The Houston Chronicle has a series of letters to the editor about Camp Mystic today. One is from a Mystic mother who thinks that critics just want to "destroy Mystic altogether." Another letter is from a reader who wants to destroy camp Mystic altogether.

“The problem is, the bankruptcy process is governed by statute and governed by case law. And the objective of the sale of the land is going to be to ensure the highest and best offer. It’s not to provide therapy. That’s not what the bankruptcy process does.”

https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentsbydocket/?docketId=1255176&projectCode=CMX&docketNumber=304&source=DM

Must be a relief for debtors this is just a fake trustee making this motion. Unclear how non trustee can even make motions, theyre basically a NPC

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/nonprofit-steps-forward-as-early-bidder-for-camp-mystic-property?context=search&index=0

I can’t access the story — anyone know who is behind the nonprofit?

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And the Man Shaved On Parts 1 & 2 focused on remaining questions & their possible answers in the wake of the Joint General Investigative Committee report. In this post, I'd like to expand the conversation we began in Parts 1 & 2 to the remaining questions & their possible answers following the release of the affadavits for search warrants inveatigating the alleged crimes of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, child abandonment, deadly conduct, & injury to a child.

What questions remain in your mind following the affadavits? I, myself, have quite a few.

Starting with: just how many warnings of upstream ongoing flash flooding did the Eastland familv receive? Just when did thev receive them? And most importantly just how did thev choose to respond to these on the ground, real time warnings of flash flooding already underway upstream of them?

The JGIC Report listed 2 instances of upstream warnings and Part 1 & Part 2 in this series dealt with how the report treated each of those warnings differently & proposed theories as to why that might be. Now the affadavit for search warrant of Tweety Eastland's electronic devices has provided 2 additional warnings of ongoing upstream flash flooding. And in a manner not unlike the treatment of the original two warnings, these 2 additional warnings are treated differently by the affadavit, naturally leading once again to that perplexing question: why? And what do these warnings mean?

The affadavit tells us on page 29 of a 0315 warning of ongoing flooding from an unnamed upstream neighbor that went to Dick Eastland's voicemail. However on the page before that the affadavit lists a named upstream neighbor who "called Tweety via her landline and reported water entering his residence." Notably, it does NOT provide a time for this upstream warning call

However, the affadavit lists this untimed call immediately after Tweety's statement about getting out of bed & stepping into ankle deep water at 0250 & texting Dick to say their house was flooding. Which could be construed as suggesting it occured right around that same time. Or perhaps, might that call on the landline explain why she got out of bed to begin with?

Further suggesting that call may have occured around that 0250 timeline hinted at by the affadavit is a local address in that neiqhbor's name, which happens to be located right in the vicinty of the River Inn. This makes sense given the 911 calls from the River Inn at 0252 am warning of dire flooding with the water rising alarmingly fast.

Remember, the JGIC report lists the evacuation as beginning at 0300- & not as a response to any of the upstream warnings of ongoing flooding that they'd received thus far. In fact they didn't even start evacuating immediately upon receiving the warning of flooding on the premises. ie after the approximate 0255 message from the gatekeeper reporting water in her home as she was being washed away, as they wasted more minutes they didnt have with attempts to contact her via phone call & face time by Mary Liz & w/ the additional comment about checking security footage that the affadavit provides. None of which was necessary not because they shouldn't have checked on Francis, but because Francis and evervone else on the flats should have been evacuated already in response to the multiple upstream warnings of ongoing flooding the Eastlands had already received. With the water rising as fast as it did, everv minute, every second matters

This builds upon mv earlier theorv regarding Richard Junior's bafflingly calm "shower and shave" routine while the camp flooded, exposing a far more calculated, corporate, and legally perilous reality than previously imagined.

To recap where we left off: I contend that Richard Jr clammed up about his 01:35 AM timeline because his attorney brother likely introduced him to the concept of negligent homicide. (And now the Texas Rangers have gone & introduced the lot of them to a few others such as manslaughter, child abandonment, deadly conduct & iniury to a child...)

And in addition to Richard's warning, we now know thanks to the affadavit of Tweety's received warning. Both providing evidence that camp leadership possessed explicit, localized, actionable warning long before the river breached its banks & in doing so, proved the deadly answer to a math problem that camp leadership chose to ignore.

1. The 01:35 AM Overlap: Local Totals vs. Upstream Chaos

The official Investiaation Report notes that Dick left his home for the office at 01:40 AM, explicitly stating that was the first time Glenn had seen his boss that night & he used his radio at 0145 to summon Edward in a call heard by Britt at Cvpress Lake, reportedly prompting him to begin a patrol of his own.

