Local officials don't stand a chance with the once in a hundred yrs or more weather events.......Even a tornado all you can do is sound an alarm......Events like TX happen before they know what hits them....
Till you've been in one its hard to understand a Flash flood.......
Will agree on Noaa,,,,,we use them to keep track of what to expect with river levels within hours....... https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/BUCW2
In our event 2016 and the Texas event, the weather was localized and no river prediction could have helped avoided ours as it was creek flooding....Theirs was a river flood due to, localized rain.......
Sometimes, its just what it is, a disaster.......With no one to place blame on Global warming ?