That’s exactly why I was asking. Glad you’re ok, hoping for the best for everyone upstream of there, but it really doesn’t sound good.
23 unaccounted for. So fucked up. I’m trying not to cry.
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Lakes are big and rivers are long…it takes some time for everything to filter down this far.
LCRA may also stagger the releases so they can generate extra electricity.
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Same shit that happened in 1987. Kids at a summer camp in Comfort. I saw weather reports at 6pm on Thursday that said heavy downpours were on their way.
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One of my wife’s friends has a daughter among the kissing. Trying not to cry is a losing battle.
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I looked at the radar when I got up to piss around midnight or so (for purely selfish reasons, wanted to know if my 4th plans would get rained out) and it was right there, coming, already raining buckets upstream.
It’s unconscionable in this day and age that there were still kids left in the flood zone.
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I can’t imagine, but all I can say to ameliorate that fear is that the State has had every functional resource they could mobilize working in the area since the early hours of the morning.
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The camp director of Heart of the Hills, Jane Ragsdale, was killed.
I cannot imagine. I picked up my son last weekend from Camp Stewart. I cannot fathom what I would be thinking if this flood occurred a week earlier.
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Only a mile away from Mystic
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Trying to rescue kids, I imagine.
This is so terrible.
Heart of the Hills (like Stewart) was in between sessions this week. But a lot of the other nearby camps (like Mystic, Waldemar, La Junta, etc) have campers.
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Put a call in, via my mother who is in Bandera currently, to my local shotcaller uncle in Hunt to see if he knows anything we can’t see via the internet…
He knows nothing other than what we do, he his wife have been driving around seeing if they could do anything, but I heard the word “devastated” used.
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This is a great article about the 2015 Blanco River flood that shows just how quickly and surprising hill country flash flooding can be:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/when-the-river-rises/
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At least 3 of the 23 missing girls have been rescued.
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There’s no such thing as a “flash flood” in the Hill Country anymore.
Just texted with my cousin, whose daughter, unknowingly to me, is a counselor at Mystic (non-life-threatening knee/leg injury)…“Kerrville is overwhelmed, they sent us to Fredericksburg (hospital). It was chaos.”
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All those little girls are just 8 and 9 years old. Devastating.
Yes
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Just talked to my cousin: his daughter, 18 year old cousin, camp counselor at Mystic, got woken up with water on the floor of their cabin at ~2am…after a bit of “get your shit together” she got all the kids out via windows and sent them uphill , water was up to her waist at that point, and then she climbed the nearest tree. Rescuers got her a ladder and got her down 3 hours later…
She went from tree to ambulance to helicopter to hospital. I had no idea she was this much of a badass.
This morning they rescued 2 or 3 girls downstream clinging to trees…there’s hope for others.
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Lefty, you must be on higher ground. It rained 10-11 inches in Marble Falls.