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  1. Apparently Eastland was actively trying to work for solutions on the Guadalupe while possibly ignoring the risk to his own camp. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings-texas-flooding-invs?Date=20250711&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1752231100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
  2. Just came across this article that paints a picture of Eastland pushing for a solution on the Guadalupe. It looks like he was actively trying for a warning system (again). That said, it also paints a picture of the danger of Camp Mystic specifically and that the cabins were never moved. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings-texas-flooding-invs?Date=20250711&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1752231100&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin
  3. We know about pee. Can farts smell like asparagus?
  4. Seems like the North Fork was worse... https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/texas-guadalupe-flood-ai-data-map/ As for Heart o The Hills... https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-flooding-heart-o-the-hills-jane-ragsdale
  5. I honestly don't know much other than the basics like the Guadalupe River being beautiful in that area and the Ingram Dam. Otherwise, neighbors of mine have a house out there... he sent me pictures from that night. They lost a pickup truck and a trailer. Their house was 36 feet above the river and the water came up to the front porch.
  6. That's unimaginable. Can't even believe that happened and yet, here we are. Unreal.
  7. This is the FEMA definition of a Regulated Floodway and we've talked about many cabins being in the floodway. Someone here said that expansion of the camp inside of the regulated floodway took place in 2018 or 2019. So, now the question is... who approved the expansion? I know older cabins were in this area and probably grandfathered in but what about the new construction? I can't find anything anything about the expansion. I did see some regulations were put in place in 2020 but have no idea how restrictive they were. Also, did Kerr County have the incentive to stifle camps which brough much-needed revenue to the county? https://www.hccommunityjournal.com/article_e896fb60-6e8a-11e8-9faa-4b90402265f8.html Found this as well - https://www.papercitymag.com/culture/texas-best-summer-camps-mystic-waldemer-vista/ - those camps looked beautiful.
  8. THIS. I keep hearing people saying, "this hasn't happened to the Guadalupe up here in a long time" but everyone in these river communities knows what happened on the Blanco 10 years ago. We can't use ignorance as an excuse. They were talking about it in 2016. They just didn't like where the money was coming from and the inconvenience of sirens.
  9. Yeah, this is where I am because part of me wants to ask so much "why"... why wasn't someone up earlier monitoring the situation? Why were cabins so low? But, at the same time, everything I've heard about the family from people on this board to friends two houses away was that they were good people with good hearts. They bear some responsibility but they are also victims. To me, if anyone bears even more responsibility and they certainly are NOT endearing themselves to anyone are the local and state authorities. Bad attitudes, finger pointing, evasiveness... they are the ones that left their community in a vulnerable situation. The victims ended up being the locals and visitors, the camp counselors and yes, even the camps, who were in many ways left to fend for themselves.
  10. Went outside this morning for a quick walk and it was 69 degrees in SW Austin. On July 10th. Nice! Was 75 last night at 8:30.
  11. One of you is about to win a fabulous prize for guessing the final number!!!
  12. Apparently my hood and the immediate area is getting peppered with lightning pew pew pew
  13. Had dinner at Banger's last night. Did not die. We cracked jokes about the Rainey Street Killer because the whole phenomenon is so stupid.
  14. I'm very much looking forward to the update
  15. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's not even the current drought monitor
  16. A lot needs to fuck off in east Texas
  17. I watched that track every single day, all day. That storm JUST WOULD NOT LEAVE. It was brutal.
  18. I place blame at leadership across the board, not parents or counselors
  19. According to this source he got up at 3:11 AM... https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/KEG6mNwJnv
  20. I don't think anyone will point to the counselors and find them at fault. They acted heroically. Unlike Mo-Ranch, their leadership was not awake earlier and actively monitoring the situation. They can't claim they had no idea when Mo Ranch clearly knew that things were an issue at 1 AM.
  21. ...but too late. THIS is how it was done right. It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain. Aroldo Barrera notified his boss, who had been monitoring reports of the storms approaching Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a recreation destination where an intercultural youth conference had been called off early just hours earlier. https://www.newsnationnow.com/weather/texas-flooding-camp-evacuations/amp/
  22. Here's what is annoying about the "well, we didn't know about/forgot about the 1987 flood" argument (BTW @South Austin I'm not referring to you)... had local camp directors and locals in "flash flood alley" not heard about what happened in Wimberley in 2015? What about the Llano in 2018? What about this in 2002 (https://cceo.org/flood/flood2002). Maybe this in 1998? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1998_Central_Texas_floods). What about the Guadalupe in 2010? (https://www.mysanantonio.com/slideshows/news/slideshow/june-9-2010-flooding-slams-the-guadalupe-15399.php) Can you imagine hearing about those tragic losses and not having two brain cells fire up and say, "hey, maybe we should have some kind of emergency plans for our camp/city/county since so many people hang out by the river?"
  23. Allison says, "hay giirrlll" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison
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