Tragedy in Iowa

[JSUPreston]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25107608

As a former scout who made Eagle, went to multiple summer camps, Philmont, etc., and now as a Cubmaster for a well established pack in Montgomery, I can not imagine what h*** these people are going through. Keep the Scouts, their families and the Council employees in your prayers. They will definately need it.

[Ed62]

That is very disturbing. I'll be sure to keep them in my prayers. Whenever I hear of young kids being killed or die of a devastating disease, I always wonder why it couldn't have been someone who has lived a full life like me instead. Poor kids never had a chance to grow up.

Ed

[ironhat]

I thought that the young scout who was interviewed on the today show showed remarkable depth of thought for his age. He said that if that had to happen it was good that it happened there because of the skills that the scouts have. And, yes Ed, I have the same thoughts on the death of children.

[Black wallnut]

This is the second of two incidents that I have heard of that resulted in a loss of Scout's life. Truely vey sad times for those of us involved in the progam and the families involved.

Last Saturday in Clackamas, OR (near Portland) a canoe that a scout was in capsized. Even though the scout was wearing a PFD the current pulled him under.

BSA just released a new training requirement about hazardous weather that will be required effective 2009.

My heart goes out to those that are touched by these two sad events. It is a Scouter's worst nightmare for such a thing to happen.

[Hellrazor]

They are lucky that they did their emergency drill the day before or things could have been a lot worse. Plus they saw the twister approach and it didn't hit at night.

[LCHIEN]

its like the military in a way. You can't teach be prepared if you don't go places where things are less than easy. Still its sad these things happen.

[JSUPreston]

Comments are already going around in our Pack regarding both camps that our Council operates. The Cub Scout (former Boy Scout) camp does not have any buildings of any real structure that I am aware of. Basically, bunk houses and a pavilion that was converted to mess hall. The new Boy Scout camp has it a little better off, but not much. The medical hut is a block building. I believe there may be a couple of other block buildings on the premises.

Except for hitting the ditches (which obviously would probably either flood or get covered up), I'm not sure what we could tell the kids to do if that happened here.

[jking]

From what I understand, the scouts had split into two groups. One group had gone on a hike, & the other stayed around camp. The group at camp took shelter in a building that had heavy tables bolted to the floor. The chimney collapsed, crushing one of the tables & killing the kids. These kids were at a leadership camp, too. Truly sad event.