My niece attended Camp Mystic when she was a child. A few years ago, one of my daughters expressed interest in going as well, but the cost of attendance was steep.
The camp sits in a stunning corner of the Texas Hill Country, a place of remarkable beauty that can become deadly in a matter of minutes.
Some may refer to it as a hundred-year or even a 500-year flood event. In reality, it’s closer to a 40-year flood and for something that occurs that frequently, precautions must be taken every single year.
Congressman Pfluger’s two daughters were at Camp Mystic but are OK. I assume they were cabin was in the area that they were able to escape from
Really hurts my heart to think of all these nice young people dying.
I was a summer camp girl. Nice camp up in Wisconsin on a lake. We canoed around the lake a lot and so did some boys from a nearby camp. We’d race them, but of course they allways beat us. Developed some longstanding friendships there.
This is a horrible tragedy but the questions are now going to be asked that should have been addressed long ago. This isn’t random like a tornado - flood modeling is very well established and accurate. If they failed to do so, it was negligent, if they knew and let kids in anyway, that’s something worse.