Camp Mystic official says she still hasn’t reported flood deaths to Texas agency

> “I did not think of this requirement in the moments happening after the flood,” she told the court Unfortunate, but fair, there was a lot going on. > Asked whether she should do so now, with the camp license pending, she replied: “I guess so.” F*** off. This family is not just dumb, or incompetent, they are evil. I just read both the recent NY Magazine and Texas Monthly articles about this camp and these children were left to die. Counsellors were not allowed to use cell phones, they did not have walkie talkies. The only flood-related training they received was a paragraph stating that in the event of a flood, they should stay in their cabins until told by officials to leave. The parents who support re-opening Camp Mystic believe that without the actions of the Eastlands, more children would have died. The reality is that the children who are alive are alive because they ignored the instructions to stay in their cabins and went to higher ground when they still had the ability to. Teenage counsellors were left to make that decision. The Eastmans failed them. The NY Magazine article speculates that this camp made the family a minimum of $10 million per summer. They want to re-open this camp because they cannot comprehend a world in which they are no longer millionaires. They do not value lives, they value money. Cile Steward has not been found, her body could still be in the river, and they're applying to have free diving and snorkeling at the camp this summer.

Incompetence leads to death, continued incompetence leads to more deaths. They should never operate a business again.

Come on. Nothing Gregg Abbott likes more than statistics for dead children. It shows him his plan is working. Why would you deny him what little joy he gets in life?

Look, I understand not reporting in the 24 hour time frame. Things were incredibly chaotic and I doubt you would’ve had an accurate headcount for a few days anyway. However, when asked if you should report it now (because SHE STILL HASN’T), replying “I guess so” is a f****** sociopathic response.

I find it ghoulish that these people are trying to reopen. Who the hell would let their kid go to camp there? Little girls died, one of them was never found, and they want to hold camp like nothing ever happened? No. That’s insane. Especially since I’ve never seen anything about new safety standards to ensure that if conditions get bad this won’t happen again.

The Eastland's should be in prison. They are directly responsible for the deaths of 27 people. But instead of facing consequences, they are trying to reopen the camp again this summer. Apparently 900 children have been registered to attend the camp this summer which is insane. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a parent of one of the victims and sit in court and listen to the Eastland's cry about how the abandoned the campers, how they should never have opened the camp last year, describe how negligent they were, how they still to this day have not complied with regulatory requirements, and then turn around and say they should be allowed to continuing running the camp

What enrages me most about this situation is that it was entirely avoidable. None of this had to happen. Those kids could still be alive. F*** every person in this chain of malicious incompetence that murdered those kids.

People in Texas f****** suck. Any other giant state like Texas would have those camp owners in jail by now. Come to think of it; moving all the cabins to a flood zone, after getting the government to remove the flood zone designation, never would've happened outside of that corrupt-assed state.

Isn’t this camp located in a town where they were getting funding from the Biden administration for shit like this and they said “nah dawg?”

>Under Texas administrative code, camps are required to report deaths to state health regulators within 24 hours. But during her testimony, Eastland said she did not do so. >“I did not think of this requirement in the moments happening after the flood,” she told the court, adding she also had not done so before the camp filed its application to reopen in March. >Asked whether she should do so now, with the camp license pending, she replied: “I guess so.” >Eastland told the court that she could not recall exactly when she first learned campers had died, estimating that it may have been a day or several days after the 4 July flooding. The incompetence is giving “Uvalde”. For such a “pro-life” state they don’t give an F about kids.

As I sign up my own daughters for summer camp I can't imagine what the parents of these poor kids are going through. Not only to lose your beloved child but to then have to hear about all the steps that could have been taken to prevent this tragedy or at least minimize the losses. My understanding is that there was federal money made available to fix the flood zones, and it was turned down because it was from Biden.

I'm assuming that once they submit the required reports, that opens the doors for big lawsuits and closing of the camp. That's the real reason why they "guess they should" submit the report.

> Asked whether she should do so now, with the camp license pending, she replied: “I guess so.” These clowns should never have children in their care ever again.

For as much shit as I hear Texans give California, that state seems way more dangerous for its children and fails them time after time

She was able to save some children. Her own.  > She described how water poured into her home that night and how she broke a window to escape with her children to higher ground. 

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Bless her heart, she believes kids are still out there waiting to be rescued. wtf.

how is this family not bankrupt from civil lawsuits????

"He said that earlier action could have saved lives, but maintained that they could not have anticipated the scale of the storm." It cannot be understated how much this is DOGE's fault. As soon as they cut weather services and stopped using even *our* military satellites to watch storms, this became an inevitability. 

WTH? She still has not reported the deaths even though under "Texas administrative code, camps are required to report deaths to state health regulators within 24 hours. But during her testimony, Eastland said she did not do so". Anyone in Texas planning to send their daughters there after 27 children and counsellors died?

Is that why Texas lists OD deaths as suicides? Cause we don’t have THAT kind of problem here?

Christian summer camp?

didn't the camp reach their limit of applications this year and had to turn people away?

Yeah. They didn't start out being accountable, can't imagine they will start without arrests and threats to their money. These people are scum. 

It’s absolutely obscene that these greedy shit stains are trying to reopen this camp.

What parent would want to send their kids to that camp now? What kid would want to go to a camp full of vengeful ghost kids?

"I prayed over them so Jesus knows, and that's all that matters."

and families are still sending their kids here...

What gets a reaction out of me is the two parents who didn’t get the calls or texts that the other unaccounted for parents recieved. Instead, they got a mass email to parents who’s kids were accounted for, saying if they haven’t been contacted then their child is ok. Hours of believing that, but she wasn’t. It’s unacceptable as they allegedly had a pretty accurate estimate of how many and who wasn’t accounted for early on, and assuredly then proceeded to send those emails. Chaotic natural disasters obviously are what they are, and prioritizing what to focus on in the midst of it creates confusion, that is exactly why those things should’ve been planned and practiced just like fire drills are. Especially given where they were located(something like the top 3rd most dangerous flooding zone in the country iirc). But they seemingly had no flooding evacuation plan, police weren’t called until hours later and we know they were recording and able to make phone calls. Canoes needed securing at 2am after flood alerts lead to communicating over walkie talkies, so adults sleeping through alerts doesn’t cut it for me. The ones who were up and aware did not do enough leading up to this. If canoes on land need securing, you need to take equal precautions for the cabin that’s closest to the water that’s knowingly in a flood plain and holds the youngest of the campers. I can somewhat understand not paying close enough attention to every alert after the initial one, given it gets you up and moving and is taken seriously, but it’s not clear that that’s how it went down. And unfortunately, no one knows the difference it would’ve made, but the evacuation of the twin cabins should not have been executed the way they attempted to. They only way I can see them not being found negligent is by act of god. /s

Texas gonna Texas. This is what they voted for.

"Hey now, those kids might still be out there! We don't know. 8-year-olds are Scrappy," Eastland added.

This was a camp for rich white girls. The law doesn't apply to the Elite.

Texans truly do not care about their children

About par for Texas isn't it?

Yahweh requires his sacrifices. He likes first born and floods..

Unfortunately Eastlands should be very worried about criminal charges. And state agencies that approved of their operation prior to re: licensing , do they have any culpability here? 

Her filing the proper paperwork after the kids died means less to me than preventing the deaths in the first place. Why are y’all focused on the paperwork so much?

She's probably just waiting for more death statistics to rack up from any future avoidable disasters and then report them all at once.