Organizing, getting set up for a costly lawsuit. Wearing nice commercially produced campaign buttons. You can hear the personal injury lawyers’ voices echoed in the phrases used by the testifiers.
Gonna be hard when Camp Mystic had just passed their safety inspection in the days before which included their flash flood plans. There was no way to get out of the way of a 20+ foot wall of water that rose in a few minutes time. Warning sirens would have helped but even then not everyone would have made it out of the path given how fast the water rose. They don’t call it flash flood alley for nothing.
My wife is also a fourth generation Mystic girl she knows the children of the High land Park families lost most multi generational Parkies know each other they all went to school together , camp together and socialize as adults together its a close wealthy bubble. She remembers how close the cabins were to the river bank the closest ones would have not had minutes of time they had seconds in the middle of the night in the dark from sound asleep. Unless you totally ban any structure inside the 1:100 flood zone no amount of sirens will eliminate risk.