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Tragedy & Hope in Texas-On the Ground in the Aftermath of Historic & Horrific Floods · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict was Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you. Traditionally you hear the show on Monday, Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: and Friday. We are coming to you on Tuesday. After
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Speaker 1: the just tragic flooding in Texas the centers. You've been
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Speaker 1: down there with the people in Currville and the surrounding
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Speaker 1: area's comfort. This is action an area that I spend
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Speaker 1: a ton of time with my family at the Ranch,
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Speaker 1: and it has hit very close to home for us.
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Speaker 1: We also have friends who lost a daughter in this
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Speaker 1: flooding at the Christian camp that so many have talked
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Speaker 1: about and you've seen in the media, and it is
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Speaker 1: just so sad and devastating to know that there are
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Speaker 1: people that are going to be going to that little
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Speaker 1: girl's funeral on Friday, and to see what it has
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Speaker 1: done in Houston to people that knew so many that
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Speaker 1: we were there. You were down there, and it is
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Speaker 1: obviously sad, but it is also encouraged to see so
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Speaker 1: many people coming together, so many Texans coming together, so
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Speaker 1: many people rallying around these families, and it's just horrific time.
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Speaker 2: Well, Ben, you and I are recording this at twelve
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Speaker 2: thirty six am Monday night, and I spent the entire
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Speaker 2: day in the Hill Country starting at six am this morning,
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Speaker 2: and I visited with families who were grieving. I went
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Speaker 2: to Camp Mystic and saw firsthand the devastation. I will
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Speaker 2: tell you, there are not words to describe just how
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Speaker 2: much Texas is hurting. This is across the state and
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Speaker 2: across the country. People are grieving. They're grieving for the
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Speaker 2: moms and dads, this flooding. I'll tell you, In my
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Speaker 2: thirteen years in the Senate, I've seen a lot of
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Speaker 2: natural disasters, hurricanes and tornadoes and wildfires, and it's always difficult.
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Speaker 2: But this was something really different what happened in the
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Speaker 2: Hill Country. Right now, the fatality count it is over
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Speaker 2: one hundred. It is expected to keep growing.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: They are still searching for and finding bodies right now,
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Speaker 2: can't Mystic. We know of twenty seven kids and counselors
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Speaker 2: who lost their lives in the flooding. There are an
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Speaker 2: additional ten more girls and one more counselor who are missing,
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Speaker 2: and so there are search and rescue teams that are
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Speaker 2: searching for them right now. Obviously, every hour every day
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Speaker 2: that goes by the the the odds of a happy
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Speaker 2: outcome go down, but we are certainly praying that that
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Speaker 2: those those eleven girls are found safe and sound. You know,
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Speaker 2: I want to tell folks a little bit about what
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Speaker 2: what has happened on the ground and where this is.
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Speaker 2: So if you're if you're not from Texas, the Hill
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Speaker 2: Country is in central Texas. It's the center central part
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Speaker 2: of the state and and it is I think the
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Speaker 2: most beautiful part of the state. And I think most
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Speaker 2: most Texans agree with that. Uh. There are rolling hills, Uh,
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Speaker 2: there are beautiful rivers, and in particular Kerr County, there
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Speaker 2: are about forty summer camps. And and there's a long
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Speaker 2: tradition of camps. It's an incredible tradition that goes back
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Speaker 2: one hundred years where people went and formed these summer
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Speaker 2: camps because the natural beauty was so extraordinary that it's
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Speaker 2: it's it's an incredible place for girls and for boys
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Speaker 2: uh to come and spend typically a month at a time.
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Speaker 2: And and Camp mystic Is it's one hundred years old.
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Speaker 2: It is a Christian girl camp. And I will tell
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Speaker 2: you Camp mystic Is is really an institution in Texas. Uh.
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Speaker 2: It is you see families from all across Texas who
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Speaker 2: at the end of of typically the month long camp
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Speaker 2: session that that there's a two day closing ceremony and
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Speaker 2: you'll see grandmothers and moms and daughters, three generations of
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Speaker 2: Texas women that are there, and and and it is
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Speaker 2: look for me, this is not abstract. Our girls have
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Speaker 2: have gone to camp in Hunt in Kirk County, UH
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Speaker 2: for a decade now. And and and actually just last
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Speaker 2: week Heidi was there picking up Catherine, our youngest daughter
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Speaker 2: from camp. And and and so this was literally a
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Speaker 2: week ago that that my daughter was there. She was
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Speaker 2: at camp that had been there for a month. And
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you these camp are they teach girls independence
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Speaker 2: and responsibility and teamwork. And the friendships that are formed
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Speaker 2: are lifelong friendships. Catherine's best friend is a girl from
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Speaker 2: the Rio Grand Valley who she would never have met
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Speaker 2: going to school and grown up in Houston if it
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Speaker 2: were not for that camp. And they are absolutely inseparable.
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Speaker 2: Those sorts of friendships you see at the closing ceremony.
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Speaker 2: You see women in their seventies and eighties with those
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Speaker 2: same lifelong friendships. And when this flooding hit, it just
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Speaker 2: devastated camp Mystic, and not just Camp Mystic, but the
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Speaker 2: entire region. It was the Fourth of July weekend, and
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Speaker 2: so you had thousands of thousands of people there celebrating
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Speaker 2: by the river banks. And the Guadalupe River is this
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Speaker 2: beautiful river that I have have floated on and swam
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Speaker 2: in dozens of times. It's a gorgeous river. It's wonderful.
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Speaker 2: People love to swim in it, vacation in it, canoe
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Speaker 2: in it, and.
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Speaker 1: No, it's it's it's part of just the summers in Texas.
