I’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodplain without an adequate warning system. More pain. More loss.
The bottom line is—we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change this narrative until we change our view of climate change and of living and developing in the floodplain.
The storm that hit Kerrville was similar to prior rainfall events from 1987 and 2002 that led to flooding on the Guadalupe River. (As well as more historic floods, like one from 1932.) Those risks were known, though perhaps the rainfall intensity and rate of the river’s rise were a bit more extreme than in the past.
