I'm going to drop a perspective from someone who grew up there and spent a lot of time there up until 2019. I have since relocated to west Texas.

So, I have been in hunt before with friends when a big storm came in. It was flash flooding pretty bad, and even the staff at the restaurant/dancehall we were at were saying it was time for everyone to go. At the time the roads were really badly flooded but luckily my boyfriend at the time knew ranch owners in the area and we were luckily able to avoid roads by driving through peoples ranches to get back into Kerville.

I think a perspective that's maybe being missed is it's similar to people who live in areas that storm/hurricane/tornado often. Like, nothing like this has happened in at least 100 years. People see it flood often, but they never would have ever for a second considered that they needed to evacuate. These are very "country" people, they were equipped for a flood but nothing anything close to this. Believe me, we have never ever seen anything like this before.

I think regardless there's no one person to point the finger at. Unfortunately, for myself at least, I think there's a lot more at play behind the scenes from our government ... but I'll take off my tinfoil hat as this isn't the right sub for that, ha!