Camp Mystic, flood
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Camp Mystic's executive director began evacuating campers approximately 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued a "life-threatening flash flooding" alert.
The words "American Camp Association Accredited" is what some parent tells KXAN investigators they look for before deciding on a summer camp.
More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.
When a reporter asked Texas Governor Greg Abbott who is to blame for the deaths of more than 100 people in this month’s catastrophic Guadalupe River flooding, Abbott scoffed. Wh
Katherine Ferruzzo, a Camp Mystic counselor who had been unaccounted for a week after the deadly Hill Country floods, was confirmed dead, her family announced.
Camp Mystic survivors have described hearing the terrifying screams of their fellow campers in the dark as they were swept up in the devastating July 4 Texas floods. The flooding struck around 3 a.m.
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.