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In reply to the discussion: Texas State officials, the organizers of the summer camp appear to be at fault. [View all]pinkstarburst
(2,079 posts)57. You would wonder if they had a weather radio
And since there was bad weather in the area the whole day before and flood warnings issued the previous afternoon, if they wouldn't have had someone awake overnight monitoring.
I'm wondering if one thing that may come out of this is regulation changes i.e. requiring that any camps must have an adult awake or a weather radio on if any alerts have been issued in the area.
Others have mentioned that because Central Texas gets so many tornado and flood warnings and most of the time, even if you are in the area impacted, they don't actually impact you, there's a lot of "warning fatigue" to all the alerts going off on your phone (constant amber alerts, silver alerts, etc). And perhaps even if they did get the alerts, they ignored them.
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Texas State officials, the organizers of the summer camp appear to be at fault. [View all]
WarGamer
Jul 2025
OP
These Texas officials are pointing fingers at everyone but themselves. Next they'll be saying the young girls should
Silent Type
Jul 2025
#1
The local yocals look like the Texas cops sitting on their thumbs watching the school shooting
WarGamer
Jul 2025
#2
Like Buford T reference. Right now Gov Abbot is on signing a request for fed help and he has Kristi Noem by his side.
Silent Type
Jul 2025
#3
Yes. As popular as that camp is, authorities should have made sure they were notified. Apparently, they weren't.
Silent Type
Jul 2025
#61
The thing I can't figure out, given the known volatility of area is why there were cabins that close to the river.
Biophilic
Jul 2025
#5
Im sure they would have built over the pretty river , if they could. People do.
Srkdqltr
Jul 2025
#54
Interesting - the next girl's camp up the river had all their cabins up on high cliffs
womanofthehills
Jul 2025
#60
I heard that earlier..a perfect scapegoat, isn't it? Only Camp Mystic was founded in 1926
Deuxcents
Jul 2025
#10
and for both the floods and the Uvalde shootings, the local agencies are busy blaming someone else
DBoon
Jul 2025
#56
My son lives about 30 miles east of that area and he told me today there were flash flood warnings on tv
Deuxcents
Jul 2025
#20
Hmm...at 4am and 5am in the morning, if someone wasn't up watching the news they would have missed
Baitball Blogger
Jul 2025
#28
Golly! I wonder if there was any precedent that could have foretold such flooding.
Norrrm
Jul 2025
#37
The USGS has more streamflow stations on this river and its tributaries than most places in the US.
waterwatcher123
Jul 2025
#63