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Speaker 1: That and for people like you mentioned that are outside Texas,
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Speaker 1: floating the river is just so much fun because you
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Speaker 1: get I mean these basically they used to be back
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Speaker 1: in the day, the intertubes of tires. You get these
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Speaker 1: floats now and you float with your best friends. I
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Speaker 1: have a friend that actually met his future wife floating
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Speaker 1: the Guadalupe River. I mean, it's just a community. It's
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Speaker 1: a slow float, it's very safe. It is something that
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Speaker 1: you do. We've stayed on that river before, we floated it,
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned countless times. And on the Fourth of July,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people go down there camping. You can't
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Speaker 1: close the river. You bring your rv H and you
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Speaker 1: do that, and that's what people were doing. As you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: it was a fourth of July weekend.
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Speaker 2: Well, and you mentioned RV's the flo flooding. There were
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Speaker 2: many RVs that were just swept into the river, and
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Speaker 2: we don't have a count. So I started this morning
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Speaker 2: by meeting with the mayor and the county judge and
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Speaker 2: the county commissioners and Texas DPS and the sheriff, and
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Speaker 2: just getting a report from on the ground. And one
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Speaker 2: of the challenging things. We have over one hundred confirmed fatalities.
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Speaker 2: There are a number of bodies that have been discovered,
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Speaker 2: both adults and kids, that have not been identified yet,
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Speaker 2: and bodies that have been in the water for an
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Speaker 2: extended period of time can be difficult to identify visually,
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Speaker 2: and so they're doing DNA swabs. You know. When this
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Speaker 2: started happening, it was early in the morning on the
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Speaker 2: fourth of July. The National Weather Service put out an
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Speaker 2: emergency warning just after one am. They put out another
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Speaker 2: emergency warning just after four am, and the waters rose
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Speaker 2: about thirty feet in less than an hour. Thirty feet
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Speaker 2: is a lot for an order ordinary calm river to rise. Suddenly,
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Speaker 2: the flash flood was absolutely devastating. Now, Now, when this
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Speaker 2: was happening, within hours of the flooding occurring, I was
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Speaker 2: on the phone speaking with Governor Greg Abbott. I spoke
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Speaker 2: with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. I spoke with Nim Kidd,
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Speaker 2: who is head of the Texas Department of Emergency Management,
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Speaker 2: and I called President Trump and I talked to President
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Speaker 2: Trump on that first day and I said, mister President,
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Speaker 2: what is happening in Texas? That this is bad. It
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Speaker 2: is all indications are this is really really serious. There
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Speaker 2: could be a lot of fatalities. Information was just starting
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Speaker 2: to come in, so it was it was hazy, but
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Speaker 2: I said, this could be really really bad. And President Trump,
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Speaker 2: to his credit, he said, ted, whatever Texas needs, the
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Speaker 2: answer is yes. Whatever federal assets you need, the answer
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Speaker 2: is yes. And that I passed on to the state officials,
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Speaker 2: to the local officials, and I'll tell you, Ben, Within hours,
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Speaker 2: I was hearing from families. I was hearing from parents
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Speaker 2: whose daughters weren't mystic and whose daughters were missing and
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Speaker 2: they were panicked, and they were saying, can you tell
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Speaker 2: us anything? Can you do you have any information? And
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Speaker 2: I was connecting them with the local sheriff, with with
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Speaker 2: emergency management. And look, you and I are both dads.
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Speaker 2: It is difficult to imagine the panic, the fear, the bewilderment,
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Speaker 2: everything those moms and dads were feeling as you get
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Speaker 2: the news that your daughter is missing. And many of
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Speaker 2: those parents just drove to Central Texas immediately got in
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Speaker 2: the car and drove. As I told you, we picked
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Speaker 2: up our daughter last week from right there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And Catherine said to me, said, well, why would the
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Speaker 2: dads drive there? And I said, sweetheart, that's just that
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Speaker 2: what you do if you're if your child has lost,
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Speaker 2: you just go. You'll move heaven and.
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Speaker 1: Earth it, just do whatever you can. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is the same conversation I have with my boys. And
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Speaker 1: in the ages here, you know, you see these little
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Speaker 1: girls that are missing, and one of my wife's high
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Speaker 1: school friend's daughter is one of those that lost your life.
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Speaker 1: And having that conversation with your kids or the same age.
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Speaker 1: My twins are six, they could have been at camp,
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Speaker 1: and my oldest is eight, could have been at camp.
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Speaker 1: And you put yourself in that situation of just what
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Speaker 1: would you do, and you're it's exactly what you just said.
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Speaker 1: You just go. And there's been I also want people
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Speaker 1: to understand flooding in this region, because I think there's
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Speaker 1: been a lot of misinformation, uh nationwide on this, so
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Speaker 1: that people understand the Hill Country and kind of how
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Speaker 1: it works. There's a lot of rock in the Hill Country,
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Speaker 1: and so when it rains, the water doesn't absorb into
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Speaker 1: the land. It does in most places in the country,
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Speaker 1: like when we get rain in Houston or when I
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Speaker 1: lived in Dallas, Like it rains and a lot of
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Speaker 1: the water goes into the earth, and you don't have
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Speaker 1: this flash flooding, this massive, quick flooding in the Hill Country.
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Speaker 1: That's what you get when you get rain. But to
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Speaker 1: be clear, in this part of the Hill Country, they
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Speaker 1: don't get a lot of rain. They can go hundreds
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Speaker 1: of days without rain in this area. And so when
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Speaker 1: it you know, there's a reality of like when it rains,
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Speaker 1: the locals know that you're gonna have some flooding in
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Speaker 1: the low lying areas, and you kind of know where
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Speaker 1: those areas are and where the bridges are and where
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Speaker 1: the low areas are in the roadways. This is something
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Speaker 1: that no one had seen in their lifetime. There had
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Speaker 1: never been flooding like this in Kerrville or in comfort
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Speaker 1: the way that we are witnessing it now. And so
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Speaker 1: there's some people I think out there acting like, well
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Speaker 1: they should, you know, this is something that happened so common.
