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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I expect they were thinking that it doesn't matter if a camp cabin gets flooded -- they could just dry it out or build a new one.

They did not imagine the river level rising [b]26 feet in 45 minutes[/b], what was a more of a tsunami than the typical flash flood.

That's not an excuse.  We all need to adjust our expectations dramatically for the world under climate change.

But they could have responded to a 'normal' hundred year flood.  This new mega-flash version gave them no chance to respond.[/quote]

They knew those cabins were too close to the river. The owner had to get wife airlifted out of there years ago when she was pregnant. Then there was the earlier  flood that killed camp kids down the river. There were so many failures, but many of them rest on the owner. This was an expensive camp filled with wealthy kids that expanded on higher ground. It was greed and incompetence. [/quote]

You're not getting the big picture and it's making you sound like a complete and utter jerk of an idiot. Of course there were failures and of course 99% of the loss of life could have been prevented. This was a significant flash flood event occurrence that impact many camps and residential areas across several counties. Hundreds of people died. Tens of thousands of people in harms way were rescued or made it to safe ground. You're making an assumption that the negligence and incompetence that impacted one or two camps was part of region wide public safety failures that are tied to some political ideologies??

This type of flooding event covering a vast area would have similar tragic outcomes if it happened anywhere in the country in similarly populated areas. Grow up.[/quote]

Can you specifically point out where in my post I said anything political? I didn’t. That was the first time I posted on this thread.

I read a Yahoo article about them specifically building cabins on higher ground and it was pointed out that a survey would show the old cabins in a flood zone. Also, you seem to completely have missed my point that he had to have his wife airlifted out when she was pregnant because they were trapped. I’m sorry, that’s complete negligence to hold a camp there after something so dramatic.

Laura Bush was associated with the camp. There was tons of money there. Look at the photos of the cabin. Before I knew about Laura I could see it was outfitted with Roberta Roller Rabbit and other very expensive bedding. It was high end. They could have fundraised for new cabins.

My point stands: it was greed and negligence. [/quote]

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