TX Flood - Firsthand Stories - No Politics/Blame

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post article about the counselor that led 16 young campers out of danger was powerful.

Could somebody please provide a gift link to this article? (I'm not in the DC area, thus not a subscriber).

Here is a gift link. It will be free but they might ask for your e-mail.

https://wapo.st/44Noe78

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post article about the counselor that led 16 young campers out of danger was powerful.

Could somebody please provide a gift link to this article? (I'm not in the DC area, thus not a subscriber).

Here is a gift link. It will be free but they might ask for your e-mail.

https://wapo.st/44Noe78

Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

Check out interview interviews with bud Bolton.

He’s gonna be the hero.

He knew. And he knows they knew. And he knows they failed them.

People like him will speak out and not put up with this anymore

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else feel like Clay's death was kind of glossed over?

Yes. I agree it was well written and conveyed the horror and reality of the flood. I thought it glossed over that with four adult men present it was the lone woman/mom who was left trying to protect BOTH kids and to keep all three of them alive. I thought it glossed over that while it was beginning she was trying to keep the kids on the counter, the dad/husband was holding the sliding door, and the author and his husband were doing what? Why didn’t one of them help protect the kids?

The men were trying to formulate a plan. Nobody knew that the house was going to disintegrate. You should be ashamed of yourself for writing such ignorant and bigoted words.

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Remember that everything happened so quickly. I would think that the men's first instincts would be to try to prevent the water from crashing into the house so holding up the glass door does make sense ... until it didn't and by then it all devolved in mere seconds.

So, the dad was trying to prevent the water from crashing into the house, the mom was trying to protect the kids, and the gay uncles were standing around trying to formulate a plan. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else feel like Clay's death was kind of glossed over?

Yes. I agree it was well written and conveyed the horror and reality of the flood. I thought it glossed over that with four adult men present it was the lone woman/mom who was left trying to protect BOTH kids and to keep all three of them alive. I thought it glossed over that while it was beginning she was trying to keep the kids on the counter, the dad/husband was holding the sliding door, and the author and his husband were doing what? Why didn’t one of them help protect the kids?

The men were trying to formulate a plan. Nobody knew that the house was going to disintegrate. You should be ashamed of yourself for writing such ignorant and bigoted words.

+1
Remember that everything happened so quickly. I would think that the men's first instincts would be to try to prevent the water from crashing into the house so holding up the glass door does make sense ... until it didn't and by then it all devolved in mere seconds.

So, the dad was trying to prevent the water from crashing into the house, the mom was trying to protect the kids, and the gay uncles were standing around trying to formulate a plan. Got it.

I think you are vastly overestimating how well you'd respond to an unfathomable situation.

Are you ready for your house to implode and float away 15 minutes from now? After being awakened in the middle of the night?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless the timeline of events in this article is hazy, something’s not right.

Alissa, the mom said over and over “He can’t swim. He’s a baby.”

Not one single person in that house thought to immediately put life jackets on the kids?

You build a house on stilts in the same location that flooded many years prior, that killed 14 or so kids. Yet, there weren’t kid and adult life jackets located in high cabinets of every room?

To continue predicting what would obviously happen next as water was already at 20 feet and crashing thru floors and glass doors?

To think for a split second that mom would not let go of those kids and grab one of them?

The men find the two women and one child in trees and Patrick goes looking for grandfather before helping Lance rescue them?

Gives me Uvalde vibes. Reminds of the mom who broke thru the police barrier and then broke a classroom window to save her kids and others. The little girl that was able to remain calm while giving a more detailed account to the dispatcher than the hundreds of fat cops doing nothing.

Once again, women are heartier and braver than men. Mystic counselors were teen girls and managed to get campers to safety.

Heartbreaking for sure in spite of this article.

Agreed. One quibble, there was just one woman, the mom, in the tree with her child. The other person in the tree was the male author.