lives. So that's what happened. It happened at four
in the morning. It's terrible, and we got to figure
out how we can always do better. But stop pointing fingers.
This is a terrible event, like an F five tornado
type of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's very well said. We're talking to Congressman Ship Roy
and yes, improvements for future you know events is obviously
what people are looking for here, or at least they
should be looking for here. Can you speak to funding
for FEMA, or is personnel or anything else that might
be lacking? Again, that's kind of part of the finger pointing,
but more it's geared toward is FEMA ready for this
(03:34):
and how and what do they need?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, let's just be very clear last Friday, a week ago,
July fourth, when this became clear how bad it was.
And that was early to me because all of my
friends and family on the ground, like I spend every
fourth of July on the Quadum Loop in Cerville with
my family. I know the people there, and I was
on the phone with the sheriff and I was on
the phone to everybody, and the first word I got
from the head of the Texas Environment Emergency Management say, hey,
(03:59):
f being helpful. We need a little bit of help
with the Army Corps. Army Corps engineers. Picked up the
phone and I called Secretary's office. She called me back
in less than fifteen minutes. I think it was ten minutes,
and she said, whatever you need, you got it. And
they got on the phone and they got that moving.
They got fixed wing aircraft, they got everybody mobilized as
fast as humanly possible and were there. And the Governor
(04:19):
said that, the Texas Department of Emergency Management said that,
the locals said that they were on the ground. They
were already there before the disaster declaration. The disaster declaration
got done very quickly by the President, and then you
immediately had FBI, FEMA, all the emergency folks got swiftly
into action because they were already there. So this has
(04:41):
all been a very good operation coordination between the local
state and FEDS, and then everything going forward I mean, look,
the question about the alert system is not one about funding.
I mean there was funding state and local and all
that stuff. It's about operations and about doing it and
having locals buy into doing it. That's the thing. And
the of Kirk County they're going to have to kind
(05:02):
of wrestle with what do they want what works. Personally me,
I'd have Noah radios in all the camps. I'd have
something that's a slightly better kind of old school slash
new school alert system. But let's be very clear. I
know people who woke up to alerts on their phones
and the flood happened so quickly that they barely were
(05:22):
able to get their families moving. So that's one of
those things like a tornado seeking shelter. It's like there
is a limit to what humanity can do against Mother nature,
and so we just need to figure out how to
structure it to be the best we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Congress, Mnroy, I know the families there and the people
that you've spoken to are greatly appreciate you and your
genuine concern, and I know they're going to appreciate President
Trump coming down today to take a look and meet
with folks and see what can be offered from the
federal level. Thank you for spending the time with us
this morning to tell us what is going on, and
of course all of our prayers are with you, your
family and all of the families they are impacted in
(05:59):
that region.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Thank you guys, Thanks for your patience, apologize for yesterday,
Thanks for having me on today, Thanks for the prayers.
Keep giving to the Community Foundation in the hell Country.
They're going to have some news to make today. Some
grants are going to be distributed. They're moving money quickly.
That the dollars you're giving, they're getting to boots on
the ground with a very low overhead. So God bless
you all for helping.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Blessings to you as well, sir. Thank you
Okay, seven fifty. Now, as promised, let's welcome Congressman ship
Roy to the program. We tried to connect yesterday, had
some technical problems with the phones, but Congressmen and we
hope you have you loud and clear this morning. How
are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, sorry about that. Yesterday I was on another call,
went late and then I lost signal and I apologize.
God bless you appreciate being on this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No apologies, We appreciate you making the time. So obviously
we're still in a very desperate time. One hundred and seventy,
one hundred and twenty confirmed deaths. I understand one hundred
and seventy or so or so are still missing. Can
you speak, sir, to not only the tragedy for the families,
but obviously what everybody is focusing on right now is
preventative strategies. What have we learned from what has happened
(00:40):
in the last five days, because people are you know,
anytime there's a tragedy or a disaster, people are looking
for fingers or places to point their fingers of blame.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah. Well, first of all, I mean, we're obviously, you know,
proud to have the President come join today. Come to Kerville.
I look forward to seeing him, seeing the personal lady, visiting,
you know, more with families and with people on the ground.
I've been down on the ground most of the last week.
And you know, I mean we're talking about people.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was sitting at a house where Samaritan's purse was
doing some work, getting mud out, cleaning it up, sitting
way up on a cliff. And this is going to
get to your question. This cliff was way way up
over the river. I don't have any feet, but they're
walking me through what happened that night and the water
coming up, and he came up so fast and it
was like fifteen feet below the level they're watching it.
