… had a better detection model so as the rivers were rising, we might give people a little bit more time. From what everyone's taught me and what I've read is The most important thing from a flood perspective is you want to protect lives at the beginning because you can't stop Mother Nature when it wants to dump 5 inches of rain in 38 minutes. And you've heard stories like that, which are wild. There's almost nothing that's going to happen which will change that. But if you can give people a little bit more lead time, wow, what a difference that could make. (16:09–16:21)
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Asserts the priority of protecting lives during floods due to the unpredictability of severe weather.
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