Meteorologists point out that hurricanes and flood-making storms possess extraordinary amounts of energy that humans can't reproduce or control.

When the precipitation intensified in the early morning hours Friday, many people failed to receive or respond to flood warnings at riverside campsites known to be in the floodplain.

Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of central Texas on Friday , prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the forecasting agency

Local lawmakers admitted that “there’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing” over what went wrong before the devastating floods