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.
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.
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.
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.