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Camp Mystic leader, who died trying to save small children, waited over an hour after alert before starting evacuation

The adult leader of Camp Mystic, the Texas summer camp where 27 children and counselors died in the Hill Country floods, waited more than an hour after receiving a severe flood warning before initiating an evacuation, it was disclosed on Monday.

Richard “Dick” Eastland, who had run the popular all-girls, Christian-values sleepaway camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River with his family since the 1980s, was among the fatalities after a wall of water rushed through the camp early on 4 July.

A spokesperson for the Eastland family told the Washington Post that a National Weather Service (NWS) alert was sent to his phone at 1.14am warning of “life threatening flash flooding”, and only at 2.30am, with heavy rain still falling and the river level rising fast, he made the decision to begin evacuations.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 45 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Campers were not allowed to bring mobile phones, and counselors were made to surrender theirs, leaving them unable to see the emergency alerts themselves

The kids, I understand, but I think the counselors should have been allowed to keep their phones, at least after hours.

The Post said the NWS alert did not contain an order or recommendation for evacuation, a power it said rests with local government officials.

Yeah, the local government officials that debated a flood warning system for over a decade because they didn't want to pay the $1 million themselves, then were given $10 million in pandemic funds and re-directed most of it to the sheriff's department, and a footpath.

“We’ve heard accounts of trailer after trailer after trailer being swept into the river with families in them. [We] can’t find the trailers, we don’t know how many of them there are,” the county judge, Rob Kelly, said. One trailer was found “completely covered in gravel” 27ft below the surface of the river, he said, adding that sonar crews were searching the river and local lakes. Two reservoir lakes attached to the river would be drained to aid the search, officials said.

The more I hear, the sicker - and angrier! - I feel.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 29 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Saw an article the other day about how Texas is the most disaster prone state, while simultaneously being the most against any sort of disaster preparedness.

Dumbfucks.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I'd say the big three are California (fire, potential earthquakes), Florida (hurricanes with tidal surge), and Texas. But as you say, Texas is the one that refuses to do anything to mitigate their risks, even those of their own making - and it does seem that so many of the disasters Texas has are massively exacerbated by their refusal to mitigate risks.

A friend of mine suggested that Texas' nickname should be "The One Star State".

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just looked it up. 3rd is Oklahoma, 2nd California, and 1st is Texas

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My first thought was Oklahoma or Kansas because both are in one of the “Tornado Allies”.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact. There's a new tornado alley running from southern Missisippi to Northern Florida. I'm sure it has nothing to do with climate change

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually they're at war with tornadoes

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