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How Summer Camp Devastated by Floods Responded to Middle-of-the-Night Alert Before the Water Drowned Them
When Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls nestled in Texas Hill Country, experienced catastrophic flooding on July ...
Who’s to Blame for the Camp Mystic Disaster?
When a reporter asked Texas Governor Greg Abbott who is to blame for the deaths of more than 100 people in this month’s ...
Girls as young as 7 were startled awake by flooding that devastated their beloved Camp Mystic. How the deadly tragedy unfolded
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr ...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp ...
Missing Camp Mystic Counselor Katherine Ferruzzo’s Remains Found 7 Days After Texas Floods
Katherine Ferruzzo, a Camp Mystic counselor who had been missing since the Texas floods, was found dead on Friday, July 11, ...
To rebuild Camp Mystic, these kids are selling ‘the best lemonade in Dallas’
In the week since the Guadalupe River rose, dozens of donation methods have been set up to support the people of Kerr County.
Camp Mystic Owners’ Legacy: ‘If You’re a Camper, You Know Who They Are’
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
Houston 8-year-old who died at Camp Mystic known as 'a shining light'
Sheedy was one of at least 120 people who died in Central Texas. At least another 160 people were still missing as of ...