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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, the devastation is unbelievable. How these kids survived in
any of these camps along the river's nothing short of
a miracle.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We went to bed thinking it was just a normal thunderstorm.
One minute you see lightning strike next to your cabin,
and next to you you hear waters coming up, and
you have kids running just trying to get to other cabins,
trying to.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Get to safety.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And the next morning we had some of the older
girls went back to their cabin seat they could find anything.
I remember one girl walked out with her Bible and
she was so happy just to have her bible. I
put on my name tag because I didn't. I was
scared that if water's coming out next to our other cabins,
that our cabin might be next. And I just put
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it on just for safe keeping, saying if in my
head of saying, if if something does happen, I do
get swept away, at least I'll have my name on
my body. My friend Nanny was just that's so funny.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I've been scrolling.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I've been scrolling two videos and pictures on my.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Mom's phone and watching it over and over again.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
For dancing when she's excited.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
She was.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
She was so nic I just miss her so much.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
The level of sick hatred in this country for anyone
to see this story and think anything other than those
precious girls in their families. But when people tell you
who they are, believe them. That's what Maya Angelo said.
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When people tell you who they are, believe them. There
was a pediatrician in Houston named Christina Propst who lost
her job over the vile things she posted Bluefish MD,
the pediatric group she worked with fired her because they
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probably would have gone bankrupt if they didn't. People are
so angry at what she's done, what she said. We
had a woman who was a mayoral appointee who runs
a farmer's market in what's known as Friedman's Town, which
is which was a community of blacks from well over
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one hundred years ago, who first established independent black home
ownership in this community. It is supported by the community.
She happens to be a black woman, and she made
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statements about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
About these are white girls.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
And the only reason anyone is helping them is because
they're white girls. How can you see skin color at
a time like this. I think this is the clip
of her saying it.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Let me just see to be the one who points
it out, but it seems like it needs to get
pointed out. So are we not paying attention to the
majority of the videos as being shared about this flood
and the certain.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's on the videos.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Hopefully this is.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Opening up some eyes and showing people that he watches.
I don't matter who's watching, they're watching. They see you
as a person and what you're teaching your kids, and
how your children treat others, and how you treat others others,
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and maybe y'all weren't the best of you know, helping
thy neighbor, unless they were still or the same.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
As you.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Because I find it ironic that it was the deep
southeregn of Texas that it happened to we knew back
in the back, in the back, in the back, in
the days.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Where they used to do everything deep deep down in
the subject.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I'm not sure if that was Sadie Perkins quote or not,
but what she said has also engendered quite a deal
of hatred, quite a deal of anger, should I say,
But I will say this, You can keep your eye
on these people, but for now, I think the takeaway
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is to hold your children close, love them, love all
over them be grateful. I used the occasion yesterday, as
all this was going on, I needed to break because
I'm on all these lists of people tell them updating
meal on what's going on, and at some point it
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was it was too much to handle.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So I went and watched the Houston Astros baseball game
with my dad in the afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
He's eighty five, and it made me hold his hand
and think about how happy I was to be there.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You got to find some peace in the midst of
all that. Michael Very Show, Michael Very.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
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because these are people who would say, as my father
said many years ago, I didn't leave the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party left me. If you are a listener
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Speaker 4 (07:22):
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Speaker 7 (07:23):
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Speaker 4 (08:02):
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Speaker 7 (08:04):
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be on with you. So to Big Frank, Frank Franklin,
the third and the whole crew Brian Gan, all of you,
we're honored to be on your station. I want to
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go back to what happened in Kerrville, Texas. Hunt in
this area prosper these camps. This was in particular, Camp Mystic.
These girls and the little girl who managed to survive.
Talks about the fact that they went to bed thinking
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this was a normal thunderstorm, and having been having had
my house wiped out by Hurricane Harvey, which hit us
here in seventeen, having had my parents hit very hard
over the ten years before that, and having welcomed the
New Orleanians here after Katrina, I can tell you you
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don't simply defy the orders. You make good strategic decisions
based on the information at hand, and that's the case.
What made this situation so bad was how fast the
floodwaters rose. And that's what people can't understand. If you've
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just watched bloodwaters rise at a normal rate and you go, well,
we better get out of here. It's not like you
sit around and say, well, the floodwaters are rising, we're
going to sit here.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
By the time you know it's happening, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We went to bed thinking it's just a normal thunderstorm.
