sure, shelter in place--as long as you're at the TOP of the hill, not at the water's edge. OMG.

It's what Dick would have wanted.

What thought process leads one to the only possible evacuation plan that isn’t an evacuation?

Likely its that person thinking "This isn't a big deal and it will never happen but I can't say that so instead I'll give you a non-answer so I don't have to deal with it anymore."

my county (in MD and already very wealthy) was offered funds for warning devices, and jumped on it. The first responders and emergency planners LOVE LOVE LOVE these things. They can get up to another hour's notice of rising water levels and pre-stage equipment or close roads or start evacuating people.

Yeah but they already own that land, been playing the lottery for years on a bad flood plain while lobbying to get the buildings shown as not being on a flood plain. That's the American spirit isn't it?

/s of course

How they can think of reopening the same camp is ridiculous. They should be brought on charges as well as people who decided it was alright to designate the buildings as okay. So many safety issues were ignored, just let councillors have their phones for starters.

Gotta have income to pay the lawyers. Plus, if you read the articles last summer, what kept a lot of families still going there was momentum and tradition. If the operators could have kept the camp open this summer, momentum and tradition may have carried the camp forward and they may have recovered, but this is the death knell for the camp. Some families will drop their summer camp tradition entirely, and a bunch of other camps are going to snatch up the remaining campers and do their damnedest to make sure those kids have a fantastic time and want to return to their camp and not Camp Mystic.