The Warning Fell on Deaf Ears
In Wagner’s experience, most people wouldn’t adhere to a flood warning if it walked up and shook their hand. And he knew he could count his neighbors as these kinds of people. Some of them believed that a storm was coming, but that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as other storms of years past. Some of his neighbors were even excited at the chance to catch some of the heavy rains on video. Then again, they hadn’t gone through what those in a neighboring city had gone through in 2016, when a flood devastated the city of Houston.