A flash flood cannot be predicted. Even they knew it was coming, the camps had only minutes to act.
What could be updated is weather warnings. My province has a provincial wide alert system that goes off whenever something happens in the province.
You obviously have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
The weather service put out a WARNING 3 FREAKING HOURS BEFORE THE FLOOD!
A flash flood can absolutely be predicted. 5, 10, 20 etc miles up river. It would be child’s play to put flood gauge sensors and detectors every five or 10 miles. You could track a flash flood developing and moving in real time. It’s ludicrous to suggest I can watch every red light in the country with two or three cameras, predict what I’m going to have for dinner next Tuesday, monitor every license plate going down the road. But somehow, it’s an impossible moonshot to B Place satcom connected sensors up a river well known for flash floods.
Shoot, now that I think about it, we have a complete line of sensors from Scotland to Ireland, Scotland to Iceland, Iceland to Greenland just waiting for a submarine to pass by. But the Guadalupe river… That’s a tough one
They new heavy rain was coming, and they did start issuing warnings beforehand.
You can see this initial warning at midnight:
https://x.com/NWSWPC/status/1941005820969255187
“As CNN has previously reported, the NWS issued a flood watch early Thursday afternoon that highlighted Kerr County as a place at high risk of flash flooding through the overnight. A flash flood warning was issued for Kerr County as early as around 1 a.m. CT on Friday. A more dire flash flood emergency warning was then issued for Kerr County at 4:03 a.m. CT, followed by another one for Kerrville at 5:34 a.m. CT.”
If they’re expecting 3-5 inches of rain, then one might think they could sound an alarm when inch #6 falls, with no sign of letting up.
We were camping maybe 20 years ago on a river. About 3am, a ranger came by and warned everyone the river would rise 40 feet within 30 minutes so drag your tents up past the markings line. That was all the warning we had.
Kayakers and rafters came the next day from multiple states as the news spread.
“My province has a provincial wide alert system that goes off whenever something happens in the province.”
Eh? (I am trying to be funny.)
I’ve yet to see anything made better by an excess of government employees.