7 hours ago
(Yesterday, 02:38 PM)Acer Wrote: Random thoughts:
I've spent a career running summer camps and getting kids into the woods. The nightmare this represents keeps everyone in the business awake at night. Because we can't predict or prevent every potential tragedy. This camp sat sleepily and safely along the river for 100 years. Should the owners be held accountable? Perhaps, but at least one of them died in the flood so we'll have to go after who's left, hopefully giving them time to bury their dead first.
A fully-staffed and funded weather department can't predict exactly over which river a given storm will park itself. We just don't have that level of science yet. AI may change all that, but in the meantime starving the department of funds or personnel, or farming it out so a for-profit can include its shareholders in the forecasting process is not going to help.
Cynically, the demographic of the families attending this camp will likely ensure a robust response.
There are levels of cynicism … don't think your take is that cynical at all. Guaranteed if this were a different situation with a different color of campers we might be spared the worst of the hand-wringing and second-guessing. (now that's cynical…)
One person who's already outspoken about this lost their job.
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