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That’s to say that Mystic knew about the weather, was monitoring the situation, and in a huge storm had a plan that said campers should remain in their cabins instead of having them leave for higher ground. I think all of that is based on decades of experience, and they just completely underestimated this situation. Based on the conversation I had tonight, I think they stuck with their plan, and that was a fatal mistake. So much so, they realized it mid event, did what they could to get the girls out, and were just too late. Dick lost his life and his son Ed barely saved the girls that he could. Ed ended up in a tree with a bunch of the girls who all survived, except for one who was holding on for dear life to another girl. She lost grip and Ed (and I’m assuming some of the girls) watched her get swept away. What I haven’t heard is if that girl is the one who found a log to float on and got fished out by a Good Samaritan right next to La junta. That little girl was at church this Sunday playing king of the hill with about 30 other kids like nothing ever happened. My son was one of the ones being too rough with her and he had absolutely no idea that she was the little girl that his whole camp watched get evacuated by a Blackhawk helicopter from the La junta athletic field. I really am having trouble keeping up with the reality of all of it.
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Based on that post and what I’ve been told, what Texas Fight is saying seems accurate to me. There’s a lot of confusion about where the cabins are and where the mystic flood plan says to focus first. I think we need to let all parties report their pre flood plans, their actions during the event, and their post event thoughts about why they made the decisions they did.
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I dont know whats being said, but that is most certainly not their emergency plan. Im not directing this at you, but I feel confident the Eastlands and their staff took significant care when it comes to flood planning. Its going to take some time for the details to come out. That being said, I had dinner tonight with someone very close to the situation, and she tearfully stated to me that she thinks they could've been more on top of it. It doesnt sound like they were off by some egregious amount, but the scoreboard is the scoreboard. Its a brutal situation.
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That or place dudes that like to go hard at strategic locations along the river.
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Theres a story of a dude that stayed up drinking and watching the storm at an rv park. At this point I dont even remember where its from. Around 1:30 he noticed the water had risen a lot and decided to go in and check the weather. He saw there were a bunch of alerts, came back outside, and the water had risen a shit ton in just minutes. He raised drunken hell banging on everyones rv doors and telling the men he came across to do the same. Everyone got out in time to watch their RVs get swept away. Im sure this story will come out more publicly because it sounds both amazing and completely insane. Unless you were there, Im guessing theres just no way to understand how fast it all happened. It was like a tsunami.
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Also they were enthusiastic about saying if Heart of the Hills was in session it would've been way way worse. I've heard that many times now and am curious whats going to happen to that camp now that Jane has been lost. Sounds like it got it the worst.
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Talked to multiple La Junta counselors. Pretty shocking stuff. They had somewhere between 50-60 kids up in the rafters of their cabins. Couldnt get out in time. They said it was impossible to see below the water line in the dark and with the deep brown color of the water. They were speaking very slow and in a serious tone, and said they thought that was it and told the kids to start praying. Exact same story I heard about the girls on the cat walk at the playhouse in Mystic. They said it was really looking bad and then the water stopped rising at the rafters, and maybe 20 minutes later it start going down. These dudes really went through something. I didn't think it got nearly that bad there. People way across the river could hear the kids crying for help. One of the cabins had multiple 6 year olds in it including one of my buddies kid from UT who showed me some insane videos of the cabins. Its actually super nice I didnt know any of this until now.
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I'll be at two of them. Have several related events all week. Im exhausted.
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Honestly at this point I think the legacy pool has grown so wide that even some girls whose mothers attended arent getting in. As you might imagine these people completely lose their shit.
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Nothing has changed. The day many of these girls are born you call and put them on the list for summer camp and if you want them to go to Texas you put them on the list for Hardin House. Been this way for a long long time.
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