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  1. I’m not going to post a photo of the paragraph from their handout that addresses floods, but that’s correct. Essentially - stay in cabins unless a counselor or camp personnel say otherwise
  2. You betta Belize there aint nothin better than the sargasso cook-off. Any permit??
  3. Memorial to the deceased, public park/swimming hole, but don't bulldoze anything. Leave the cabins/camp as shrines for people to leaves notes and such for the departed.
  4. Speculation from a seat close to the action -- I think that there will be a lawsuit that many but not all victim families will join, but those involved will have the discretion to settle for policy limits + the camp itself. Which then should be made into a memorial/park/swimming hole.
  5. They are pretty intact although they were inundated almost to the ceiling. The inundation itself wasnt the problem. The river crested pretty rapidly, filling up the cabins, and then fell rapidly and the water draining out of the cabins sucked all the remaining girls out the doors and windows.
  6. These aren't lake houses, they are river houses on hill country rivers well-known to flash flood. Yes, everybody wants to be on the water. On a lake, great. But on a river like that its not that fucking hard to figure it out. We know a lot about geology and hydrology and meteorology in this day and age. The evidence is all over the place of what has happened before -- water shaped all the river valleys. There are no lakes above that location to catch floodwaters. NPR said the other day the the Guad was the most deadly river in the U.S. It should not surprise anyone that this would happen eventually.
  7. Now that I've cooled down, its true that there are a sprinkling of kids at these summer camps that come from extreme privilege, but for the vast majority it is a generational tradition and is filled with ranch girls and others from self-made, pillar-of-the-community families
  8. no. The camp is haunted. It should become a memorial
  9. The parents of all the other campers I know are the same, highly involved with their children
  10. I have coached every team my kids have played on. In fact I've basically been Mr. Mom for a couple years. Wife is a surgeon. I didn't have a part in the decision to send our daughter to Mystic. My wife went there and met all of her best friends there. All their daughters were there. Thankfully ours survived but not all of them did. Try again.
  11. Stop with this shit. “My guess” is hilariously wrong. I don’t want to get in a pissing match and I don’t want to tell the story now but my daughter was there and I just spent the following 4 days out there with about a dozen of the other campers of all ages/cabins.
  12. And when you’re coming off a great first season as HC and have NIL aligned behind you
  13. Can I poop in someone else’s hand this time?
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