Nowt one minute you see lightning strike. Next year, Kevin,
the next you you hear waters coming up, and you
have kids running just trying to get to other cabins,
trying to get to safety. And luckily my cabin was
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one of a few cabins that did not get water,
but the cabins in front of us to get some water.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Even up on Senior Hill.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And I think John Back conveys to you how fast
the water came up and how high it came, and
how it was a one hundred year historic flash flood.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We had never seen anything like this.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And I cannot say enough about what these young counselors
did to calm these girls and to ensure their safety,
and with the men and the staff and the Eastland
family did to try to help everyone that they could.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
They are heroes.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
And those young girls and those young counselors that are
when our young girls were under for the summer, were
remarkable and we're brave and we're strong and saved so
many children and kept so many children calm so that
decisions could be made to keep other girls safe and
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move them to Safety's.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
A lot for a little girl to process. You'll never
forget this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
That little girl recalls how other girls came to her
cabin because theirs were taking on water and hers was
a little higher up. Hers would eventually take on water
as well, but at that point hers was the safer
high ground.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So we heard one second, we just it is really
bad thunder, like we all. I woke up to a big,
giant status thunder and lightning striking we heard we had.
We had one of the campers run in and say, hey,
our cabin's flooding. And we had some cabins I knew.
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Some girls slept on trunks that night. Some girls had
to share beds. Some girls slept on floors because they
couldn't go back to their cabin because it was so
It was so flooded in three cabins. And the next
morning we had some of the older girls went back
to their cabin seat they could find anything. I remember
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one girl walked out with her bible and she was
so happy just to have her bible.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
That little girl also recalls putting on her name tag
just in case she was carried away.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's her dog tag.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
That's effectively her She's preparing that when she's dead. She
wants them to be able to identify her. That's a
lot for a little girl.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I put on my name tag because I didn't. I
was scared that if waters coming out next to our
other cabins, that our cabin might be next. And I
just put it on just for safe keeping, saying in
my head of saying, if something.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Does happen, I do get stepped.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Away, at least I'll have my name on my body.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I want to say something about that as a parent.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My husband and I are both Department of Defense on
a retirement, and we have both spent many times in
war zones on behalf of this nation, and we have
spoken to our child more times than I can count
about how to keep your child safe in an environment.
This was not an environment we had ever thought we
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would have to prepare her for. And that comment to
me as a parent when she got off that helicopter
and finally came into my arms and I saw this
name tag on her and it was the camp name
tag she was issued on the day she arrived. It
resonated with me that somewhere those little lessons that we
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gave her as parents years ago and throughout her life
resonated with her in the Moments the.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
I like to give a local flavor when there's a
story based in Houston or in Texas, if I have
some inside information and connection in much the same way
that you would do if it happened in you're part
of the country.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Just a little local flavor.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
So these two camps that were hit, Camp Lahunta where
all the boys survived, and Camp Missed It, where a
number of the girls passed.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
There are still some missing, so I want to leave
that number open ended and pray for a miracle.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
It wasn't just campers who were lost, and there's a
lot of damage that goes into there's the campers are
from outside the community, from Houston, Dallas, a lot of
them from Houston.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
We know a lot of the folks that go to
these things and have for many years.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
But there's a town there called Hunt, Texas, charming place
for people who want to get the heck away from
the hustle and bustle. So a lot of people from Houston, Dallas, Austin,
they come there. They buy a second home there or
rent a second home because it's a sleepy little town.
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News for from San Anton. Talk to a resident of
the town by the name of I think it's Frank Stiffen,
and they stood outside of the central hub of the community,
which is the Hunt Store.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You gotta understand this.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
This town is just the church and the store, and
I think there's like a bingo hall or something like that.
That's it and that's how they want it. And now
the Hunt Store, which is which is where everybody. You
go to buy your food. There, you go to dance, there,
you go to drink. There, you go to the music,
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you go to gather and get the gossip. But it's
just a little town. That's what you do. It's a
tiny little town. And here is a resident just talking
about the storm and they don't have anything else.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You don't replace this, you don't go next door. This
was it.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
We're outside the Hunt Store, which is a staple here
in the area. I'm with Frank Stefan. Tell me a
little bit about this area. I know you were an
emotional just talking about it. You grew up with this store.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I did.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh sorry, my dad bought our wrench, which is right
down the road about three quarters of a mile in
nineteen sixty seven. I grew up at the store, and
I used to drive my tractor up here to fill
it up with diesel fuel. It's gone. I mean the
buildings here as you can see, but it's just destroyed.
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Back here in the back. Three months ago, my new
wife and I were dancing on that dance floor to
one of our favorite bands. The post office is gone.
