Walk outside
I’m going to be the devils advocate. Go outside with a tape measure, and start at 2ft. That’s deadly in swift moving water and will take your vehicle. Now move it up to 6 ft and add debris. Now show yourself 12ft and realize you aren’t at a third of this historic flood. Double it to 24 ft. We are getting to unknown territory now and we still have 12 feet before the surge, you have moved to ‘safe’ historic ground and this water that dumped in the middle of the night, not over days or with warning, is coming for you in a way you don’t get. We all wished they had evacuated earlier. Look at just 30ft measured out and tell me you would have calmly walked to the right spot through a storm, at 3 in the morning with 15 little ones, when where you are sleeping was historically safe. But this opinion will be be dismissed as a mystic simp and very few of you will look how insane the amount of water was