Strategic resilience can help prevent tragedy in the next flash flood (Thomas S. Warrick – Atlantic Council)

The death toll from the July 4 flash floods in central Texas—at least 136 dead, including thirty-seven children—is a failure of strategic resilience that should concern all Americans. Flash floods are not unique to central Texas. Flash floods killed an average of 113 people a year over the past ten years, based on National Weather Service statistics. Hurricanes, by contrast, kill an average of twenty-seven; tornadoes forty-eight. Only extreme heat is a more deadly natural disaster, with an average of 238 in the past decade.

Strategic resilience can help prevent tragedy in the next flash flood – Atlantic Council