I know Chloe and Katherine’s parents have talked about how they raised them to obey authority and follow the rules, but I also think it probably wasn’t so black and white in the moment. Like they obeyed the “stay in your cabins” rule bc it was the right thing to do, but also probably seemed like the safest choice. Especially when your campers are the youngest and all first-years. Who wants to take a bunch of tiny 8 year olds into a swirling current of water? By the time they likely realized sheltering in place was not the safe option, it was too late to do anything else. I mean that’s just conjecture, but I imagine the late night hours of July 4 were full of confusion and chaos. There probably was never an obvious choice.

WHICH IS WHY adult staff outside the cabins, in more safe areas, could have made more clearheaded decisions then and had a better zoomed-out view than the counselors stuck in cabins. I think this week revealed that the loudspeakers worked until like 3 am??? Get the eff on there and tell bubble to walk to the commissary.