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This is horrific. I saw a post about 1 of the girls being found, but not alive. I can’t wrap my mind around something as sad and senseless as this. I pray for the families and the kids.


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My Neice made it home last night. She got a ride out of the camp in a Game Warden's truck.

It looks like the Camp Owner/ Director went down with the ship. I'm sad he's gone, but I'm glad to know he was doing everything he could to save the girls.




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I was stationed in San Antonio in 71 and we had at least 1 big rain that flooded streets all over the base and the town.
 
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Ibanda, I'm glad your niece made it out. I'm sorry she had to go through that. I keep reading stories of unlikely rescues, even one girl that they found 12 miles downstream clinging to a tree. Hopefully there are more.
 
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I don't live far from Canyon Lake. We are about 150' higher than water coming over the dam level there.So I believe we are safe in that regard. Last night Canyon was at 877. It has risen 5' as of 915am today. This site shows hourly water levels, coming up quickly.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwi...no=08167700&legacy=1

It is monsooning here now and has been for an hour or so. Pray for those unaccounted for girls from the church camp.
 
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What a tragedy. Lord please help all those in need there. Victims, family and rescuers. Amen.



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I will post some images later I took so far, and here in about an hour or so, I’m taking some more. My drone battery is charging now

FYI, here along the Guadalupe above Canyon Lake, the river was level with the bank around noon, but there was debris, showing the level had been a little higher for a while. We were told to expect more, and it is possible when the lake starts backing up the river.

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Impossible for those families to apply this wisdom right now, but...

“For that which is born, death is certain, and for that which is dead, birth is certain. You should not grieve over the unavoidable.…The Supreme Self which dwells in all bodies, can never be slain.…Weapons cut it not; fire burns it not; water wets it not; the wind does not wither it. Eternal, universal, unchanging, immovable, the Self is the same forever. …Dwelling in all bodies, the Self can never be slain. Therefore you should not grieve for any creature.” ~ Bhagavad Gītā, abridged, via Joseph Campbell
 
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I just saw some pictures of the missing campers.

Just heartbreaking.
 
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Holy crap, that's just from rain? Not a collapsed dam or something? What's that river usually look like?

Never underestimate “just rain”. If you have a stagnant system over your head that keeps pouring, you’re going to have flooding. Never forget that “just a tropical storm” Allison in 2001.
With rivers, there are 3 important factors for flooding:
  • the square miles of the watershed
  • the rate of the rainfall (i.e. inches per hour)
  • the total amount of rainfall

    In this case, the watershed is enormous since it's 6700 square miles which is almost the combined size of Connecticut and Rhode Island. They had 7" of rain in 3 hours, and at one point it was between 3 and 4 inches per hour. The watershed isn't the type of soil that absorbs much water so it hits the ground and heads towards the river.

    This storm didn't stall out as long as Tropical Storm Allison, but it did stall which isn't typical thunderstorm behavior.



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    Posts: 24483 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    An amazing hero

    United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas.

    This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene.


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    Be nice if a better link to the story on his heroic efforts to save people could be posted. That link is terrible.



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    True. Twitchy is a mess.




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    Posts: 14717 | Location: Virginia | Registered: July 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    Found this on Breitbart. Gateway Pundit has an article too on the rescue efforts. But when I searched, nothing like CBS, NBC, etc. showed up on the first two pages of the search results.

    https://www.breitbart.com/loca...irst-rescue-mission/
     
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    Be nice if a better link to the story on his heroic efforts to save people could be posted. That link is terrible.


    https://www.dailywire.com/news...ng-texas-floodwaters
     
    Posts: 5081 | Location: Texas | Registered: July 22, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    That would be 1 rescue every 8 1/2 minutes for 24 hours straight.

    I’m not saying aviation survival technicians aren’t awesome, but I’ll bet the truth is a bit different from the current story.

    Here we go, he was in charge of triage:

    ““This is why we take those risks all time. This is why like Coast Guard men and women, are risking their lives every day,” said Petty Officer Ruskan — who was in charge of triage at Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ summer camp that saw some of the worst of the flooding.“ Link
     
    Posts: 12937 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    Great article, trapper189! It tells the story much better.

    More news; more heavy rains can be expected in that region with risks for flooding for the 24-48 hours.

    https://www.breitbart.com/bord...-threatening-storms/
     
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