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

Just heard this while listening to the Billy Joel channel at work. This one hits hard with everything going on and also being a girl dad of a Girl Scout.

Hug your kids tight, everyone.

Last month i drive to Midland/Odessa. I drove I10 to an exit an hour past Ozona then went north to Odessa. I sent videos to my showing how green the landscape was. Later that week I talked to a guy at a rig that said his family had land south of Odessa and recently was the first time in his life there was a places on the property that looked like a pond.

Point is, from Canyon Lake to Fort Stockton has been getting good rain this year.

As someone with young kids this is too sad to continue to follow. The wife told me the majority of the girls missing are the younger campers. 7yrs old. The camp house in the video.

Is that confirmed? I was holding out hope it was older girls who who swim and rescue themselves.

This is so sad. My 12 year old son asked us yesterday if he could go to a camp next summer, where he and a couple of his buddies (who went this year) fly alone and get picked up at the airport by the camp people. My initial instinct was no fricking way. Flying alone isn’t the reservation but it’s getting picked up at the airport by people we’ve never met, driven to a camp for a week and then dropped back off at the airport just doesn’t feel right. This doesn’t help his case.

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As someone with young kids this is too sad to continue to follow.

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Have a just turned 8 year old. I simply cannot imagine the absolute terror those kids went through from being asleep... and minutes later being in fast moving turbulent water in complete darkness. My god.

Probably gone in and looked at my son a dozen times now sleeping and can't help but thinking he would have had no chance except for sheer blind luck. Heartbreaking does not describe what the kids went through and what the parents and families are going through. Dreadful and horrific turn of events.

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As someone with young kids this is too sad to continue to follow. The wife told me the majority of the girls missing are the younger campers. 7yrs old. The camp house in the video. Is that confirmed? I was holding out hope it was older girls who who swim and rescue themselves.

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Unfortunately it’s the little ones. It’s the worst situation I’ve ever seen in my life.

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Yeah we had to dislodge a canoe trapped in a tree in current once. It was a pain in the arse. We got lucky to get it with a log as a fulcrum to get to where the water helped us

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Several people tried to get the people before we arrived. It was heartbreaking because they were so close to the surface. First responders stopped people from attempting as someone else could have drown in the process.

The water was only waist deep but it was a narrow bend and drop in elevation so the current was crazy strong. Witnesses said it hit the log causing one of the sides to dip down and catch the force of the current. That caused the whole thing to flip upside down violently like a mouse trap.

After seeing numerous current accidents I take the family to the lake instead of the river. Current can cause some bizzare and unexpected accidents.

I watch a guy that reports on all hill country rivers on youtube and he had been showing the Rebecca crossing area for months now saying it needs a great flood. From there down is massively silted in for a long time now.

Areas around Marble Falls have received over a foot of rain in the last 24 hours, with most of the rainfall overnight. Most roads are closed in the area.

It’s pickup/departure day for Camp Longhorn, Camp Champion, and a couple of other summer camps in the area.

Parent’s can’t get to the camps, and buses can’t leave. Everything I’ve seen the kids are safe, but I bet it’s causing a lot of stress for those parents right now.

I was talking with an older biz friend from Houston and his nephew with family are not in contact. They always go to the vacation home on the Guadalupe near Hunt on Holidays. If they are still alive this will be the 3rd or 4th time they rebuild that home from scratch due a flood has washed it away.