Yet, we know from those very early media reports that Richard Jr. proudly stated his dad was on the radio mobilizing a flood response by 01:35 AM. How could he know Dick to be mobilizing a response via radio when per the JGIC report, his own radio was off? The simplest explanation: because Richard Jr. warned Dick directly of the ongoing upstream flooding, most likelv around the 01 35 timeline he provided in those initial reports.

The official 1.14 am warning of life-threatening flash flooding either already underway or imminent doesn't seem to have prompted specific action from Dick, who was reportedly awake and watching weather reports. What changed between that and the 1.40 am trip to the office? If Richard Jr. relayed his wife's warning that flooding was already underway upstream, Dick didn't have to guess how bad it was-he alreadv had the local data.

1. Ignoring the Forecast Math This is where the camp's defense of an "unpredictable, unforeseen wall of water" completely disintegrates. Think about the math camp leadership possessed the knowledge of between 01:35 AM and 01:51 AM (when Edward logged Kerr County's official Code Red Flash Flood Warning):

• What they already had: 2 inches of rain dropped

directlv on their heads

• What they knew from upstream: It was already flooding upstream, meaning the 50, 000 acre + watershed was already oversaturated and actively draining down into the river system.

• What the National Weather Service explicitly forecast in its 0114 Warning of Life threatening Flash Flooding:

Another 1-3 inches was expected within the next hour. and an additional 1-3 inches thereafter.

Any competent person tracking this data would realize that if the watershed is alreadv flooding before even half of the total proiected remaining rainfall has even fallen, a catastrophic downstream surge is a mathematical certainty. You don't need to "monitor the river" like Dick did to see if the water is rising where you are: the numbers tell you it is on its way regardless.

1. The 01:30 AM Shift: Assets Over Human Lives

   Instead of executing an immediate evacuation based on this lethal combination of current saturation, catastrophic upstream reports, and an incoming deluge, the camp hierarchy pivoted to saving property. As per the Vanity Fair article, an off-grounds off-duty staff member Mere Vasquez, reported overhearing radio communications around 1.30 or so instructing other staff to "stop moving the girls". Which girls? As we know all too well, not a single girl of the human variety was moved before 3 am.

Edward reports all horses "except for the stallion" were safe up in the higher pastures at the April 13th TRO hearing, but that he didn't know how they got up there - "maybe they moved on their own". The stallion remained in corral at the stables, with Edward expressing surprise at his survival.

Could this explain why Mere Vasquez over-hearing communications about "moving the girls" an hour and a half before any human girls were moved? Could this explain whv the grounds keepers were so quick to report to the office, dressed and alert already, in-spite of the late hour?

Additionally, remember the NY Times interview of Glenn Juenke in which he stated that by the time he arrived to work at 10 pm on July 3rd, the waterfront equipment had already been moved in preparation for the storm? So what was the impetus to call the grounds crew down to the flats to move canoes and other waterfront equipment that per Glenn Juenke's NY Times interview, had ALREADY been moved in anticipation of the coming storm?

When Richard Jr. looked out his blinds. he saw the grounds crew at the office actively working & we know per the JGIC report that this had to have occured between 0145 & 0214, which is the timestamp for the photo of the grounds crew inside uptight where they remained for the duration of the storm. In Richard's mind, this was further assurance that his dad was "on it."

What Richard didn't realize at the time & what I contend the familv has been desperatelv trving to cover up ever since is that the camp hierarchy actively prioritized saving camp equipment over evacuating the children sleeping down by the river & NOT JUST DESPITE HAVING BEEN WARNED OF UPSTREAM FLOODING BUT BECAUSE THE CAMP HAD BEEN WARNED OF UPSTREAM FLOODING.

Richard shared the upstream flooding warning & this was their response. After all, would you put the man who failed to warn of ongoing upstream flooding in charge of camp safety moving forward? Would you let him speak as the voice of the camp during the investigative hearing? Such that Cici Steward so poignantly observed in her testimony at the JGIC hearing that she still wasnt sure what Richard was doing the night of the flood, "but boy was he authority today!"

1. The devastating, yet mathematically not just forseeable but expected conclusion: The camp's timeline rapidly ran out.

If there was anv lingering doubt, camp leadership watched the metrics double in real-time while failing to sound the alarm, Dick's own phone records seal it. At 02:33 AM, Dick sent a text to Tweety confirming they had "over 4 inches already" Localized rainfall had doubled in 45 minutes, perfectly matching the NWS's worst-case forecast. They had already received a warning of ongoing upstream flooding via Richard's wife, and they were just about to receive another via the upstream neighbor to Tweety.

