A picture of Mary Grace in her first communion dress was on ABC World News Tonight.

So many tears. Dermdoc…you are in my prayers.

Derm, I wanted to share this as we have our ribbons arriving tomorrow, but the strangest thing I felt worth sharing. I went to walk my baby girl (1 year) and noticed a pop of hot pink that was out of place…you see, these roses are all white. This beautiful hot pink rose showed up overnight on my all white bushes in the garden where we proudly display our A&M flag. I have been absolutely gripped/devastate by this as a mommy to a baby girl, and my prayers are with you, your family, and all the families who have experienced immeasurable grief and loss. I hope this brings some tiny sliver of joy that God is working even when we cannot see it or understand it. Peace be with you.

Derm, please know you are loved by so many and we are grieving with you. The joy knowing Mary Grace is with our Lord gives me great solace.

I'm seeing a lot of SAR resources being deployed, which is great. They need large, 50 ton excavators…probably at least one or two for every mile of river you want to search. Individuals with chain saws will take many, many weeks. I hope someone is coordinating this at some level, but I'm not seeing it other than local J3 guys.

This is very much hearsay (a friend of a friend's third grade daughter who was in one of the cabins on the flats), so take it with a huge grain of salt, but the child apparently told her mom that everyone in her cabin was able to evacuate, but there was one girl who was separated from the group (something about bedding- she turned around and went back to get a stuffed animal or a blanket or something? or was slowed down from leaving by getting something from her bed? Not sure.) and that little girl was the only one from this child's cabin who was swept away because she was behind the group somehow.

I can't imagine the survivors' guilt in any child or counselor that was there- counselors in the cabins where girls were lost especially. Teenagers or young 20s girls who were trying their absolute darndest to herd a large group of scared and confused little children in the dark through very deep water. It would have been close to impossible to keep eyes on every single child. The fact that these young women WERE able to save so many lives is astounding. I do hope those counselors have access to the very best in trauma counseling. They are heroes.

The more information I've gathered on what happened at Camp Mystic, I'm actually amazed with how many girls they managed to get to safety.

It's the biggest of miracles that the Rec Center held as well.

Kids are something.

I had been laying the foundation with my son that Blakely may have "gone to be with her father."

Today I had to break the news that this was true.

He of course took it badly, but his first questions to me were:

Who will Blakely play with in Heaven?
Can you look up on the internet what heaven looks like?

Kids to life so much better than we/I do.

Visiting our daughter in upstate New York, she doesn't have a tree where she lives so we found a very peaceful spot at a park in Sackets Harbor overlooking Lake Ontario. We didn't personally know any of these sweet angels but hope all those who are grieving know that we love them and our hearts ache at the magnitude of their loss. We pray that they can find comfort in the peace of our Lord.

I asked chatgpt to explain Heaven in simple words. This is what it gave me:

What Heaven Looks Like A Kid-Friendly Summary

A Beautiful New World
Heaven will be like a brand-new, perfect world where there is no sadness, pain, or death. Everyone is happy and safe because God lives there with His people. (Revelation 21:14)

A Shiny City
There's a special city called the New Jerusalem. It sparkles like a jewel, has streets made of shiny gold, and walls made of bright, colorful stones. (Revelation 21:1021)

Gates Made of Pearls
The city has 12 big gates, and each one is made from a giant pearl! (Revelation 21:21)

A River and a Tree
A clear, shining river flows through the city from God's throne. Next to it is the Tree of Life, which grows yummy fruit all year long and helps people stay healthy. (Revelation 22:12)

God's Throne Room
God sits on a big, beautiful throne, surrounded by bright light and special angels who sing, "Holy, holy, holy!" all the time. (Isaiah 6:14, Ezekiel 1:2628)

A Home with Many Rooms
Jesus said heaven is like His Father's house, and it has many roomsone for each of us! He's getting everything ready for us to be with Him. (John 14:23)

Blessings to you.

Our heart is with all those grieving on this thread and throughout the state. Question: is there a separate pink color for certain members of camp? I'm seeing only green around the park cities.

Green is for Mystic. Pink is for Mary Grace.

Pink ribbons in West Texas at the clinic

Wow - my people are from Aspermont. I've driven by that clinic a number of times.

I saw a fb post of the school Lila and Eloise attended and they posted a picture of pink and purple ribbons on the fence for them.

I can't find it again though and I didn't save it…maybe someone else saw it too

As I was catching up this evening posts were already getting me dusty but your son just ripped my heart out.

when i was 4, I lost one of my best mates to cancer. I'm sure she's excited to have a whole bunch of new big sisters. Plus, none of them are alone, cause they have friends that went with them...besides the fact, Heaven will be the first place where we will never feel like we don't fit in or we are lonely or need to be cool and like the other kids. Everyone is best friends with each other and Jesus won't let anyone feel sad in Heaven. We're just sad because we miss our friends so much and dont like that they were scared before they saw Christ.

edit.. I mean, that's the whole point of the cross right? that even though we sin and we die, we are washed in our baptism, are reborn, and when we and when Blakely died, we get to Heaven to perfectly reunite with Him and are made whole and stainless.

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Kids are something.

I had been laying the foundation with my son that Blakely may have "gone to be with her father."

Today I had to break the news that this was true.

He of course took it badly, but his first questions to me were:

Who will Blakely play with in Heaven?
Can you look up on the internet what heaven looks like?

Kids to life so much better than we/I do.

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Ugh. On a plane... that is a tough read.

fc2112 said:

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Wow - my people are from Aspermont. I've driven by that clinic a number of times.

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My husband's clinic. He's about to sell it so he can retire.

That's got to be Greta.

