Authorities say more than 20 girls are still unaccounted for at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, where the Guadalupe River rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours during torrential rains that triggered flash flooding in parts of the state yesterday.

At least 27 people, including nine children, have died in the flooding, according to local officials. The families of three campers have confirmed their deaths to CNN.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Article says the camp has been there for a century, and the water washed away the cabin while the girls were asleep… Sounds like climate change to me. Even though the building is surely newer, they’d know where the river had risen to in the past.

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        For the parents - I won’t say so much that they deserved as much as it was predictable based on the long voting history of the state. The children really didn’t deserve it, though.

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          Saying “long voting history of the state” is a gross misunderstanding of Texas. Every major city here votes blue. We are so heavily gerrymandered that we get screwed every election. Texas is a sleeper swing state. I know because I live here.

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          12 hours ago

          The adults in the state were not the ones affected in this instance. Unfortunately.

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            12 hours ago

            Parents tend to be impacted when their children die. Dying themselves is often preferable.

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              I mean there was that idiot that said he didn’t regret not vaccinating his child that died from measles.

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            Womp womp, parents not effected by losing their children due to poor public services they voted for.