United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, directly saved an astonishing 165 victims in the devastating flooding in central Texas. This was the first rescue mission of his career and he was the only triage coordinator at the scene. Scott Ruskin is an American hero. His selfless courage embodies the spirit and mission of the
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What we know
- DOZENS KILLED: At least 90 people are dead across six counties today. In Kerr County, officials reported 75 deaths, including 48 adults and 27 children.
- FLASH FLOOD WATCH: With slow-moving and scattered thunderstorms, flood watches remain in effect today across central Texas until 7 p.m. local time, including over the Hill Country region that experienced flash flooding over the weekend.
- CAMP MYSTIC GRIEVES: Camp Mystic, the summer camp at the center of the devastating flooding that has hit the Texas Hill Country over the last three days, is "grieving the loss of 27 campers and counselors."
- FLOODING COULD HIT MID-ATLANTIC: Flood watches are also in place from eastern Virginia up through northern New Jersey, including Baltimore and Philadelphia, as Tropical Depression Chantal moves into the mid-Atlantic today.
@bradstevens i shouldn't have clicked this. i'm about to go no internet just to avoid the stories. can't stop tearing up. not sure why. kids. camp whatever but it's hit me harder than any story i can remember
@mcm666 I think part of this story that makes it so tragic and so hard for us to process, is that there is no one to blame. For some reason, we humans feel better when we can pin a tragedy like this on someone or ones. This is just nature or God if you believe in that.
@bradstevens i'm trying to blame someone. certainly this river had to have been a known risk.
@mcm666 I think part of this story that makes it so tragic and so hard for us to process, is that there is no one to blame. For some reason, we humans feel better when we can pin a tragedy like this on someone or ones. This is just nature or God if you believe in that.
Yeah, I think this was just a terrible set of circumstances. The fact it happened in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping, and then they're at a camp, where cell service very well could have been spotty (just me thinking about the camps I've been around) and that would be a recipe for a disaster like we have now.
Horrible all around.
I have a feeling that they just couldn't afford (or justify at the time?) the cost of a flood warning system on the Guadelupe River. We shall see. But many of those communities aren't rolling in dough so to speak. Tough choices but how much are those lives worth. I'm hoping we learn lessons from this.@bradstevens i'm trying to blame someone. certainly this river had to have been a known risk.
@larsiu you're probably right and i have no idea what is available etc.
I saw an interview of one guy who survived with his family. He didn't flee, their cabin wasn't swept away, despite raging water inside reaching chest deep, blowing out windows and doors, as they huddled on a high bunk bed until it receded enough for them to escape.
He said they were in a cabin owned by his family for 75 years, a full 30 feet in elevation above the riverbank. Past floods had never even come close to the cabin before.
Crazy. Awful.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Wow - I can't imagine what going through something like that would be like. Sitting on that high bunk bed in your house wondering if the water would rise the feet or inches to your level, then finding out you were beyond lucky that the water started receding.I saw an interview of one guy who survived with his family. He didn't flee, their cabin wasn't swept away, despite raging water inside reaching chest deep, blowing out windows and doors, as they huddled on a high bunk bed until it receded enough for them to escape.
He said they were in a cabin owned by his family for 75 years, a full 30 feet in elevation above the riverbank. Past floods had never even come close to the cabin before.
Crazy. Awful.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@bradstevens i'm trying to blame someone. certainly this river had to have been a known risk.
I don't know if it's real or made up, but there is video circulating on X from a TV show hosted by William Shatner describing a flooding event in 1987.
https://twitter.com/mechronin/status/1942054885626647024
We were on the Current a few years ago and watched storms off in the distance. Had it been the night before, we would have been 7ft underwater on our gravel bar campsite 20 miles upstream.
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@receipt-keeper the current river in missouri?
@bradstevens i'm trying to blame someone. certainly this river had to have been a known risk.
You're a lawyer. That's what lawyers do.
@receipt-keeper the current river in missouri?
The same. Baptist Camp to Two Rivers on a warm week in early October. Had the place to ourselves for the most part. We were leapfrogging a group of older guys.
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