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Speaker 1: I've seen comments like that this was catastrophic. You witness
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Speaker 1: it today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was utterly unprecedented. I went up in a
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Speaker 2: Coastguard helicopter and I flew a significant portion of the
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Speaker 2: Guadalupe River, and I will tell you just looking at
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Speaker 2: the devastation. You know, water, when you have a fast
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Speaker 2: moving wall of water, nothing stands in its way. There
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Speaker 2: were cars strewn everywhere, and by the way, when a
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Speaker 2: car is being thrown and it crashes into a tree,
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Speaker 2: it destroys the car. But there were thousands and thousands
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Speaker 2: of trees that were just mowed over by the water
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Speaker 2: because when water hits a tree, water's a lot stronger
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Speaker 2: than the trees. And the volume of you saw houses
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Speaker 2: just taking clean off their foundation and swept into the
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Speaker 2: river that we were talking about r vs. A lot
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Speaker 2: of people bring ur vs or in mobile homes and look,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to a campsidey, you know it's a
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Speaker 2: Fourth of July weekend, it's a great weekend. And the
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Speaker 2: problem is r v's and mobile homes are particularly vulnerable
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Speaker 2: in a flood or tornado or other natural disaster, and
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Speaker 2: so you just had multiple RVs swept into the river.
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Speaker 2: They don't have a firm count, they don't know how
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Speaker 2: many people they're looking for because many of the visitors
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Speaker 2: were not from Kirk County. And we're just there to
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Speaker 2: celebrate the Fourth of July. Going down flying that helicopter
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Speaker 2: and just seeing the extent of the devastation was massive.
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Speaker 2: And look, but I want to say this this, there's
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Speaker 2: so much grief in Texas. Our hearts are broken right now.
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Speaker 2: And their families from from Houston, from Dallas, from Austin,
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Speaker 2: from San Antonio, from every community in Texas and there,
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Speaker 2: and they're they're campers who come from all over the
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Speaker 2: country to come to Camp Mystic, but many of them
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Speaker 2: from cities in Texas, and many of them You and
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Speaker 2: I know we have multiple friends who've lost children. My
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Speaker 2: street at home, around the oak tree in our front yard,
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Speaker 2: we have a big green ribbon for the girls. I
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Speaker 2: can't miss it. And if you look at tree after tree,
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Speaker 2: just going up and down our street, they're green ribbons
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Speaker 2: on tree after tree after tree. But I want to
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Speaker 2: I want to give some encouragement. Look, this is unbearably
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Speaker 2: hard and painful for the state, but in the face
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Speaker 2: of unspeakable pain, there's also unbelievable courage. And there were
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Speaker 2: over eight hundred and fifty rescues from that river. We
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Speaker 2: had early on when I got on the phone and
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Speaker 2: I worked to make sure that there were there were
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Speaker 2: federal assets. There went over a dozen helicopters in the air.
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Speaker 2: We had Coast Guard in the air, we had National
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Speaker 2: guardsmen in the air, we had DPS in the air,
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Speaker 2: we had Game wardens on the ground, and they were
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Speaker 2: rescuing people, pulling them out of harm's way. I met
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Speaker 2: today with a Coast Guard swimmer, and by the way,
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Speaker 2: Coast Guard swimmers are incredible. You know. I have analogized
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Speaker 2: Coastguard swimmers before to kind of a blend of Navy
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Speaker 2: seals and California surfers, and I've gotten to know several
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Speaker 2: of these Coast Guard swimmers and Hurricane Harvey, I got
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Speaker 2: to know them, and they're utterly fearless. These are guys
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Speaker 2: that jump out of helicopters into hurricane force winds and
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Speaker 2: waters and just swim and rescue people. And they kind
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Speaker 2: of you know, often will be just sort of dudes,
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Speaker 2: like surfer dudes, who are these incredibly fearless life savers. Well,
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Speaker 2: I met met this one one Coast guardsman who landed
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Speaker 2: at Camp Mystic. He was on a Coastguard helicopter. They
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Speaker 2: landed him there and he rescued one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: five girls and I talked with him. His name is
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Speaker 2: Petty Officer Scott Ruskin. He's twenty six years old. He's
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Speaker 2: from New Jersey and it was his first mission as
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Speaker 2: a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He's due to the Coastguard.
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Speaker 2: He did a lot of training, but they put him
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Speaker 2: on the ground there and it was the highest part
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Speaker 2: part of Camp Mystic, And then they brought in a
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Speaker 2: whole series of helicopters to helicopter the girls out because
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Speaker 2: all the roads were underwater, so you couldn't drive in
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Speaker 2: and get the girls because the roads were completely submerged.
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Speaker 2: And so he was there. He spent three and a
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Speaker 2: half hours on the ground at Camp Mystic. Understand there's
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Speaker 2: torrential rains coming down. He's sitting there with girls, girls
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Speaker 2: who are terrified, who are crying, who are screaming, who
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Speaker 2: are scared. Some of them were singing hymns and he's
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Speaker 2: trying to comfort them. They dropped him off, and he
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Speaker 2: was the one staying with them and trying to get
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Speaker 2: the girls that they would come and land helicopters and
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Speaker 2: they would load about fifteen girls and they'd take take them,
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Speaker 2: take them to a safe place. They'd come back and
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Speaker 2: pick up another load, and another load and another load.
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Speaker 2: So for three and a half hours, you know, when
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Speaker 2: I visited with him, and it's interesting. He's twenty six
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Speaker 2: years old. He has kind of short blonde hair and
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Speaker 2: a mustache, and it's you know, he's done some media
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Speaker 2: interviews today and one of them he said, I'm just
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Speaker 2: a dude, which is sort of what what I said
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Speaker 2: about like the and he was saying and he was
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Speaker 2: kind of laughing and saying like like he talks to
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Speaker 2: his commanding officer and sometimes says, hey, dude, He's like,
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Speaker 2: oh wait, wait, you're a commanding officer. Sorry, But it's
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Speaker 2: it's kind of just how swimmers are. It's sort of
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Speaker 2: their culture. But he said he had just gotten off
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Speaker 2: the phone with a mom and dad and a girl
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Speaker 2: who he said, and he said they were crying and
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Speaker 2: he was crying because they said, you saved my daughter's life.
