Posted on 07/10/2025 8:41:49 AM PDT by AuntB
Did no one remember this???
I'm sorry for sounding cruel, but the churches, the parents, the county, SOMEONE should have known the danger and history of the area!! This is NOT excusable! This is sheer ignorance and arrogance.
1987! Same river filled with children from a church camp!
Although this is a good idea, the best method to avoid the danger is the one they don't want to hear about or admit. That is, don't be in the area when it's storming.
What is stupid is thinking warning sirens will help. After the sirens start going off everytime it rains, people will just ignore them.
This has been proved time and again. The river rose 30 feet in an hour.
“What is stupid is thinking warning sirens will help. After the sirens start going off everytime it rains, people will just ignore them.”
They wouldn’t be set to go off every time it rains.
30 years and yet the heathen rage. Ps2:1. It’s a river, they are full of water and flood. Damn Christians, how dare they pray.
At the minimun,sleeping quarters should be out/above the possibility of flooding or being washed away.
I expect some missing children and adults will never be found.
It is the county government that should have denied building permits for houses and camps in the flash flood plain. Boat ramps, stores, shops, picnic areas, fine. No residents, cabin camps, or camp grounds.
It's happened before.
I think the area is called Flash Flood Alley!
Your words not mine!
Grow up
Are they supposed to stay up all night?
The tornado warnings come across on the cell phone...loud enough to wake me up. I’ve heard that areas of rural Texas don’t have coverage?
How many more towers would it take to get complete coverage?
I wanted to drive some canyons roads to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The roads were securely closed because there was a remote chance it might rain.
I later learned by reading the news how real and dangerous that chance of rain could be even if it was a very small chance.
I was taught to never camp below the high water marks of anybody of water.
Those words answer Ps 2:1.
NOAA radios don't use cell towers. And they have alerts that will wake the dead.
The NOAA weather radio system works in the VHF range of around 160MHZ. The radio wave propagation of VHF is line of sight, so you need a tower.
A VHF signal will propagate a lot further than a cell tower. Virtually all of Texas is covered. It's how you can see a TV station a hundred miles away.
Try to find somewhere that you can't pick up a NOAA radio signal.
Granted VHF has over the horizon capabilities during certain atmospheric conditions, but it is not reliable.
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