The Trump folks have found their "bad guy" in the Houston flooding.

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45. Houston was not directly in path of hurricane and torrential rain is vastly more than predicted

The rainfall expected is now double original predictions closer to four feet expected. All the other cities and towns across hundreds of miles in surrounding communities are also flooded, in places that never flooded before even during previous storms and hurricanes, while the destroyed town of Rockport that was under mandatory evacuation is not flooded, but uninhabitable due to structural damage.

As far as second guessing, about all most people could have done better was to stockpile more food and necessities in anticipation of being stranded due to flooded conditions. Many of those being rescued from rooftops were in neighborhoods that have never seen flooding since they were built over 40 years ago, so they had no expectation of problems. Flooding is already much worse and widespread in only 2 days than Allison was in 5 days or Hurricane Ike, and this storm has another 3 or 4 days.