This comes on the heels of the first public hearing over last summer's Fourth of July floods that killed more than 100 people across the Hill Country, including 27 girls at Camp Mystic.
I was surprised they wanted to take on additional liability this summer when they are probably getting sued by dozens of families with dead kids already. Imagine being the kid of a family who’d be willing to send you to the dead kid camp. Christian love! Maybe they don’t mind if you never come home.
Gotta have income to pay the lawyers. Plus, if you read the articles last summer, what kept a lot of families still going there was momentum and tradition. If the operators could have kept the camp open this summer, momentum and tradition may have carried the camp forward and they may have recovered, but this is the death knell for the camp. Some families will drop their summer camp tradition entirely, and a bunch of other camps are going to snatch up the remaining campers and do their damnedest to make sure those kids have a fantastic time and want to return to their camp and not Camp Mystic.
I was surprised they wanted to take on additional liability this summer when they are probably getting sued by dozens of families with dead kids already. Imagine being the kid of a family who’d be willing to send you to the dead kid camp. Christian love! Maybe they don’t mind if you never come home.
Gotta have income to pay the lawyers. Plus, if you read the articles last summer, what kept a lot of families still going there was momentum and tradition. If the operators could have kept the camp open this summer, momentum and tradition may have carried the camp forward and they may have recovered, but this is the death knell for the camp. Some families will drop their summer camp tradition entirely, and a bunch of other camps are going to snatch up the remaining campers and do their damnedest to make sure those kids have a fantastic time and want to return to their camp and not Camp Mystic.