We've seen this flood scenario before
There was another flood, way back, that is pertinent regarding the Texas deluge.
Around the turn of the 20th century, a group of rich industrialists bought a hunting and fishing club. The fishing lake was formed by a dam that held a reservoir. Problem was, the top of the dam wouldn't allow the members to get to the other side of the lake, where members felt there were some damn good fishing spots.
So they hired an engineer at a salary that allowed him to tell them whatever they wanted to hear. Lo and behold, he developed plans to alter the dam to allow cart passage to the other side.
Once the dam was altered, physics did the rest. The dam failed, flooding the townspeople of Johnstown, PA. Eleven hundred people, nearly 800 if whom were women and children, drowned on behalf of the fishing fantasies of Rockefellers, Vanderbilt's and Carnegie's.
Of course, there was an exhaustive investigation of the incident, and of course, altering the dam's structure was ID'd as the culprit. The club and it's members paid a lot of money in fines and such, although almost none of it went to the families of the victims.
Here's the point, though: not one industrialist, nor their staffs, nor the engineer, nor anyone else, went to jail as a result of the Johnstown flood Eleven hundred U S. citizens died as a result of affirmative negligent decisions made by people whose names were at that time known.
And no one went to jail.
Sounds lot like Texas. Are we gonna let that happen again? I damned sure do not intend to.
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