# Massive flooding in Texas; 20 children missing from a summer camp

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**Created:** [July 4, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512 "2025-07-04T21:50:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512/361 "2026-06-25T17:12:44Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Just saying “I vas just following orders” doesn’t absolve one of their own moral failings.

Moral failings and legal culpability are separate, utterly unrelated, things.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2026, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512/362 "2026-06-27T04:15:05Z")

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That made me think of the boat disaster a few years back in South Korea where the teenage passengers were told to stay below deck, and were so afraid of defying adult orders, several hundred actually did, and all drowned. The ones who did leave all got out.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512/363 "2026-09-23T02:25:05Z")

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> **[Texas investigators seek evidence of manslaughter, other crimes in 27 flood...](https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-eastland-investigation-83ff14fc9ec03afd6b69d38933210169)**
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> Court documents show that Camp Mystic faces a criminal investigation that could include manslaughter or negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 27 girls amid devastating flooding in Texas last year.

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