This is Yahoo now. So silly
They haven’t even recovered all casualties.
They could just declare anything less than fifty feet above the river as off limits to all humans. That would make it safe. Maybe...
“ I am probably decades younger than you. Don’t want to waste time tiffing with an old man.”
This is one of 3 Messages from the thread creator to me personally.
I told it to knock it off or I would post it for all to see.
The previous 2 are just as weird.
I agree with folks that suggested roving guards and watches at camp sites to monitor weather and general camp safety. A buddy team already awake, alert, situationally aware, and ready to call in assistance when needed.
The REAL TARGET is Ken Paxton, who’s running for Senate next year. But since Paxton has nothing to do with flood warnings (he’s currently Attorney General here), they figure they’ll try to tar him by association >> “Texas Republican leaders caused this mess, Paxton is a Texas Republican leader”.
As to river warnings, I can see people having ‘warning fatigue’, since we seem to get an Amber Alert every time a parent forgets to pick up their kid at daycare, and get a Tornado Warning every time a tree branch moves, so they do need to work out a balance here.
“But nobody saw this coming.”
bullshit ... they had plenty of warnings from the National Weather Service that SEVERE rains were on the way, but they were too stupid, incompetent, backwards, and/or lazy to do anything about it, you know, like issue local emergency warnings ASAP ...
around here, we have reverse-911 emergency warnings for BFD events ...
Initial flood watch warning went out the previous afternoon around 1:18 PM - people ignored and went to bed to wake up to catastrophe...
"On July 17, 1987, a sudden flash flood swept a bus full of children away at a low water crossing. The incident occurred near the town of Comfort, Texas, which lies about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of San Antonio. At the time, the Pot O' Gold Ranch, which is situated on the south side of the river about two miles southwest of Comfort, was hosting a church camp, with over 300 children from various churches attending. On the night of July 16 and into the morning of the 17th, almost 12 inches (300 mm) of rain had fallen across the Texas hill country to the north, triggering immense flooding on the Guadalupe River. The camp was scheduled to end on the 17th and the children were going home later that day, but camp supervisors at the ranch decided to evacuate the children early that morning before it rose too high. At around 9 am that morning, the children were loaded into buses and the buses were directed to a low water crossing."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe_River_(Texas)
Almost 40 years ago, 10 children died in a Comfort flood that shook Texas
Maps of flood prone areas have been around for years and local emergency management agencies should have assessed those hazards. These camps should never have been allowed to be built in areas subject to flooding or at least should have been required to have and tested evacuation plans. It seems that local authorities dropped the ball
BS.
If a train track sensor a mile away can cause a train gate /lights/sirens to activate a couple of minutes before the train arrives, they can do the same with water levels and alarm downstream. Solar/cell/wireless/ham radio over the wire/etc. can be used for FTL communications from the first warning signs to the downstream danger areas.
What about portable SIRENS that can be moved anywhere-—VERY QUICKLY ???
ON A TRAILER STORED AT LOCAL FIREHOUSES SEEMS OK.