Elizabeth Phillips

But under these circumstances, when it was so preventable, like, if that cabin had had a ladder to get on the roof, they'd be alive.

If there had been any redundancy in the internet connection, there's no communication.

There were three adults trying to rescue hundreds of girls in that flash flood, and they refused to evacuate them, even after 1.15 a.m.

It was, like, life-threatening flash floods.

A counselor was able to call Disp 9-1-1 at like 3.30-ish.

The camp didn't call until 7.30 and said, we're missing between 20 and 40 girls.

Horrible.

So, especially in Texas, this was all over the news, but I think it was all over the news everywhere.

Did you hear about this?

Hill Country flood?

Yeah, so, like, everybody heard about this.

Um, and these parents, in their acute raw grief,

came to the consensus that they don't want this to happen to anyone else, any other families.

No other families should have to go through this.

We don't want any other children.

We don't want children going to camp next summer without some big changes.

So what ended up happening is the second special session got called.

These families, myself, our lobbying team, we went down to Austin.

We met with the big three, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house, and the governor.

They held photos of their daughters and talked about them and what bright lights they were and what kind girls they were and, um...