TX TX-Hunt, Overnight flooding at Camp Mystic, all girls camp. Unknown number of missing. July 4, 2025

[vls12345]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5489526-texas-flooding-camp-mystic-victim-parents/

 

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5488844-youth-camper-act-floodplain-risks/

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed several pieces of legislation Friday to ensure camper safety after more than a dozen people were killed at Camp Mystic, a camp for children in the center of the state, during floods earlier this year.

 

[iamshadow21]

Camp where 27 people died in floods to reopen next year for centenary

Camp Mystic also announces plans for a memorial dedicated to "the lives of the campers and counsellors lost on July 4th".

www.abc.net.au

 

[NottaYutz]

Camp where 27 people died in floods to reopen next year for centenary

Camp Mystic also announces plans for a memorial dedicated to "the lives of the campers and counsellors lost on July 4th".

www.abc.net.au

MOO Talk about cold-hearted. That's like knowingly building your house on a graveyard, eh?

 

[iamshadow21]

MOO Talk about cold-hearted. That's like knowingly building your house on a graveyard, eh?

Businesses and places of worship and public spaces have deaths all the time and they don't close up never to open again. This is a business, and from the very first day there's been a groundswell of former campers fundraising for them to rebuild and reopen. What matters is that they rebuild above the flood line and have proper emergency and evacuation plans in place before a single camper arrives. They need proper communication with every cabin so that teenagers aren't stuck trying to save kids alone, without support. They need to show that they're not just whitewashing over this last summer and they're serious about the safety of their charges.

MOO

 

[Quill]

MOO Talk about cold-hearted. That's like knowingly building your house on a graveyard, eh?

Using this logic would mean that the entire gulf coast region of Mississippi would be off-limits for habitation. Hurricane Katrina roared through with such force she dumped so much water that the storm surge was measured at about 30 feet and several miles inland. We still have 67 listed as officially missing, but the reality is there are hundreds due to the circumstances. No one truly knows the numbers. You could make the same observations with Hurricane Helene, most recently. The tragedies are horrible but part of managing them is recovering and moving on as best we can.

 

[mickey2942]

Camp Mystic plans to reopen in Texas next summer, a year after 27 were killed in floods

The camp announced plans to build a memorial to the girls who died.

www.nbcnews.com

The real issue to me, is who would send their daughters to this camp? Sure, it was a "100 year flood" or whatever. But unless there is some serious infrastructure changes, it could happen again.

We know climate change is occurring. Anomalies are occurring all over the planet.

I wouldn't send my kids there.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

Parents call Camp Mystic reopening plans 'insensitive' as one camper remains missing

Families are calling out the owners of Camp Mystic after they announced plans to partially reopen the all-girls camp where 27 campers and counselors were killed during catastrophic floods in July.

6abc.com

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The parents of 8-year-old Cile Steward, who remains missing, sent a gut-wrenching letter to camp leadership, calling the plans "unthinkable."

"Recovery teams are still out there every day, scouring the river - your backyard - risking their own safety to bring her home to us," read the letter sent by Cici and Will Steward. "Yet, instead of recognizing or highlighting that effort, you have not once mentioned her name or the fact that she is still missing. Not in any formal communications with the affected families, not to the wider community, and not even to our family. The only acknowledgment we have ever received was your brisk phone call on the morning of July 4th, when you informed us that Cile was simply 'unaccounted for.'"

The letter continued, saying, "To promote reopening less than three months after the tragedy - while one camper remains missing - is unthinkable. Our families remain trapped in the deepest throes of grief, yet your communications treat our never-ending nightmare as little more than a brief pause before resuming business as usual."

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'Unthinkable' | Family of final missing Camp Mystic camper pens letter after learning of reopening plans

"You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body."

www.khou.com

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The family of 8-year-old Cile Steward shared a letter they sent to Camp Mystic after the summer camp announced plans to reopen only a few months after 27 young campers and counselors died during the catastrophic Texas Hill Country flooding.

Cile is the only child whose body hasn't been recovered.

"To promote reopening less than three months after the tragedy -- while one camper remains missing -- is unthinkable," the letter read. "Worse still, you are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body."

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[Oiseaux]

RSBM

"To promote reopening less than three months after the tragedy -- while one camper remains missing -- is unthinkable," the letter read. "Worse still, you are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body."

This does seem to be in incredibly poor taste. I'm disappointed in the camp's insensitivity, and their apparent belief that this won't happen again, despite plenty of evidence that it is quite likely to.

I hope Hill Country families find other camps for their kids to go to.

JMO