[GH85Carrera]

It is the same problem everywhere. Politicians. When the weather is normal spending money on infrastructure is minimized, and the money is wasted on other things. They would rather wait for a catastrophe and then spend 10 time more to fix a problem after the fact. They can go pose in front of a camera and pledge to do "whatever is necessary" to help these citizens in the problem area.

I remember just a few years back Atlanta was having a severe drought. Lake Lanier was almost sucked dry and the "experts" were on the TV saying it might take 20 years to refill. Then the rains came and the lakes were full.

Here in central Oklahoma amazingly the past politicians understood the need for water. They built several drinking water lakes in the 1920s and 1930s. Oklahoma City has several man made lakes in the city limits. One lake is Lake Canton in far NW Oklahoma way outside the city. The city still owns the water rights. In severe droughts OKC will suck that water into the local lakes. They were in a drought up there for a long time and the lake was crazy low. That was a perfect time to expand the spillway and now there is a second spillway for flood control. That second all concrete spillway is done and the lake is full again. We are in another drought now but we have had cycles of drought and drought busting rains since statehood.