Much of what made the camp special also put it at heightened risk as the river rose to record levels, a Post investigation found.
The thing about flash floods is you need to move before the flood reaches you. Being aware of it doesn’t do much good if you don’t.
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People are heuristic - we predict the future from our past experiences. They have been on the river for 40 years and had a lot of experience telling them that “this will be like other times.”
Maybe there was even a time where it was far less than what NOAA predicted.
This is why scientific literacy and critical thinking skills are important. One of the deadliest phrases is “in my experience”.
Imagine realizing you made the wrong call by hearing the screams of children.
Hard disagree about that being the wrong call, even though it killed him.
I meant the “waiting too late to start evacuating children” being the wrong call.
Then your judgment was entirely correct, my b