The Lions Club presented its first in a new series of community forums, “The Wimberley Flood: Progress since 2015 and the Road Ahead,” attended by approximately 100 people last week. Patrick Cox, who served as the forum moderator introduced a panel of five speakers who represented the cities of Wimberley and Woodcreek and county and local emergency services. Panelists were Wimberley Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Minnick, Woodcreek Mayor Jeff Rasco, Wimberley Emergency Medical Services Director Ken Strange, Director of Hays County Office of Emergency Services Mike Jones and Wimberley Fire Department Interim Chief Chris Robbins. Highlights of their discussions follow.
Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Minnick “The situation in Kerrville has elevated our awareness. It helped me to understand how hard emergency communication systems are taxed in that kind of situation.
Since the 2015 flood, we’ve improved communication infrastructure but the question remains, ‘how do we get people to safety if they’re not receptive to alerts?’ All of us are receiving many alerts because of the changes we’re seeing in our environment, but we’re becoming numb to them. Creating another alert is not going to cut it.
