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Texas floods - Girls missing

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by librarywestpatron2005, Jul 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM.

  1. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    Do you have a link to that? Please post it
    Thanks
     
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  2. BLING

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    Wow.
     
  3. WarDamnGator

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    The blue hatched zones are "high risk", the red striped zones are flood ways with the highest risk (flooding with current). These are just some of the buildings, the place is huge. In Florida, they have extreme rules for building in the red striped areas (if they will allow you build at all), and buildings in the blue hatch areas have to be raised at least one foot above flood elevation and on a stable foundation, at a minimum. If these are like other camp cabins I've seen, they are built like tool sheds with no regard for normal residential building code. It's criminal to house kids like that in high risk flood areas.

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  4. littlebluelw

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    AccuWeather said the private forecasting company and the National Weather Service sent warnings about potential flash flooding hours before the devastation.

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    “These warnings should have provided officials with ample time to evacuate camps such as Camp Mystic and get people to safety,”
     
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  5. WarDamnGator

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    Looks like they've taken website down, but if this photo is accurate for their "high risk flood zone" construction, then holy hell...
     
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  6. Orange_and_Bluke

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    What a disgusting and ridiculous post.
    Something about hind sight and has zero to do with management being Christian.
    Your posts have proven to be hyper biased and a massive waste of time.
     
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  7. librarywestpatron2005

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    Even I won’t use this tragedy to impugn Christianity
     
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  8. WarDamnGator

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    Greed and indifference to putting kids at risk falls right in line with what I've been seeing.
     
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  9. BLING

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    If it was built in a flood zone AND it happened before that seems crazy. Wonder if anyone involved in that 1987 incident is still around?
     
  10. docspor

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    Tragic. A friend of a friend was camping by a river W. of Colo Springs when a flash flood happened. They threw everything into their van & while driving out the van got swept into the river. The mom & both kids drowned.
     
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  11. WarDamnGator

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    I was wrong about that. The previous deaths happened at a nearby camp, not this one. I had googled info on previous flooding at that camp, and their AI summery mentioned it but didn't specify it was a different camp, and I assumed it was. I'll edit that post.
     
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  12. Gator515151

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    No worry, you already showed your ass without impugning Christianity.
     
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  13. librarywestpatron2005

    librarywestpatron2005 All American

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    How’d you get a hold of those pictures?
    I thought only my wife saw them.
     
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    NYC
     
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  15. docspor

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    the dots are being connected via conjecture. The lack of evaculations and warnings ahead of the Big Thompson flood just S. of me in 2013 was due to an inaccurate forecast. (also, true in the Big Thompson flood of 1976 (but, tech was not what it is today).

    https://coloradonewsline.com/2023/09/05/almost-unimaginable-the-2013-colorado-flood-10-years-later/

    From Sept. 9 until Sept. 16, the Front Range experienced uncharacteristically heavy rainfall, which flooded several communities, resulting in nine deaths, 11,000 people evacuated, 1,850 destroyed homes and about $4 billion in damages across the state, with 18 counties declared federal disaster areas, according to the Colorado Encyclopedia.

    I'll call it the optimal system fallacy. A system can be optimal and still make mistakes. Like the legal system, weather forecasting, etc. Pt: a mistake need not be evidence of a sub optimal system.
     
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  16. tilly

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    It must be weird to spend your life looking for instances of Christians screwing up. It's almost like Christians are human and make bad decisions just like non Christians.

    Whatever it was that some terrible "christian" did to you isn't the fault of every other Christian throughout eternity. But clearly something personal has made you harbor so much hate.
     
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  17. tilly

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    I mean obviously, it is all Christians faults for existing.
     
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  18. tilly

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    Actually it's the libs tossing blame on this thread. And in a very ugly way. You're better than that. You may want to distance yourself.
     
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  19. WarDamnGator

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    I just like to give Christians push back because they think they know everything, have all the answers, and want to force whatever they believe in this century on everyone else ... But like said later in the thread, building shelters for kids like that in flood way is just pure greed, selfishness, and arrogance, and falls right in line with what I've seen Christians all my life. Probably mistakenly thought a magic man in the sky would prevent this from happening to nice Christain families...
     
  20. Gator515151

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    Weather reports and accuracy = ain't gonna happen.
    I always said I should have been a weatherman, the one occupation where you can be wrong 90% of the time and keep your job.