Camp Mystic, where many adults and children lost their lives during the recent flood, is located in an area with a long history of deadly flooding. Some of the camp's cabins, built many years ago, are located in high risk flood areas. In 2019 the camp began an expansion. Instead of moving the high risk cabins, they built new cabins for children even closer to the river. They built cabins in the river's floodway. A high risk area will probably flood at some point. A river's floodway is meant to carry floodwaters when the river overflows. That's where the camp built cabins. How was this even possible? It's not as if Texas has no building codes and regulations, they have plenty, on virtually every aspect of construction. The NY Times put up a story about this with no paywall. I will post the link. If the info is accurate, I don't understand how this was allowed to happen. If I'm missing something let me know. On a side note, across the country there are states spending insane amounts of money on fighting climate change, while at the same time not doing the basics to protect people from natural disasters that they know are coming. Even Texas has its own set of arbitrary climate change goals and regulations. "43% greenhouse gas emissions by 2030." CA spends billions every year on climate change and the LAFD didn't have money to pay mechanics to fix its fire trucks. On a federal level, the 2021 Infrastructure Act spent $1.2 trillion. Imagine how little of that money was spent on things people need today.
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