AF2011 said:

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I saw a fb post of the school Lila and Eloise attended and they posted a picture of pink and purple ribbons on the fence for them.

I can't find it again though and I didn't save it…maybe someone else saw it too

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I have family in Crockett, which is where Lila's mom is from. There have been many posts encouraging homes and businesses to put out purple ribbons for the family to see.

Because biochem is a great friend, my tree at home is pinked for Mary Grace.

I said a rosary for her in the prettiest little mountain church today.

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This is very much hearsay (a friend of a friend's third grade daughter who was in one of the cabins on the flats), so take it with a huge grain of salt, but the child apparently told her mom that everyone in her cabin was able to evacuate, but there was one girl who was separated from the group (something about bedding- she turned around and went back to get a stuffed animal or a blanket or something? or was slowed down from leaving by getting something from her bed? Not sure.) and that little girl was the only one from this child's cabin who was swept away because she was behind the group somehow.

I can't imagine the survivors' guilt in any child or counselor that was there- counselors in the cabins where girls were lost especially. Teenagers or young 20s girls who were trying their absolute darndest to herd a large group of scared and confused little children in the dark through very deep water. It would have been close to impossible to keep eyes on every single child. The fact that these young women WERE able to save so many lives is astounding. I do hope those counselors have access to the very best in trauma counseling. They are heroes.

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That story is consistent with the one child lost from Jumble House, I believe.

mbowdoin said:

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This is very much hearsay (a friend of a friend's third grade daughter who was in one of the cabins on the flats), so take it with a huge grain of salt, but the child apparently told her mom that everyone in her cabin was able to evacuate, but there was one girl who was separated from the group (something about bedding- she turned around and went back to get a stuffed animal or a blanket or something? or was slowed down from leaving by getting something from her bed? Not sure.) and that little girl was the only one from this child's cabin who was swept away because she was behind the group somehow.

I can't imagine the survivors' guilt in any child or counselor that was there- counselors in the cabins where girls were lost especially. Teenagers or young 20s girls who were trying their absolute darndest to herd a large group of scared and confused little children in the dark through very deep water. It would have been close to impossible to keep eyes on every single child. The fact that these young women WERE able to save so many lives is astounding. I do hope those counselors have access to the very best in trauma counseling. They are heroes.

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Unfortunately, yes, this does align with a girl named "Greta" being the only child in her age group having been lost. Of course I do not know the specific details of why or how she was separated but it does appear the rest of her cabin survived. One of the early lists of children missing reported she was in Jumble House.

It appears that only approx half of the children in the Twins cabins were lost as well (and the counselors survived -- those sweet girls). All of Bubble Inn including the counselors appear to have been lost, although not all have been recovered.

Aligns, but I can't help be suspicious of a "friend of a friend" story in a first ever post to TexAgs. Not saying it isn't legit, but too many false stories have come through here already.

Edit: but I also know this event has brought a lot of new people to TexAgs.

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Aligns, but I can't help be suspicious of a "friend of a friend" story in a first ever post to TexAgs. Not saying it isn't legit, but too many false stories have come through here already.

Edit: but I also know this event has brought a lot of new people to TexAgs.

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Definitely possible. That child, if the story is true, could have also been talking about how it appears that the Twins cabins girls got split up one way or another. For accuracy's sake, one inconsistency is that Greta was not in 3rd grade like the other girls. Greta's mother reported this was her third year at mystic, which would have made her approx a rising 5th grader who would not have been bunking with a 3rd grader. We likely will not ever know the precise reason why or how this poor girl got separated from her peers, other than that it was a horrible disaster.

I also heard this same thing from my friend's daughter (though it came via her grandmother). Like you, I can't imagine the trauma and guilt those girls and their counselors will have. It's just so heartbreaking all around. I went to the other all-girls' camp in the area and was later a counselor, and my camp sisters and I are all just devastated that a tragedy of this magnitude could happen in our (collective) favorite place on earth to these sweet, innocent girls.

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a family found a lost stuffy and have cleaned it up to return to the owner/family. On the off chance that anyone recognises the precious thing...

https://f5s-img.s3.amazonaws.com/000/29/2a/292a36cccd7bf4370938e6acfa4455bc8798cb74_585132_u327552.jpg

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https://f5s-img.s3.amazonaws.com/000/1f/fc/1ffca57d391c6f5325a6a5843b1d1f90edbf1df9_481422_u327552.jpg

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Also check out the Lost Stuffy Project on Instagram! They have already reunited a few stuffed animals with their owners.

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Our heart is with all those grieving on this thread and throughout the state. Question: is there a separate pink color for certain members of camp? I'm seeing only green around the park cities.

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Green is for Mystic. Others colors symbolize a campers favors color requested by the family (several girls pink, several blue and at least one purple).

I'm one of these newbies (to the forum) but I am an Ag, C/O '11. Joined yesterday but been following this thread since Saturday.

The whole thing has weighed so heavily on me. My oldest is a year younger than these girls and I just can't even imagine…

I don't have any eloquent words or anything but just "here" for all who have lost someone.

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Because biochem is a great friend, my tree at home is pinked for Mary Grace.

I said a rosary for her in the prettiest little mountain church today.

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Thanks.

nm

unfortunately, I have not seen any update to the figure of 5 missing campers and one counselor. Katherine, Ellen, Kellyanne, Virginia, Cile, and Margaret seem to all still be waiting for their families to find them. God bless the rescue teams still searching.

I cannot imagine the absolute, unfettered hell of not knowing where my child was.

Anti-taxxer said:

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I cannot imagine the absolute, unfettered hell of not knowing where my child was.

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Amen.