For those blaming the Camp for not evacuating the kids sooner, can you imagine being the one to make the call to wake up and move 750 children in the pitch black at 3:00am in the middle of a torrential downpour where the river rose 26 feet in a span of only 45 minutes?
For those blaming the government, the problem here wasn’t the forecast or the NWS warnings. Those were accurate and timely. It wasn’t the camps. Most of the camps there are 100-plus years old, run by new generations of the same great families. Those camp families know the river.
No NWS radar can observe rapidly rising river water. There are not enough people out at 4am to monitor every mile of the river and every low-water crossing. Most important, there’s no way now to alert every individual or business - most of them asleep - to danger that was charging rapidly down the river.
For Kerr County to build a mile-by-mile monitoring system, and a separate mile-by-mile alerting system, you gotta be looking at an 8-figure expense, given how expansive, remote, and rugged that area this area is.
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