Still about a hundred missing. More than a hundred known dead. Say a prayer for the victims and their families.
Lots of finger pointing abut the “warnings” that didn’t happen locally in Texas: “No one warned us!!. No one told us to leave!” There should be a system in place!
People gotta be smarter. It shouldn’t take a government (local, state, or Federal) to tell you to be careful of the weather…Use modern weather tools to look at what the weather is gonna be. The forecasts were there a day before. Sharp and pointed warnings 12 hours before.
Rather than spend millions and millions of dollars on a flood warning system along the Guadalupe river,,,,, Sirens and/or text messages will be a system of limited utility, after all…..
Stop building and living on the flood plain. If your home was flooded, don’t rebuild. Take the insurance and the disaster money and find a safer place to make a home. The land along the river plains is cheap for a reason.
Few places that have flooded in the past 40+ years flooded for the first time. History rhymes, after all.
They call them Flood Plains for a reason. They are even mapped out by the Federal Government.
If you camp on a flood plain, either in a tent or an RV, pay attention to the weather.
AND:
Rather than wait in a flooding cabin or home or RV along the river for motorized transport to flee the floods, rather than watch the floodwaters rise to envelop you and your family, why not walk uphill (even in the rain, even in the dark) to higher ground to flee the floodwaters? GTF out of the floodplain rather than drown or be swept away. Yes, I understand that the waters rose “rapidly”…but it took about 2 hours to rise 20 feet. See the trend and GTFO sooner rather than later. Be proactive in the protection of your lives, (Note that this also applies to the adults in the children’s camp: Wet and cold little girls are better than dead ones…lead them to safety, don’t wait for a bus to move them if the waters are rising and the bus isn’t there. ).
You can’t change the past, but you can learn from it and change the future.
The fact that this occurred at night compounded the issue. But to say you rely on weather. gov, that is fairly stupid as they are often wrong, and any rain will bring the announcement of “flash flood”. I share the same radio feed as east Texas and can assure you that flash flood is always broadcast. But to stop such loss of life in the future. Watch maxvelocity on youtube and be aware to what is going on.
Both weather.gov and Accuweather and WeatherBug and the NWS all predicted flooding rains along the Guadalupe river. Like 24 hours before. Enough that if you lived there, or were camping there, and you were unaware then that’s just you not paying attention.
(Yes, the whole “Flash Flood” thing is overblown by the media every time there is a half inch of rain.)
But the weather services, all of them, predicted heavy rains for the area, Simply put, you as an adult human have to be more aware. It can’t always be up to “The Gubermint” to tell you to get out of the rain, or to not camp on a flood plain or to not drive into a flooded river (Or drive into a blizzard, etc). It is up to YOU to choose and to make decisions for your safety. Darwin is always waiting, after all.
Here’s a hint though: If the river is rising that fast, think about leaving to higher ground before you are surrounded. Don’t wait for someone to tell you to move, GTFO. Don’t drown waiting to be told to move.
You echo my thoughts about living cities at or below sea level in hurricane country.
New Orleans ring a bell?
And we the taxpayers are expected to help them rebuild, time after time after time.
That craphole should be a landfil until its 110 feet above sea level, THEN let it get rebuilt.