man, that is rough.
if you look at the terrain map of Kerr county/Kerrville, it looks frightening.
in mountainous areas in the US, towns appear at confluences or at least generally along rivers and within their flood plains.
the US is like a perfect storm for supremely confident settler brain, zero cultural memory of extreme events/traditional ecological knowledge older than 400 years, and the ongoing, unprecedented climate destabilization.
when you put all that together with the anti-imtellectual/defunding of science inconvenient to capital, you’ve got a a geographically and historically unique disaster stew that i predict will give us 3-4 figure mass casualty flooding events every summer, where we will be directed to gawk and rubberneck in horror and devastation, but perennially directed to perceive the causes as natural, mysterious, and unknowable.
Something really funny could have happened to that state trooper who was walking backwards.
That summer camp was built on a dry river bed. Completely avoidable tragedy (along with NWS cuts contributing).
It’s always so predictable that people blame the wrong people in these events, the chuds are turning around and blaming the nws who is on the receiving end of gigantic cuts.
That’s always been the goal. You kneecap a public service, convince people that it sucks and needs to be privatized, then firesale the assets to a company you own
