@LuFins-Dad said in Flooding in Texas - 81 dead, ten little girls from a summer camp still missing…:
@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.
Oh agreed. When I saw some headlines about how many people he saved, but then heard him talk (he's pretty humble and professional about it, kudos to him), it was clear he was organizing which people would be airlifted to the nearest LZ. A good effort, but agree it wasn't him swimming in the raging river dragging each person to shore.