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4. No plan they may have had in place could have saved them.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 08:22 PM

Jul 8

The only thing that could have prevented this tragedy is if they had word of the water rising in time to enact any such plans.

Local authorities should have contacted all these camps and ordered them to be evacuated when it became clear - in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping! - that there was a high flood danger. And that's if they even knew in time themselves.

Perhaps the one thing we can blame with certainty is the refusal of lawmakers in Texas to invest in flood sensors that could have provided early warning.

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Camp Mystic passed state inspection two days before deadly flood [View all] struggle4progress Jul 8 OP

Sounds like a half-assed state inspection Prairie Gates Jul 8 #1

A Texas inspection BigMin28 Jul 8 #3

You can have an evacuation plan, but you need a system in place to activate it in a timely fashion. dem4decades Jul 8 #2

No plan they may have had in place could have saved them. NH Ethylene Jul 8 #4

summer camp near Mystic had 'no warning' about rising waters but were able to safely evacuate struggle4progress Jul 8 #6

I read somewhere that he woke up at 1 am and saw the water rising. NH Ethylene Jul 9 #10

There's a lot of ways this could be interpreted EdmondDantes_ Jul 8 #5

All true Renew Deal Jul 8 #8

I don't see anything saying or proving they didn't have the plans Renew Deal Jul 8 #7

I'm with you here. Sad to see that some of our number seem to be stopdiggin Jul 8 #9