Camp Mystic spent $5 million on renovations—zero dollars on flood protection

JESUS

After the thoughts and prayers… the lawyers.

Flood protection is for libs and cucks!

"He" works in mysterious ways and it isn't up to us to question...

Where's your Messiah now Governor Abbott?

It'll be an interesting lawsuit. Whose fault, exactly, is it that the girls died?

I put it almost entirely on Camp Mystic. If you're going to house children in cabins right next to the river, then you have to follow the weather with vigilance every day and night. And take immediate precautions when an urgent "Flash Flood Warning" is issued. Somebody at that camp should have stayed up to get that 1:18am alert. The disaster unfolded suddenly more than two hours later, around 3:45am. That would have been enough time to wake all children, get their shoes on and get them to higher ground.

Same with the mobile home park owners, though that's a bit different -- you're housing adults, there is less legal responsibility for safeguarding their lives, but still. Sitting right there next to the river in a highest-risk floodplain. Wouldn't you stay up and watch for that alert and start knocking on doors ASAP once the alert comes in?

The ignorant passivity, the failure of these people, just going to bed and going to sleep like any other night. When you're right there on the river, and there was a Flash Flood Watch issued that afternoon, and now the rain is falling hard.

I can see this forcing Camp Mystic into bankruptcy. Perhaps the property can be auctioned off and repurposed as a gay conversion therapy camp. Texas would consider it God's will if a bunch of gay kids drown.

When there are weather disasters in Texas, it’s time for a family vacation to Cancun. I’ll just leave the dog alone in the house to take of things.

R8 He went to the Isle of Greece this time

"Camp Mystic" sounds vaguely heathen-y and Catholic, I'm surprised to hear it's non-denominational Christian.

R8 r9 Did Ted go to visit Kimberly Guilfoyle in Greece?

Did he sip champagne on a yacht?

Texas puts up with this shit?

Of course, you know that somehow the National Weather Service is going to be sued for not providing sufficient flood warning, even though they've been crippled by this administration.

That camp will never reopen. Rest assured.

R15 - if anything, because flood damage is rarely covered unless you have specialized, expensive insurance, so all those damaged buildings are gone.

But secondly - they would just dissolve the corporation/go bankrupt. Take whatever is left and open under a new name in a couple of years.

That camp cost $1100 a week back in 2011 - so it was what, $2000 a week now? $8000 for a 4 week camp. Wow.

Will parents ever get their $8000 back? Will everyone be refunded since they didn’t deliver the experience they paid for.

That site will not be a camp again.

Southern white christians love fucking around like nobody else, yet they rarely reach the "find out" stage. I feel bad for these girls but their families put them in this danger by sending them to a fakakta Christian camp with lax safety standards, and voting Republican -the "cut every program and department that benefits actual people" party - in every election.

Don’t forget how republicans like to deregulate, R19, and put woefully inadequate people in charge.

Lawsuits are going to be huge

They were showing a muddied Camp Mystic tshirt they plucked from the flood zone. It was cute and I kinda want one.

[quote] That site will not be a camp again.

So they can’t tell all the families they’re give them a free summer next year. They would have to refund a prorated amount since credits mean nothing now.

r17 Trump will likely give them some money bc he's such a good Christian, and those dead kids represent true Christian values!

[quote] Somebody at that camp should have stayed up to get that 1:18am alert.

The caretaker at the Presbyterian camp down river did just that and no lives were lost.

[quote]Will parents ever get their $8000 back?

It was money well spent.

Building homes, campgrounds, business, etc. in flood zones need to be banned. Same on ocean fronts in areas subject to hurricanes. Also, housing on vulnerable hillsides and areas highly subject to forest fires doesn’t show wise judgment.

Regulations have a purpose. Let wildlife have those spaces.

Turn Camp Mystic into a memorial park.

I guess God needed 27 more angels.

[quote]They were showing a muddied Camp Mystic tshirt they plucked from the flood zone. It was cute and I kinda want one.

Why would you want a muddied t-shirt, r22?

Not everybody who went to the camp was a Republican. LBJ’s daughters and granddaughters went there also.

R27 - I agree with you. There were decades of beachfront homes being demolished by storms and them getting emergency funding to rebuild in the exact same spot for it to happen all over again.

But too much has already been built. I don't love insurance companies, but I totally understand why they are dropping coverage in Florida.

[quote] It was money well spent.

How was it money well spent? Their daughters are now traumatized a month into their 3-month stay. I guess they should just forget about the pre-paid two months? Or take it up with their credit card company?

Yikes!^^^

Welcome to Datalounge, r32. How are you enjoying your first day?

[quote]a fakakta Christian camp

???

Perhaps R32 wasn't wearing her reading glasses. She didn't see who wrote that post.

R35 is the gentile we all pity.

[quote]Will parents ever get their $8000 back? Will everyone be refunded since they didn’t deliver the experience they paid for

They promised exciting adventure and group activities with other Christian girls.

Camp goes for three months?