The blaming game has started! The mystique of Camp Mystic will be lost for a long time!
Faith may move mountains, but it did not prevent this deadly flash flood!
How often was the camp flooded during this time of the year in the past 20-30 years or so?
Why did the adult victims and survivors think it was a good idea to camp at this time in this for many years well known flood prone area? What precautions did they take?
Caveat: I don't claim to be familiar with the details of this very deadly natural disaster.
"Nearly a decade before catastrophic flash flooding killed at least 75 people in Kerr County, including 27 children, several local officials were hard at work convincing their peers to buy into a new early flood warning system.
The once “state of the art” program installed along the Guadalupe River back in the 1980s was in desperate need of an upgrade, they argued. ..."
"... Some areas of Camp Mystic [built in 1926] also fall within a 100-year floodplain, another high-risk zone that has a 1% chance of flooding in any given year. Other parts lie within a 500-year floodplain, which has a 0.2% annual chance of flooding. ..."
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