Quick update on this subject. According to interviews, the parents were simply out on the flooded creek to have a good time. Not fleeing flood waters, just joy riding. I'd like to get some reactions and just see how folks feel about this one. To me, this is like two adults getting drunk, and taking off to the store with 4 kids in the car, wrecking and killing some of the kids. Am I wrong here? I mean, I certainly think it's a huge tragedy, and I know the mother is hurting beyond belief, but is there not a point where a finger is pointed and someone say "you were wrong for putting your children at risk and as a adult you should have known better" The chief of police up there said it was just " a strange accident that sometimes happens". I just wonder if the parents had left the kids locked in a car in the summer and they had died of heat stroke if he'd have felt the same way? I just don't get this one......I don't understand the thinking, or lack there of. I don't care if they are Amish, Baptist, Catholic, Jewish or Muslim. Usually Amish people are pretty level headed, and I don't buy the excuse that their religion had anything to do with their decision making. Is it just me or does anyone else see this as a criminal act right up there with driving while drunk, handing a kid a loaded gun to play with, or giving a 3 year old matches to play with in a barn?
I've been out on swift water before, in a large boat, and we all know how quickly things can go bad. Two people in a canoe would have been an unreal risk in the flood, but now add 4 kids in that canoe! I'd be wary of getting in a pontoon boat with those type waters. My prayers are certainly with these folks, and I hope God grants them comfort, but for the life of me I don't see how someone walks away from this without a serious look at their parenting suitability at the very least.
