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  1. According to this source he got up at 3:11 AM... https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/KEG6mNwJnv
  2. 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.
  3. ...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/
  4. 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?"
  5. Allison says, "hay giirrlll" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Allison
  6. C'mon c'mon... nice and easy rain into the rivers... just keep it flowing to the lakes without getting out of control. Rain since midnight...
  7. State has a good track record of certifications... https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/11/texas-foster-care-shelter-abuse/
  8. I poked around some of the web pages (not just Mystic but HOH, Waldemar, Stevens, Mo-Ranch) and couldn't really find any stated policies on emergency procedures. I will say, some of those camps are in really beautiful locations.
  9. Exactly... how do you run a camp with small children housed in cabins in the regulatory floodway without having all kinds of warning systems? I mean, WTF are there cabins there anyway? Source: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search?AddressQuery=camp mystic way%2C hunt%2C tx
  10. That blob has mostly parked around that general area all day long.
  11. That Texas Monthly article made it sound like there might still be multiple family members involved. Actually looks like the Stacy family is no longer involved... https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/camp-mystic-survives-six-year-family-feud-4113020.php They're going to go after someone and the land will most likely get sold to cover what happens. https://www.campmystic.com/directors-staff/ I see direct family members part of leadership other than Dick and Tweety. I'm not clear but did Tweety pass, as well? The whole thing is a mess. Despite all the finger pointing, Dick died trying to save those girls.
  12. Yeah look I was a craptacular student at UT. I always said that the most valuable lessons I learned in college had to do with socializing, meeting people, communication, networking, etc. I learned those lessons in the Greek system and I'm still friends with many of those people although my political thought processes have changed over time.
  13. https://hydromet.lcra.org/floodstatus
  14. Admittedly I do see redheads
  15. Only thing I could find from 2016 and 2022 alumni events. I'm not digging deeper since it won't matter. I don't know if its necessarily a white or black or brown issue. Its definitely a camp for those with money and connection and it does sound like the Greek system to me (yes, I was in the Greek system so not hating per se). I probably know people in that picture. I'm not looking. That said, the idea of sending my kid to a camp for 30 days sounds absolutely bonkers. That sounds more like "give me 30 days of freedom" versus "I want you to experience camp". I think Ozark maybe does that, too.
  16. Any BBQ suggestions? Should try some Carolina BBQ while there.
  17. Anything like this worth opening any floodgates at LBJ? (I don't know what the threshold is for them to make the call)
  18. I'm surprised how many posters are not familiar with summer camps. Its not like they only occur in Texas. My parents sent me to a YMCA camp when I was in elementary school. Camp Cullen. I hated it. Was just not for me. Definitely was not a "rich" camp as I remember a mix of everyone being there including once kid who had to get dialysis while camping. Olympia was across the lake from us and I think that was the "nicer" camp. They had one of those giant air bags like stuntmen use to jump into the lake. I went to boy scout camp at El Rancho Cima near the Devil's Backbone. That I liked better but camping still really wasn't my thing. At least that camp was beautiful - really pretty countryside and swimming in the Blanco (watch for the leeches). Our tents were mostly elevated up from the river... I want to say we were just below that ridge on the Blanco: AKA Ironically, the camp was severely damaged during the 2015 Memorial Day floods but was not yet in session because summer had not started. Just another example of a camp destroyed by flash flooding. Glad to say much of that will now be Hays County parkland (https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/texas/stories-in-texas/hays-park-bond/). You wouldn’t know it looking at the serene landscape now, but the 2015 Memorial Day weekend flood that devastated Wimberley also dealt a deathblow to the nearby historic Boy Scout camp, El Rancho Cima. Sweeping away entire structures along the banks of the Blanco River, the flood obliterated a camp that has been owned and operated by the Sam Houston Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1954. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2018/03/15/boy-scouts-selling-historic-el-rancho-cima/10005450007/
  19. Llano and Pedernales are flowing quite nicely right now. I think that has to have a quality impact on Travis. I could be wrong. The elevation increase is taking longer. Either way, we haven't seen numbers like this since April 2022!
  20. This is the rain event that won't quit. Oh, and Lindner needs to learn how to write Guadalupe
  21. Earlier this week I was talking about going out there on Sunday and then grabbing lunch at Hooper's. Maybe not
  22. One of our favorite spots on the Llano
  23. Everyone saying "my radar app is saying that this will..." need to understand that radar app doesn't know shit. Storms do what they want. While you can say 60% chance of rain or whatever, you can't predict exactly where that rain will fall. On a side note, aside from the 10 foot rise, forecasts are a potential 10-20 more feet in Travis.
  24. A lifetime ago, I used go to Paris/St. Cloud on business in the summer... imagine summer heatwaves while wearing a suit. It sucked. I was dying and, yes, even got to enjoy a taxi ride to Orly with a non-deodorant wearing coworker. Good times.
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