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Speaker 2: She said that when she was terrified, you held her
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Speaker 2: hand and just held her hand as you put her
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Speaker 2: in the helicopter, and and and made her not be
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Speaker 2: scared for a minute. And I that heroism was happening
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Speaker 2: over and over and over again.
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Speaker 1: It's it's incredible. It's the best part of the tragedy
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Speaker 1: is just seeing how quickly people came together. You know.
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Speaker 1: There there's also another aspect of this, and and I
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Speaker 1: do want to just take a moment and set the
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Speaker 1: record straight. There have been some people that have tried
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Speaker 1: to use this tragedy to score political points. I I
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Speaker 1: it makes me sad that are that that there's people
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Speaker 1: on the media, and there's people on the left that
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Speaker 1: are just that vile and partisan. We even saw, you know,
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Speaker 1: a pediatrician that actually worked with Mike kids go to
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Speaker 1: a pediatrician who said that basically, the people deserve what
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Speaker 1: they get because they voted for Donald Trump in this
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Speaker 1: area of the country. You know, Thank goodness, it was
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Speaker 1: exposed and she was fired today for that. It is
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Speaker 1: it is sad to see this happen. And I even
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Speaker 1: called her pediatrician's office, and I said, hey, like this,
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Speaker 1: I need to know that if there's an on call doctor,
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Speaker 1: they're not going to give my kid bad care if
19:27
Speaker 1: they know what I do. And they said, watch our website.
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Speaker 1: You'll be getting an update soon. Thank goodness. They put
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Speaker 1: out there that this doctor had been had been fired
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Speaker 1: from this job as a pediatrician. And you look at
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Speaker 1: these moments and it does make you sad, But I
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Speaker 1: also think we need to be clear about the record here.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of rumors that this was all preventable,
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Speaker 1: that this was somehow Donald Trump's fault, this was the
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Speaker 1: fault of defunding of FEMA and different agencies and National
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Speaker 1: Weather Service. All that is a lie. They were staffed adequately.
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Speaker 1: There were warnings that went out. Can we learn from
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Speaker 1: this and do better? Absolutely? Can we put maybe a
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Speaker 1: warning system on the river banks? So they've talked about
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Speaker 1: seven years ago, but it was voted down because the
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Speaker 1: costs and Kirk County that these are things that we
20:16
Speaker 1: can learn from. But the partisan politics of this and
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Speaker 1: just watching people try to somehow blame Trump for this tragedy,
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Speaker 1: it really makes me sad that this is still where
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Speaker 1: we are in this way when something like this happens.
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Speaker 1: I wish people could just learn this isn't political. This
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Speaker 1: storm didn't care if you're a Republican or Democrat, or Agnostic,
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Speaker 1: or Christian or Jewish or Catholic or anything else. They
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Speaker 1: didn't care if you were rich or poor, black or white.
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Speaker 1: Everybody that was in the line of this flooding life
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Speaker 1: was in danger. That's what people should focus on and
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Speaker 1: the help we can do to give them, not trying
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Speaker 1: to say, all right, how do we use this to
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Speaker 1: make points?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you see this unfortunately frequently after natural disaster, after
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Speaker 2: hurricanes or or tornadoes or in this case, flooding, that
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Speaker 2: that that partisans will try to attack their political opponents
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Speaker 2: and and and and score cheap points. And and there
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Speaker 2: are a bunch of folks online and both in the
21:13
Speaker 2: media and and and on the left that are just
21:16
Speaker 2: trying to attack Trump. And and you know, if there's
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Speaker 2: a hurricane, the hurricane is Trump's fault. And in this case,
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Speaker 2: the the sort of talking point of the left was
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Speaker 2: that that Doge made reductions in different areas of government
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Speaker 2: and the National Weather Service, they say Doge gutted it. Now,
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Speaker 2: now we know that that that is not the case.
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Speaker 2: How do we know that? Number one, because the National
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Speaker 2: Weather Service in this case put out two warnings, one
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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, just after one am, one after four am.
21:42
Speaker 2: UH that that was their job. We also know the
21:46
Speaker 2: National Weather Service for this region UH was headquarters in
21:49
Speaker 2: New bron Foals, which is another small town not too
21:52
Speaker 2: far away from Curville, not too far away from Hunt
21:55
Speaker 2: and and and the night of of of of this flood,
21:58
Speaker 2: they not only had full staff, they had three additional people.
22:01
Speaker 2: Three extra people staffed that evening because they knew it
22:05
Speaker 2: was going to be a difficult weather event, so they
22:06
Speaker 2: deliberately staffed up. And lookie, I will say beyond that,
22:12
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service Union, which has been very critical
22:16
Speaker 2: of the DOZE reductions, as you would expect the union
22:18
Speaker 2: to be, they publicly said that that the reductions through
22:24
Speaker 2: DOGE had zero impact on the National Weather Service's ability
22:28
Speaker 2: to predict what happened here. And given that they're they're
22:33
Speaker 2: an entity that is naturally critical of those cuts, I
22:35
Speaker 2: think that's that speaks volumes now, you know. I spent
22:39
Speaker 2: the day, I did a lot of a lot of
22:41
Speaker 2: interviews with a lot of reporters today, and many of
22:43
Speaker 2: them were saying, okay, well, and they would ask this question.
22:46
Speaker 2: Many of the reporters would say, well, isn't this all
22:48
Speaker 2: Trump's fault? And so I tried to say, look, stop
22:51
Speaker 2: politicizing a crisis that has broken the heart of our state.
22:56
Speaker 2: But as you noted and listen, with any disag aster,
23:00
Speaker 2: there's a natural order of events. The first phase is
23:06
Speaker 2: is search and rescue. It is crisis saving people's lives.
23:11
Speaker 2: And we have been in that phase. We're still in
23:14
Speaker 2: that phase looking for these these eleven still missing girls.
