“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 ...
Stop.
There were NOT plenty of warnings.
The two urgent warnings came in the night.
The previous day forecast said heavy rains (8 inches) possible. The river rose at a rate of 12 inches per minute.
Enough of the profane blame game.
How about your fix CO, before blaming TX officials and citizens?