My family goes back here to eighteen ninety, had been
here over one hundred and thirty years. The family name
was Edwards, and my dad was here for the flood
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in nineteen thirty two and the water got higher than
it did here, but or this flood, but it was
down river, and so this very well, maybe the worst
flood hunt has ever seen because it would have started
back up the South Fork. The devastation is unbelievable. How
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these kids survived in any of these camps along the
river is nothing short of a miracle. But I did.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I grew up with this store. I've known, Like I said.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I've danced here, I've been here, sat by the fireplace
in a rocking chair and drank of here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The devastation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
There are just no words, Taylor that I can that
I can say that that describe what I'm seeing my
ranch it was completely underwater or the water got that high. Uh,
It's just just unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
And this is what people in big cities will never understand.
The charm of a small town. People who liked the
slower pace of life, people who don't lock their doors,
people who when they drive past each other on the
road they lift up a finger to kind of wave
as you go by. That's the way of life. I
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grew up with a way of life. We've always had
a week end place, my wife and I because we
love it. Because that that's how I keep my sanity
from the craziness of the big city. Here he is
talking about the the importance of that little store to
that little town and credit again News Force and in tone.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hut is a very small community and the people here
do know each other. The store was more than just
a store where you could go to buy staples and
a beer or a hamburger or whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was really a social meeting point. You know.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It was a lot of fun to come here and
eat and have dinner and visit with people.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Yeah, there's you talking about how you just married your
You're way for a month ago and you're dancing in
here and now just emotional just seeing you know what
it looks like right now. I mean there's some deep
rooted memories in this building here for you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Here, Yeah, there are.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
We've only been married six weeks, so it's new for her,
but for me, it's a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
My summers were spent here, living.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Here, and I really, you know, really enjoyed it. It's unbelievable, Taylor.
It's always say it's just unbelievable. It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Yeah, there's no words at this time. I mean your
post office, where do you guys go at this time?
How do you rebuild from this?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's going to take a long time. I mean, you know,
this community is resilient. They will rebuild. It's not going
to be easy and it's not going to be short,
but you know, this will rebuild and all of this
trash will be gone, and the camps will hopefully rebuild
and you know, be a place where children can grow up.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
It's hard for people to understand that ever lived that
kind of never lived that kind of life. They go
inside to survey the damage in this little town and
I play this more than anything else, so that you
get an appreciation for the charm of the little town
where this flood hit and the kind of people there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You can't see now really, but right back in here,
right over here was the cashier's stand, and then this
all in here was where they had the staples. You
could buy chips for beers. You know, they had a
cooler back there over here you can see the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In the winter time, they would light.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
A fire and people could come in and have a
beer and sit around the fireplace and chat. Back this
way was the restaurant. There used to be a bank
right in here.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's now an ice It was an ice dream stand.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But you know they had they had great burgers and steaks,
and it was just like I said, it was a
meeting place.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But as I look in here now, the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Devastations beyond anything I can say. I mean, this is
this is how the rocks with stood it, and these
posts withstood it is a miracle, because I've seen I've
seen posts and everything bigger here this morning that did
not would stand the flood.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You know, storms come and go, droughts come and go,
tornadoes depend on where you live. Flooding is in our
part of the country, but some of you on our
West coast have earthquakes, and some of you in Tornado
Alley know that wildfires and everything else. And what I
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take away from that is be prayerful, be grateful, and
keep your focus.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
On what matters, which is your family, people closest to you,
because you're not looking.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
For that phone screen when the end time's come, I
can guarantee.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You that the Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Show, I want to finesse the point I'm trying to
make here a little more clearly. We've had a horrible
storm that killed some little girls, two of whom went
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to school with my kids, some of whom are family
friends or friends of friends. So it hits home and
makes you hold your kids a little closer, and he
makes you realize, you know that this was not engaging
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in an inherently dangerous behavior. Being at summer camp with
no phone, no internet, in a cabin that's been there
one hundred years would seem to be the safest thing
you could possibly do. You're not engaging in inherently risk
an inherent risk. You're not on a boat at a
high rate of speed, on a motorcycle, or you're not
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jumping out of planes, you're not doing anything crazy, and
you shouldn't perish in that environment, right, That's that's what
that's what you feel. So at a number of folks
who were very angry at the types of things that
were being said about this, and there is an outrage
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machine and you have to be careful. I'll tell you
a quick story to make my point with an analogy,
if you'll bear with me for a moment. So, my
wife's from India and growing up, her mother a doctor,
ran her clinic out of their house, and so the
house was like the old was like the movie theater.
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We had an orange You walk up to the to
the box and what was that called. You walk up
to the box office, yep, walk up to the box
office and you'd tell them which movie you wanted and
they'd give you your ticket and you'd either go to
to the wing on the left or the wing on
the right. We had two theaters.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
That was it. Little town.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
So that was kind of how my wife's home was.