23:18
Speaker 2: But but but that phase will soon come to an end.
23:23
Speaker 2: The next phase is rebuilding. And then there are many
23:25
Speaker 2: people who have who have lost their homes, have lost everything,
23:27
Speaker 2: and the and the rebuilding time phase will will take
23:30
Speaker 2: It will take months, it may take years for some
23:33
Speaker 2: of these some of these places to be rebuilt. But
23:36
Speaker 2: but that's a process. That's a process that there will
23:38
Speaker 2: be local assistance and state assistants and federal assistants at
23:43
Speaker 2: the same time. We will when we get through the
23:46
Speaker 2: crisis period, there will naturally be a retrospective examination of
23:51
Speaker 2: what happened, what was the exact timeline, and what could
23:55
Speaker 2: have gone better, what what lessons can be learned and
23:59
Speaker 2: we've seen that. Uh, for instance, with the many hurricanes.
24:02
Speaker 2: You know, you and I both live in Houston. If
24:04
Speaker 2: you live on the Gulf coast, you have a lot
24:05
Speaker 2: of hurricanes. I will say unfortunately, Texas has gotten really
24:09
Speaker 2: good with dealing with hurricanes because we have a lot
24:12
Speaker 2: of practice in it, and so we've learned lessons. We've
24:14
Speaker 2: learned how to identify the most vulnerable areas, the most
24:17
Speaker 2: vulnerable populations when a hurricane is in the Gulf, to
24:20
Speaker 2: get them out of there, to try to minimize fatalities.
24:22
Speaker 2: And I think we can certainly learn lessons here, in
24:26
Speaker 2: particular the the you know, you're putting out warnings at
24:30
Speaker 2: one am and four am. Most people are sleeping at
24:33
Speaker 2: one am and four am, and every one of us,
24:36
Speaker 2: if you and I, yeah, yeah, and actually with the
24:40
Speaker 2: kids of the kids they don't have we knew people.
24:44
Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, there was people that we
24:45
Speaker 1: knew that were in Curville that received the notices on
24:49
Speaker 1: their phones. They woke up to them and yeah, they
24:52
Speaker 1: didn't get them because they were asleep.
24:56
Speaker 2: And the cell coverage, I will say, in that region
24:58
Speaker 2: is is just lousy. Like every time we go for
25:01
Speaker 2: can't pick up you. It's very hard to get any
25:03
Speaker 2: cell coverage at all, just just given the topography, there's
25:06
Speaker 2: not a lot of cell towers there. And it's also
25:14
Speaker 2: you know, the campers are not allowed to have phones,
25:21
Speaker 2: and so they leave their phones at home, so it's
25:23
Speaker 2: just the counselors and adults that have phones. But look, Ben,
25:27
Speaker 2: if you and I could step in a time machine
25:28
Speaker 2: right now and go back to two or three in
25:32
Speaker 2: the morning on the fourth of July, we would run
25:35
Speaker 2: into those cabins and pull those girls out and get
25:38
Speaker 2: them out of there. Every one of us. We're just like,
25:41
Speaker 2: dear God, get them the high ground. And so it
25:45
Speaker 2: is perfectly reasonable to say, how can we improve the
25:50
Speaker 2: response from when an emergency warning gets out to make
25:53
Speaker 2: sure that it is heard. And I'll tell you I
25:56
Speaker 2: spoke today with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, tech legislator's coming
26:01
Speaker 2: back for special session shortly, and I suggested to him
26:04
Speaker 2: this is something that should be on the call. The
26:06
Speaker 2: governor chooses that, But Lieutenant Governor agreed that it made
26:11
Speaker 2: sense to look at an emergency warning system along the
26:16
Speaker 2: guadally Loopy River, much like we have up in the
26:19
Speaker 2: Texas Panhandle. When there's a tornado, they have sirens that
26:23
Speaker 2: go off. Because a tornado, like a flash flood, you
26:25
Speaker 2: get very little warning. It can develop quickly, it could
26:28
Speaker 2: be devastating, and so they'll set off the alarms. I
26:32
Speaker 2: think it makes a lot of sense to consider putting
26:35
Speaker 2: in a warning system like that. So at least if
26:37
Speaker 2: you had a blaring alarm going off at one or
26:40
Speaker 2: two or three in the morning, it would wake the
26:43
Speaker 2: kids up and wake the counselors up and put them
26:45
Speaker 2: in a position to get the kids out of harm's way.
26:49
Speaker 1: No, I couldn't agree with you more in that one.
26:51
Speaker 1: How does that when you when you look at the
26:53
Speaker 1: response moving forward? Final question on this, because there are
26:56
Speaker 1: people that say, hey, we want to make sure, as
26:58
Speaker 1: you just mentioned this ever happened again. Is this a
27:01
Speaker 1: cooperation within the State of Texas with the federal government?
27:05
Speaker 1: Does the State of Texas come first? There's a lot
27:07
Speaker 1: of people that asked that question. I'd love for you
27:09
Speaker 1: to answer it. Where does that start?
27:12
Speaker 2: So it'll be at every level of government. It'll be
27:15
Speaker 2: the local level, it'll be at the state level, it'll
27:18
Speaker 2: be at the federal level, and I think at every
27:19
Speaker 2: level we're going to have discussions about what can we do,
27:22
Speaker 2: what makes sense, how do we keep people safe? And look,
27:29
Speaker 2: this level of devastation, We've never seen anything like it.
27:36
Speaker 2: But I want to go back to some of the
27:40
Speaker 2: signs of encouragement. I met with with one family today,
27:45
Speaker 2: a mom and dad who had a young boy, a
27:49
Speaker 2: fourteen year old boy, who was at Lahunta, which is
27:51
Speaker 2: another summer camp for boys. It's right right down right
27:56
Speaker 2: down the river from Mystic and Lhunta also flooded, and
28:01
Speaker 2: miraculously nobody was killed. But they said their fourteen year
28:05
Speaker 2: old son was woken up about three in the morning
28:08
Speaker 2: and the counselors were telling him, come, come help us,
28:11
Speaker 2: Let's get the little boys out of harm's way. And
28:14
Speaker 2: he said they were going and getting getting seven and
28:18
Speaker 2: eight year old boy, pulling them out of their cabin
28:20
Speaker 2: and having them swim through rushing water and rescue them.
