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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were too few adults and staff in charge of too many kids. I don’t count the counselors as adults. Many of them were just rising college freshmen and kids themselves.

While the geography and topography is an issue, the adult to kid ratio is also something that has been not talked about enough.  [/quote]

I'm not sure more staff would have made a difference. It seems like they didn't understand how high or quickly raising the water was. And that was probably a product of it being at night and in the middle of a heavy storm.

Had they known earlier, they almost certainly would have told people to leave the cabins. But until that point, an evacuation at night through severe weather wouldn't have looked like a good risk tradeoff.

Once they knew, it would have quickly become too late, with the water level becoming too high to walk though.

More vehicles to aid in the evacuation may have helped. Maybe. But that also probably wouldn't have changed much if they still didn't know how fast the water was coming up.[/quote]

Many of the counsellors knew the water was rising quickly but they had been told to stay in place - repeatedly - both in their training and also that night when the men were moving equipment. They also didn't have any communication devices (no phones or walkie talkies) and they didn't have battery operated light sources. They were also good Christian girls doing as they were told - these aren't rebels! They stayed in their cabins even while watching other cabins evacuate to higher ground and to the rec hall.

A few of the counsellors did have their survival instincts kick in and they took the girls out windows or doors to the nearby hills that were only 70 feet from the cabin doors. There were 3 cabins where the counsellors got the kids out near the end, and 2 that didn't. I am not blaming the counsellors, they were just doing as they were told. And then the owner put all 13 girls from one cabin in his truck and so when it was washed away, they all died. [/quote]

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