The New York Times. They know everything.
Could have bought them all $20 NOAA weather radios.
Have not yet read the NYT. It’s on my reading list just behind “News from Planet Venus Alien Sofciety”.
NYT should take care of the mountains of shi...er...Obamastuff currently smelling up and infecting NYC by looking into the Democrat Communist Party before looking into Texas, a far superior state.
I don’t think the camp had enough busses to evacuate ~700.
“For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.”
Word of mouth down river?
Do they think we are in 1825 not 2025>
The river rose somewhere between 30 and 40 feet in 45 minutes to an hour. No plan in this world could have provided the necessary logistics to have saved these people in the time frame given.
During the1993 floods inWest Des Moines, IA, I was part of the first responders who went house to house warning residents to evacuate before the temporary levee broke. I don’t understand why local emergency officials in Texas could not have both called the camp leaders and driven to the camps with PA and sirens to force evacuation.
Sirens mean stay in place or find a storm cellar.
lawsuits gonna fly all over the place- warnings known but ignored-
Considering their history of floods, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1991 and 1997, they should have built a 32 ft. seawall along both sides of the Guadalupe River. 20 miles upstream and 20 miles down stream........That would have fixed it.....or not.
The people that run those camps have TV, radio and cell phones. There were super heavy rain and flooding warnings out.
The folks who run those camps should have been paying attention and took those kids down near the river to high ground before bedtime to be on the safe side.
I feel sad because the man who owns the camp died trying to save them but was too late.
It was a tragedy but there were many people who had no idea it was coming because they were asleep.
This bears at least a passing relationship to reporting. From the NYTs?