# Massive flooding in Texas; 20 children missing from a summer camp **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 182
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512/182 "2025-07-10T00:24:23Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > After which you’d hope someone would have the sense to _not_ repair/rebuild those low-lying cabins. Well, now that it happened, I figure they are good for another century, right? 🙄 I recommend the book [A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear.](https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Walks-Into-Bear-Liberate/dp/1541788516). People (as a whole) are just too - for lack of better words - stupid, cheap, self-centered, and unrealistic to take adequate precautions. They need a government to protect them from themselves, and to force them to pay for certain protection. I’m fine with Darwin culling the dumbest from the herd. But when they take responsibility for others - especially children… Fuck Texas. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512)._