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There has always been a place for emergency management. Just ask Kansas about tornados in the 1960s/70s before the rise of doppler radar. And even after in 2007, there was Greensburg, KS.

We can and probably should have arguments about the effective cost of government programs. But Kerr County residents fought hard to not pay $20 per resident (assuming population of 53,000) for a $1M flood warning system. So this is the outcome. And it will cost Kerr County way more than $1M in cleanup.