28:23
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you this, Mom and dad,
28:25
Speaker 2: they were there just just hugging. I was hugging them,
28:30
Speaker 2: and they had tears in their eyes and they were
28:33
Speaker 2: just and and first of all, their son was alive.
28:36
Speaker 2: So I just said, praise God. But it was, you know, terrifying,
28:41
Speaker 2: and and what I did say to the mom and dad,
28:44
Speaker 2: I said, look that this this trauma, this experience, will
28:48
Speaker 2: be with your son for the rest of his life.
28:50
Speaker 2: It will be with both of you for the rest
28:53
Speaker 2: of your lives. But I said, your son also has
28:56
Speaker 2: the experience of knowing for the rest of his life.
28:59
Speaker 2: That is a fourteen year old boy he helped save
29:02
Speaker 2: the lives of these younger seven, eight, nine year old boys.
29:05
Speaker 2: That there are there are boys and soon to be
29:10
Speaker 2: men living because of his heroism in a time of crisis.
29:14
Speaker 2: And that I heard another story of a counselor who
29:18
Speaker 2: was in a cabin. The cabin was filled up with water.
29:21
Speaker 2: His head was just barely sticking above the water where
29:24
Speaker 2: he could breathe, and with each hand he was holding
29:28
Speaker 2: up a mattress with a camper on the on the mattress,
29:31
Speaker 2: and all three of them, the counselor and both campers survived.
29:36
Speaker 2: Those sorts of acts of heroism happened over and over again.
29:40
Speaker 2: There's stories of Eagle Scouts who were counselors rescuing young
29:45
Speaker 2: kids over and over and over again. That was happening repeatedly.
29:50
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you, Ben, the most difficult thing I
29:51
Speaker 2: did today is. I went to Camp Mystic, and I
29:57
Speaker 2: went and walked to the grounds at Camp Mystic, and
30:02
Speaker 2: I think it may be the most horrifying thing I've
30:04
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life. You walk through and actually
30:10
Speaker 2: as you walk through, the river was calm and peaceful
30:14
Speaker 2: and beautiful, but it rose, and it rose suddenly. And
30:22
Speaker 2: I will say the press, I think has been less
30:26
Speaker 2: than clear and honest about how Camp Mystic is it
30:29
Speaker 2: is set up, because they've described it as saying, well,
30:33
Speaker 2: the camps for the cabins for the young girls were
30:35
Speaker 2: down by the river bank and all of the other
30:37
Speaker 2: cabins were up high. That's not accurate. And walking the grounds,
30:43
Speaker 2: the cabins are all hundreds of yards removed from the
30:47
Speaker 2: river bank. There's a lot of distance between the river
30:49
Speaker 2: and where the cabin is and the cabins are all
30:52
Speaker 2: about the same elevation. There's some differences, but not massive
30:55
Speaker 2: differences in elevation between the cabins at Mystic. And I
31:01
Speaker 2: was talking with one of the longtime employees there who
31:05
Speaker 2: said there had been a flood decades before and it
31:08
Speaker 2: had gotten up, it had gotten up and crossed a
31:11
Speaker 2: little bit of the ground and it had come to
31:13
Speaker 2: sort of the foundation of one of the buildings that
31:17
Speaker 2: was not a cabin, but one of the buildings closer
31:19
Speaker 2: to the river. But it had never gotten close to
31:21
Speaker 2: the cabins. So that's one thing to understand. People say, well, gosh,
31:24
Speaker 2: this is prone to floods. Yes, but in the one
31:29
Speaker 2: hundred years of Camp missed It, there'd never been a
31:31
Speaker 2: flood where the water had gotten to the cabins. And
31:34
Speaker 2: in this case, the water was eight feet deep in
31:39
Speaker 2: the cabins. Walking through and every building you could see
31:43
Speaker 2: the water line, you could see the water line outside
31:46
Speaker 2: the buildings, and it was eight feet deep. And in
31:49
Speaker 2: the cabins the water shattered the windows, it swept the
31:55
Speaker 2: furniture out. You looked in the cabins and every one
31:58
Speaker 2: of the cabins, the furniture had been swept out, the
32:03
Speaker 2: windows were all shattered. And I got to tell you, look,
32:09
Speaker 2: there was one cabin, it's called the bubble in, and
32:17
Speaker 2: it's a cabin at missed It where the youngest girls were.
32:22
Speaker 2: And outside the bubble in were sixteen white crosses, and
32:30
Speaker 2: on each one of those was the name of a
32:32
Speaker 2: little girl, and their names that we've read in the paper,
32:38
Speaker 2: their names of little seven to eight year old girls,
32:41
Speaker 2: third graders who lost their lives when one of the
32:46
Speaker 2: crosses was for Dick Eastland, the camp director who drowned
32:51
Speaker 2: trying to save the girls' lives. And he had spent
32:54
Speaker 2: he graduated from ut fifty years ago and had spent
32:58
Speaker 2: fifty years of his life running this camp for girls.
33:02
Speaker 2: And he was in his suburban. They showed me where
33:05
Speaker 2: he drowned. It was a couple of hundred yards from
33:07
Speaker 2: where I was standing. In the river. He was trying
33:08
Speaker 2: to save the girls in the water swept him away
33:11
Speaker 2: and he drowned. And the sixteen crosses reading those names.
33:18
Speaker 2: Two of those little girls go to school with my daughter.
33:26
Speaker 2: There are third graders at our school. The parents of
33:30
Speaker 2: one of those little girls lives a block away from me.
