Well, you’d think they would have gone to the camp to wake these people. We have Tornado sirens that go off in the dead of night. I’m not sure they had ANY warning. But it’s easy to look back..
spectre—I would think park rangers would have warned the campers. Sirens are found down stream of dams where the gates are routinely opened, but not sure if this area had any warning system.
I hate stories like this.
"Even if people attempted to leave at the first sign of danger - maybe that was the water lapping at their sleeping bags - water climbing higher and higher along the valley walls may already have inundated a number of low-water crossings, trapping them, Clarke said."