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conulySo, 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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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?
Also, two links where you can donate.
"government opted to not spend money"
Date: 2025-07-08 06:14 pm (UTC)In an August 2016 commissioners court meeting, then Commissioner Buster Baldwin voted against a $50,000 flood engineering study, saying, "I think this whole thing is a little extravagant for Kerr County and I see the word sirens and all that stuff in here."
Lt Gov Dan Patrick - who just spent all of the spring season trying to destroy 8,000 small businesses by banning CBD and THC from the state of Texas (a year after the populace voted to legalize it) threw down chaff and flare by saying "If the city can’t afford it, then the state will step up," - hoping to distract from the FACT that Bill HB 13 had passed the House vote with flying colors and was moved to the Senate for a vote but some reason it died in committee around .... April, when he was in a fervor over THC. The Senate never even looked or voted on it. Patrick neglected to bring attention to it.
HB13 was a bill to improve local disaster warning systems.
Re: "government opted to not spend money"
Date: 2025-07-09 03:46 am (UTC)