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To: CondoleezzaProtege
If this is the kind of toxic denialism and attitude present in the TX politicians, nothing will change. And it’s this kind of attitude why it likely got this bad in the first place. Have some humility. Please

And again no blame by you towards the camp owners, are you saying they did no know it was on a flood plain.

16 posted on 08/20/2025 4:38:20 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff
You are willfully blind so you may not even read the following words. But it's my final post on the matter.

- Dick Eastland warned for decades about the hidden dangers of the beautiful but volatile Guadalupe River, a peril he saw firsthand while running his family’s youth camp alongside its banks.

Eastland saw floods damage Camp Mystic again and again – and his pregnant wife was even airlifted to a hospital while the camp in central Texas was cut off by floodwaters.

He successfully pushed for a new flood warning system after 10 children at a nearby camp were swept to their deaths in 1987, and in recent years served on the board of the local river authority as it supported renewed efforts to improve warnings on the Guadalupe.

“The river is beautiful,” Eastland told the Austin American-Statesman in 1990. “But you have to respect it.”

But after 27 people were killed at Camp Mystic in last week’s cataclysmic flooding – along with Eastland himself, who died while trying to rescue his young campers – the scale of the tragedy highlights potential missed opportunities by Camp Mystic’s owners and government officials to better mitigate those risks.

About a decade after it was installed, the warning system Eastland had championed in the late ‘80s became antiquated and broken.-

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/us/camp-mystic-owner-warnings-texas-flooding-invs

17 posted on 08/20/2025 4:43:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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