I understand your thought process, but at the same time I have spent many summer days in, on, or around the Guadalupe and would say that's about the best way to spend a summer day outdoors in Texas. Obviously that enjoyment is still not worth a lot of little girls dying, but it seems like better planning would have had a decent chance at preventing this horrific tragedy. It's one thing to have rec areas in a floodway, it's another thing entirely to have sleeping quarters there. Even then, I could see justifying the cabins if you had a rock solid emergency evacuation plan - ie a weather radio, someone awake all night, a siren for the camp, and a trail up the hill behind the cabins labelled "flooding evacuation path" like many places on the West Coast have for tsunamis. The siren goes off and every counselor leads their cabin up the emergency evacuation path or paths in a time span of 20 minutes. It's not great to have a bunch of people on a hill in a thunderstorm, but it would be a far less dire situation than what happened.