(01:31):
They go get ready to think about needing to leave,
and by the time they just got their stuff put
together in a few minutes, the water was already lapping
at the door. And then they got out. But then
the house next door was swept away, and there was
a father sitting over there who still hasn't found the
body of his son, who had called him at four
o'clock in the morning as the water was rushing in
and he was trying to help two girls, and then
(01:51):
a massive tree came in and hit the house and
I think took them out. And that was the last
time that father talked to him. And I visited with
that dad, and God bless him, was prayerful and thoughtful.
And that's what we're dealing with, a once in a
century type event. These are trees that were huge and massive,
that have been there for a long time for a reason,
because they hadn't had this kind of a flood that
(02:11):
came in back quickly. All of the finger pointing is
absurd and it's political, and I appreciate the governor saying
that blame game is for losers. We're winners in Texas
and we're going to figure out how to move forward
and get this all addressed and fixed. Can there be
a better alert system? I mean probably possibly. We'll go
talk about that. We'll work on that, particularly the state
and local officials. But let's also remember that it was
(02:33):
four o'clock in the morning. In fact, one of my
friends that has kids that go to my kid's school,
they were there, a bunch of them. There was about
thirty people between kids and parents there and they had
to ride out the storm on the top of a
one room schoolhouse from the hunt for three hours because
they barely were able to get everybody awaken up. And
(02:53):
they were awake, they saw the water. They saw the
water fifteen or twenty feet below, and it rushed in
so quickly that they had to mobilize just to save
their lives. So that's what happened. It happened at four
in the morning. It's terrible, and we got to figure
out how we can always do better. But stop pointing fingers.
This is a terrible event, like an F five tornado
type of thing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's very well said. We're talking to Congressman Ship Roy
and yes, improvements for future you know events is obviously
what people are looking for here, or at least they
should be looking for here. Can you speak to funding
for FEMA, or is personnel or anything else that might
be lacking? Again, that's kind of part of the finger pointing,
but more it's geared toward is FEMA ready for this
(03:34):
and how and what do they need?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, let's just be very clear last Friday, a week ago,
July fourth, when this became clear how bad it was.
And that was early to me because all of my
friends and family on the ground, like I spend every
fourth of July on the Quadum Loop in Cerville with
my family. I know the people there, and I was
on the phone with the sheriff and I was on
the phone to everybody, and the first word I got
from the head of the Texas Environment Emergency Management say, hey,
(03:59):
f being helpful. We need a little bit of help
with the Army Corps. Army Corps engineers. Picked up the
phone and I called Secretary's office. She called me back
in less than fifteen minutes. I think it was ten minutes,
and she said, whatever you need, you got it. And
they got on the phone and they got that moving.
They got fixed wing aircraft, they got everybody mobilized as
fast as humanly possible and were there. And the Governor
(04:19):
said that, the Texas Department of Emergency Management said that,
the locals said that they were on the ground. They
were already there before the disaster declaration. The disaster declaration
got done very quickly by the President, and then you
immediately had FBI, FEMA, all the emergency folks got swiftly
into action because they were already there. So this has
(04:41):
all been a very good operation coordination between the local
state and FEDS, and then everything going forward I mean, look,
the question about the alert system is not one about funding.
I mean there was funding state and local and all
that stuff. It's about operations and about doing it and
having locals buy into doing it. That's the thing. And
the of Kirk County they're going to have to kind
(05:02):
of wrestle with what do they want what works. Personally me,
I'd have Noah radios in all the camps. I'd have
something that's a slightly better kind of old school slash
new school alert system. But let's be very clear. I
know people who woke up to alerts on their phones
and the flood happened so quickly that they barely were
(05:22):
able to get their families moving. So that's one of
those things like a tornado seeking shelter. It's like there
is a limit to what humanity can do against Mother nature,
and so we just need to figure out how to
structure it to be the best we possibly can.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Congress, Mnroy, I know the families there and the people
that you've spoken to are greatly appreciate you and your
genuine concern, and I know they're going to appreciate President
Trump coming down today to take a look and meet
with folks and see what can be offered from the
federal level. Thank you for spending the time with us
this morning to tell us what is going on, and
of course all of our prayers are with you, your
family and all of the families they are impacted in
(05:59):
that region.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Thank you guys, Thanks for your patience, apologize for yesterday,
Thanks for having me on today, Thanks for the prayers.
Keep giving to the Community Foundation in the hell Country.
They're going to have some news to make today. Some
grants are going to be distributed. They're moving money quickly.
That the dollars you're giving, they're getting to boots on
the ground with a very low overhead. So God bless
you all for helping.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Blessings to you as well, sir. Thank you
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