Oh, no!
I don’t know anything about listening to people who have lived next to ‘bodies of water’! Not the 10 years I lived on the Atlantic Ocean - especially during Sandy when I lived without electricity for two months and was forced to take my laundry to the Red Cross and eat my dinners cooked over my fireplace or forest afield where my mother lived. She who resented my taking up of her precious gas furnace!
I have news for jackasses like you, kaila, some of us have two homes and many different experiences in life over many decades.
Educate yourself.
As I am sitting in my sail boat in the San Juan islands, listening to a New Yorker educate me about water issues is laughable. You suffered during a storm, big deal. When you have sailed, surfed and scuba dived in the ocean, then you might have something to say.
You sanctimoniously blame the parents for this tragedy. The jackass is not me.
A child was killed by an alligator, and you blame the parents. Have some empathy.