px_eliezer_ I [was] going to say that, the camp has been there for 99 years.
Ah yes, your quote highlights another problem:
- In July 1932, torrential rains swept away some of the cabins.
- In August 1978, severe flooding across the Texas Hill Country forced the camp to suspend activities for several days.
- In December 1984, one of the camp’s leaders, who was about to give birth, had to be airlifted from the site after floodwaters made nearby roads impassable.
As someone who’s travelled the world extensively and lived in some questionable places for periods of time, I’ve noticed that younger people have a habit of ignoring the words of people who came before. There’s always someone in a community that knows something about an area, like “oh we had a bad hurricane this time, and this other time, and we’re going to have another one soon” or “oh we’ve had a lot of bad earthquakes here” or “this wasn’t the worst tsunami we’ve ever had, back when I was young we lost all our homes.”
Almost nobody ever listens to that person who’s been around longer than anyone else and believes that the issues that happened before won’t happen to them. And sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it skips a generation. But the events are in the history books and everyone ignores them.