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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I am a DP to who you are responding to.

It is political ideology when a county refuses money from Biden for an alert system because it was Biden. And that is what happened here. 100% political and foolish and a lot of people died needlessly.[/quote]

Money the county did or didn't take was not what created a circumstance where this tragedy was possible at Camp Mystic. Don't you have some tobacco to chew and Hannity to watch you two-bit fruitcake?[/quote]

A warning system would have saved virtually every life lost in this flood. The county chose not to take the money for a warning system. So yes, the money not taken was 100% responsible for the lives lost.[/quote]

Not putting cabins for children to sleep in right smack dab in an area clearly designated on maps as a high risk flood zone would have saved many lives too, but of course Texas conservative "yabut that flood map is just some liberal red tape bullcrap" mentality got in the way.[/quote]

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