You'd come up to the front door and you'd either
or she'd come and open the door and you'd either
go to the left. She had hospital beds in there,
or you'd go to the right. And that's where the
family lived. They were out in the country, in the
in the foothills of the Himalaya uh Himalayas. And so
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there was a fellow one day when my wife opened
the door as a little girl to go to school,
and he was standing there and his hand was just nubs,
had no fingers on it, and it was horrified and
my wife, you know, sort of recoiled and he explained
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to her in the little native language of his community,
which she didn't speak, that he needed to see the doctor.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He was there for the doctor.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Well, this would apparently happen quite often because she was
the only doctor out in the village, and so they
would come overnight, sometimes from far distances to get to her,
and they would wait on the front porch because you
didn't dare wake up the doctor, and they would be
waiting there so that when the doctor woke up, they'd say, hey,
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you know, I had this happen. I had this happen,
and she would immediately bring them in and start treating them.
So my wife goes off to school and she's very disturbed.
This guy has got open sores for fingers and just
nubs left her fingers. She came home and she says, Mom,
what in the world was that? And it turned out
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that in this region they had no alcohol, had no hoots,
no moonshine, and so they wanted a hieh. And there
was a certain type of snake they had cobras, but
I don't think it was a cobra, and they knew
where the snakes lived. So these very poor villagers, the
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most strung out of them all would put their hand
down into the hole and the snake would bite. And
that snake venom had the effect of inebriation intoxication, but
when the fingers weren't treated, they would lose them. These
are people that did. You can't imagine, you know, being
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this strong hand look like the streets of San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
And she said, what struck.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Me was that despite losing all their fingers, they still
put their hand down in there.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
They still needed that hit.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
And I guess what I would say is, as much
as I would like to spend the show pointing out
what Dana Bash said and did, what George Stephanoppolis said
and did what Joe Scarborough said and did, and maybe
we will tomorrow. I just can't today. And I would
tell you this, for as angry as those people make
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us all and as mad as we get over them
aiming Trump and the big beautiful bill and budget cuts
and think none of which had anything to do with it.
Channel the positive energy. Make a donation to the Community
Foundation of Kerr County, Make a donation to the church
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there in town. Do something positive, Write a nice message
to someone from that community. You find somebody on Facebook
and just say hey, we're praying for you. Do something
positive for that community and feel good about that and
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make someone else feel good. That is a more productive
use of your time. Because I'm going to tell you
right now, no matter what happens in this country, if
you want to see a stupid liberals saying a stupid
thing so that you can put your hand in there
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and that snake bite you because you need that intoxication,
you will never be disappointed. That bottle has no bottom,
You will never run dry. There will always be someone
else willing to step up if AOC is taking the
day off of being stupid. Ilhan Omar step up. Jasmine
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Crockett will step up. Nancy Pelosi will step up. There'll
be somebody on CNN, there will be somebody on MSNBC,
and they will be only too eager to be the
quote of the day as the stupidest thing said. And
if you need that on a day to day basis,
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you will never grow weary. Will that river will never
run dry. But at some point we have to ask ourselves,
are are they living in our heads rent free? Because
on a day where some little girls died through no
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fault of their own or anyone else's, and we're mad
at Dana Bash or George Stephanopoulos or Joe Scarborough or
fill in the blank, then maybe you have to ask yourself,
who's really in control of my thoughts? Who's really in
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control of the direction of my life? Can you imagine
if Trump let them control him like that, he'd have
a permanent scowl. He could never do anything positive, He
could never bring solace to a grieving family, he could
never provide leadership, he could never inspire. Because you have
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to learn that when you're doing something good, the liberals
are out wishing for you to fail and claiming that
and when you are suffer, the liberals are cheering and
saying this is the result of you being an evil
maga person and you should fail, and you have to
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decide that my life is more meaningful than simply being
the reaction agent of crazy people out there playing a
game and getting media attention because they get paid for it.
You don't find joy in your life, find happiness in
your life.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And if your.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Kids are still alive, you got them close to you,
hug them tight.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
You might not be here tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Thank you, and good night,
Ah, the devastation is unbelievable. How these kids survived in
any of these camps along the river's nothing short of
a miracle.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We went to bed thinking it was just a normal thunderstorm.
One minute you see lightning strike next to your cabin,
and next to you you hear waters coming up, and
you have kids running just trying to get to other cabins,
trying to.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Get to safety.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And the next morning we had some of the older
girls went back to their cabin seat they could find anything.
