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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It’s almost like they get the ‘flood’ part, but not so much the ‘flash’
And if you haven’t seen videos of flash flood events, many people don’t understand how quickly these can become an imminent threat. We can be talking about a matter of just a few minutes.
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I watched a video of this flood and was floored. It was somehow scarier than the footage of the streets in Japan in 2011.
I guess maybe because of how “calm” it was. It wasn’t a thrashing wall of ocean waves bouncing between buildings, the river just rose and rose until it poured onto the overpass
“This flood’s not that bright.”