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re: Reports of over 20 young camp girls missing In TX floods
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:01 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:01 pm to GetCocky11
This isn’t a criticism of officials. This explains that the NWS did their job
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Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:05 pm to SWLA92
I've read a couple of times that a dam actually failed. Does anyone know the name of the specific dam and where it is located?
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:08 pm to LegendInMyMind
there was no dam break
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:08 pm to LegendInMyMind
I was just looking at google maps. Looks like there are lots of dams on the river to make swimming holes. Don’t know which failed but several options.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:11 pm to OWLFAN86
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there was no dam break
I'm beginning to think that, at least not one that majorly contributed to the destruction. Usually, if there is a dam of any significance that is threatened or actually fails a different type of alarm is raised and there is pretty good documentation. I haven't found any specifics in this case.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:15 pm to LegendInMyMind
Parents lost both of their girls in the flood. The girls were in a cabin with their grandparents. The girls’ bodies have been found. The grandparents are still missing. The girls’ parents were in a different cabin and are safe. Heartbreaking.
Fox 4 News
Fox 4 News
This post was edited on 7/5/25 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:15 pm to TutHillTiger
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One of my daughter’s friends was a counselor at the camp and about to move into Hardin House and start as a student at UT and now she is dead. An Alabama family from Mountainbrook lost a little girl.
I don't have words.
Prayers brother.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:16 pm to LegendInMyMind
The only news outlet even hinting at a dam break The Hindu Times
The Guadalupe - Blanco River Authority manages the dams on that watershed
The Guadalupe - Blanco River Authority manages the dams on that watershed
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:21 pm to Gris Gris
Oh man. That’s just so awful
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:28 pm to OWLFAN86
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The only news outlet even hinting at a dam break The Hindu Times
One of the places I've seen it mentioned was in one of the accounts you shared, Owlvis.
From a couple pages back:
quote:
A post from a friend…
This is a tragedy beyond tragedy's. Violent storms on the evening of 7/3 flooded the Guadalupe River which Camp Mystic rests on. The damn broke and all the younger girl cabins down on the "Flats" as they call it were basically submerged.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:28 pm to LegendInMyMind
The dam part sounds like a figure of speech
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:31 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:yes, figure of speech
The damn broke
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:34 pm to LegendInMyMind
I never saw any mention of a dam bresk
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:34 pm to cgrand
Also part of an email sent by a distressed mother
Not a news source or a government source
Not a news source or a government source
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:36 pm to cgrand
Reed timmer has a short video explaining weather cycle and area, apparently flash floods are common there and adequate notices were given...however, the time it occurred was the biggest issue
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:36 pm to LegendInMyMind
There are no dams of any significance in that area. What you have are weir dams that are used to create small ‘lakes”. The “dam break” came from the girls that survived. What they witnessed was most likely the wall of water from the flash flood.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:43 pm to GRTiger
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My kids are going to camp in a couple weeks and I'm really thinking about pulling the plug.
Understandable.
But you need to let them go. Can't let fear dictate our decisions.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:46 pm to dallastigers
It’s a horrible tragedy and my heart breaks for the parents, campers and everyone involved. I had never heard of this place until now.
On a news channel this morning they were interviewing a lady who had been a camper at this camp before. She said it was known for flooding. Two of the years that she went to the camp it flooded and they were stranded in their cabins and couldn’t go anywhere. She said one year they had to zip line food to the area she was housed in because of the flood waters. After hearing this, my thoughts are if it’s that prone to flooding then the camp needs to be moved. Definitely not placing blame just a genuine question and concern for other camps that might experience this as well.
On a news channel this morning they were interviewing a lady who had been a camper at this camp before. She said it was known for flooding. Two of the years that she went to the camp it flooded and they were stranded in their cabins and couldn’t go anywhere. She said one year they had to zip line food to the area she was housed in because of the flood waters. After hearing this, my thoughts are if it’s that prone to flooding then the camp needs to be moved. Definitely not placing blame just a genuine question and concern for other camps that might experience this as well.
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:51 pm to lsugrldej8
It will sound crazy and will probably change after this, but for kids that have done the camp thing in CenTex, flooding is part of the experience. I know that sounds crazy and I'm not putting it right
but it's not abnormal
Something this extreme the 38-foot wave that came down the Guadalupe at the time that it did , is rare
obviously things will be re-examined
I had a church camp in Dime Box, Texas that we would go poking around in a rattlesnake hole that everybody knew about that was just part of the stupid things you did at camp
but it's not abnormal
Something this extreme the 38-foot wave that came down the Guadalupe at the time that it did , is rare
obviously things will be re-examined
I had a church camp in Dime Box, Texas that we would go poking around in a rattlesnake hole that everybody knew about that was just part of the stupid things you did at camp
Posted on 7/5/25 at 6:54 pm to GRTiger
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This story is really hurting me. I don't have anyone over there, but my God I can feel the pain from those families. My kids are going to camp in a couple weeks and I'm really thinking about pulling the plug. Such an irrational thought but I can't help it.
We’ve got 3 kids leaving for camp in Texas in a few weeks. I worry more about the heat than anything else, but this event does give me pause. It’s a great camp and their Mom, aunt and uncle went as kids. They would be devastated not to go. It was canceled one year due to COVID the night before leaving and the oldest who was the only one old enough at the time was devastated. Hurt my heart. Let your kids go and have fun.
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