There is no evidence that they didn’t receive alerts. Frankly, it’s rather ludicrous to assume nobody bothered to look at the weather.
I’ve seen some of the videos of the rising waters, showing locals out setting up blockades to stop drivers from entering flooded roadways, just as they do in every flood. Those locals knew the floods were coming. They’ve seen dozens, perhaps hundreds of floods before, and they responded to this flood just like they have always responded to floods.
The videos also showed those locals quickly moving their barriers to higher and higher ground: far higher than where they normally need to erect those barricades.
What most likely happened here is that the camp did receive their warnings and they took their usual flash-flood precautions. But, the actual flooding greatly exceeded the degree of flooding they usually see in severe storms, so their precautions were inadequate.
Maybe they were asleep. Maybe none of them were locals so they didn’t think that they would get flooded.
There is no evidence that they didn’t receive alerts. Frankly, it’s rather ludicrous to assume nobody bothered to look at the weather.
I’ve seen some of the videos of the rising waters, showing locals out setting up blockades to stop drivers from entering flooded roadways, just as they do in every flood. Those locals knew the floods were coming. They’ve seen dozens, perhaps hundreds of floods before, and they responded to this flood just like they have always responded to floods.
The videos also showed those locals quickly moving their barriers to higher and higher ground: far higher than where they normally need to erect those barricades.
What most likely happened here is that the camp did receive their warnings and they took their usual flash-flood precautions. But, the actual flooding greatly exceeded the degree of flooding they usually see in severe storms, so their precautions were inadequate.
They should have had NOAA weather radios at least.