Storms and storms

[heidi]

Y HALLO THAR DEEEEEEN! No, not fleeing yet, but we're all expecting a delay in the start of the school year next week. And will it be GilmoreGirls!Dean or Supernatural!Dean in its behaviour, or art-creating HP!Dean, hmmm?

Back to Disney for us, perhaps, if we flee?

And in sad news, this tragedy happened at the camp I attended back in 1982. I hated that camp - I had a terrible problem with an evil cabin-mate that year but I really enjoyed learning how to water-ski there, and what happened last week was terrible. But it solidified my resolve not to ever ever ever let my kids go to sleepaway camp (even though Spouse and friends are trying to shake my resolve, damn them!).

Comments

[til-midnight.livejournal.com]

I am too, since I am local. I live next door to one summer camp and have worked at another for four years and camping is such a *huge* part of the economy here. I had not heard of that particular camp, but it strikes pretty close to home.

[ancarett]

All I heard, from my dad, is that some people were saying that this kind of thing happens because the camps are getting crowded out by other development so they go further away for these outings where they aren't familiar with the locale and more accidents happen. Don't think I necessarily believe that -- accidents can happen anywhere!

We have tonnes of camps around where I live (which is the far northern reaches of Ontario's "cottage country) and my older daughter really didn't like the one overnight camp she went to at age nine. Younger daughter keeps bugging me to let her go now that she's older, but with her autism and seizure disorder, there's no way that's going to happen anytime soon!

[til-midnight.livejournal.com]

Don't think I necessarily believe that -- accidents can happen anywhere!

Oh, definitely. The camp I work at is fairly tame (no water skiing for one) and since I worked in the kitchen, I didn't always know what happened on trips away from camp, but I do know that we had one camper run away. Luckily, he was a local camper and a neighbor just happened to drive past and see him and take him back to the camp before he crossed the state line.