[CondoleezzaProtege]

Forgot to include. This sums it all up:

Periodic attempts to adopt a more modern flood-monitoring system, including one with warning sirens that might have alerted campers last week, repeatedly failed to gain traction – stalled by low budgets, some local opposition and a lack of state support.

- Curt Devine & Casey Tolan

[DallasBiff]

So you could predict the 1994 Northridge earthquake or the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.