I remember one girl walked out with her Bible and
she was so happy just to have her bible. I
put on my name tag because I didn't. I was
scared that if water's coming out next to our other cabins,
that our cabin might be next. And I just put
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it on just for safe keeping, saying if in my
head of saying, if if something does happen, I do
get swept away, at least I'll have my name on
my body. My friend Nanny was just that's so funny.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I've been scrolling.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I've been scrolling two videos and pictures on my.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Mom's phone and watching it over and over again.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
For dancing when she's excited.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
She was.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
She was so nic I just miss her so much.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
The level of sick hatred in this country for anyone
to see this story and think anything other than those
precious girls in their families. But when people tell you
who they are, believe them. That's what Maya Angelo said.
(01:55):
When people tell you who they are, believe them. There
was a pediatrician in Houston named Christina Propst who lost
her job over the vile things she posted Bluefish MD,
the pediatric group she worked with fired her because they
(02:21):
probably would have gone bankrupt if they didn't. People are
so angry at what she's done, what she said. We
had a woman who was a mayoral appointee who runs
a farmer's market in what's known as Friedman's Town, which
is which was a community of blacks from well over
(02:44):
one hundred years ago, who first established independent black home
ownership in this community. It is supported by the community.
She happens to be a black woman, and she made
(03:05):
statements about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
About these are white girls.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
And the only reason anyone is helping them is because
they're white girls. How can you see skin color at
a time like this. I think this is the clip
of her saying it.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Let me just see to be the one who points
it out, but it seems like it needs to get
pointed out. So are we not paying attention to the
majority of the videos as being shared about this flood
and the certain.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's on the videos.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Hopefully this is.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Opening up some eyes and showing people that he watches.
I don't matter who's watching, they're watching. They see you
as a person and what you're teaching your kids, and
how your children treat others, and how you treat others others,
(04:27):
and maybe y'all weren't the best of you know, helping
thy neighbor, unless they were still or the same.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
As you.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Because I find it ironic that it was the deep
southeregn of Texas that it happened to we knew back
in the back, in the back, in the back, in
the days.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Where they used to do everything deep deep down in
the subject.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I'm not sure if that was Sadie Perkins quote or not,
but what she said has also engendered quite a deal
of hatred, quite a deal of anger, should I say,
But I will say this, You can keep your eye
on these people, but for now, I think the takeaway
(05:24):
is to hold your children close, love them, love all
over them be grateful. I used the occasion yesterday, as
all this was going on, I needed to break because
I'm on all these lists of people tell them updating
meal on what's going on, and at some point it
(05:44):
was it was too much to handle.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So I went and watched the Houston Astros baseball game
with my dad in the afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
He's eighty five, and it made me hold his hand
and think about how happy I was to be there.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You got to find some peace in the midst of
all that. Michael Very Show, Michael Very.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Show, I want to say a warm Michael Berry Show family,
Welcome to our newest affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas in
South Texas, which I will tell you, if you want
to look at the hope for our country, look at
(06:24):
the voting patterns in South Texas, an area that was
reliably Democrat going back one hundred years. Voters largely almost
exclusively Hispanic voters, multiple generation Texan Americans are leaving the
(06:53):
Democrat Party in droves and voting for Republicans. And I
will get Donald Trump a lot of credit for that,
because these are people who would say, as my father
said many years ago, I didn't leave the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party left me. If you are a listener
(07:17):
to us in Corpus Christi, Texas, or really anywhere else,
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Speaker 4 (07:22):
Hear from you.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
You can email me directly through our website at Michael
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And I read those when I get off the air
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if you if you do your workout, you get to
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It's my little treat, It's my dessert. I read emails
and I love to hear from you. How you found
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about the show, maybe what you don't like about the show.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Who turned you on to the show.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
But for our listeners on news radio thirteen sixty kkt
X in Corpus Christy, we are honored, absolutely honored to
be on with you. So to Big Frank, Frank Franklin,
the third and the whole crew Brian Gan, all of you,
we're honored to be on your station. I want to
(08:24):
go back to what happened in Kerrville, Texas. Hunt in
this area prosper these camps. This was in particular, Camp Mystic.
These girls and the little girl who managed to survive.
Talks about the fact that they went to bed thinking
(08:46):
this was a normal thunderstorm, and having been having had
my house wiped out by Hurricane Harvey, which hit us
here in seventeen, having had my parents hit very hard
over the ten years before that, and having welcomed the
New Orleanians here after Katrina, I can tell you you
(09:11):
don't simply defy the orders. You make good strategic decisions
based on the information at hand, and that's the case.
What made this situation so bad was how fast the
floodwaters rose. And that's what people can't understand. If you've
(09:32):
just watched bloodwaters rise at a normal rate and you go, well,
we better get out of here. It's not like you
sit around and say, well, the floodwaters are rising, we're
going to sit here.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
By the time you know it's happening, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
We went to bed thinking it's just a normal thunderstorm.
