Camp Mystic passed state inspection two days before deadly flood

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5. There's a lot of ways this could be interpreted

The first is that while there may have been a plan that met the requirements, if the camp counselors weren't trained on it, the plan is useless. And then if the kids weren't trained on it, that's another source of disruption.

Secondly the emergency happened in the middle of the night, being woken in the middle of the night makes it hard to be functioning optimally.

Third the standards might just not be sufficient, Texas isn't big on regulations. So the plan might have passed, but not been enough due to the requirements being too low. Or the requirements were written for the expected flooding 20 years ago and climate change has caused worse disasters than anticipated.

Fourth the warnings may have come to late to matter. It's hard to outrun rushing water, and then if you're in the water, it's strong enough to knock houses off foundations, that's a lot of power to resist.

And even if the plan was good, everyone was trained on it, the warning came in time, there's still the "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" factor. It's really easy to say what you'd do in an emergency, but in the moment, without having been tested, sometimes you just crack under pressure. If you're responsible for a bunch of kids and you see one get swept off, you should let that kid go to save the rest but that goes against our instincts.