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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think so. [b]The river rose higher and fast than it ever had before.[/b] The camps were in the middle of getting campers to safety when the water reached the cabins.

I very much disagree with my fellow democrats/liberals who are using this as political fodder. We certainly should learn from it and will, but it is not Trump's fault.[/quote]
This is going to be true of many, if not most, natural disasters in the future as climate change increases their intensity. We also have more technology and disaster planning experience than we've ever had before. It's shocking to me that those counselors did not have 2-way radios so they could remain in contact in the very foreseeable circumstance of losing cell connectivity. This isn't a partisan issue, it's an issue of acknowledging reality.[/quote]

They have loudspeakers and radios at the camps. I don't know how they were used that night though or by whom. They were all in the middle of evacuating when the river came up in record time so I assume there was communication happening.[/quote]

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