Cub Scout Day Camp Storm

More TEXAS WEATHER update!! I was a volunteer at Jackson's Cub Scout Day Camp this week and we had quite the adventure!

The theme of Troop 242 Cub Scout Day Camp was "Pirates Cove" but we were unaware of the pirate adventure that awaited us that day. Our first station was "Hangman's Challenge," or water dodge ball. We were having fun playing and getting wet, which felt great because it was 91 degrees outside. In our next station, "Ghost Ship" we made a small boat to race in water and were looking forward to lunch. While we were in our third station, "Knowing the Ropes," all of a sudden the sky in the distance looked very dark and we heard the air horns go off, so we stopped what we were doing and gathered our 19 cub scouts together. We were told to go to our cars immediately that the storm was going to come and it would only last about 15 minutes.
We started for our cars pulling our wagons with our coolers, but by that time the storm had moved in really quickly. The sky was really dark, we had 60 mile hour winds, and a little rain. Imagine 250 cub scouts all dressed in light blue t-shirts moving in the same direction. We were very scared we were going to lose one of our scouts because we could hardly see anything. The wind started blowing hats and name tags off, bark from the park area was pelting us, and the cubs had to hold on to each other so they would not blow over. Some of the boys were very scared thinking a tornado was coming!
As we got closer to our cars the rain came! If you have never been in a rainstorm in Texas before, it literally feels like the heavens open and buckets of water are poured down on you. All three cars in our group had all the scouts they were in charge of which was great because many other troops were scattered in cars just to get shelter. We ate lunch in the car, the rain was so heavy we could not see anything. It was a little like the scene in "Jurassic Park" when the little kids were in the jeep and the rain was so heavy they could not see the other jeep that was right behind them. As the rain let up we got word that the camp was destroyed and they would have to break camp. All of the canopies were blown down, all of the set up was gone, blown away from the storm, we even saw a tree blown down.
I don't know how they could recover, everything was gone! But troop 242 was safe and sound and I couldn't help but think of the prayer Bro. Law gave in the parking lot that morning before we left and the sweet prayer offered by his son Beaumont Law in our car during the storm where he asked his Father in Heaven that all the scouts would be safe, that no one would get lost or hurt and that no scouts would be scared. It was Quite the PIRATE ADVENTURE!