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  1. Honestly at this point I think the legacy pool has grown so wide that even some girls whose mothers attended arent getting in. As you might imagine these people completely lose their shit.
  2. Nothing has changed. The day many of these girls are born you call and put them on the list for summer camp and if you want them to go to Texas you put them on the list for Hardin House. Been this way for a long long time.
  3. To expand on that, I think thats what is so gut wrenching for these parents. THEY placed this huge emphasis on sending their daughters to this camp. Lots of these little girls were scared to go and leave their parents. Its a big part of it, cutting the cord. I can't imagine the feeling some of them are having looking back on the conversations with their daughters about how great it will be once they get there, about how a month really isn't that long and it will go by much faster than they realize, about how making friends with other girls who were scared to leave home for the first time too will forge life long friendships. I'm sure the guilt is a huge part of their despair.
  4. I know we aren't getting our tuition back. Frankly, I'm hearing good things about how La Junta handled the flood and I'm just so happy with Scott and the rest of the staff I couldn't care less. Fwiw, it stretches me financially just to send one kid. I have two others on deck. Yes, these camps are filled with our best NIL donors kids. But there's also a significant portion whose parents send their kids to camp instead of something else. I know from my own life how important it was getting away from my parents for an extended period of time, and I want to give that to my kids. Seems to me kids are tougher, more resilient, and better adjusted after going to camp. I view it as a direct investment in their character and development, similar to playing sports and learning those lessons. I wish it was cheaper but the demand is through the roof which speaks to the value. The girls camps are even moreso. Most people I know get their daughters on the list for Mystic or Waldemar the day they are born. They have the call tee'd up and everything. Just like much of the sports stuff or school stuff, I find a lot of it insane, but I do it anyways because the benefits outweigh how ridiculous it is.
  5. Dude thats really cool and I bet that goes farther than you think with those guys.
  6. In my book preachers shouldn’t have business practices of any kind.
  7. I take my faith seriously, as in it’s the most important thing in my life. I really do feel that way, but as I get older I realize what an absolute disaster of a Christian I am. If you use golf as an analogy, I’m struggling every day to break 100. But I sure do know a lot of people who think they’re scratch golfers and I never even see them pick up a club.
  8. Nicole Im having similar thoughts but Im leaving the door open for unique circumstances. Its sounding to me like debris got caught up in some trees or something and created dual prong fingers of very directed rushing water, and the left part of that water went straight into Bubble Inn. On the right side they lost one of the twins cabins but the other right next to it wasnt in the direct laser path of rushing water.
  9. From someone with the people getting the call. Then they were told they weren’t the first. I want people to know the full scope of what these families are going through so their communities can respond accordingly in support. You are exactly right about the rumor stuff though. It’s been brutal this whole time, mostly in the form of false hope.
  10. Yall wouldn’t believe how heartbreaking some of this is. Families are getting calls saying we have your daughter and demanding a ransom.
  11. Her father was the one going through the debris at the camp in the UT shirt. I couldnt finish watching the interview.
  12. Sarah Marsh, Lila Bonner, Eloise Peck, Janie Hunt, Renee Smajstria, Linnie McCown, and Anna Margaret Bellows have all been recovered and publicly identified as victims. Lila and Linnie's parents are friends of ours.
  13. Not sure what the deal is with that Kerr country sheriff update. Obviously I hope that number is correct, but from friends in contact with Mystic Im being told 4 girls found, 21 still missing. That was last night. My down the street neighbors little girl was confirmed missing this morning. We were still holding out hope that her name being mentioned was still a rumor, I havent felt comfortable texting the parents. Our kids have played together a million times. We go to the same Church. It was the last one where I actually convinced myself there could be a chance. My 8 year old still has no idea kids are missing. This one is gonna land hard for my boys.
  14. No worries at all man. I think its all gotta be looked into. Like someone mentioned before, the scoreboard says a whole bunch of dead kids. Glad your friends kids are ok.
  15. I bet we have suffered Waldemar pickup in anonymity together. Finally being freed onto 1340 is cold beer after mowing the lawn level good.
  16. Its fine. Could be bullshit. I certainly hope everything is looked into. Thats kind of what Im getting at. I think theres a chance they couldve been more on top of it and slipped into some bad habits over time.
  17. Thats what is taking place. Ive been out there twice now and my body is completely out of whack at this point. You just cant help but expect the worst. The search teams are working extremely hard but in my opinion the reason the officials arent being more forthcoming, is because they're trying to figure out when they have to tell everyone they cant even find most of the bodies. Its my expectation that we lost a lot of wonderful people and a lot of beautiful little girls. Its such an important place to so many people, for so many thats their happy spot. Especially talking to the Mystic people, something that brought them true joy has brought them devastation on a level that they just cant comprehend yet. Theyre just paralyzed. And the bad news just keeps coming in. Sorry if Im sounding dramatic, but I do think something dramatic has taken place that will leave a major scar.
  18. Ive been going there my whole life between camps and going back and renting houses with my family. Now my kids are in camp. I think its fair to say anyone thats been going for over a decade has seen multiple flood events, some of which are exactly as you described. Water got THIS HIGH when I was there back in the day, Ive heard that stuff the whole time Ive been there. I can remember at least one summer at camp where it just wouldnt stop raining for days and the water slowly creeped up to the cabins. We just had our stuff on the bunks and the floors in these cabins are typically just concrete slab. Water goes back out, recedes to the river, and you go about your business. I certainly can see how someone might start to sort of disregard the warnings about flood severity. You hear that stuff but typically it isnt as bad at your place, so you just get in the bad habit of not taking the warnings seriously. Then all of a sudden you're distracted by the 4th of July and and it gets just a little easier to disregard the warnings, and by the time a flood like this starts to head your way, and you actually spring into action, its too late. This thing just moved too fast.
  19. Hes good. I havent seen him much, I went back to Kerrville to pick some Waldemar campers up. He kept holding his younger brother next to him on the couch this morning which is not like him at all. He internalizes everything and doesnt say much. Thanks for asking.
  20. My God. This is the first piece of good news I’ve seen during the whole deal. I really needed that thanks.
  21. I was with the parents yesterday at the reunification site. They were still clinging on to hope when I left. They all were.
  22. There’s multiple little girls identified, there’s multiple still missing. What happened in the last 24 hours is unthinkable, unspeakable. I’m having trouble sleeping.
  23. Not sure what you’re asking but I’ll give it a stab- I assumed all low water crossings into the area were destroyed or covered in debris but they seem to have held up better than expected. The state has been bussing people out, I don’t have details how the people get out. My best guess is they’re using military vehicles to cross a small stretch of impassible roadway. I bet the roads doing well is saving lots of old peoples lives. To be clear, it’s my impression the roads held up better than feared and it’s helping a lot with evacuations.
  24. I had to go to Ingram Elementary to register my kids name. That’s where they were flying in the mystic girls. To give the scene- I’m waiting in line to get my kids name registered and there’s women breaking down around me after receiving the news from the national guard that they hadn’t found any of the missing girls. Fast forward to tonight and they’re finding some of these families little girls, just not in the way we all hope. There’s no good news, it’s all devastating news.
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