33:39
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, I just knelt and wept. There
33:48
Speaker 2: were families there. Ben There was a mom and dad
33:56
Speaker 2: who was kneeling in front of those crosses, and they
34:03
Speaker 2: were kissing, kissing the cross and I stood back. I
34:08
Speaker 2: didn't want to interrupt their grieving, but just watching them.
34:14
Speaker 2: The mom came to that cabin, the bubble in and
34:19
Speaker 2: she just broke down in tears in front of every cabin.
34:27
Speaker 2: There were the children's belongings. There were trunks, there were
34:32
Speaker 2: electric fans, There were slippers and flip flops and crocs.
34:41
Speaker 2: There were teddy bears. There were stuffed animals everywhere. These
34:43
Speaker 2: are little girls, and many of them have their names
34:47
Speaker 2: on them. And there were moms and dads picking through
34:54
Speaker 2: the rubble looking for their girls belongings. And I don't
35:02
Speaker 2: know which of those moms and dads lost a daughter.
35:06
Speaker 2: We know of twenty seven who were lost, and there
35:10
Speaker 2: may be more. There are eleven that are missing. And
35:16
Speaker 2: there were girls picking through the rubble. I don't know
35:21
Speaker 2: if those girls were campers themselves who had survived. I
35:24
Speaker 2: don't know if they're siblings who had lost a sibling.
35:27
Speaker 2: But everyone is walking around. Shell shock doesn't begin to
35:34
Speaker 2: describe it. They're up on the field. There was a
35:40
Speaker 2: field that was basically a parking lot for the cars
35:42
Speaker 2: of councilors, and the waters had thrown the cars on
35:50
Speaker 2: top of each other. It was like they were matchbox cars,
35:52
Speaker 2: just flipped over. You saw car after car after cars
35:55
Speaker 2: stacked on each other, flipped on its side, flip the
35:57
Speaker 2: over tossed around the dining hall. An entire wall of
36:05
Speaker 2: the dining hall had been ripped off. They had heavy
36:08
Speaker 2: wooden tables that filled the dining hall. Every one of
36:11
Speaker 2: them had been pulled out in the bubble in which
36:14
Speaker 2: is where a large percentage of the fatalities occurred. The
36:20
Speaker 2: water swept in and just pulled those girls out the
36:24
Speaker 2: windows it seeing that, and I saw it first from
36:34
Speaker 2: the helicopter and you could see all their belongings spread out.
36:38
Speaker 2: But then standing there and viewing it from the perspective
36:46
Speaker 2: of a dad. You know, I have helped my daughters
36:50
Speaker 2: pack their trunks. I've you know, can't pick up every
36:57
Speaker 2: year you go and pick up your daughter's trunk and
37:01
Speaker 2: it's a joyful time. Our state is more mourning right now, Ben.
37:12
Speaker 1: I tell you, for everyone listening and I say this,
37:16
Speaker 1: just pray for the people that are affected. Pray for
37:18
Speaker 1: the people in Texas. Pray for the families who are
37:24
Speaker 1: still without their their loved ones. They're still trying to
37:27
Speaker 1: find them. Pray for the moms and the dads who
37:30
Speaker 1: are planning the funerals as we know people personally that
37:34
Speaker 1: are doing that and getting ready for that this week.
37:37
Speaker 1: Pray for the moms. God, please pray for the moms. Yes,
37:41
Speaker 1: and anything you can do to help with all of that.
37:43
Speaker 1: There's so many different groups that are helping the people,
37:46
Speaker 1: and Comfort and Kirk County and and and there are
37:50
Speaker 1: people that need help. And we focus so much on
37:52
Speaker 1: the kids, but there's a lot of elderly people that
37:54
Speaker 1: have been affected by this. There are a lot of
37:56
Speaker 1: people that lost their lives and all their belongings, and
38:00
Speaker 1: and and help any way you can with with all
38:04
Speaker 1: of the nonprofits that are getting involved, that are that
38:07
Speaker 1: are doing this, and and we're going to keep you updated.
38:10
Speaker 2: But I would just and Ben, I want to say,
38:14
Speaker 2: Ben I want, I want to say three more things
38:17
Speaker 2: of encouragement. So in Hunt, there's a store that's kind
38:22
Speaker 2: of a focal point. It's called the Hunt Store, and
38:25
Speaker 2: and it's right at the junction of two of the highways.
38:28
Speaker 2: You go up one highway to go to one of
38:30
Speaker 2: the big camps. You go up another highway to go
38:32
Speaker 2: up to Mystic and Lahunta And actually Hunta's right across
38:34
Speaker 2: the street from the Hunt Store. The Hunt Store, the flooded,
38:39
Speaker 2: the flood utterly gutted it. It's it's just ripped out
38:42
Speaker 2: in a hollow shell. I went and stopped at the
38:47
Speaker 2: Hunt Store and just just visited people who were there,
38:49
Speaker 2: were gathering there, and they'd actually changed the sign where
38:53
Speaker 2: it said Hunt Store and instead of Hunt Store, they
38:56
Speaker 2: changed the sign to read Hunt Strong. And you know,
39:04
Speaker 2: Heidi and Catherine were at the Hunt Store last week.
39:10
Speaker 2: I mean it's I've been there dozens of times. The
39:14
Speaker 2: owners were there. I just hugged them and they were
39:17
Speaker 2: just like residents there who were just there mourning and grieving.