Nowt one minute you see lightning strike. Next year, Kevin,
the next you you hear waters coming up, and you
have kids running just trying to get to other cabins,
trying to get to safety. And luckily my cabin was
(10:09):
one of a few cabins that did not get water,
but the cabins in front of us to get some water.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Even up on Senior Hill.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
And I think John Back conveys to you how fast
the water came up and how high it came, and
how it was a one hundred year historic flash flood.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
We had never seen anything like this.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
And I cannot say enough about what these young counselors
did to calm these girls and to ensure their safety,
and with the men and the staff and the Eastland
family did to try to help everyone that they could.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
They are heroes.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
And those young girls and those young counselors that are
when our young girls were under for the summer, were
remarkable and we're brave and we're strong and saved so
many children and kept so many children calm so that
decisions could be made to keep other girls safe and
(11:14):
move them to Safety's.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
A lot for a little girl to process. You'll never
forget this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
That little girl recalls how other girls came to her
cabin because theirs were taking on water and hers was
a little higher up. Hers would eventually take on water
as well, but at that point hers was the safer
high ground.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So we heard one second, we just it is really
bad thunder, like we all. I woke up to a big,
giant status thunder and lightning striking we heard we had.
We had one of the campers run in and say, hey,
our cabin's flooding. And we had some cabins I knew.
(11:58):
Some girls slept on trunks that night. Some girls had
to share beds. Some girls slept on floors because they
couldn't go back to their cabin because it was so
It was so flooded in three cabins. And the next
morning we had some of the older girls went back
to their cabin seat they could find anything. I remember
(12:19):
one girl walked out with her bible and she was
so happy just to have her bible.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
That little girl also recalls putting on her name tag
just in case she was carried away.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's her dog tag.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
That's effectively her She's preparing that when she's dead. She
wants them to be able to identify her. That's a
lot for a little girl.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I put on my name tag because I didn't. I
was scared that if waters coming out next to our
other cabins, that our cabin might be next. And I
just put it on just for safe keeping, saying in
my head of saying, if something.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Does happen, I do get stepped.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Away, at least I'll have my name on my body.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I want to say something about that as a parent.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My husband and I are both Department of Defense on
a retirement, and we have both spent many times in
war zones on behalf of this nation, and we have
spoken to our child more times than I can count
about how to keep your child safe in an environment.
This was not an environment we had ever thought we
(13:33):
would have to prepare her for. And that comment to
me as a parent when she got off that helicopter
and finally came into my arms and I saw this
name tag on her and it was the camp name
tag she was issued on the day she arrived. It
resonated with me that somewhere those little lessons that we
(13:54):
gave her as parents years ago and throughout her life
resonated with her in the Moments the.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Michael Berry Show. Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
I like to give a local flavor when there's a
story based in Houston or in Texas, if I have
some inside information and connection in much the same way
that you would do if it happened in you're part
of the country.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Just a little local flavor.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
So these two camps that were hit, Camp Lahunta where
all the boys survived, and Camp Missed It, where a
number of the girls passed.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
There are still some missing, so I want to leave
that number open ended and pray for a miracle.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
But it's not.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
It wasn't just campers who were lost, and there's a
lot of damage that goes into there's the campers are
from outside the community, from Houston, Dallas, a lot of
them from Houston.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
We know a lot of the folks that go to
these things and have for many years.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
But there's a town there called Hunt, Texas, charming place
for people who want to get the heck away from
the hustle and bustle. So a lot of people from Houston, Dallas, Austin,
they come there. They buy a second home there or
rent a second home because it's a sleepy little town.
(15:28):
News for from San Anton. Talk to a resident of
the town by the name of I think it's Frank Stiffen,
and they stood outside of the central hub of the community,
which is the Hunt Store.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
You gotta understand this.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
This town is just the church and the store, and
I think there's like a bingo hall or something like that.
That's it and that's how they want it. And now
the Hunt Store, which is which is where everybody. You
go to buy your food. There, you go to dance, there,
you go to drink. There, you go to the music,
(16:01):
you go to gather and get the gossip. But it's
just a little town. That's what you do. It's a
tiny little town. And here is a resident just talking
about the storm and they don't have anything else.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You don't replace this, you don't go next door. This
was it.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
We're outside the Hunt Store, which is a staple here
in the area. I'm with Frank Stefan. Tell me a
little bit about this area. I know you were an
emotional just talking about it. You grew up with this store.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I did.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh sorry, my dad bought our wrench, which is right
down the road about three quarters of a mile in
nineteen sixty seven. I grew up at the store, and
I used to drive my tractor up here to fill
it up with diesel fuel. It's gone. I mean the
buildings here as you can see, but it's just destroyed.
