I noticed this was 2017 and I’d also absolutely love to know what an early warning system was going to do when the river goes up 26 feet within an hour. You could have had an army of meteorologists sitting in boats on the river and nothing was going to prevent this type of tragedy.
I’ll tell you about the early warning system with Duke when the river goes up 26 feet. The early warning system to Texas upstream, blood gauges register the sudden increase, sirens go off five 1015 and 20 miles downstream. And people traveled the distance between a couple of hundred yards, or maybe a half mile up the hill for safety. And no meteorologists are needed to monitor the river flow. Texas screwed the pooch on yet another emergency. They failed in Covid, they failed in the Texas freeze out, they failed at Uvalde. And now this.
But they do put on a great press conference 15 or 20 guys on stage, every politician you can think of, everyone wearing cowboy hat and invoking the deity.
“I’d also absolutely love to know what an early warning system was going to do when the river goes up 26 feet within an hour. “
One of the TX Emergency Management people said tonight that a warning system wouldn’t have been much help at all in this situation.
“I’d also absolutely love to know what an early warning system was going to do when the river goes up 26 feet within an hour. “
If sirens had gone off based on levels upstream people would have had time to run to higher ground assuming they knew the escape route.
Many survived just because thunder woke them.