Flooding in Texas - 81 dead, ten little girls from a summer camp still missing…
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Absolutely horrible story from yesterday.
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Look how high he is above the water vs at the end.
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I would not have been hanging around on that bridge as long as the filming guy did, that is for sure!!!
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I would not have been hanging around on that bridge as long as the filming guy did, that is for sure!!!
@taiwan_girl said in Flooding in Texas - 20 Dead, dozens of little girls from a summer camp still missing…:
I would not have been hanging around on that bridge as long as the filming guy did, that is for sure!!!
Ha it was posted on the “sweaty palms” subreddit. I had the same thought. That being said, he’s getting due credit for a long video without commentary, music, editing, or screaming.
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Apparently, this camp was a regular Who’s Who for the politicos in Texas. A current Rep had 2 daughters at the camp, generation after generation of Lyndon Johnson’s family went there, Laura Bush was a counselor when she was in college, and more…
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The death toll is currently at least 81. What a horrendous situation.
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@jon-nyc said in Flooding in Texas - 20 Dead, dozens of little girls from a summer camp still missing…:
Camp Mystic says 27 dead 10 still missing.
FFS.
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This is so incredibly sad. One can only hope that we do learn some things from this - and that we don't repeat this horror. I can't imagine the pain of the parents. A meteorologist from that area did a post where she said it had nothing to do with staff shortages. She suggested that a weather alert radio could have helped provide warning as there was no cell service, and the worst of things were happening so early in the morning than many might have been asleep. Second thing would have been rising water sensors with a siren. Neither would be expensive.
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Why? It's not like it's happened before.
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How soon do you think a movie will be made about Scott Ruskan, the "rookie" 26 year old Coast Guard rescue swimmer who's been in the headlines lately about being the rescuer on the ground helping save/evacuate like 150 kids? I'm guessing 2027, starring Glen Powell.
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How soon do you think a movie will be made about Scott Ruskan, the "rookie" 26 year old Coast Guard rescue swimmer who's been in the headlines lately about being the rescuer on the ground helping save/evacuate like 150 kids? I'm guessing 2027, starring Glen Powell.
@89th said in Flooding in Texas - 81 dead, ten little girls from a summer camp still missing…:
How soon do you think a movie will be made about Scott Ruskan, the "rookie" 26 year old Coast Guard rescue swimmer who's been in the headlines lately about being the rescuer on the ground helping save/evacuate like 150 kids? I'm guessing 2027, starring Glen Powell.
I’m thinking that’s a gross exaggeration of what he actually did. It makes it sound like he personally swam through the raging river waters to reach stranded campers… He was placed in the highground of the island and decided which of the girls clinging to trees was in the most danger and the rescue crews responded accordingly. I’m not trying to belittle him, either, but it was one cog in a huge machine.
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