(16:50):
Back here in the back. Three months ago, my new
wife and I were dancing on that dance floor to
one of our favorite bands. The post office is gone.
My family goes back here to eighteen ninety, had been
here over one hundred and thirty years. The family name
was Edwards, and my dad was here for the flood
(17:13):
in nineteen thirty two and the water got higher than
it did here, but or this flood, but it was
down river, and so this very well, maybe the worst
flood hunt has ever seen because it would have started
back up the South Fork. The devastation is unbelievable. How
(17:39):
these kids survived in any of these camps along the
river is nothing short of a miracle. But I did.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I grew up with this store. I've known, Like I said.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I've danced here, I've been here, sat by the fireplace
in a rocking chair and drank of here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The devastation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
There are just no words, Taylor that I can that
I can say that that describe what I'm seeing my
ranch it was completely underwater or the water got that high. Uh,
It's just just unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
And this is what people in big cities will never understand.
The charm of a small town. People who liked the
slower pace of life, people who don't lock their doors,
people who when they drive past each other on the
road they lift up a finger to kind of wave
as you go by. That's the way of life. I
(18:42):
grew up with a way of life. We've always had
a week end place, my wife and I because we
love it. Because that that's how I keep my sanity
from the craziness of the big city. Here he is
talking about the the importance of that little store to
that little town and credit again News Force and in tone.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hut is a very small community and the people here
do know each other. The store was more than just
a store where you could go to buy staples and
a beer or a hamburger or whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was really a social meeting point. You know.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It was a lot of fun to come here and
eat and have dinner and visit with people.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Yeah, there's you talking about how you just married your
You're way for a month ago and you're dancing in
here and now just emotional just seeing you know what
it looks like right now. I mean there's some deep
rooted memories in this building here for you guys.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Here, Yeah, there are.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
We've only been married six weeks, so it's new for her,
but for me, it's a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
My summers were spent here, living.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Here, and I really, you know, really enjoyed it. It's unbelievable, Taylor.
It's always say it's just unbelievable. It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Yeah, there's no words at this time. I mean your
post office, where do you guys go at this time?
How do you rebuild from this?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It's going to take a long time. I mean, you know,
this community is resilient. They will rebuild. It's not going
to be easy and it's not going to be short,
but you know, this will rebuild and all of this
trash will be gone, and the camps will hopefully rebuild
and you know, be a place where children can grow up.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
It's hard for people to understand that ever lived that
kind of never lived that kind of life. They go
inside to survey the damage in this little town and
I play this more than anything else, so that you
get an appreciation for the charm of the little town
where this flood hit and the kind of people there.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
You can't see now really, but right back in here,
right over here was the cashier's stand, and then this
all in here was where they had the staples. You
could buy chips for beers. You know, they had a
cooler back there over here you can see the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
In the winter time, they would light.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
A fire and people could come in and have a
beer and sit around the fireplace and chat. Back this
way was the restaurant. There used to be a bank
right in here.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's now an ice It was an ice dream stand.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But you know they had they had great burgers and steaks,
and it was just like I said, it was a
meeting place.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But as I look in here now, the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Devastations beyond anything I can say. I mean, this is
this is how the rocks with stood it, and these
posts withstood it is a miracle, because I've seen I've
seen posts and everything bigger here this morning that did
not would stand the flood.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You know, storms come and go, droughts come and go,
tornadoes depend on where you live. Flooding is in our
part of the country, but some of you on our
West coast have earthquakes, and some of you in Tornado
Alley know that wildfires and everything else. And what I
(22:25):
take away from that is be prayerful, be grateful, and
keep your focus.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
On what matters, which is your family, people closest to you,
because you're not looking.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
For that phone screen when the end time's come, I
can guarantee.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You that the Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Show, I want to finesse the point I'm trying to
make here a little more clearly. We've had a horrible
storm that killed some little girls, two of whom went
(23:06):
to school with my kids, some of whom are family
friends or friends of friends. So it hits home and
makes you hold your kids a little closer, and he
makes you realize, you know that this was not engaging
(23:26):
in an inherently dangerous behavior. Being at summer camp with
no phone, no internet, in a cabin that's been there
one hundred years would seem to be the safest thing
you could possibly do. You're not engaging in inherently risk
an inherent risk. You're not on a boat at a
high rate of speed, on a motorcycle, or you're not
(23:48):
jumping out of planes, you're not doing anything crazy, and
you shouldn't perish in that environment, right, That's that's what
that's what you feel. So at a number of folks
who were very angry at the types of things that
were being said about this, and there is an outrage
(24:11):
machine and you have to be careful. I'll tell you
a quick story to make my point with an analogy,
if you'll bear with me for a moment. So, my
wife's from India and growing up, her mother a doctor,
ran her clinic out of their house, and so the
house was like the old was like the movie theater.
