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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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