I think I heard 10" in an hour. I have both a niece and grand-niece in the area. They both say they're safe...
Texas Hill Country flooding...
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Saw it on the news........
13 dead and 20 missing from a girl's summer camp......
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13 dead and 20 missing from a girl's summer camp......
At least 13 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp
Heavy rains have caused devastating flash floods in Texas Hill Country, leaving at least 13 people dead and many others missing.
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sounds like an awful tragedy
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At least 13 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp
Heavy rains have caused devastating flash floods in Texas Hill Country, leaving at least 13 people dead and many others missing.
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over 20 dead and apparently 20 girls still missing from a summer camp. we’re getting ready too sent our daughter to her first stay away summer camp and I can’t fathom how awful this is for those kids and their families
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Camp Mystic, a century-old girls Christian summer camp deluged by Texas flood
At least 20 children are still missing from Mystic after Friday's flash flood claimed 24 lives.
Not a direct comparison, but my daughter went straight from graduating from HS to working for SE Expeditions on the Chatooga. After she'd been there three weeks, I went over to go down section IV with them. A girl from Atlanta drowned in Left Crack. It took about a dozen of us on a rope to generate enough pull against the power of the river. My daughter and another guide gave CPR all the way across Lake Tugaloo. I don't think I got a decent night's sleep the entire time she was on the Chatooga. I had recurrent nightmares. I'd loaned her a paddling jacket, which I had to discard. Nothing we did could remove the fear smell from the armpits. Later, when she transferred to Sunburst and the Ocoee, I could sleep. The rocks point downstream...over 20 dead and apparently 20 girls still missing from a summer camp. we’re getting ready too sent our daughter to her first stay away summer camp and I can’t fathom how awful this is for those kids and their families
Camp Mystic, a century-old girls Christian summer camp deluged by Texas flood
At least 20 children are still missing from Mystic after Friday's flash flood claimed 24 lives.
Pay attention to the timestamps in this incredible time lapse video of the Llano River on July 4th. Video starts at 5:10 pm CDT. While the crossing is already closed, a LEO is standing on the crossing. In 20 minutes, the river rises at least 20 feet.
My grandniece, who lives 5 miles from the river, but who always claims Boerne as where she lives said "the water wall hasn't reached this far downstream yet"...
Pay attention to the timestamps in this incredible time lapse video of the Llano River on July 4th. Video starts at 5:10 pm CDT. While the crossing is already closed, a LEO is standing on the crossing. In 20 minutes, the river rises at least 20 feet.
Here's another video (sorry, can't get it to embed):
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Blair Scott (Synthentral) on Instagram: "A gradual rise of water is regular flooding. A flash flood is a wall of water that can engulf an area quickly and with devastating effects."
2,069 likes, 0 comments - synthentral on July 5, 2025: "A gradual rise of water is regular flooding. A flash flood is a wall of water that can engulf an area quickly and with devastating effects.".
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this keeps getting more horrible
An alert sent Sunday afternoon warned people along the Guadalupe River to move to higher ground. The death toll rose to 79 and dozens remained unaccounted for, including 10 girls from a summer camp on the river.
An alert sent Sunday afternoon warned people along the Guadalupe River to move to higher ground. The death toll rose to 79 and dozens remained unaccounted for, including 10 girls from a summer camp on the river.
Just saw this on FB - look at the time from low to high...
Some of you may remember that 2-3 years ago I did a one-year contact in San Angelo, Texas. I've spoken to a couple of my former co-workers there. They got about 18 inches of rain in about 12 hours - this from a place that gets about 21 inches TOTAL rainfall for a year. The entire city was flooded as of Saturday morning, but of course their death count is low/none, just inconvenience and a lot of insurance claims about to happen.
I don't know about the specific campground area, but I know this from San Angelo - if you're not right there in the city, your phone reception for about 90 miles or more each direction from San Angelo is largely nonexistent. (Note: I'm not saying that played a role, just giving context). That is a common thing in rural Texas; when I drove back to work in San Angelo after spending a weekend at my apartment in Denton, the phone reception was so bad and the roads so NOT TRAVELED that I always made sure to leave in time to get back to my dwelling there before it got dark.
You did not want to be out there isolated with a flat or broken down - even a call to AAA was probably not going through.
When I drove back from the Alabama-Texas game in 2022, my Wi-Fi was spotty once I got off the main highways and went through little towns like Lampasas.
I don't know about the specific campground area, but I know this from San Angelo - if you're not right there in the city, your phone reception for about 90 miles or more each direction from San Angelo is largely nonexistent. (Note: I'm not saying that played a role, just giving context). That is a common thing in rural Texas; when I drove back to work in San Angelo after spending a weekend at my apartment in Denton, the phone reception was so bad and the roads so NOT TRAVELED that I always made sure to leave in time to get back to my dwelling there before it got dark.
You did not want to be out there isolated with a flat or broken down - even a call to AAA was probably not going through.
When I drove back from the Alabama-Texas game in 2022, my Wi-Fi was spotty once I got off the main highways and went through little towns like Lampasas.
Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly flooding
Hours before a massive wall of floodwater barreled down a river in the heart of Texas Hill Country before sunrise on Friday, forecasters with the National Weather Service warned people that dangerous conditions were brewing.
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At the very end of the article is this nugget:
We know there will be more finger-pointing than Phil Fulmer at a Krispy Kreme over all this, but honestly, I don't know what else could have been done.
George Carlin's observation about how the politicians hide behind the Bible, the flag, and the children is about to get an interesting test.
And he was 100% right. Of course, they don't just hide behind these things, they use them to continue chipping away at our liberties and rights. Then again, Carlin had a lot to say about the illusion of rights as well.
I've told the tale of the Hertz SUV with an almost bald tire elsewhere, but, just north of San Diego, we went through about 100 miles with no reception at all. It was a natural preserve of some sort...
I don't want to get into victim blaming here, and we sure can't blame the young girls who probably wouldn't know better.
But I'm waiting to hear more because even camping alongside a river is just - well, you don't do it. I know it looks pretty and all, but this is why you don't do it.
As far as the warnings, I'm going to guess that between what MAY (I say MAY) have been spotty phone reception signals AND the fact it was so early in the morning (and let's face it - at camp, they probably got to bed rather late the night before) contributed as well.
I know one time we went to a camporee near a creek - but we were all FAR AWAY from it as far as the camping went.
I think that area only averages about 20" rainfall per year and they got half that inside a few hours, following a prolonged drought. You can understand their overconfidence...
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