(24:34):
We had an orange You walk up to the to
the box and what was that called. You walk up
to the box office, yep, walk up to the box
office and you'd tell them which movie you wanted and
they'd give you your ticket and you'd either go to
to the wing on the left or the wing on
the right. We had two theaters.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
That was it. Little town.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
So that was kind of how my wife's home was.
You'd come up to the front door and you'd either
or she'd come and open the door and you'd either
go to the left. She had hospital beds in there,
or you'd go to the right. And that's where the
family lived. They were out in the country, in the
in the foothills of the Himalaya uh Himalayas. And so
(25:20):
there was a fellow one day when my wife opened
the door as a little girl to go to school,
and he was standing there and his hand was just nubs,
had no fingers on it, and it was horrified and
my wife, you know, sort of recoiled and he explained
(25:42):
to her in the little native language of his community,
which she didn't speak, that he needed to see the doctor.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He was there for the doctor.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Well, this would apparently happen quite often because she was
the only doctor out in the village, and so they
would come overnight, sometimes from far distances to get to her,
and they would wait on the front porch because you
didn't dare wake up the doctor, and they would be
waiting there so that when the doctor woke up, they'd say, hey,
(26:10):
you know, I had this happen. I had this happen,
and she would immediately bring them in and start treating them.
So my wife goes off to school and she's very disturbed.
This guy has got open sores for fingers and just
nubs left her fingers. She came home and she says, Mom,
what in the world was that? And it turned out
(26:36):
that in this region they had no alcohol, had no hoots,
no moonshine, and so they wanted a hieh. And there
was a certain type of snake they had cobras, but
I don't think it was a cobra, and they knew
where the snakes lived. So these very poor villagers, the
(26:58):
most strung out of them all would put their hand
down into the hole and the snake would bite. And
that snake venom had the effect of inebriation intoxication, but
when the fingers weren't treated, they would lose them. These
are people that did. You can't imagine, you know, being
(27:19):
this strong hand look like the streets of San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
And she said, what struck.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Me was that despite losing all their fingers, they still
put their hand down in there.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
They still needed that hit.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
And I guess what I would say is, as much
as I would like to spend the show pointing out
what Dana Bash said and did, what George Stephanoppolis said
and did what Joe Scarborough said and did, and maybe
we will tomorrow. I just can't today. And I would
tell you this, for as angry as those people make
(27:55):
us all and as mad as we get over them
aiming Trump and the big beautiful bill and budget cuts
and think none of which had anything to do with it.
Channel the positive energy. Make a donation to the Community
Foundation of Kerr County, Make a donation to the church
(28:19):
there in town. Do something positive, Write a nice message
to someone from that community. You find somebody on Facebook
and just say hey, we're praying for you. Do something
positive for that community and feel good about that and
(28:44):
make someone else feel good. That is a more productive
use of your time. Because I'm going to tell you
right now, no matter what happens in this country, if
you want to see a stupid liberals saying a stupid
thing so that you can put your hand in there
(29:04):
and that snake bite you because you need that intoxication,
you will never be disappointed. That bottle has no bottom,
You will never run dry. There will always be someone
else willing to step up if AOC is taking the
day off of being stupid. Ilhan Omar step up. Jasmine
(29:25):
Crockett will step up. Nancy Pelosi will step up. There'll
be somebody on CNN, there will be somebody on MSNBC,
and they will be only too eager to be the
quote of the day as the stupidest thing said. And
if you need that on a day to day basis,
(29:46):
you will never grow weary. Will that river will never
run dry. But at some point we have to ask ourselves,
are are they living in our heads rent free? Because
on a day where some little girls died through no
(30:09):
fault of their own or anyone else's, and we're mad
at Dana Bash or George Stephanopoulos or Joe Scarborough or
fill in the blank, then maybe you have to ask yourself,
who's really in control of my thoughts? Who's really in
(30:29):
control of the direction of my life? Can you imagine
if Trump let them control him like that, he'd have
a permanent scowl. He could never do anything positive, He
could never bring solace to a grieving family, he could
never provide leadership, he could never inspire. Because you have
(30:50):
to learn that when you're doing something good, the liberals
are out wishing for you to fail and claiming that
and when you are suffer, the liberals are cheering and
saying this is the result of you being an evil
maga person and you should fail, and you have to
(31:10):
decide that my life is more meaningful than simply being
the reaction agent of crazy people out there playing a
game and getting media attention because they get paid for it.
You don't find joy in your life, find happiness in
your life.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And if your.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Kids are still alive, you got them close to you,
hug them tight.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
You might not be here tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Thank you, and good night,
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