EXCERPT:
DOWD: “I so disagree with this idea of like, oh, there’s no way to know this thing was going to come. There was no way to know, you know, this was going to happen. It was, as Donald Trump said, it’s a 100-year event. How would we know? This is flash flood alley. As the senator, who I’m sure we’ll talk about, this is something that we know about, that we should have been prepared for, that we should have been doing something about for decades and decades and decades locally and at the state level and at the federal level. The fact that we didn’t and now we’re sort of sort of dealing with this immense tragedy is so, and so incredibly disturbing in this because this was, in my view, the tragedy of this, and the extent of the tragedy of this was totally preventable because we’ve known on the Guadalupe River and that river basin, this kind of thing can happen. Maybe not as bad as what happened, and it’s tragic it did, but this is — this is not every 100 years. This is every few years where these flood events happen. And the fact that people weren’t prepared, that all levels of government in this, is just so, so incredibly disturbing.”