re: Reports of over 20 young camp girls missing In TX floods

@TheIntelFrog put together a good synopsis of this morning's press conference:

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From the press conference:
- As of 0855L authorities have evacuated 850 uninjured, 8 injured, and 27 fatalities (9 children, 18 adults) recovered
- Rescue and Recovery operations are still under way
- To report missing people call 830-258-1111 or email floodrecovery@co.kerr.tx.us

Con't:
- Shelters are setup for folks displaced
- "We do not need materials or volunteers at this time"
- First responders will conduct SAR ops until all citizens are accounted for

Con't:
- Kerrville Mayor: "I want you to know that today will be a hard day."
- A fund has been setup by the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country (Information on the City of Kerrville, TX Facebook Page)

Con't:
- Operations continued through the evening
- Water has largely receded
- Please do not conduct your own search
- We have 27 missing campers from Camp Mystic. Unknown number of missing people.

Con't:
- As far as other missing people "we do not have a count and do not want to estimate at this time."
- Teams are starting in Hunt and moving down river conducting primary searches for missing people.

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The cabins were up pretty high from the river and it never really crossed my mind that flooding could have reached them. They have some really old structures( dining hall, admin buildings etc) that are lower or at same level as these cabins that have not seemed like they have ever been impacted by flooding to any great degree.

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Flash Floods are very much like a tsunami in dynamics. Hindsight I'm this story, you have to wonder if discussions took place about the risks of flooding and the camp sites. I'm not judging at all either, I have no clue how I'd react to the NWS forecast, but I'm curious if anyone had those discussions.

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That is going to be an uncomfortable part of the discussion in the coming days. I hate it, but it is.

Water has never reached those cabin locations before in recorded history.

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Doppler estimates showing close to 21 inches now in that area.

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Christ

Wife just showed me a Facebook post regarding a little girl's body being recovered. Her parents were on vacation in Italy.

I gotta leave this thread for a bit. That just tears me up.

If my daughter weren't at her granny's RN I'd give her a big bear hug..

The Burnet county Flash Flood Emergency was extended another two hours until 2pm, the second extension for that one.

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Water has never reached those cabin locations before in recorded history.

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This needs to be reiterated, it’s not exactly something you can forecast or plan for because the river has never reached those levels in the 100 year history of the camp. The NWS forecasted possible flash floods, no one could have predicted the storm would dump 4 months worth of rainfall in a 4 hour span.

Yeah, again I'm not judging. I just wonder if the camp has emergency plans, where there are built in trigger points that require action plans. It's not likely considering these aren't billion dollar entities, but maybe moving forward, they need an emergency plan with heat mapping metrics that trigger something.

After this, there will be lifelong changes made to how these camps respond. Like every one has said, yeah, flash flooding is damn near impossible to predict exact location of where, no judgment from me. I don't know how either a parent or camp administrator should handle this.