They claim to have 850 people who want to sign up to camp there this summer.
Who the fuck wants to send their kids to a camp that just recently infamously killed 27 kids? What is wrong with these fuckers? CPS should be investigating each and every parent who signed their kid up.
Well, when your “Christian” morals don’t allow you to get an abortion, you gotta find ways for “God’s Hand” to intervene for you!
Here’s an idea: Rebuild on higher ground so you’re out of the floodplain. Government has rejected doing anything sensible like installing warning sirens in event of flood, so this is where we’re at.
Rebuild on higher ground so you’re out of the floodplain.
Which is what they should have done in the first place, before anybody died. And it’s what every other camp in the area did.
But this camp was run by cheap bastards who would rather put kids’ safety at risk than suffer the expense of rebuilding their housing.
And, sure, maybe if they’re allowed to rebuild, they will build outside the floodplain this time. But if it’s still under the same management, I would still have a lot of concerns. They’ve clearly indicated that they do not put a high priority on the safety of the kids, and that might not have changed. Maybe next time it will be an electrical fire, or a camp leader whose pedophilia was overlooked and covered up, or expired and low-quality ingredients in the food making a bunch of kids sick… Since they’ve already shown severe negligence about safety in one area, I wouldn’t trust them to take safety seriously in other areas either.
I’m not going to look back into it, but I seem to recall the camp was about religious indoctrination, not safety. The former is paramount in Texas.
the camp was about religious indoctrination
This seems like the most likely reason to build the camp there. It must be intentionally designed so that you have to just have faith that your kid will make it home alive. Either that, or it’s designed to help people’s kids meet God or something.
Counterpoint: They’re cheap, uncaring assholes.
I mean, they might simply have no other options in the area. If that number is accurate (and it may not be, given the Camps financial incentives), I wouldn’t make sweeping assumptions about their parental ability.
Okay, but…
A) I already know that there are several other camps in the area, very close by (and I’m only tangentially familiar with it). This fact is especially pertinent because the other camps didn’t build housing in the flood plain and had better, more effective emergency warning and evacuation plans. Nobody died at any of the other camps during this same flood, even though they were all along the same drainage basin.
B) Even if it was the only one in the area… If it’s a choice between ‘camp that killed 27 kids’ and ‘no camp at all’, any responsible parent who cares at all about their kids should choose the ‘no camp at all’ option. It’s not like it’s an absolutely essential service or anything. If the only option is this shitty, dangerous one … then just skip it entirely.
At the request of the Steward family, who wants the Guadalupe River site to be preserved for evidence, Travis County state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble last month temporarily blocked Camp Mystic from renovating or altering it.
I have no fucking clue why this case is being handled in Travis County court.
