The 10,000-Year Flood

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/texas-guadalupe-floods-rv-park-deaths/687617/

https://archive.is/doCno#selection-627.0-627.21

The 10,000-Year Flood
The banks of the Guadalupe River were an idyllic spot to park an RV. Then, last summer, it started to rain harder and faster than anyone could imagine.
By Sean Flynn
June 25, 2026

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The hard rain didn’t fall that evening; it waited until the early morning. And then, in the dark hours before dawn, it fell faster and harder that anyone could recall. Faster and harder, really, than anyone could have imagined.

As both the atmosphere and the oceans warm, freakish events are becoming normal. On Memorial Day in 2015, for instance, nearly a foot of rain fell on Houston in 10 hours, a deluge that killed seven people and caused almost half a billion dollars in damage. That was considered a 500-year flood, meaning that there was a 0.2 percent chance of it happening in any given year. Yet less than 11 months later, on Tax Day of 2016, almost 24 inches came down, and a month after that, on Memorial Day weekend, more than 20 inches fell on southeast Texas. The next summer, Hurricane Harvey dropped five feet of rain, resulting in floods that killed 88 people and caused $125 billion in damage.

But the July Fourth deluge was different. It might as well have been a 10,000-year flood. At its peak intensity, the storm dropped a foot of precipitation in about four hours and an estimated 1.8 trillion gallons in total — which is almost as much as goes over Niagara Falls in a month. The landscape gathered that rain like a funnel, gravity pulling water into existing gullies and creeks until it collected in the largest of those channels, the Guadalupe riverbed. The disaster wasn’t the Guadalupe slopping over its banks; it was the sky releasing so much moisture all at once that it created an entirely new and uncontainable body of water.

At 1:55 a.m., the Guadalupe flowed through the village of Hunt, upstream from Blue Oak, at a rate of 33.6 cubic feet a second. That’s not even lazy-river-tubing territory. Just over an hour and a half later, the Guadalupe was moving almost 17,000 cubic feet of water downstream every second, and by 4:30, the rate had risen to 106,000 cubic feet a second. Water was collecting faster than it could wash away. So the river rose — at Hunt, it went up 30 feet in three hours — and it took on a new shape, developed a face, a wall, became something that bulldozed rather than flowed: 106,000 cubic feet of water weighs about 6.6 million pounds, not counting all of the trees and cars and houses moving with it.

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https://apnews.com/article/camp-mystic-bankruptcy-61263980faaa31857e6f3da0e83aee41

Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy after catastrophic Texas floods killed 28 people at the girls’ camp
By JAMIE STENGLE and KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 1:14 PM CDT, June 24, 2026

DALLAS (AP) — Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors at the Christian camp for girls along the Guadalupe River in Texas.

Camp Mystic has been under increasing pressure since the July 4 disaster. Owners had planned to reopen the Texas Hill Country camp this summer for its 100th anniversary but reversed course in April amid outrage from victims’ families and lawmakers. Victims’ families filed lawsuits accusing the camp of failing to protect the girls as the powerful floodwaters approached.

Camp Mystic’s owner, Richard Eastland, also died in the flood.

The camp listed its debt at more than $10 million, according to the filing made in federal bankruptcy court in Houston. An attorney for Camp Mystic has not responded to an email and a phone message seeking comment.

“Bankruptcy will not stop all responsible parties from being held accountable,” Paul Yetter, a lawyer who represents multiple families of campers and counselors who died at Camp Mystic, said in a statement. “These innocent girls deserve justice.”

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[AZJonnie]

1. If you're holding all parties accountable, the list should include the oil companies (nt)

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2. Externalized costs are not paid by the perps

SOP

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3. how so?

[malaise]

4. The Texas idiots are too busy forcing bible lessons on chikdren

It’s all form devoid of content