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a lot of it is not the fault of weather but poor infrastructure without proper road drainages for water
water table in the US is low in most places and megacorps drain water resources astronomically
In this particular case you are wrong. It is the weather. It has been raining hard for three days straight in some of these places. It is climate change and the weather. Infrastructure is definitely an issue but not the reason.
obviously climate change and weather play a ginormous part in all this but if there were proper drainages shit like kids washing out due to floods would at least be minimized
I don't think that your reasoning fully grasps how flash floods work. Even with "proper drainage" situations can materialize in the millions of differing landscapes. With ground saturation at 100% and creeks and river systems at max capacity, the water has no where else to go in many places, like flood plains, watersheds, dips in the road, etc. We can and should learn from this horrific tragedy, but a few more drainage ponds is the equivalent of Trump's "just rake the woods" comment.