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?

Also, two links where you can donate.

Comments

[magid]

Given the colossal f’up at all levels of authority, I admit, I’m far less likely to donate than if this were something that had never happened before.

Also, it’s the role of the state/government/country to help those in disaster areas. Yeah, the current administration doesn’t seem to think that’s one of the things they should do, and I really really really don’t feel called to try to fill that gap.

::channels my inner curmudgeon::

[adafrog]

I feel like an ass, but ITA with this. I hadn't even heard that it had happened before, but I was thinking about a similar situation where there were f-ups, and the info didn't get out. So many people died because the government couldn't be assed to have someone in the office overnight.