Read the link. Over 600 people have already died in flash floods in the Hill Country in the past 115 years.
A low pressure system from the Gulf (lot of moister) collided with one from the west and that caused a slow moving thunder storm.
Texas river flood leaves at least 13 dead and 20 children missing; camp evacuated by helicopter
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A low pressure system from the Gulf (lot of moister) collided with one from the west and that caused a slow moving thunder storm.
Irrelevant to my point.
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Wednesday's WSJ has a more detailed article on the sequence of events. The NWS issued it's warning at 1:14 A.M., by around 2 A.M. the floods were already washing sites away. The Camp staff had already been evacuating kids, and by 4 .A.M. one staffer was standing on the roof of a cabin with water lapping at her feet. The river crested at 37 feet, over three stories high. The last flood like that was in 1932. The cabins weren't right on the river, they were built back a ways and were thought high enough to be safe, as they had been for years. They had an alert system in the past, via a beeper system, but it was unclear if it functioning at the time or just lapsed from disuse.
Yes, they're sub-human vermin, and get more so daily.
Every Cub Scout in the Southwest is taught to never camp in flood plains. People get complacent over years of no problems. The cabins were built on what was thought to be high enough ground, and had been since 1932, until now.
The staff was evacuating people. The water just rose too high and too fast for them. The Camp's director drowned rescuing kids. His vehicle got washed away.