LUBBOCK, Texas — After the fatal flash flooding in Kerrville, Texas, Greg Thornton, general manager at Buffalo Springs Lake, reflected on how serious flash flooding was. Especially, since Buffalo Springs Lake was prone to flooding.
According to Thorton, the rainfall and flooding in Kerrville was a ‘lifetime event,’ meaning engineers typically designed dams or drainage systems to handle rare extreme storms that would happen about every hundred years, but the one in Kerrville was even worse than that, and it was nothing anyone could have truly prepared for.
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“I was like, ‘Those poor people,’ because there’s nothing, they could have done to prepare for this, you know? City managers, emergency providers, like it’s a lifetime event, you know? You do your best. You have engineers, people build roads, people build dams,” Thornton said.
For Thorton he had experienced a lot of flooding in his lifetime, however, it was nothing compared to Kerrville. Thornton described the flash flooding in the hill country as a “lifetime event.”…