39:22
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you there was set up. There was
39:23
Speaker 2: a giant barbecue truck. All right. So this is a
39:27
Speaker 2: story that is amazing that you're gonna like. It's a
39:29
Speaker 2: barbecue truck from Rockport. Rockport is a town down on
39:33
Speaker 2: the Gulf Coast and Rockport when Hurricane Harvey hit, it
39:39
Speaker 2: devastated the Gulf Coast from from deep East Texas to
39:44
Speaker 2: south all the way really to Corpus Christie. So that's
39:46
Speaker 2: a lot of and Rockport is right in there. It's
39:49
Speaker 2: by Port Ramsas and Rass Pass and Rockport was devastated
39:52
Speaker 2: by Hurricane Harvey. Well, these guys, and these are big
39:57
Speaker 2: old Texans with big old beards. They look like z
40:00
Speaker 2: Top And they said, well, you know when when Hurricane
40:05
Speaker 2: Harvey hit. There was a group from Hunt, Texas, little
40:09
Speaker 2: town in the in the hill country that came down
40:12
Speaker 2: to Rockport and set up a food truck and fed
40:14
Speaker 2: us when we had lost our homes. And so they
40:17
Speaker 2: got in a truck and drove up this giant smoker
40:21
Speaker 2: and griller and they were just giving away free barbecue
40:24
Speaker 2: and one of the things that's really cool. I was
40:29
Speaker 2: at in Rockport several times after Hurricane Harven. I was
40:33
Speaker 2: in all the towns up and down the Gulf Coast,
40:35
Speaker 2: but I was at that those food trucks. So I
40:38
Speaker 2: don't recall visiting with someone and hearing that they were
40:41
Speaker 2: from Hunt down in Rockport, but you know what, in Rockport,
40:44
Speaker 2: they remembered that. And that's something we see happening, just
40:50
Speaker 2: Texans coming together. The Cajun Navy from Louisiana came and
40:54
Speaker 2: and we're there helping people out. That was incredible, And
40:59
Speaker 2: I just had a chance. I visited with a family.
41:03
Speaker 2: One dad who introduced me to two little boys and
41:08
Speaker 2: he said both of them lost some of their closest
41:11
Speaker 2: friends of the flood, and I just I said, you know,
41:16
Speaker 2: little kids, and they're not much older than your boys.
41:20
Speaker 2: They shouldn't have to deal with with death and loss
41:23
Speaker 2: at that age. But I'll tell you, in that same
41:27
Speaker 2: parking lot at the Hunt store, there was a car
41:32
Speaker 2: that had written on the back of it a Bible
41:34
Speaker 2: verse written in like shaving cream on the back window,
41:38
Speaker 2: and it was Isaiah forty three too that says when
41:44
Speaker 2: you go through deep water, I will be with you, amen.
41:52
Speaker 2: That is Look, you just asked folks to pray. Let
41:56
Speaker 2: me just underscore that for the moms and dads who
42:00
Speaker 2: have a yearning, gaping hole in their heart, I think
42:05
Speaker 2: there is no pain, no agony like losing a child,
42:09
Speaker 2: and nothing will ever fill that hole. That pain will
42:13
Speaker 2: never go away. But they need love, they need support,
42:17
Speaker 2: They need friends, They need families to hug them, to
42:21
Speaker 2: hold them tight, to just give them a shoulder to
42:23
Speaker 2: cry on and to hold them up. And I got
42:26
Speaker 2: to tell you this is a time for the church.
42:29
Speaker 2: One of the reasons Texas I think we are so
42:32
Speaker 2: resilient when facing natural disasters is because the church is
42:36
Speaker 2: strong in Texas and you see, you see church a step.
42:40
Speaker 2: I started the day actually by visiting with a number
42:42
Speaker 2: of chaplains who, look, you want to talk about It
42:46
Speaker 2: was brutal on the chaplains when you're dealing with moms
42:48
Speaker 2: and dads who've lost their kids and they're just weeping.
42:53
Speaker 2: Even a chaplain of a man or women of strong faith,
42:56
Speaker 2: I mean, it rips your heart out to be with
42:59
Speaker 2: a and who's lost a seven or eight year old daughter.
43:03
Speaker 2: And right down from the Hunt store there was a
43:08
Speaker 2: church that had a big sign free barbecue, lunch, and dinner.
43:13
Speaker 2: All are welcome. And that's what the church should be doing,
43:15
Speaker 2: is helping and clothing and comforting and taking care of
43:19
Speaker 2: the needy, and that the church should always be doing that,
43:22
Speaker 2: but especially in time of crisis. And and I want
43:27
Speaker 2: to close this pod today, Ben with something I saw
43:31
Speaker 2: on the internet, and it's a video that was recorded
43:35
Speaker 2: in a bus that was driving a bus full of
43:41
Speaker 2: campers from Catmestic after this flooding. And it's a video
43:46
Speaker 2: recording and you can watch on x there's a video
43:50
Speaker 2: of it's it's an iPhone or so that is going
43:54
Speaker 2: along and showing the video as they're driving along and
43:57
Speaker 2: you can see the wreckage and the wreckage and the
43:58
Speaker 2: wreckage and everything. But the girls are singing hymns and
44:03
Speaker 2: Mystic is a Christian camp. And these are girls that
44:06
Speaker 2: have just been through hell, have been terrified, have lost friends.
44:10
Speaker 2: Some of these girls have lost siblings. And I want
44:15
Speaker 2: to close this podcast by just listening to the voices
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Speaker 2: of these girls singing. And I will tell you I
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Speaker 2: have a hard time listening to them singing without being
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Speaker 2: in tears. But I want you to hear them singing
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Speaker 2: these hymns wounds.
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Speaker 3: I'll sort of from the mountain tops say, I want
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Speaker 3: my world to know the Lord has come to me.
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Speaker 3: I want to pass it on. I'll sort it from
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Speaker 3: the mountaintops, raise Scott. I want my world to know
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Speaker 3: the Lord of them has gone to me. I want
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Speaker 3: to pass as Gardron.
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Speaker 2: Tell me like, oh my god, oh my god.
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Speaker 3: We ti and shoe mid nays get hoppy, hm oh
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Speaker 3: see that, uh uh anyone, as you know, I mand
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Speaker 3: me a section, oh try and te red days.
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Speaker 2: I'll be.
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Speaker 3: Say shoe me ooh you okay, down my five and
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Speaker 3: it is right chest masses and all these things shall
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Speaker 3: be out up to you all lady, our lady, be you.
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Speaker 2: So long.
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Speaker 3: And the five friend oh by three where the seeds
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Speaker 3: from them mount the God all that lady