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This is not "NIMBY". Warning systems need to be where they're needed, and if that's your backyard then that's your backyard. Complaining about "damn sirens goin
by arp242 1y ago
This is not "NIMBY". Warning systems need to be where they're needed, and if that's your backyard then that's your backyard. Complaining about "damn sirens going off in the middle of the night" during a life and death scenario is on an entirely different level.
- Spooky23 1y ago“Those people” probably live on the flood plain. Up on the hill, you don’t want to disturb your beauty sleep.
- leereeves 1y agoWhy do people live in the flood plain?
- Spooky23 1y agoThe reason people have always lived on the “wrong side of the tracks”.
- leereeves 1y agoI've (almost) always lived on the wrong side of the tracks. I would never live in a place where the weather is predicted to kill me one day. If you can't see past poverty, I could just as well ask: why do people live in expensive homes on the sides of eroding oceanside cliffs?
- kiba 1y agoIt's NIMBYism alright. After all, if they're in your backyard, it's an eyesore, or in this case, an earsore.
- intermerda 1y agoAnd what do you call this? https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-commissioners-flooding-warning/ https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-co... > “I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money. > “We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
- SkyLemon 1y ago> “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.” Translation: Not in my back yard.