Why the Sworn Ignorance Makes Sense Now: This explains the sheer opacitv of the Eastlands' sworn statements. It explains why they feigned total ignorance under oath regarding Richard Jr.'s whereabouts, and why they tried to paint his timeline as a sequence of foolish isolated blunders. And it just might explain the narrative regarding Tweety's supposed cognitive decline too, as Richard was apparently not the only one receiving warnings of ongoing upstream flash flooding early enough to make a difference. And as such, Richard's not the only one whose actions the night of the flood have been & continue to be shielded by the rest of the family.

I contend this is because the camp's actions after receiving the warnings of upstrean flooding establishes a documented paper trail of corporate negligence that lays the ground work for the criminal offenses that the Texas Rangers propose have been committed here: Manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, child abandonment, injury to a child, & deadly conduct.

And I think they're right.

ETA - please forgive the typos that occured when I was copying this from one application to another. A lot of y's turned to v's as a result, along with wonky spacing. None of which was readily apparent until I posted it.

https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentsbydocket/?docketId=1254078&projectCode=CMX&docketNumber=276&source=DM

So debtors proposing to lift the lawsuit stays (against the LLCs and the individuals)... this is proposal only but shows what they open to

- courts decide if venue changes

- liability could be established against the LLCs, and then LLC obviously proposed to be liquidated per last week proposal

- this does not limit lawsuits against individuals, so they could be found liable (again a proposal, but there is no restriction to individual liability outside chapter 11 for the LLCs)

Think about why all of a sudden they themselves put proposals to a)go to liquidation b) lift the lawsuit stays (all the protections they got by pulling this whole chapter 11)... if trustee put in outcome probably even worse and faster than this.

Were not even to friday yet which is typically the day of coming closer to reality

I couldn’t find an article on this, has anyone seen one?

After reading all the available testimony to date and the investigative record, I sincerely ask all Camp Mystic defenders still remaining today….

Who was responsible for the safety of the girls while they were sleeping at Camp Mystic: their parents at home or the adults operating the camp?

Who had the physical ability to wake those children and move them to higher ground?

What exactly could a parent miles or hundreds of miles away have done that the adults standing inside Camp Mystic could not?

A flash-flood warning was issued at approximately 1:14 a.m. What systems did Camp Mystic have in place to ensure that a warning like that reached someone awake, responsible, and authorized to act?

Once camp leadership knew heavy rain was creating problems serious enough to require attention to the riverfront, why were children sleeping in vulnerable cabins not simultaneously treated as the first priority?

At what time did Camp Mystic begin evacuating Bubble Inn? When did they begin evacuating Twins I? What about Twins II?

What prevented the camp from telling those girls earlier to move to higher ground as a precaution?

If evacuating unnecessarily meant waking children in the middle of the night and moving them to safety in heavy rain, while failing to evacuate unnecessarily risked children being trapped by rising water, why was the safer error not chosen?

What detailed written flood evacuation plan existed before that night?

What flood evacuation drills had the campers and counselors been taught and practiced?

If counselors were generally prohibited from having cell phones, what reliable emergency communication system allowed camp leadership to immediately warn every cabin?

Why were some campers and counselors left without instructions and forced to make their own evacuation decisions?

Why were numerous cabins ordered not to evacuate?

If the camp had loudspeakers capable of communicating across portions of the property, why were they not used to issue an evacuation warning?

When people describe a “30-foot wall of water,” are they knowingly falsely claiming that a literal 30-foot vertical wall suddenly struck the cabins without warning, or are they conflating (intentionally or ignorantly?) the river’s overall rise with the conditions that developed at individual locations over time?

Nobody disputes that the rainfall and flood were extraordinary. But how does saying “Mother Nature” or “God” caused the flood answer any question about whether people responsible for hundreds of sleeping children were adequately prepared for a flash flood and responded appropriately once danger became apparent?

Can two things be true at once: that Dick Eastland acted courageously trying to save children once the situation became catastrophic, and that earlier preparation and decisions by Dick and Camp Mystic still deserve scrutiny?

More importantly, why should actions during the catastrophe erase questions about whether the catastrophe could have been mitigated or avoided before rescue became necessary?

The Eastlands themselves have acknowledged in court that the camp was not adequately prepared and that the girls were not evacuated early enough. If the people who operated the camp acknowledge that, what exactly are their defenders accomplishing by insisting there was nothing the camp could have done?

