The scale of devastating loss and damage from the Texas flooding on July 4 is inevitably causing questions to arise—about monitoring, about preparedness and advanced warning or the lack thereof, about the wisdom of carrying on with programming at a summer camp that lies in a flood plain when there was at least some rudimentary knowledge of bad weather and dangerous conditions approaching.
Do we just chalk it up to the pioneering, devil-may-care spirit of Texans who think they walk on water, or the hands-off management style and flaky views of the governor and lieutenant governor, and the general mindset of a state that can’t be told anything because you don’t mess with Texas?
Maybe it was all just a confluence of perfect conditions that led to a disaster that couldn’t be foreseen or imagined. But I doubt that’s going to sit very well with families who have lost loved ones and most every material possession they had.
One might expect people to want better answers than that it was the unfortunate and unpredictable arrival of a one-thousand-year event, and there was nothing anyone could do about that. That’s probably not gonna suffice in this situation.
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