[Round Earther]

For decades, girls have flocked to Camp Mystic to spend their summer days canoeing and fishing the Guadalupe River before retreating to bunk beds in rustic cabins just steps from the glimmering water.

Many of those cabins were built in designated flood zones, records show, and some were so close to the river’s edge that they were considered part of the river’s “floodway” — a corridor of such extreme hazard that many states and counties ban or severely restrict construction there. Texas’ Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is located, adopted its own stringent floodway rules, which required that construction in such areas be limited in order to better “protect human life.”

But six years ago, when Camp Mystic pursued a $5 million construction project to overhaul and expand its private, for-profit Christian camp, no effort was made to relocate the most at-risk cabins away from the river. Instead, local officials authorized the construction of new cabins in another part of the camp — including some that also lie in a designated flood-risk area. The older ones along the river remained in use.

[VAFreedom]

“For the current fee of $4,375 for a thirty-day session, Mystic girls learn to shoot rifles, ride horses, catch bass, hike in the August sun without complaint.”

it isn’t that expensive. should’ve raise the price to cover the upgrade.

[Fungi]

The NY Slime cannot help but take the negative on any aspect of Christianity.The enemy within. Remember Walter Duranty Slime?

[Recompennation]

Johnny Cash had a song about the river rising and asks ‘how high is the river...’.
Situational awareness,
An evacuation plan should have been in place.
More so.
This campers should not have been housed in the floodway at all or in the floodway fringe area without flood proofing measures which require
elevating the structure.

[ConservativeMind]

Church camp was maybe $130 for a week, when I went.

Wow.

[BradyLS]

I don’t get it. That place has been around 100 years. They know the Guadalupe floods periodically. Perhaps a half-dozen times in a 100 year period. Why would they build cabins in a flood plain?

I’ve been in Texas 30 years and every year, somewhere in the state, it’s the same sad story: someone thought their vehicle could make the crossing during the storm. Somebody’s vacation cabin or bungalow on the river’s edge gets swept away in the flood.

The radio is constant in Central Texas with “Turn around. Don’t drown” PSAs.

No one knows where the rain will fall. But the rivers and channels where the rain will flow into are all known.