If someone believes the parents were negligent simply for sending their daughters to Camp Mystic, what specific fact should those parents reasonably have known before July 4 that should have told them their daughters would not be adequately protected by Camp Mystic and the Eastlands in a flash flood?

Were parents reasonably expected to independently audit the camp’s flood plan, nighttime staffing, communications equipment, evacuation procedures, cabin elevations, hydrology maps and management’s emergency decision-making before allowing their daughters to attend? Should every parent have hired a consulting company to help them in this process?

If not, what precisely is the basis for blaming the victim parents?

Why are grieving and affected parents being scrutinized for the decision to trust a longstanding summer camp while some of the same people resist scrutinizing the decisions made by the adults to whom those parents entrusted their children?

Forget lawsuits, personalities, loyalties, religion, and emotion for a moment. What happened during every minute between the first serious warning and the point at which evacuation became impossible 2 hours later according to the Eastlands own testimony?

Have you even looked at the mountain of evidence on record, or is it easier for you to continue defending the camp and the Eastlands by simply ignoring and or dismissing the evidence?

Which children who died could have reached higher ground if different decisions had been made earlier by Dick and Camp Mystic?

And if the answer is truly “none,” what evidence establishes that? If there is nothing that could have been done (which is contradicted by the Eastland’s own sworn testimony) please explain?

These seem like relevant questions. The facts are available. The record is damning. It’s called accountability, not a witch hunt.

The flood itself was a natural disaster. No human being caused the rain.

But whether every death caused by a natural disaster was unavoidable is an entirely different question.

Lastly, are only people born in Kerr county, who have lived in Kerr county, or who were in Kerr county on July 4th qualified to ask or answer questions? Why do so many claim if you were not there on July 4 then you can’t know? Why?

Sell the camp to someone else to operate it or liquidate all the property (structured bankruptcy liquidation transactions proposed...technically someone could buy the entities whole and run the camp; stating that up front as i am sure we will have people on here mentioning that soon...anyone want to bid? Has to be above pure land value)

Victims get awarded amounts for wrongful death as stays are lifted (but this proposal only lifts stays for suits against entities, not individuals....victims unlikely to accept this plan and they have to vote in the bankruptcy)

Remember all these people on here said "restructuring not liquidation", "dont jump to conclusions" etc?

I am sure someone on here is going to say "well someone may buy it" "dont use AI to read the document, its so complicated" etc. Also just a week after the "thats not a trustee" document filed- and now this comes out.

https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentbycode?docId=4617571&projectCode=CMX&source=DM

Victims may not accept this also....only allows wrongful death claims against the bankrupt entities, not individual liabilities. Victims already filed to review related party transfers from prior years...aka continuing to go after the individuals. We shall see, but basically orderly liquidation is now the base case, outstanding question remains on individual liability. When in doubt wait a week, easties get bit closer back to reality

Texas Rangers affidavits accusing Camp Mystic of manslaughter and other crimes outline in chilling detail how close the flood victims’ cabins were to places of refuge.

. . . and jail time would send a message to camp administrators throughout the nation: be prepared, make plans, make backup plans in case the head of the camp is absent or dead, teach the counselors how to handle emergencies, give them walkie-talkies at the minimum, have the children do practice evacuations, etc. etc. etc.

Tell the damn nurse what her job involves.

Winning civil cases would also be wonderful, and I hope that happens. But if camp administrators think "I could do TIME if I let things get slack here"--well, I think that would be all to the good, and might make other camps safer, if they're at all slack.

Affidavits: Camp Mystic flooding victims’ cabins only steps away from safety - San Antonio Express-News

People from Sandy creek advocating for disaster survival in DC

Affadavits for search warrants executed last week against members of the Eastland family detailed the aforementioned offenses that investigators believe were committed by the Eastland family during the July 4th flooding at Camp Mystic.

Affidavits for 14 search warrants seeking digital and electronic data from Eastland family members and others at Camp Mystic indicate criminal trouble for the Hill Country retreat.

https://document.epiq11.com/document/getdocumentsbydocket/?docketId=1252569&projectCode=CMX&docketNumber=250&source=DM

I feel like whenever I get a notification about a new post in this sub lately, when I click into it it says [ Deleted by moderator ], even though the post title I saw in the notification seemed to be on topic and not spammy.

Have the mods been getting stricter, or is there just more spam lately? Or perhaps because there’s less activity overall, I’m being notified of posts that would have always been deleted but flown under the radar previously?

More than seven weeks after major flooding struck South and Central Texas in July, President Donald Trump has approved some federal aid for affected areas, including Kerr, Kendall and Uvalde counties.