I'm feeling slightly judgmental on the Texas flooding and I don't know if my judgment is merited

[conuly]

So, I read an article that said that the flooded cabins at the summer camp were low-lying, about 500 feet from the river. 500 feet is less than a tenth of a mile, so... one or two minutes walk.

And I read another that said that while the dramatic scale of this flooding was unprecedented, the fact that the river floods was very much not.

Am I right to think that at some point since the founding of the camp they ought to have moved the cabins back, put up a flood wall, or both? I live on a hill - if the water a few blocks down floods badly enough to affect us up here, that really will have been unpredictable! So I don't know about living quite that close to water at my front door. Maybe my intuition here is wrong and those precautions could not possibly have occurred to anybody?

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[lilysea]

I just looked up Camp Mystic on wikipedia - I was curious if they were for-profit or not-for-profit, because flood walls aren't cheap -

and

"In 1932, the camp suffered a flash flood which washed away several cabins, but no fatalities were reported."

I wonder if the cabins that were washed away in 1932 were rebuilt on higher ground, or rebuilt on the same locations they were washed away from in 1932